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Recreation in New Orleans with taxi seconds away (10)

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I believe the answer is:

relaxation

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'recreation' is the definition.
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'new orleans with taxi seconds away' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'new' could be 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament) and 'n' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'taxi' is 'xati' which is located in the answer.
'away' could be 'a' (abbreviation as used in sports fixtures) and 'a' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for relaxation that I've seen before include "Chilling out" , "(Period of) rest" , "leisure" , "repose" , "fun" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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