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India's very happy to leave England cut off (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

isolated

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'cut off' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'india's very happy' is the wordplay.
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'very' becomes 'so' (both can mean 'extremely').
'happy' becomes 'lated' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'i'+'so'+'lated'='ISOLATED'

'to leave england' acts as a link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for isolated that I've seen before include "'Detached, kept apart (8)'" , "kept apart from others" , "Set apart, quarantined" , "Placed apart from others" , "hard to find" .)

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