Love this one!
ESMERALDA (as emerald*)
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Death of union results in affair (9)
DALLIANCE (D+alliance)
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Placed hoop awkwardly on an octopus.(10)
Placed hoop awkwardly on an octopus.(10)
CEPHALOPOD (Placed hoop*)
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Cathedral’s cook baked a dove food. (4, 10)
DARK CHOCOLATE (anagram)
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Tennessee Crossword Solvers kept a tight grip on the vowels.(9)
hint: Tennessee Crossword Solvers held ALL of the vowels tightly.(9)
TENACIOUS (TN + C + S + AEIOU)
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Routers are not reprogrammed, so they get the heave ho. (6)
Hint:
Routers are not = puzzle part
Reprogrammed = puzzle type
The heave ho = solution synonym
OUSTER? (anagram of routers minus R (“are not”)). I’m not sure because I feel “ousted” fits “the heave ho” a bit better.
OUSTER is correct. My thinking is they are both nouns that have enough of a same meaning to be synonymous.
Fair enough, thanks.
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Fix mother’s part - what a hassle (9)
Hint: the overlap here is just the R.
Over the past 48 hours I’ve been contemplating the permutations of “mother’s part” far more than I ever wanted to. Perhaps another hint? Puzzle type? Puzzle words? (Just please don’t say it’s those words!)
Fix mother’s part - what a hassle (9)
RIGMAROLE (rig + ma + role)
Suzanne Singer experimentally cloned a heron. (7, 5)
LEONARD COHEN (anagram)
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The leader of Oslo was consumed by jealousy of the diplomat.(5)
ENVOY (envy with O inserted)
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I see what you did there, and I liked it! (6)
VOYEUR (double meaning)
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The representative from Rhode Island scolded ones from Maine and North Dakota.(9)
REPRIMAND (rep + RI + MA + ND, though isn’t it Massachusetts rather than Maine?)
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Jaundice loses its cool, confused for spicy sausage (5)
Jaundice loses its cool, confused for spicy sausage (5)
NDUJA (Jaund* - ice)
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US president preserves midseason form. (5, 7)
JAMES MADISON (“preserves” = jam, plus anagram of midseason)
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Direction for nurse? (6)
Never mind. Got ninja’d.