Cryptic overlaps

LEPRECHAUN (clean her up)

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The first couple zombies underwent deprogramming adequately (6)

UNDEAD (un + de + ad)


First man adds love to power tool for comedian. (4, 7)

ADAM SANDLER (ADAM = first man, SANDER + L for love)

Veeva Terraa! No, that’s just wrong in so many ways (6)

You’re right of course. Somehow (embarrassingly) I managed to confuse it with The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer. And the clue even makes more sense with ‘play’ instead of ‘book’! Never mind, well done anyway.

ERRATA (terraa*)

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Giant pile of furniture in a cape? (5, 8)

Giant pile of furniture in a cape? (5, 8)

TABLE MOUNTAIN (dd)

+++++

Your awful toxic mean duty for today! (6, 3)

INCOME TAX (anagram)

+++++

A hung taxman can really give King Trent something to chew on. (7, 3)

XANTHAN GUM (anagram)

++++

Floyd’s album goes silver, then gold, then you add a couple Mars candies. (9)

UMMAGUMMA (ag + au + u + 2 x mm)


Martian drives recreational vehicle into principle avenue, gets very angry. Very angry indeed. (6)

MARVIN (ma+RV+in)
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Wine label stolen by rock climber. (7)

Wine label stolen by rock climber. (7)

VINTAGE (VIN-tag-E)

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“President is on the wagon,” Greg misrelates. (6, 10)

GEORGE WASHINGTON (is on the wagon Greg*)

+++++

Fresh impetus plus country (3, 7)

NEW ZEALAND (new+zeal+and)
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Left both eyes on the big red blimp.(9)

DIRIGIBLE (I + I + big red)

+++++

“The table is broken”, Tom says sheepishly. (5)

BLEAT (anagram)


A male cat I see, literally microscopic. (6)

ATOMIC (a+tom+I+c)
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There was a mutter from the disturbed CIA man when the suspect asked to urinate.(9)

MICTURATE (mutter CIA*)

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Leave fiery place after recording artists (8)

Too tough? Try “Leave fireplace after record company (8)”, which is inelegant, but never mind.

Well, it seems I killed the game. Guess I’ll have to leave the country.

Give us a structure, like

synonym for “leave” = famous record company + synonym for “fireplace”

(I couldn’t work out an answer with that)

EMIGRATE (EMI+ grate)

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X + X + E = what? Possibly a past, a present or a future. (5)