NONCHALANT (anagram)
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The buzz is a bee bounds on ruminant. (8)
I feel it might be ANTELOPE (a ruminant) with lope = bound[s], but not sure ant = bee although they are both insects.
Correct!
The bee lives in Mayberry.
hehe funny one Oly. I can tell “you people aren’t from around here” when they say “Ant Bea” or “Ont Bea” instead of “Aint Bea.”
You’re up, D_C.
Off ANTELOPE.
Thanks, all a mystery to me but I’ll take it!
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Surprising nice apt. not to scale. (10)
Aunt Bee is from The Andy Griffith Show.
PENTATONIC (nice + apt + not)
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Mixer engine sounds good? (5)
NICER?
(as in the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR telescope)
Negative.
I’m thinking either TONIC (it’s a mixer) or something starting ICE (internal combustion engine), can anyone provide the final touch?
Correct! The ? was intended to indicate a twist — the sound- alike was in the clue, not the answer.
Chat is your best way of finding ancient fish (10)
Does the answer perhaps go to 11?
ICTHYOSAUR (anagram)
I hear a howl, a Latin dawn. (6)
Hmm…seems to have another h in it, but what evs. Carry on
In play by KO:
I hear a howl, a Latin dawn. (6)
AURORA (Latin word for dawn, a ROAR a)
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Sorta-cool vegetable(6)
Sorry - yes it would have done if I’d spelled it correctly. Luckily @Knowed_Out was on my wavelength.
RADISH (rad-ish)
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Biblically, the man starts the coffee
Number of letters?