Cryptic overlaps

INVADER (driven a*)

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What are you sitting on? Sounds like an Irish tune (8)

DERRIERE (Derry air)


A new beginning is supposedly regarding youth imprisonment country. (12)

Rejuvenation (re + juvie + nation)

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Gold’s omnipotence became complicated long ago (4,4,1,4)

ONCE UPON A TIME (anagram AU + omnipotence)
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I was studying alloys when I heard about someone having a hypersensitivity reaction at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.(10)

Metallurgy (Met + allergy)

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See face back in drywall (6)

See face back in drywall (6)

GYPSUM (spy in mug backwards)

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Musical Omelette is minus cast. (4, 2, 2, 2, 5)

Meet Me In St. Louis?

Contains all the letters in “omelette is minus” but seems to be one e short.

That’s it 3 "E"s.

Off Meet Me In St. Louis

Epic wrestler issues rancid elution while going numbers one and two (6)

I want it to be ISRAEL (first two letters of each of “issues rancid elution”) but I can’t make the connection with “epic wrestler”, can anyone help me out?

In the Book of Genesis Jacob wrestled with an angel and was renamed Israel.

Thanks, in that case I will continue!

Emhoff dresses Ford with her Singer? (4, 10)

ISRAEL is indeed correct. I first thought of “biblical wrestler”, but I didn’t want to make it too obvious :yum:

Back to the current puzzle:

ELLA FITZGERALD (Ella [Emhoff] + “fits” + Gerald [Ford])

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Darned disorganized shed stuff! (6)

DANDER (anagram)


The German duplicate is such a pistol. (9)

DERRINGER (Der ringer)
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The Eastern European was relevant.(7)

GERMANE (German + e)


A body part cherishes vociferously these tales.

ANECDOTES (a neck dotes)?

If that’s correct:

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Tom makes Etsy irritable (5)

TESTY (T from Tom, +ETSY, anagram)

Many mayors oft-times pad their speeches recklessly (9)

STYROFOAM (anagram)
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Ms. Brenneman initially got depressed and laid awake. So emotional!(8)

AMYGDALA (Amy + first letters of next words)

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Eagerness and fervor are in city style (8)