Cryptic overlaps

Sending all good wishes your way.

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Likewise.

Off GARY OLDMAN

Arkansas woman trampled by horse (3,1,3)

MAN O WAR (anagram from woman + AR)

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Where Mr. Beatty keeps his Playboy Bunnies (6)

WARREN (double meaning)


Sister entered recitation but lost her tome, resulting in rejection. (12)

RENUNCIATION (NUN in RECITATION minus T)

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Article is sewn together back to front and front to back (4)

I want to say NAAN, but can’t see a definition of it in the clue.

NEWS (sewn with first and last letters exchanged)


Dockworkers refuse to work while all pins are knocked down. (6)

STRIKE (Double definition)

Knave’s old accomplice starts killing every scuttling tiny rodent, enjoys lunch. (7)

KESTREL (first letters)


Put some lithium in that area, and you’ll get theology. (8)

RELIGION (li in region)

Alien thing with giant head startled bird (11)

Hint:

The first letter is N

NIGHTINGALE (11) (ALIEN THING* +G)

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The first metal. (4)

LEAD (double meaning)


Verdi operas include a bad grade, but make good shoes. (6)

ADIDAS (AIDAs + D)

A retardant of ignition resembling the finest oxygen molecules (8)

ASBESTOS (AS+BEST+Os)

Big game for hunter (6)

I won’t post a new clue because this is a bit of a guess, but is it OSPREY? (Big = Oversized = OS + prey)

Ding ding ding, give the man a coconut!

This was a possibly idiomatic way of saying, “Yes, you got it, that’s exactly the wordplay and solution, please feel free to post a clue.”

(Although I have belatedly realised that the overlap on OSPREY isn’t very usable, apologies for that.)

Oh good :slightly_smiling_face:

The first person to refer to audience for sense (8)

Hint:

The first letters are EY and the definition is ‘sense’