IONOSPHERE (hero opines anagram)
Pee Wee shrivels mastwood tree for Cash portrayer. (5, 11)
REESE WITHERSPOON? It fits the overlap, letter count and clue, but the wordplay is opaque to me.
She was in Walk the Line playing June Carter Cash
Pee Wee Reese played 3rd base for the Dodgers.
Correct. (Pee Wee) REESE WITHERS (shrivels) + POON (mastwood tree)
Ok. Playing off REESE WITHERSPOON:
Irrelevant lump! How repugnant! (5)
Irrelevant lump! How repugnant! (5)
NASTY (n/a + sty)
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Newbies’ story fabricated (5)
TYROS (anagram)
Flower tat misspelled rock, but it’s considered a universal translator. (7, 5)
ROSETTA STONE (ROSE + misspelled TAT + STONE)
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Six Million Dollar Man consoled with tea, then clotheslines the undertaker. (5, 4, 5, 5)
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN (consoled + t, 2 TV characters with same name)
Dickens character tiptoes through the tulips. (4, 3)
TINY TIM (double definition)
To do this mangled dance again, you need a Washington permit. (4,4)
To do this mangled dance again, you need a Washington permit. (4,4)
+++++
TIME WARP (WA+permit anagram)
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Artist inappropriately painted minor (4, 8)
Piet Mondrian (anagram PAINTED MINOR)
+++++
Mixed up ingredients mar ganache? Go back and try again. (7)
ANAGRAM (backwards hidden word)
It’s said that a tan throng converged on Aquaman actress. (5, 5)
AMBER HEARD
Tiny timpani leads to a murder (7)
Amber Heard (double meaning)
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Under threat of violence you must jettison that muumuu (5)
What to do, what to do? Ah! I have it!
EARDRUM (anagram of “a murder”)
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Two tittles that can be the difference between “OW!” and “OY!” (6)
DRESS (DURESS - U)
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Sounds like a grumpy German’s Victory Cabbage (10)
Answer both of my clues and you should be able to make a single follow-on clue.
UMLAUT (double definition)
SAUERKRAUT (sour kraut)
Nice job reconciling the two clues!
Double the asphalt for tooth buildup. (6)
Double the asphalt for tooth buildup. (6)
TARTAR (tar tar)
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Mystery author Ray Chandler out on adventure. (6, 5, 5)
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (Ray Chandler out on anagram)
Interlocking toy and words that follow SOS given to elf. (7)
LEGOLAS (LEGO + LAS)
(Side note: the solfege word is actually “sol” not “so”.)
Speed saves an hour and the danger seems minor. (8)