Cryptic overlaps

TYPE O NEGATIVE (anagram)

(side note: the lead singer worked as a garbage collector for Parks & Rec until the band started seeing success)


Look into glancing over it, as that will reveal the truth. (7)

VERITAS (contained in over it as)

The state of cultured style, elegance (5).

TASTE (anagram)

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Try forcing it and see if it fits yet. Broken? Tell the truth! (7)

Try forcing it and see if it fits yet. Broken? Tell the truth! (7)

TESTIFY (fits yet anagram)

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Poet’s yeast infection (5)

Yeats (YEAST anagram)

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In summary, quasi phones suck (6)

This way is better:

In quasi phones, suckiness.(6)

SIPHON (contained in “quasi phones”)

Polish tree holds initially deadly fruit.(8)

Polish tree holds initially deadly fruit.(8)

HONEYDEW (HONE + YEW with D)

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One of these Disney-owned Star Wars creatures is liberally woke. (4)

EWOK (yup yup)


Midnighter’s exclamation interrupted the souls of statues in secret. (7)

Okedoke? (throwing spaghetti to see if it sticks :grin:)

Synonym for Midnighter, the sound it’s known to make, goes inside the word for statues that have souls trapped inside them, to get a word that means “in secret.”

All I got is that Midnighter is some kind of cartoon hero and “ka” (which has the needed k) for soul, but other than that, I ain’t got nothing. Which alas is pretty much nothing.

Ka is correct. Midnighter refers to an animal that’s known for making spooky sounds at night.

So, “hoot”, which yields “hokasot” which means nothing to me.

…and doesn’t overlap.

Kahoots? That’s got problems, too.

But it’s no doubt the solution.

I think you are at the plate, kaylasdad99.

I’d think so too, if I didn’t have, shall we say, views on the proper way to spell “cahoots.”

But, if it gets things moving again…

KAHOOTS

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You shouldn’t let one of these guys join your pistol men. (9)

What kind of problems?

You shouldn’t let one of these guys join your pistol men. (9)

SIMPLETON (pistol men anagram)

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They might lead to stuttering woes! (6, 8)