Cryptic overlaps

YEW WOOD (you would)


They supposedly fear clasps for their hairstyles. (10)

They supposedly fear clasps for their hairstyles. (10)

DREADLOCKS (dread + locks)

+++++

Big red horse remarkably eats car tire. (11)

SECRETARIAT (anagram “eats car tire”)

++++

We put Scout’s dad upstairs in the American suite.(7)

Atticus (attic+US)
+++++++

Nuclear fusion in cow vomit creates tasty dessert (7)

CUSTARD (cu/star/d)


That bastard isn’t concealing the time machine. (6)

Tardis (bastard isn’t)

+++++

Scarecrow headgear is half strapped. Whatever. (5,3)

Better version:

Scarecrow headgear is only partly strapped and… Whatever.

STRAW HAT (STRApped + WHATever)


He founded a nation next to a chess champion. (7)

Ataturk (Ata+Turk)

++++++

Sir Lancelot, loaded with gin, killed those who went back on him.(6)

KNIGHT (reversed)

++++

Being in the wrong, we left the crowd.(6)

THRONG (the wrong - we)

+++++

Environmentalist’s quarters. (10)

GREENHOUSE (double definition)

Augmented fires require a backdraft. (5)

Serif (fires backwards)

++++

Fine night to talk about limits (6)

Right answer, but I’m not sure where you got “Ata” from.

Next to = AT
a = A

It’s short for “‘Ata boy!”

FINITE (soundalike)

+++++

Nitrate! Nitrate! In! Out! It’s the same thing over and over! (10)

I thought ITERATION, but that has only 9 letters.

Keen observation will reveal that the clue has more than one iteration of “nitrate.”

:wink:

Iterations?

I think you got it Oly.