NOTORIOUS
Guide two pronouns together (5)
Usher
Remember to take it back (6)
RECALL (double defnition)
Del Ray sings plain (5)
LLANO (“LANA” del Ray)
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Disfigured arm astounds prophet. (11)
NOSTRADAMUS (arm astounds anagram)
Allegedly, smell a force unit for a grape. (9)
Confiture? (force unit anagram, but not sure how smell fits in)
No, not an anagram.
MUSCADINE (“Musk + A + Dyne”)
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Lincoln’s home is a banker’s nightmare. (8)
NEBRASKA (anagram of “a banker’s”; state capital is Lincoln)
Dorothy’s not here any more (6)
@Oly - something I missed when I first joined the game is that the start of the new answer will overlap to some extent with the end of the previous answer.
Aside (do not read unless you want to completely give away the answer to my (already easy) clue above):
This got me wondering about the longest overlapping chain of US states you can make. No doubt this is an established trivia fact, just not one I’d considered before. Can anyone beat this?
- Utah
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Nebraska
- Alaska
- Kansas
- South Carolina
- Arkansas
- South Dakota
- Arizona
- Alabama
- Maine
- New Mexico
- Colorado
- Oklahoma
- Maryland
- Delaware
KANSAS
The Perennial Nine appear in Gaulish warrior comic. (7)
ASTERIX (an aster is a perennial flower; IX is 9 in Roman numerals)
Dig up metal deposits between the two marks - copy that! (5)
Xerox
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Headless Willie runs into the intersection and jumps on a wagon (6)
Headless Willie runs into the intersection and jumps on a wagon (6)
OXCART [(-b)OXCAR + T)
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Drawing oxygen into chest. (7)
Cartoon? (Carton + o)
You got it.
Off cartoon:
We’re now here, in oblivion (7).
NOWHERE (now here)
Regal sheik is confused with underworld goddess. (10)
Ereshkigal (anagram regal sheik)
++++
Lois Lane is a great and loyal person, always leading from the get go. (3,3)
GAL PAL (first letters)
Alien, remake that sauce. (7)
ALFREDO (ALF + REDO)
With 'er majesty gone, the kingdom ain’t what it used to be, alack! (6)