u/ShotandBotched

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A small note for readers: This answer uses the American spelling of the word.

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Pretty easy one for a Friday.

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I decided to purchase a membership to MC so now you have a proper workspace to work on my clues. Enjoy!

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Indicators: >!----------------None--------------!<

Fodder: >!---Chapter, writer's, follow-up-------!<

Definition: >!-----Your relatives, perhaps?-------!<

Additional hint: >!Try to read the word "writer's" from someone else's perspective.!<

Let's be real: If the enumeration doesn't give away the answer, the definition certainly does. I just thought it was interesting that a real word could be constructed out of the larger answer. It also serves as a decent introduction to the type of indicator used here in case you've never seen it before.

Indicators: >!------------overutilized--------------!<

Fodder: >!---------------Breton---------------!<

Definition: >!--------That is the question----------!<

Additional hint: >!"Overutilized" is a letter bank indicator. What you do is you take the fodder term and put it in your "bank". You utilize as many letters as you need to construct the answer; duplicates are allowed and some letters may only have to be used once.!<

Indicators: >!-------------uniquely, altered--------------!<

Fodder: >!------------Entertainer's---------------!<

Definition: >!------------Eyepieces?------------------!<

How to work out the solution if you give up: >!"Uniquely" is a reverse letter bank indicator. Take every unique letter out of the fodder and discard the duplicate letters.!<

This one is deliberately oblique, so put on your lateral thinking cap.

Indicators: >!-------------hearing----------------!<

Fodder: >!Scot's confirmation, English flower!<

Definition: >!---------Circumstances--------------!<

Additional hint 1: >!Think of how your average Scot would utter a confirmation.!<

Additional hint 2: >!"Flower" can be read in more than one way.!<

Indicators: >!-------------run--------------!<

Fodder: >!---------let, lipstick--------------!<

Definition: >!----------buttkisser------------!<

I would have preferred to use a certain other word in the place of "butt" but I didn't want to risk having the clue get taken down.

In true Minute Cryptic fashion, I'm fudging this one quite a bit in exchange for a great surface. The answer and the definition aren't exact matches of one another per se so I added a question mark to signal that.

Indicators: >!---------caught---------!<

Fodder: >!-------Son, cringing---------!<

Definition: >!----rubbing one out?-----!<

Here is an alternative version with a slightly worse surface as I'm not 100% sold on whether the original is grammatically sound or not. The structure and hints are basically the same. It's just the suffixes that change.

Son cringed; allegedly rubbed one out? (7)

With >!allegedly!< acting as the >!homophone indicator!< instead of >!caught!<.

Indicators: >!--------------None---------------!<

Fodder: >!Daughter, is, made comfortable!<

Definition: >!-------------------Ill---------------!<

Indicators: >!No explicit indicators!<

Fodder: >!----------Gods---------!<

Definition: >!--------Dogs---------!<

Disclaimer (and perhaps a hint): I am aware that the answer is the less common spelling of the word, but I don't think that tarnishes what is an otherwise good clue (in my humble opinion).

Hint: >!It's a rebus clue. Something has happened to the clue during the publishing process. One word is missing and the other is misspelled in a specific fashion.!<

Answer: >!GONE AWRY!<

Justification/Narrative: >!Ironically, the phrase/clue was meant to be "Nobody's perfect!" but it has gone awry; "perfect" is misspelled with an RI (awry) and nobody is missing entirely, or "gone".!<

P.S.: Impostor syndrome is kicking in hard; I haven't been writing clues for very long and I feel like I'm Mandela Effecting myself into thinking I already read this somewhere and I'm unintentionally plagiarizing someone, so let me know if this clue already exists.

#1: 51 Romans saw "10_ Dalmatians" with raccoon (7)

DEFINITION: >!"Concept". We're looking for a synonym for this.!<

FODDER: >!"Bhutanese" and "ocean".!<

INDICATORS: >!"Near Eastern" and "sound of". "Wakes to" can also be a construed as a rather loose indicator.!<

LETTERS: >!N!< >!O!< >!T!< >!I!< >!O!< >!N!<

NARRATIVE: >!Bhutan is a landlocked country, so the idea of a Bhutanese person waking to the sound of the ocean would be a strange concept indeed (let's pretend that traveling abroad doesn't exist...)!<

Dead simple one today. (EDIT: Fucked up the letter count. Don't write clues while high.)

#1: Maine's borders contained slaughter of teaming by anti-gravity drones (9)