CALIFORNIA (10)

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State formed after caliph abandons a third of Iran in panic (10)

CALI(-ph)+FORNIA*=state

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7177 State formed after caliph abandons a third of Iran in panic (10) CALI(-ph)+FORNIA*=state summitwei 2
7184 Lack of rain's destroyed me. Not going to be okay; in fact, exactly the opposite (10) sad &lit ):
wordplay: anagram of LACKOFRAIN ("destroyed") = CALKFORNIA. I ("me") not becoming K ("Not going to be" "okay"), but rather K becoming I ("in fact, exactly the opposite"). CAL[K->I]FORNIA
def.: For years, California has been in a serious drought: https://www.drought.gov/states/california
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