SURNAME OF ANY U.S. PRESIDENT - NO REPEATED ANSWERS (?)

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Poke a president (6)

PIERCE ddef

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8838 Poke a president (6) PIERCE ddef phenomist 2
8845 Like CEO and President (9) CLEVELAND
def. "President"
wordplay: C-LEVEL ("Like CEO") + AND
bags 2
8839 Say, poke a president (4) "polk" homophone phenomist 1
8841 Cleaning a lot in general (10) WASHINGTON (WASHING (cleaning)+ TON (a lot))
Washington was a general
Firetruck 1
8851 Programmer masters first vice (5) ADAMS (ADA (lovelace) + MS (master of science))
Def: first vice (president)
Firetruck 1
8837 Eastwood's under the influence, but he didn't inhale (7) CLINTON
CLINT (eastwood) +ON (as in on drugs)
def: Bill Clinton testified that he smoked pot "but didn't inhale"
Firetruck 0
8846 Latvian backing second-rate work like a still life with pear (8) Latvian = LETT
backing = following
second-rate = B
work like a still life = ART
pear = BARTLETT (POTUS from The West Wing)
Tortoise 0
8847 Shakespeare Jr. in a monologue with muttonhead (6) WILSON
Def: muttonhead (Woodrow Wilson was an incompetent delusional butt)
Homophone "WILL'S SON"
Firetruck 0
8850 Perhaps Pope Paul II abutting on Senator tricky Dick (7) JOHN = "Perhaps Pope Paul II"
"abutting" = concat. connector
SON = [ON + S(enator)]* "tricky"
rpl 0
8862 Overrule judge supporting heartless traitor (5) T(raito)R + (supported by) + UMP (judge)

def = overrule
rpl 0
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