ANY CLUE THAT USES A MATHEMATICAL SEQUENCE OTHER THAN EVENS/ODDS TO INDEX (?)

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Function of confused prime minister (4)

SINE
Def: Function
Wordplay: Confused prime mINiStEr
Confused INSE -> SINE

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8986 Function of confused prime minister (4) SINE
Def: Function
Wordplay: Confused prime mINiStEr
Confused INSE -> SINE
jatloe12345 2
8988 Perfect "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!" recording (2) 6, 28 into superCalifragilisticexpialiDocious = CD = def. "recording"
rpl 1
8990 Constant audible screaming (∞) "Constant" refers to the famous sequence https://oeis.org/A000012. Index into AUDIBLE to get "AAAAAAA...".

Also a Schrödinger for "EEEEEEE..." (homoph.)
SoftFro 1
9003 Carefully selected triangular exterior (5) Triangular indices: (C)a(r)ef(u)lly (s)elec(t)ed = CRUST
Exterior = def
EricFox53 1
8987 Spooky bell eradicating poverty (5) Bell numbers 1, 1, 2, 5, 15 on "eradicating poverty" = EERIE phenomist 0
8989 Fibonacci's lamb! Awa animal. (5) LLAMA
Def: Animal
Wordplay: Fibonacci's LAMBAWA
LLAMA
jatloe12345 0
8991 Kolakoski abhors pop band (4) ABBA

Kolakoski sequence begins with 1, 2, 2, 1
indexing "abhors"
pop band - definition
Botaku 0
8992 Factorials' rule: increase quickly, move! (3) RUN
Def: Move
Wordplay: 1,2,6 RUleiNcreasequickly
jatloe12345 0
8995 Busy beaver was on one's mind....scrumptious log source (5) WOODS
Busy beaver:https://oeis.org/A028444
WasOfOnesminD (...and skip a few...)Scrumptious
Def=log source
Firetruck 0
8996 Square potatoes lure friend (3) PAL
Def: Friend
Wordplay: Square PotAtoesLure
jatloe12345 0
8997 Cube potatoes with one number (3) PSI
Def: Number
Wordplay: PotatoeS with I -> PSI
jatloe12345 0
8998 Abundant potatoes come in pairs, at times (3) ERA
Def: Times
Wordplay: potatoescomEinpaiRsAt
Abundant is 12,18,20,24,...
jatloe12345 0
8999 Deficient potato with oxygen is food (6) POTATO
Def: Food
Wordplay: POTAT with O
jatloe12345 0
9000 Earthenware is non-composite, potatoes-carrying (7) Index 1,2,3,5,7,11,13 into potatoes-carrying = POTaToEscaRrYing = POTTERY (Earthenware) phenomist 0
9001 Odious potato chip is appropriate (5) wordplay: 1,2,4,7,8 into POtAtoCHip is POACH
def: appropriate
noneuclidean 0
9002 Happy potato's main component: a mind reader (5) Happy numbers 1,7,10,13,19 "PotatoSmaIncOmponeNt" = PSION phenomist 0
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