HAMILTON (8)

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Hit Lin-Manuel original composition about America's beginning, embraced greatly by the audience! (8)

H - Hit (baseball abbrev)
H+MILN* - LIN-M_ ("-Manuel original") anagram ("composition")
H(A_)MILN - contains ("about") A_ ("America's beginning")
HAMIL("TO")N - contains ("embraced") "TOO" ("greatly" i.e. excessively) homophone ("by the audience")

def/&lit: Hamilton is a widely-acclaimed popular musical show , composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, about America's founding

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10192 Hit Lin-Manuel original composition about America's beginning, embraced greatly by the audience! (8) H - Hit (baseball abbrev)
H+MILN* - LIN-M_ ("-Manuel original") anagram ("composition")
H(A_)MILN - contains ("about") A_ ("America's beginning")
HAMIL("TO")N - contains ("embraced") "TOO" ("greatly" i.e. excessively) homophone ("by the audience")

def/&lit: Hamilton is a widely-acclaimed popular musical show , composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, about America's founding
rpl 2
10185 Founding father originally haunted by a writer of Paradise Lost (8) Founding father = def
originally, Haunted, by A = H + A
Writer of Paradise Lost = MILTON
biocuriousgeorgie 1
10186 Pet name containing broken Tamil for someone whose face is a ten? (8) Pet name (HON) containing broken TAMIL = H(TAMIL*)ON

Someone whose face is a ten? = def (i.e., Hamilton is the face of the $10 bill)
biocuriousgeorgie 1
10189 Physicist in operation after screwing up math containing inverse of logarithmic integral (8) Physicist - def (William Rowan)
in operation - ON
screwing up math - HAMT*
inverse of logarithmic integral - IL<
Neeerd 1
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