DOUGH (5)

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GEB author's wealth (5)

ddef: the author of Godel Escher Bach is Douglas Hofstadter, shortened to DOUG H. (the shortening is clued by the shortening of GEB)

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412 GEB author's wealth (5) ddef: the author of Godel Escher Bach is Douglas Hofstadter, shortened to DOUG H. (the shortening is clued by the shortening of GEB) phenomist 4
420 C-note, as they say! (5) DOUGH (= homophone for "do", as in solfege); [= "C-note, as they say!", indicating slang for money] level 4
410 The inside of a bun is hair? Disgusting! The inside of a bun: def
hair = DO
Disgusting! = UGH
also weak hairbun pun
wolf 2
418 Baking needs money! ddef (baking needs/money) wolf 2
437 Cash shortage. No retweets! (5) Shortage: DROUGHT
No retweet: remove RT
chaotic_iak 2
407 Money scratched up from research to development (5) Money = (R->D)OUGH (scratched up = ROUGH) Akumu 1
416 Boy in World War I shouted annoyed grunt (5) "Boy in World War I"=def (as in DOUGHBOY)
"shouted"=homophone indicator
"annoyed grunt"=D'OH ("annoyed grunt" is how the term appears in "Simpsons" scripts)
madjaqk 1
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