SHAYMIN (7)

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Guilt of Sonic the Hedgehog (7)

SHAYMIN (= "shame in" homophone) [= "hedgehog"]; "Sonic" as homophone indicator

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426 Guilt of Sonic the Hedgehog (7) SHAYMIN (= "shame in" homophone) [= "hedgehog"]; "Sonic" as homophone indicator level 2
425 A grassy Pokémon from Japan, much like a lute, won the millenials but lost half of the base. grassy Pokémon: def
from Japan, much like a lute: SHAMISEN
Millenial: (generation) Y
half of the base: -baSE
SHA(+Y)MI(-se)N

wolf 1
430 A living Chia Pet is hard inside, to say the least hard inside to say = H into SAY
the least = MIN
a living Chia Pet = S(H)AY+MIN
wolf 1
443 Said colloquially, hanging a sign, on this creature, of gratitude (7) Def. "creature of gratitude" = SHAYMIN (see: Pokemon category)

said = homophone indicator

colloquially hanging a sign on = SHAMIN' (see: pet shaming)
edderiofer 1
445 Grass-type mythical initially seen in Sinnoh, avoiding drama on its home ground (7) &lit; Shaymin comes from Sinnoh's "Flower Paradise" and is shy and reserved (ie, avoids drama) in its original, land form (on its home ground)
Grass type: HAY
mythical initially: M_
seen in SINNOH: SHA(YM)INNOH
avoiding: deletion indicator
drama on its home ground: NOH (Japanese masked play)
S[HAYM]IN(-noh)
AuLeaf 1
427 With sky and ground, formed breeze without rotation as careless drives (7) Def. With sky and ground forme, D + SASHAY (breeze) - <AS< (without rotation as) + MIND (care) - all Ds (less drives). Akumu 0
436 Chaotic has left humanity halfway with this, first becoming almost mainly imaginative! (7) &lit

Definition: chaotic_iak leaves "humanity" by making a non-human character, a Shaymin, which itself is different from other Shaymins (hence "imaginative")

Wordplay:
chaotic HAS -> SHA (anagram)
HUMANITY halfway -> NITY (half of word)
left ... -> YTIN (reverse)
THIS first -> T (first letter)
almost mainly IMAGINATIVE -> M ("almost first" letter, so second letter)
... with ... becoming ... -> YMIN (letter replacement)
concatenate -> SHAYMIN

Clue co-authored with Deusovi
chaotic_iak 0
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