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Contests won: CHARTREUSE (10), DISINFECT (9), TWITTER (7), FEASTED (7)

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4579 PRISTINE (8) Flawless pull request is finally sent in by engineering lead (8) PR + IS + sen[T] + IN + [E]ngineering navi 4
4623 AUGUST (6) Release month of JoJo's Bizarre Adventures: Golden Wind (6) AU=golden GUST=wind | Vol 1 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventures was released in August, 1987 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Blood) navi 4
4665 CHARTREUSE (10) Green diagrams detailed second part of a recycling slogan (10) diagrams detailed = CHARTS - S
second part of a recycling program = REUSE (from "reduce, reuse, recycle")
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4767 TWITTER (7) Write letters once or thrice for social media (7) "letters once or thrice" indicates letter bank on WRITE => TWITTER navi 4
4882 FEASTED (7) "Ate nothing!" "Ate almost nothing!" "Ate a lot..." (7) FASTED (ate nothing) "ate" E (epsilon, almost nothing) = FEASTED (ate a lot) navi 4
4680 DISINFECT (9) Purify relentless disease in middle of prefecture (9) purify = DIS[ease] ("relent"-less) + IN + [pre]FECT[ure] navi 3
4903 REPLY (5) return "yes"; // end of interactive language shell (5) Y at end of REPL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop) navi 3
4639 CANDLE (6) It sets the mood for a date as two loves, getting carried away, kiss and cuddle (6) def = "It sets the mood for a date"
CANOODLE = "kiss and cuddle" - OO = "two loves getting carried away"
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4915 BIDEN (5) Staff of hellish plutocrat finally lost to him (5) semi-&lit

(hellish) Pluto refers to the Roman god as opposed to the planet.
Staff of hellish Pluto = BIDENT - ([cra]T)
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5097 HEAD (4) It's somewhat ache-adjacent! (4) _HE-AD_ &lit. adjacent to ACHE in the word HEADACHE navi 2
4695 BUNKUM (6) North Korea and leader of USA admitted to good-for-nothing claptrap (6) CLAPTRAP (def) = NK+U[SA] in BUM (good-for-nothing, n.) navi 1
4920 INTEGRAL (8) Function for numbers (perhaps large) may be improper? (8) &lit punning on "improper integrals"

INT|LARGE*
function for numbers (perhaps) = INT (function in Python) + EGRAL = LARGE* may be improper as anagrind
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4611 ANY ANSWER RELATED TO SPEEDRUNNING (?) Score a penny after each race to win a lady's love? (3 4 7) Score = GET LAID, CENT (a penny) after PER (each)
GET LAID PERCENT = race to win a lady's love (BotW category) ;)
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4744 SHOWMAN (7) Ringmaster's abominable creature devours top hooper in place of fleeing knight (7) ringmaster (def) = abominable SNOWMAN-N+H navi 0

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