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Blatantly cut & inordinately laden (9)
Blatantly = OVERT
cut = AXED
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inordinately laden == OVERTAXED
UPDATE:
Can people confirm if it was okay? (atleast 3 people who tried)
If not, given @Richard-MacCutchan pointed their could be a problem - would let him come up on Monday.
modified 25-Sep-20 15:36pm.
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Nice clue 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Blatantly is an adverb, so its definition should be, i.e. OVERTLY.
This information brought to you by the grammar police. (Take that @OriginalGriff).
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If you also send him a cat video and then compare him to Hitler you will have hit a social media Grand Slam.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Damn, I just kicked next door's cat over the fence, but forgot to film it. 
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I think the idea is to send a cute cat video. 
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Nah, none of it was IN UPPERCASE.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: Can people confirm if it was okay?
It's a good clue, I feel like I should have been able to solve it.
One of the first things I do when solving these is rewrite the clue with the more commonly used synonyms:
"Blatantly cut & inordinately laden" becomes "Blatantly cut & excessively burdened" As you can see it sometimes helps to locate a concealed definition. When I checked my notes... rephrasing the right side of your clue produces 'overtaxed' at the 7th position on my word list as the possible definition. I unfortunately looked right over it.
When I look at why I overlooked it... yes it was because of what Richard mentioned... the adverb 'Blatantly' was producing 'overtly'. The adjective 'overt' is not even on my associated word list.
Sandeep Mewara wrote: let him come up on Monday.
No way, I crave puzzles that are hard to solve. This was a learning experience for everyone. If you would have written it as:
Blatant over cut & excessively burdened It wouldn't have lasted even 5 minutes... and there is no fun in that!
I kinda miss the difficult mini CCC produced by @Tim-Deveaux. They would go unsolved for days. Unfortunately Tim was playing Monopoly and bought the Water Works property but lost all the water. Then he rolled a hard two. Not sure if he had any cards left.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: When I checked my notes... rephrasing the right side of your clue produces 'overtaxed' at the 7th position on my word list as the possible definition
 awesome!
Randor wrote: I kinda miss the difficult mini CCC produced by @Tim-Deveaux
Ah! I see he was regular till July this year.
Randor wrote: Unfortunately Tim was playing Monopoly and bought the Water Works property but lost all the water. Then he rolled a hard two. Not sure if he had any cards left.
Sounds like a challenge that he has no words left in his bag to post as mini CCC now 
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Theiyr're ... take that, Grammar Police!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Grammer Police is excited because her grandchildren comma today for a period of time. They'll be colon before they arrive.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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That's the worst pun I've ever heard, period.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The Case of the High Apostrophe Intelligence!
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And 14 pedants just chocked on the mouthful of desk they involuntarily bit into.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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DOGS CAN'T OPERATE MRI SCANNERS. BUT CATSCAN.
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Probably beclaws they're purrfect genius'.
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Yeah! with them, we get LABS REPORT.
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At our house it's dogs and cats, living together. Mass hysteria !
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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But both can operate Positron Emission Tomography scanners.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Could you please recommend a good face-recognition software?
These days I don't recognise my face in the mirror.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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turn down the lights really low and at midnight repeat 3 times.......
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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How about making a new software?
Provide few hundred pictures of yourself from different angles. We will apply AI/ML on it and try to have a 99% accurate model for your face (we will overfit it )
What say? 
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megaadam wrote: These days I don't recognise my face in the mirror.
That probably means it's hidden behind a mask. I haven't seen anyone smiling at the grocery store in months.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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A very mean spirited reply, which I will not make, is "open your fly, first" - but that's a bit cruel and I'll let someone else post it.
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Forget the software and blame Snow White.
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