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If you've not been there before, sanding through the clear is not a good thing to have happen, as laying base atop clear will lift the edges of the clear around your sanding flaw. Sometimes the answer may be to sand off the panel to edges and start over (like on a door or hood or fender), but another way is to dust on two or three coats of a blending clear to "seal" those edges, then once that's fully dry lay on a couple of coats of base to cover your flaw, lightly sand away any over spray from the surrounding area, and proceed with the next coat of clear.
My plan had been to do three coats of clear, let it cure for a couple of days, smooth with 800 wet, then lay down two more coats of clear for good depth of reflection. My snafu happened in the middle of the first round, and it's now cured so today is wet sand the whole body, spot repair the sand through, and do the final clear later today or tomorrow, depending on how long it takes to get the body wet sanded to satisfaction. That is, provided there's not a toad strangler rain within 50 miles....