All answers are 5 letters and 4 letters long. Drop a letter from the first answer to get the second. No anagramming required. Each answer drops a unique letter (Except for "g"
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-1. parcel / discretion
-2. diadem / brag
-3. pick up / large group
-4. press together or a bag / virginal
-5. be frugal / pass over
-6. a customary way of doing something / a wise plant?
-7. a rustic / draft animal equipment
-8. hasty / quick attack
-9. snare / word with ring or job
-10. give it a chance / tempo
-11. engine / dock
-12. use the on ramp / nothing more
-13. unseat a knight? / expel a politician
-14. natural sweetener / sharpen
-15. word with ball or French / treatment
-16. scrapbook / flower
-17. put up / get up
-18. lot / word with salt or Roman
-19. incompetent / division
-20. tendon / trig function
-21. striped mammal / depressed
-22. rule / lead
-23. a group of notes played together / twine
-24. adage / disfigure
-25. former Russian rulers / Pinto and Mustang for example