The answers to the clues are all five-letter words...AND...the first and last clues are related...AND...each answer contains four letters from the preceding answer...AND...these four letters are not rearranged.

For example: A sample subset of consecutive answers would be stone, stove, shove, and shave.



x1. Move effortlessly
x2. Brag
x3. Wild animal
x4. Smallest
x5. Rent
x6. Stop
x7. Pursue
x8. Picked
x9. Routine task
x10. Singer Dinah

1. coast

2. boast

3. beast

Nice puzzle soot.

4. least

Bernie

5. lease

6. cease

7. chase

8. chose

9. chore

10. Shore

Thanks curly, exellent teamwork by you Flo, Gail, Bernie, Croaker, Manxman, Treval, Rose, Kat...AND...Koala