Disemvowelling

Another mixture of new/recycled disemvowellings…

Remove one vowel from the first answer to give the second. Do not rearrange any of the remaining letters. If necessary, remove/add any hyphens or inverted commas as needed.

Eg. Organ/male deer (heart/hart).

-1. linger aimlessly / metric quantity
-2. assistants / helps
-3. weakness / storing of records etc
-4. disease of the nervous system / task
-5. greeting / part of house
-6. title of respect / attendant
-7. egg-shaped / poet
-8. lace embroidery / ancient northern Britain inhabitant
-9. airport, code ORD / run fast
-10. powerful businessman / unit of nuclear cross section (10 to the minus 24 square cm)

7. ovoid/Ovid

1. Loiter/liter (allowing for US misspelling of litre..)

Good starts!

I couldn't possibly comment on US spelling Lex...

2. aides/aids

Yes, Marian!

4. chorea/chore

Nice solve, michele!

3. failing/filing

8. picot/Pict

Both good, folks!

6. esquire/squire

Yes, Joan!

5. hallo/hall

9. O'hare/hare

Yes michele, manxman!

10 - ceo - co

Nice one, niteowl, but not mine

This is a term used to refer to a powerful mover/shaker in their field - for example, JR was an oil -------- (number of dashes doesn't mean anything.)

Or if it were a cryptic, "nobleman is childless, we're told"

10. baron barn

I love the idea of "barn" being used for something so incredibly tiny!