Heartless

Remove the center letter of the first word to find the second.

Example: con becomes talk = cheat > chat

5 Letters

-1. a baking quantity becomes a composer
-2. a charade becomes confront
-3. a marriage settlement becomes a fish
-4. a navigation aid becomes fly
-5. a tire becomes harvest
-6. a type of horse becomes gasp
-7. an automaton becomes origin
-8. an award becomes ground corn
-9. an ogre become outdo
-10. Betsy Ross becomes Nostradamus
-11. bisect becomes own
-12. inept becomes an item
-13. might becomes a temperature
-14. pathological becomes a bottle

7 Letters

-15. a sweet treat becomes an arid area
-16. an ax becomes astute
-17. craving becomes declining

7. robot/root

8. medal meal

14. viral/vial

15. dessert/desert

9. fiend/fend

11. halve/have

Hi Cue.

4. sonar/soar

1. batch/Bach

3. Dowry > dory
16. Cleaver > clever

17. wanting waning

12. unfit unit

10. sewer/seer

2. farce / face

13. could/cold

You got to the heart of these clues!

Good solves

Curly, I'll take #11

5 - recap / reap

6 paint / pant

9. beast/best

Well, that's that! Good solves