Letter Drop / Hints

Solve these clues by dropping a letter from the first word to form the second. No anagramming required.

Example: hold up - dad = prop - pop

Each clue drops a unique letter from the letter pool:

4 - 3 Letters

-1. crazy - whichever
-2. irritation - bar
-3. someone of low rank - writing implement

5 - 4 Letters

-4. adage - mutilate
-5. analyze a sentence - skin
-6. comb - acrid
-7. compete with a lance - remove
-8. genuflect - part of a boat
-9. gush - yes (s----)(s---)
-10. hot love interest? - celebrity
-11. part of an area calculation - among
-12. send - discharge (r----)(e---)
-13. set of rooms - location
-14. severe - darling
-15. sketch - mild expletive
-16. spew - overlook
-17. tolerate - helper
-18. woven fabric with diagonal parallel ridges - staying power

6 - 5 Letters

-19. coho - beauty shop
-20. spit - gutter
-21. warning - spoil

7 - 6 Letters

-22. comparison - type of clock or television signal
-23. exhaust - expunge
-24. songbird - getting larger
-25. tolerant - flagrant

1. zany, any (z)

25. patient, patent (i) ???

Hi Cue.

4. maxim - maim (x)

19.salmon,salon (m)

22. analogy/analog (Y)

Great start y'all!

23. deplete, delete (p)

7. Joust oust - Hi Cue

Bernie

Hi Bernie You and Michele are on the money!

8. kneel keel

10. flame/fame (L)

3. Peon - Pen (o)
17. Abide - Aide (b)

20. skewer, sewer (k)

18. twill/will (T)

2. bane - ban
5. parse - pare

A good run on that one! Whew!

Joan gets a half a point taken out of my book for the misdirection of the dropped letter

14. acute, cute (a)
15. draft, daft (r)
16. vomit, omit (v)

13. suite site

Two out of three ain't bad, Michele, at least that's how the song goes. Try again on #15
manxman

6. scour/sour - C
21. threat/treat - H
24. finches/inches F

I fixed my boo-boo on #18

oops

rethinking #24

I think Michele was right on #15, but removed the wrong letter...
draft/drat - F

Yes, Joan

6. scour, sour (c)
11. width, with (d)

24. waxwing/waxing - W

I missed one of your posts, Joan. Oops! I'm up to date now.

Good answers ladies.

9. surge, sure - G

12. remit, emit - R

Nicely polished off, Remi