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

If necessary, remove any hyphens or inverted commas as needed. And it was prepared by a Brit...

-1. Recoiled / let fall
-2. Lower in value / express disapproval of
3. Part of a ship / pawn
-4. Gambling game / search engine
-5. Marine transport / stem of soft fruit plant
-6. Aplomb / bodily attitude
-7. Melts together / commotion
-8. Sense of taste / coat with a thin film
-9. Type of ship / type of sugar
-10. Male admirer / wander idly

8. palate/plate

6. fastness/fatness???

Yes, Cheryl!

Nice try Remi, but you've got to lose a vowel...

10. swain/swan

9. canoe/cane

Good one , michele!

ob - you've got the correct answer, but to #5

My darn glasses were dirty again Rog.

6. poise/pose

- good answer!

Huh, fancy that! I really wouldn't have called a canoe a ship but it seemed to work for #9.

1. shied shed

7 - fuses ; fuss

4. bingo/Bing

Bonjour Rog.

2. depreciate / deprecate

9. coaster/caster

Great answers everyone (they all count, oldbroad!)