Maximum of two answers per day for the first two days, please 
Bait and switch: Each clue below can be answered by changing one letter in the given, capitalized word, and then anagramming the letters. Some easy, some tough, some may be alternative spellings, hyphenated or Britspeak, and there may be the occasional two word answer...
CARPET-1. Loud noise
-2. Leave
-3. Reproductive organ in a flower
-4. Very close progenitor
-5. Decreases in diameter towards one end.
-6. Perpetrator of acts of illegal violence at sea
-7. Former explosive device used to blow down doors, walls etc
-8. Small wheel found on some items of furniture
-9. Incendiary ammunition
-10. State of complete mental absorption
-11. Package
-12. Censor portions of
-13. Local area network protocol from the 1980s
-14. Three-beat gait of horses
-15. Clergyman
-16. Kerry, Australian media tycoon
-17. Found fault or complained
-18. Talks excessively and pointlessly; babbles
-19. Truman, novelist
-20. Responds to a stimulus
-21. Alliance of parties or interests to further common aims
-22. A position facing a particular direction; outlook
-23. Sermonize
-24. Meal
-25. Large bowl-shaped depression on the surface of the earth
-26. Meddle
-27. Dichotomized
-28. Receive something given
-29. To cause to come into being
-30. Life-giving drink of the gods.
-31. To free from a surface adhering matter etc by drawing a sharp edge across it
-32. To caper, dance about
-33. Part of a shoe
-34. Very large measure of distance
-35. Red wine
-36. Withdraw, disavow, retract
-37. To say again
-38. Type of RV
acebook
witter
Petard
