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
