Drop Me A Letter

All answers are 5 letters and 4 letters long. Drop a letter from the first answer to get the second. No anagramming required. Each answer drops a unique letter.



-1. parcel / discretion
-2. diadem / brag
-3. pick up / large group
-4. press together or a bag / virginal
-5. be frugal / pass over
-6. a customary way of doing something / a wise plant?
-7. a rustic / oxen coupler
-8. hasty / quick attack
-9. snare / word with ring or job
-10. yell / close
-11. engine / dock
-12. use the on ramp / nothing more
-13. unseat a knight? / expel a politician
-14. natural sweetener / sharpen
-15. word with ball or French / treatment
-16. scrapbook / flower
-17. put up / get up
-18. lot / word with salt or Roman
-19. incompetent / division
-20. tendon / trig function
-21. striped mammal / depressed
-22. rule / lead
-23. a group of notes played together / twine
-24. adage / disfigure
-25. former Russian rulers / Pinto and Mustang for example

14. honey / hone (y)

12 - merge; mere (g)

10. shout / shut (o)

25. czars/cars

5. skimp skip (m)

20. sinew / sine (w)

1. tract/tact (r)

8. rapid/raid (p)

Hi Cue.

13. joust / oust (j) - Hi Cue

Bernie

2. crown / crow (n)

19. unfit unit (f)

7 - yokel; yoke (l)

Looking good y'all

Hi Bernie

4. purse / pure (s)

6. usage / sage (u)

23. chord / cord (h)
24. maxim / maim (x)

Very nice ladies

11. motor / moor (t)

11. motor moor (t)

9. noose .. nose

We got moor, more times than we needed Both are right though

Looks good!

17. raise rise (a)

15. curve / cure (v)

21. skunk / sunk (k)

A nice triple

3. hoist / host (i)
18. batch / bath (c)
22. reign / rein (g)

May be a bit of a boo-boo on #16
As far as I know "alum" is not a flower, but arum is.

Then the answer for the other word must be arbum

I always thought that a form of flowering onion, actually called allium, was alum.

Nice finish, Joan

I love you, Cue