All answers can be cross-checked using Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary. The dictionary may prove a useful index of words.
SECOND LETTER CHANGE (5)
Our hi-pri docs cannot be CHAIR.
’Til CLAIR, we must send mail by air.
TELESTICHAL ENIGMA (10)
A. Hate open crab?
B. Use sausage anchor.
C. With teeth, grin wide,
Not up to rancor.
CONSONANTCY (5 3, 5)
Canola is not my suggested choice grease.
Instead, extra-virgin GAS ups food’s taste GEESE.
HEAD-TO-TAIL-SHIFT (3)
Keep barn CATSs SCAT on gloves, not sky.
In jesses, birds won’t even fly.
CURTAILMENT (6)
The first two cans’re gloss, but then
The pressing TEND: the third one’s TEN!
REVERSED PALINDROME DELETION (10)
The drone goes on too long and DIVINE.
In END, I execrate its whine.
SOUND SHIFT (6, 3-3)
Beer, tea, black VIEW all serve to move
A singer’s voice to sounding YOU’VE.
DELETION (9)
I do suggest for older guys
To lay EYRES while Doc checks your EYES.
REBUS (5-6) (11C inferable)
SH/E
I’ve spools and kittens, leather pumps—
I think that SOL shoes are for chumps.
TERMINAL DELETION (6)
They put up new rugs that are BLAH.
That older ones were rough’s LA.
LETTER BANK (4 4, 6)
My horse should have a ROEHRICH? Fair.
I’m clumsy on beasts from a CO-HEIR.
HOMONYM (6, 4)
We’re BARE to string it BEAR to shoot,
Avoiding your new shoes to boot!
BEHEADMENT (5)
To PAT down vintners, one just scans
For wine ATs detailed in floor plans.
DELETION (11)
With negative culture and unchanging voice,
I’m BACH and my BATCH dialect’s by choice.
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