OMISSION MISSION I
Credit: GAMES Magazine
June, 1997
R.H. Wei

Each clue defines two words, one of which can be obtained by dropping the initial letter from the other. Either the longer or the shorter word may be defined first. The first letters of the longer answer words, read in order, spell an appropriate word.

1. A hole-in-one, usually, in golf - a small dog
2. Property - condition
3. Southwest, for one - it sometimes recedes
4. Witticism - furnish for action
5. Card game - condense a book
6. Kind of board or horse - inflatable transport
7. Scanty - enthusiastic
8. Movement - feeling
9. Not very wide - pointer
10. Broadway site - gangster's gun
11. Zorro's forte - puns and such

Answers:

1. Eagle/beagle
2. Estate/state
3. Airline/hairline
4. Quip/equip
5. Bridge/abridge
6. Draft/raft
7. Meager/eager
8. Motion/emotion
9. Narrow/arrow
10. Theater/heater
11. Swordplay/wordplay

Mystery word: BEHEADMENTS