CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Credit: NY Times Crossword
Bob Lubbers

Each clue below can be answered using the name of a country's capital - and wordplay.

For example, given the clue Like highwire and trapeze acts in Ghana, the answer would be ACCRABATIC.

1. Venezuelan noisemakers
2. Indian food treat
3. Asia-bound Norwegian freighter
4. What South Koreans do in the face of difficulties
5. Albanian T-Rex
6. Taiwanese Red Cross donation
7. Certain Egyptian  manipulators
8. French leapers, of a sort
9. Certain Czech liberal
10. Irish accident coverage

Answers:

1. Fire Caracas
2. Delhicacy
3. Oslo boat to China
4. Seouldier on
5. Tiranasaur
6. Taipei blood
7. Cairopractors
8. Parischutists
9. Pragueressive
10. Dublindemnity