RHYMING RIDDLE ANSWERS XXV

The answers to each item in the clues will rhyme.

1. Somber vehicle, Poetry, Shakespeare's trash, Brief

2. Slander or defame, Give a person a task to do, Pattern or plan, Purify

3. Fail under pressure, Deliberately move to anger, Serious, Enjoy a soft drink

4. Airtight, Pitiful, Severely disciplined and abstaining, Artificial body part

5. Ice skating element, Accustom, Imply or suggest, Surrender

6. Related to sight, leftover-remaining, Temporary, First-new-different

7. Parthenon site, Large city, City of the dead, Huge city and environs

8. Take part, Lecture in a pedantic way, Return a favor, Look forward to

9. Keep in touch by mail, Thoreau's digs, Begin to like, Agent 007

10. Clown, Woodwind, Gary Cooper classic western, Rare occurrence

11. Passive, Preserved plant or animal remains of the remote past, Enormous, Church official

12. Insult deeply, Third Little Pig's home, Have fun, Beyond repair

Answers:

1. Hearse, Verse, Purse, Terse
2. Malign, Assign, Design, Refine 
3. Choke, Provoke, No joke, Have a Coke
4. Hermetic, Pathetic, Ascetic, Prosthetic
5. Figure eight, Habituate, Insinuate, Capitulate
6. Visual, Residual, Provisional, Original
7. Acropolis, Metropolis, Necropolis, Megalopolis
8. Participate, Pontificate, Reciprocate, Anticipate
9. Correspond, Walden Pond, Grow fond, James Bond
10. Buffoon, Bassoon, High Noon, Blue moon
11. Docile, Fossil, Colossal, Apostle
12. Cut to the quick, House of bricks, Get your kicks, Can't be fixed