CAUSE OF THE CAWS XI

The answers to the clues below are based on homophones or near-homophones.

1. Measures of capacity and a counter-top mineral
2. 24 sheets of paper and a singing group
3. Sleep or relaxation and pull from by force
4. Similar ending sounds and crusty frost
5. Signal or pool stick and a line
6. Wedding band and squeeze the water out of
7. Cereal grain and a type of sarcastic humor
8. Closing securely and the top of a room
9. Beginning of a plant and to yield or surrender
10. Cut wool from a sheep and steep or see-through

Answers:

1. Quarts and quartz
2. Quire and choir
3. Rest and wrest
4. Rhyme and rime
5. Cue and queue
6. Ring and wring
7. Seed and cede
8. Sealing and ceiling
9. Seed and cede
10. Shear and sheer