ENDLESS CHANGES
LA Times Crossword
Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick

The answers to the clues below will be familiar phrases or expressions, but with the final letter in one or more of the words dropped.

1. Talk about what you do
2. Pointless fear of inoculation
3. Sing dangerously like Ella
4. Basic Western burgs
5. Good hair will out
6. Endangered dwelling
7. "Doc Martin's" sacrifice

HINTS:
1. Think about the sound of little feet.
3. [Spelling error]
4. One's in southern California, and the other's in Montana.
6. It's about a vulture.

Answers:

1. Patter of behavior
2. Needles worry
3. Skat on thin ice  
4. Brea and Butte
5. Every do has its day
6. California condo
7. Marty to the cause