CAUSE OF THE CAWS VIII

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

Example: Reason for the crows' noise
Answer: Cause of the caws

1. Large animal of the deer family and hair gel
2. Early part of the day and a period of grieving
3. Strength and shell fish
4. Popular condiment and gathered together
5. Pleasant and a kind of rock
6. Louse egg and to sew with yarn
7. Lyric poem and was in debt
8. Margarine and mixture
9. Law and military weapons
10. Bucket and ashen-looking
11. Shadow and ratchet
12. Roof of the mouth and a wooden platform

Answers:

1. Moose and mousse
2. Morning and mourning
3. Muscle and mussel
4. Mustard and mustered
5. Nice and gneiss
6. Nit and knit
7. Ode and owed
8. Oleo and olio
9. Ordinance and ordnance
10. Pail and pale
11. Pall and pawl
12. Palate and pallet