CAUSE OF THE CAWS XVI

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

1. Whimper or complain and fermented grapes
2.  Biblical wherever and shrivel up
3. Sorrow or misery and a horse command
4. Chinese cooking vessel and travel by foot
5. Knock or talk freely and cover with paper
6. Inflict upon and smell very bad
7. Relax and jerk away by force
8. Person in a pitiful state and to throw up
9. Step on a ladder and squeezed or twisted
10. Cereal grass and a kind of humor
11. Device for joining together, as oxen and part of an egg

Answers:

1. Whine and wine
2. Whither and wither
3. Woe and whoa
4. Wok and walk
5. Rap and wrap
6. Wreak and reek
7. Rest and wrest
8. Wretch and retch
9. Rung and wrung
10. Rye and wry 
11. Yoke and yolk