PUT IT BACK II
From BRAIN GAMES FOR WORD NERDS
Francis Heaney

Each of the clues below leads to a two-word phrase in which the two words are nearly identical, but the second one has had a letter added. For example, OBOES AND CLARINETS USED TO SOOTHE AN ILLNESS would be REEDY REMEDY.

1. First you birthday celebration, then mine
2. Obtrusively bright and showy parsley sprig
3. Omen having great power and effect
4. Breaking someone's habit of using profanity
5. DNA map for a folkloric dwarf
6. School staff that has its problems
7. One who secretly changes religions
8. Less industrious window-glass fitter
9. Trash that's sitting in the carport
10. Heron relative with a sour temperament

Answers:

1. Party parity
2. Garish garnish
3. Potent portent
4. Curing cursing
5. Gnome genome
6. Faulty faculty
7. Covert convert
8. Lazier glazier
9. Garage garbage
10. Bitter bittern