NO ENDS IN SIGHT II

For each set of clues, first find the word that answers Definition A. Then cut off its ends - its first and last letters - and you will find the answer to Definition B. For example,

DEFINITION A                  DEFINITION B
CORN TIDBIT                  SEA EAGLE ,

the answer words would be
KERNEL                            ERNE

DEFINITION A                  DEFINITION B
                 

1. Complimenting                Dried grape
2. Kind of conclusion          Beaver State
3. Earthenware                     Kind of chair
4. Least hilly                        Starbucks orders
5. Sentence error                  Garment district guys
6. To cross                            People who talk insanely
7. Fussy one for rules           ________ the ivories
8. Dangerous rush                Pressed down, as tobacco 
9. Wearing Hindu               
    headwear ........................ Cosmopolitan
10. Like a sweatshirt with    
      no head covering .......... A great many
11. Make a mess when           
      hitting the floor ............ River in Nebraska

Answers:

1. PRAISING - RAISIN
2. FOREGONE - OREGON
3. CROCKERY - ROCKER
4. FLATTEST - LATTES
5. FRAGMENT - RAGMEN
6. TRAVERSE - RAVERS
7. STICKLER - TICKLE
8. STAMPEDE - TAMPED
9. TURBANED - URBANE
10. HOODLESS - OODLES
11. SPLATTER - PLATTE