CHANGE A LETTER I

The Word's The Thing 

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Answer the clues below by changing the initial letter of the first answer to give the second answer. For example, given the clue Change a circuit breaker to a trick, the answer words would be FUSE - RUSE. 

1. Change an ancient instrument to a conflagration.

2. Change a breakfast food to a word meaning "to confuse".

3. Change a clothing size to a condition of boredom.

4. Change country living to a large outdoor painting.

5. Change an intake of air into a decorative ring

6. Change noisy and disorderly to frumpy.

7. Change "to be excessively sweet" to a cunning plan.

8. Change "red"- for example to a state of sorrow or distress

9. Change an unprincipled man to the prevailing fashion. 

10. Change a pursuit to a period or stage of development.

Answers:

 

1. LYRE - PYRE

2. WAFFLE - BAFFLE

3. MEDIUM - TEDIUM

4. RURAL - MURAL

5. BREATH - WREATH

6. ROWDY - DOWDY

7. CLOY - PLOY

8. COLOR - DOLOR

9. ROGUE - VOGUE

10. CHASE - PHASE