CHANGE A LETTER III

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 seance leader to a condition of boredom, the answer words would be  MEDIUM - TEDIUM.

1. Change taunt to stop

2. Change a fish to a raid

3. Change deliberate mean to a thin porridge

4. Change an insistent request to commit to custody

5. Change lying on your back to wolf-like

6. Change a priest or chaplain to a small group of people

7. Change a small rubber boat to gently pass through the air

8. Change a distinctive emblem (as for police) to beg

9. Change a long, narrow hilltop to a tiny fly

10. Change an aggressive growl to a knot in a tree

11. Change observable to provoking laughter

12. Change point of physical contact to stand up for

Answers:

 

1. TEASE - CEASE

2. MORAY - FORAY 

3. CRUEL - GRUEL

4. DEMAND - REMAND

5. SUPINE - LUPINE

6. PADRE - CADRE

7. RAFT - WAFT

8. BADGE - CADGE

9. RIDGE - MIDGE

10. SNARL - GNARL

11. VISIBLE - RISIBLE

12. TOUCH - VOUCH