D-LETIONS

The Puzzlemaster Presents

Will Shortz 

The answer to the first clue in each pair is a word with the letter D somewhere in it. Remove the D phonetically and you'll get the answer to the second clue. (#9 has two D's - drop both of them.)

Example: President Eisenhower / Color of snow

                                   DWIGHT / WHITE

1. Huge rock / Kind of hat

2. Animal with spots / Person in a colony

3. Long time without rain / Severe defeat

4. Distance from side to side / Inhalation

5. Tonto, to the Lone Ranger / Person with ESP

 

6. Person lacking courage / What such a person might do

7. Colonel in the game Clue / Something we all hope to pass

8. Ornaments on a necklace / Self-punishment for wrongdoing

9. Wrote on an envelope to be mailed / Item on a police blotter

 

10. Person who won't throw anything away, perhaps / Scary film genre

 

Answers:

 

1. BOULDER - BOWLER

2. LEOPARD - LEPER

3. DROUGHT - ROUT

4. BREADTH - BREATH

5. SIDEKICK - PSYCHIC

6. COWARD - COWER

7. MUSTARD - MUSTER

8. PENDANTS - PENANCE

9. ADDRESSED - ARREST 

10. HOARDER - HORROR