Cryptic Puzzle 2
Double-Speaking Again
Another puzzle of cryptic puns for the language-obsessed.  Each question has two answers which sound or look alike.

Example:
Q. One who attacks during a moment of silence?
A. preyer/prayer

1. Convinced a customer to buy a leather coat?
2. Sick to your stomach but still desiring food?
3. Computer-sent photo illustrating a long, heroic poem or story?
4. Lifting by tearing down?
5. One who foretells that he will make money on a business transaction?
6. Pet name for a sweetheart of Attila?
7. A set of rules for analyzing an ex-VP's dance movements?
8. Buy a sledgehammer at a shopping center?
9. Ogle one of Shakespeare's tragic heroes?
10. Put roadkill in the bag you take aboard the airplane?
11. The people at large react positively to politicians who play to them?
12. Sleeping loudly in an Arizona desert?
13. Cattle drivers lacking courage?
14. An unusual practice not desired?
15.  A gallant knight meets a nit-picker?
16. What happened to Custer in 1876 and in a Catholic church last Sunday?
17. A purple gem fancied by a storyteller?
18. A public meeting place for a male speaker?
19. Sad call for additional blush wine?
20. Rotted viscera of a butchered animal?

Answers:

1. swayed/suede     2. nauseous/nosheous     3. e-pic/epic     
4. raising/razing     5. prophet/profit     6. hon/Hun    
7. algorithm/Al Gore rhythm     8. maul/mall     9. leer/Lear
10. carrion/carry on     11. populace/populists     12. snorin'/Sonoran
13. cowherds/cowards     14. unwonted/unwanted     15. cavalier/caviler
16. massacred/mass occurred     17. amethyst/a mythicist     
18. forum/for 'im     19. morose/more rose     20. awful/offal 

Latest comments

29.03 | 17:31

Hi Bruce,
I smiled a lot as I looked! Sometimes I didn't quite understand, other times I did! Keep doing this! You are a fun thinker!

05.07 | 23:04

hi! your blog is really fantastic! you are really lucky to have it. I have one but i did not have a single like apart from me

11.10 | 23:42

No longer pray for an outcome. Just do the footwork, if I can see any. I just pray for the grace to willing accept what the outcome will be.

30.06 | 02:37

yo that is so cool