Noël Quiz (No "L" quiz)

Time for another quiz. Don't be confussed with the title, even though it's the middle of February, it's the perfect time for a Noël quiz.

Below are 144 pairs of words with cryptic clues. Each pair of words differs only by the the removal of the letter 'L'.

In some cases just one letter is removed, sometimes more. Always, however, the second word in the pair has all the offending letter removed.

Examples:

  FLORALLY  and  FORAY

  BELL  and  BE

  SLUMPS  and  SUMPS

Instructions: Read the clue, then solve the riddle. Click on the [Answer] button to reveal solution. If you want to cheat, you can click here to reveal all the answers straight away.

Waterlogged chow.

Cushioned and wading through shallow water.

Oil crayons that glue.

Covered completely and sorted in order.

A drama show that costs money.

A quiche follower.

Drab bird bill.

A rooster timepiece.

Stare with a shiny finish.

Educated and paid.

Hazard for someone hanging from the ceiling.

Domiciles that stride.

Paler hair person who glues.

Intrepidly corpse.

Shouts and affirmative.

Glittering and triggered.

Oral defamation of something that abrasively finishes wood.

Ashen remuneration

What two choices adrenaline gives you.

Agreeable lowly farmworker.

Boring group of musicians.

Reimbursement for watching the replay on TV.

Snakes and _______

A crooner catapult.

Toughened skin was the reason.

Not running and the beginning of not sleeping.

A fruit in an oyster shell.

Pushing off to one side and a turncoat

Collar of a chimp.

Baby duck going into region of low headroom.

Circumflex on red wine (to the English).

Not good with no hair.

Strong sexual desiring on acid eroded designs on metal.

Conceal a trefoil.

Ground cereal 00000100

Bored and desiccated.

A pillar and a plank.

Cork a small dog.

A small drink before an accident.

Flower then bang!

Rein on a newlywed.

Earth term.

Blue/Green hot drink.

An exact replica of a funnel.

Pretending to polish to a bright shine.

Perfect notion.

A section of a legal document forces a change.

Stop for headwear.

Glide from the sun.

Choking the noise of geese.

Racket with clothes.

Chatting and removing.

Swollen unwanted plant.

Incompletely celebrated.

"Plump up through eating, and its opposite."

Masculine opposite of heaven.

Sit down for a blind part.

Perk up to a glimmer of sunshine.

Bright signals for ticket prices.

Mixing thoroughly then deflecting with force.

Glue that can't see.

A lump of sea fish

Splendor covered in blood.

Small cows under the ground.

Scottish costume you build from parts.

Embarrassed about a shrub.

Unwell and slippery.

Talk about going forth.

Effortless painting tripod.

Say hello to a small mountain.

Leader of the pack with frilly edges.

Torment a purchase.

A large Scottish family that is able.

Assembly of inward facing bowl shapes.

None white none front.

An attractive young lady who buzzes.

A simpleton non-dash.

Puffs and genuflects.

Slide down a mountain with acumen.

Dawdle for 24 hours.

The smallest amount that can travel where the sun rises.

A wooden shoe with teeth.

Not sea also.

Relaxing and making noises like a cat.

A dromedary arrived.

Get supplies to make arrows.

Things that used to hold up the ceiling.

Long rooms that possess

Sit down for seasoning.

Surpassed through (spreadsheet)-led

Lump moving up and down in the water.

Glide on an edge.

Exploded with hot oil spooned over.

Dukes with lugs.

Joined together with tasty flavour compounds.

The Pope's dad.

Soaked in vinegar and chosen.

A stupid lump of bread.

A stack of baked desserts.

Courageous ice-hockey prop.

Drearily and disappointment.

Fisherman who are upset.

Marked on a map and planted in a container.

Experienced and verbose.

A conflict of money.

Ruffles and saut‚ed.

Vaporize until reduced.

Contaminated and getting ready to kiss.

Brown/Green mist.

Stopped and disliked.

Beg for a green vegetable

Complete a task with a young girl's toy.

Revel and bleat.

Crimp young coal.

No work day for kids with compensation.

Thin despatcher.

Thrash the mist.

Male cows take transportation.

Empty side of river.

Happy rapture.

Reversing when things go totally dark.

Glazed with gas.

Finished totally and entered in a contest.

Scrambles over the angle of a wheel.

A balm to keep.

Swelling up to the point of bursting and sailing.

Modulation of voice pitch and contaminated

The reaction of Chlorine on seashores.

Fasten the ocean tightly.

A charged particle king.

Divided sputum.

Razes nights before.

Recover for scrap viciously.

A lose bag.

A pit in the ground made by a garden tool.

Frozen parasites.

Current that drives lights.

Coats of domestic animals.

Counterfeit fleck.

Chubby fluid moving machine.

Gasp for a flower.

Lavish shove.

Wager on things to hold up trousers.

Repeatedly hitting and making noises like a goat.