The Logophile: Letter-Dropping

The answer to each clue below is a two-word phrase in which one word is created by removing a letter from the other word. Can you tease them out?

1. It warms Ms. Locklear
2. Downhill hike that’s not so bad
3. A plume for Dad
4. Response to the removal of text from a document
5. Regulation about sculptures
6. Regulation about military supplies
7. Involves viscera

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Answers

1. Heather heater
2. decent descent
3. father feather
4. redaction reaction
5. statue statute
6. ordnance ordinance
7. entails entrails

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