Fraternal Twins [BB288-A]

DA,

Ive done a 'reverse' Birdbrain. (Check the aborted BB)

Female bird (HEN/PEN)
Exterminator’s target (PEST/NEST)
European nation (ICELAND/IRELAND)
Bellow (YOWL/HOWL)
Natter (YAP/YAK)
Fastener (CLAMP/CLASP)

Caress (3-E/A)

We have answers for the remaining three, possibly even the intended answers. Here are some hints for the first word in each pair:

2. Insipid (4-L/T): Duck?
8. Hassled (7-A/U): Pottered?
9. Of the good old days? (8-V/C): 'e's got form?

And dg's Caress (3-E/A): Geordie favourite?

And a pair that may be conjoined :

Pen (4-D/O)
What women want (5-I/W)

GymBunnies - just to confirm, your other alias is not GB? Or is that a separate contributor?

Good going on the good old days - a toughie.

A hint for your Pen (4-D/O) = nib/neb

As for What women want....dare we presume to know the answer?

My name appears to have flown away earlier...

Pinnacle (3- I/O)
Contemptible person (7- D/B)
Prey (4- L/T)

Can anyone 'pen' a cygnet/ cygnus/ signia/ signet/ sign-it related wordplay? I'm bogged.
Penmanship = swan boat/pigboat also fizzled.

Inspired by the 'naggers' Wheel Of Fortune episode of South Park, the below are all *offensive*:
Likely to have bird flu = (5- V/S)
Pressurised with gas = (3- T/W)
Infest middle regions = (5- C/A)
Screws = (7- O/I)
A gender-switching blowie = (6- M/F)

Ruler (4-C/T) or (4-Z/S)
Drink (3-S/T)
Water product (3-W/P)
Day trip (3-E/P)
Contemptible character (4-N/L)
Trap (3-I/E)
Knock (3-C/P)
Member (3-H/P)
Readily sacrificed? (4-B/E)
Another (3-W/O)

Member (3-L/P)

Rugged (5-T/R)

Likely to have bird flu = (5- V/S) Asian / avian

A fine freshet. Let's have a crack at these, with the Naggers warning.

(YouTube + South Park + naggers, for those who don't get Nib's reference.)

SPOILER ALERT for those wishing to unravel these solo -

Caress = PET/PAT
Pen = BIRD/BIRO
Pinnacle = TIP/TOP
Contemptible person = B/DASTARD
Prey = MEAT/L (a cute one)

Among the lewder lot, consider AVIAN. Not SOT, as that could almost work...? Um, CRABS - let's move on.

Ruler = T/CZAR
Drink = S/TEA (deft idiom)
Water product = P/WEE
Knock = C/PAN
Member = L/PEG (dg - is there a second member pair to find?)
Readliy sacrificed = LAMB/E
Another = TWO/TOO
Rugged = R/TOUGH

Hi DA, no, GB is not us, unless they have submitted some genuine genius, in which case we're happy to claim it.

Mrs GymBunnies clued "What women want (5-I/W)", so it must be accurate - I had no idea. You may need assistance too.

one last one:

Loser (4-A/I)

Action, and result (10-C/P)

Mind stuck in the gutter today.
Loser = Twit / Twat?

Action, and result = Copulation / Population
That took me half an hour! :D (Finding the answer, that is. Wait...)

LETTER CHANGE EACH TIME:
Drain (3- T/S)
Drain (3- A/I)
Drink (3- S/N)
Hurry (3- N/Z)
Joint (3- Z/H)

Footwear (7- S/F)

A beast of burden, castrated male? (2- E/O)

Lemme see...

Drain = S/TAP [and SAP/SIP]
Drink = N/SIP
Hurry = N/ZIP
Joint = Z/HIP (How does zip work here - as in seam?)

Footwear = S/FLIPPER
And EX/OX ;)

Here's a mind bender:

Key work ingredient (8 - A/O)

A vocation vacation?

Nice sleuthing Nib.

Method of contact (7-E/A)

You get screwed either way (7-O/A)

The source of all truth? (8-E/T)

Well done, Nib! We couldn't solve it, but stumbled across this one in the process:

Key work ingredient (8 - P/T)

Key work ingredient- aptitude/attitude

Too clever, SK. (I'd been spending breakfast, going TRICKING..PRICKING...SCOOPING...SCOOTING,
and getting nowhere.) A fine example GymBos.

Pricking and scooting at breakfast, DA? Couldn't you just eat cereal like normal folk?

Hint on my 3 above...in each case at least one of the answers involves social contact, or intimacy.

Got one!

Method of contact = MESSAGE/MASSAGE

And SK, I'm guessing the source of all truth is NOT research and restarch.

Where is my morning going?!

Nup. Extra clue...one of the sources of truth is a fairly new (but very, very popular) entry in the vernacular. And the other source of truth can be written either as an 8 letter word, or as a piece of 2X4.

FACEBOOK/FACTBOOK - very contemporary.

Bravo.

One to go- think pleasure v government reform package....

Can't be ELECTION/ERECTION, um...

Bonking/Banking

Ah, that would be a reference to The Big Four. Lovely work!

Bingo Mr X!

Pipped by 2 minutes. Well done Mr X.

Good fun, SK.

These are not easy!

If you want to discover "What women want (5-I/W)" (allegedly), then if you remove the switchable I/W from the solution, you will be left with what women want you to have with your breakfast cereals.

brain/brawn

Brain/brawn....of course. Though maybe 'What women want in men' may have been fairer.

As for bran on cereal, how many more clues did we need?! Great work, dg, and cool trap, GymBunnies.

Tick - well done dg! We'd almost given up.

Didn't want to be too fair DA as there was also the clue about it being part of a conjoined pair - once you had BIRD I thought BRAIN might come within milliseconds :-)

Given a couple with the tag, GymBunnies, is here on a 'word nerd' site there were some hints :)