Omission Possible

I'm going to come in early with

R = reject, rejected. So versatile!

Oops, should have claimed

D = dejected, too.

S = skill

T = trip, tout, toff

B = bleach, with some homophone indicator

N = den, W = dew

Controversial in the extreme, there are plenty of letters that you could 'do': dob, doe, dog, don, dot, dow...

Another family:

M= Mex, L = lex, T = Tex, R = rex, etc.

S = sunder, A = asunder

B = Brent

K = bark, D = bard, etc

...and that's enough from me, leaving you with my fave:

Y = toasty

R: goner
Q: q-tip
Y: scratchy

I used the leet groaner 'cyanate' in my Loroso set to omit a few letters, so:

N = Cyan
A = Avoid
C = Close
S = Stake
E = Snipe

And my fave M = Mistaken

They're a bit obvious, but in a similar vein to q-tip:

a-bomb
f-stop
h-bomb
u-haul
x-axes
y-axes
X-Files

A: scarlet letter faded
B: bit off (computer unit)
C: cleave
W: 43 voted out

W = nowhere

'rub' generates some nice words

D: drub
E: rube
G: grub
S: rubs
Y: ruby

with a homophone indicator you could have x-rays = x-raze

k or q = regicide
r = strike redhead
o = anoxic

s = swipe, swipes, swiped

an obvious one, but of course X can be 'cross out'

V = vomit
B = Big Top fling
E = centrebet scratching
D = desktop crash
P = wasted stipend

and for the nyuk-nyuk set: jack off

Apologies for any double-ups:

A - ashed
B - bless
C - churl, chide
D - doff
E - stripe
F - flop
G - gunseat
H - dish
I - Islay
J - jousted
K - think
L - burl
M - - (Mistaken is too good!)
N - withdrawn
O - hullo
P - pout
Q - queen outed
R - boner
S - knock-outs
T - tweed
U - turnout
V - vomit
W - whit
X - forgotten
Y - trashy, picky
Z - Spitz

S - spurge, eg: Pull cut spurge laurels

B - brogue
B - bleach

G - glance

K - knot

L - drivel

Y - leaky?

sorry Anthony, just saw your earlier bleach

from cricket:

I - out mid-point (if there is such a position?)
L - silly mid-off

^ Many nice ones from Boniface.

D = Underbelly
P = Epicentre, Apple core
W = Network hub
A = catgut

V - Wipe Off Five
E - no end of trouble
A - Just A Dash

C: disembark children first
E: ego
E: last minute flight
G: anti-gravity
G: midnight shift
H: smackdown
I: in team
I: Kill Bill 2
M: core promise broken
O: lovelorn
Q: first quarter losses
S: the fourth horseman, Death
T: first trimester abortion (controversial?)

And if we accept homophones, why not?

Cricket again:

C: Slips catch
H: No second chances
N: Last man out

Plenty of Ss, but:

S: Outspoken leader

A - amiss
D - diced
M - cutting room floor
P - no starting price
Q - offer
S - slack
T - cut split end

Still on cricket:

B: First batsman dismissed
L: Bowled out
W: Wicketless

M: Bond unsupervised (and unequipped for Q?)
P: disquiet
T: model railroad

Speaking of Q, I just re-read the top bit, and saw q-tip was already taken. Oops.

Given so many good ones are already gone, here are a few maybe more out in left field...

G: gluten free (you might expect this one from me, given I'm a Coeliac sufferer!)
L: lease
U: imprison/arrest/... upstart

Picking up on Anthony's T: trip
G: grip (which potentially has all sorts of interesting misdirection possibilities, since it seems to suggest the opposite!)
D: drip

As far as cricket-based ones go, why not just:
S: slips
And Sam, sorry, there is no "mid-point", but there is a "mid-wicket" which would count for c or k probably.

And if two letters need to be culled (maybe stretching, but sometimes maybe necessary):

U and N: nuclear
S and H: shout
A and B: about
etc.

On the bloodthirsty side:

D – Guillotined
H – Off with his/her head

Or just the thirsty:

H – Off his/her face

Thanks for the cricket clarification Eld.

what a catalogue by boniface!

P,N: no porn
C: cab sent
L: lout
C,Y: out of candy

YO: Yoko
O: Ono
YOO: Yoko Ono

s: scull or culls

D: deride

Oops, de-rid-e is turvey-topsy giving d, rather than deleteing it.

C = dropsy
transatlantically?
Z = nosey
L = Noel

P = Pinot
R = Argon
G = Gino
R = Arbuthnot ??????!!!

Some great ideas already out there...something about the early bird and worms...

A = take centre stage
N = Nickelback
H = open heart surgery
T = shunt

Sorry,

L = Nickelback

Also,

L = scratched album

K = bank
R = Barrington Tops

A possible clue for "airy" sits in "fairy floss"

T = Shanghai Airport terminal

E = Rubber Soul

E = Rubber Soul

K - reverse link (across clue)?
K - link up (down clue)?

At this late stage, I'm surprised no-one's offered

D/S/R: removed/s/r and erased/s/d

or

D/S: deleted/s

S: Nudes

D: Nuked

T: Burnt (but not in Yankeeland)

Another one for the Cryptic Alphabet - inspired by Nib's "Mistaken"

M: Misplaced

and from Mistaken

N: Taken

W: Whack

S: Slack / Lacks

OK, now some full clues using the deletion device, first some cricket:
Clever slips catch - a pivotal moment? (5)

A bit of the Bard:
Shylock - trashy merchandise?! (6)

Some modern history:
Offensive text forgotten? (3)

Some others:
Dive, vomit, perish (3)
Jill jousted poorly (3)

Isn't it the early worm that gets eaten, SK?

Heads up - there are a few visual clues below, and a few hints in brackets for the more obscure:

A = frameless
A = un-Australian
B = black
C = eclipsed moon
D = and
D = nod
E = lacking energy
F = no end of
G = either horse scratched
G = pigtail cut off
H = removing the goalposts
I = one down
J = jackknifed
J = knock-out hook
K = bank
L = legless
M = George Bush flipped out (see W)
N = no half measure
O = missing link
O = ring-pull
O = barring
P = less quietly
Q = Qantas pilot sacked (thanks to SK's At Talaq)
R = nor
S = take a butcher's hook
S = snip
T = killing time
T = t-bone
U = centre-court elimination
V = two fingers removed
W = George Bush outed (Dubya)
W = scuttlebutt
X = bygone
Y = yacht's bow sunk
Z = sleepless

D'oh! It's been a long time... that last one was ours.

Now getting political:
Bless Combet, a falling star?(5)

XXX Good taste alert XXX

Did stiff, hard-on, boner? (3,2)

.....and for keen forum followers, a movie solution to an earlier torment lies in the above posts.

Wednesday morning, and could the alphabet be stitched already? A brilliant blitz. And kudos to the player who can coin a new deletion in Act 3. Won't be easy.

A handy construction - x's opening cancelled. Hence Hamlet (H), panto (p), Urinetown (U) etc

You're right DA....an outstanding collection already. Trying to think of new angles...

M = abandon core promise
D = top and tail
X = sex offender

X = ultimate tax exile

Across clue:

A - Western Australia seceded

Down clues:

A - Missed South Australia
T - Leave Northern Territory

Here's one using a Z deletion:

Penzance putz away for punishment? (7)

Pinching one of DA's:

Classified 'Wipe Off Five' advert disturbed?

T: trout

N: last train cancelled
D: last goodbye / S: last kiss goodbye
E: foregone conclusion (ok, that's more likely to result in FOR)

G: general release
M: mature flick
R: restricted outing
X: explicit ban

Z = takeaway pizza's core ingredient

One more set I've discovered it appears no-one has tried (though there is a hint of it with Boniface's gunseat):

B: beat
F: feat
H: heat
M: meat
N: neat
P: peat
S: seat
T: teat

and some 2-letter versions based on same rule:

G and R: great
W and H: wheat

E: eccy thump

The spelling is a bit inconsistent (eccy is slang, ecky is the martial art), but I like it anyway.

S: gone south
T: bar none

C: carbon tax
H: hydrogen battery
O: deoxygenate
U: uranium leaching

OO: balls out

[Meh?]
Calm, fractious, sounds like you are a fallout. (5)

Hmm, actually think it would have to closer to:
Calm, wild, fractious, sounds like you are a fallout. (5)

Ergh. Never mind. Really wanted that URAF-all out thing to work. SMPT callout? Jihad ballout?

aha! Thanks for the clue DA.
Even though it came out as recently as 1998 I do not recall it. And it had Jim Carrey in it to boot. Surely one of his lesser-known roles. I hope you don't follow your namesake's cruel life trajectory Gymbunny 1.

Nib - admire your stoicism and on the multiple deletions theme, this will really make the purists blanch:

Provencal calflick in evidence? (6)

Fairly simple compared to others but:

E = cute

A versatile construction is:

T = to head off

E = Everybody out!

and the unobtrusive:

T = not

B - boffin
C - coffin

Not quite right but:

J - jiffy

Z - last waltz taken

This might be the shortest submission:

Z: 0z (as in zero z)

Bugger! Need to correct our D from earlier as it's not a vowel:

D = ad

Likewise
H = ah
N = an
S = as
T = at

Also
V=snatch victory from
V=flick two fingers

Ps Mauve, happy to put you out of your misery, and even happier to be following a different (albeit less heroic) path from my googleganger.

A - Abroach

Last go, honest:

X = crossbar
X = across

More drug slang ftw.

H: Junk disposal
H: Gear check

My great uncle used to run a second hand bookshop in Sydney. Apparently he'd ask school kids to spell 'ecstasy', and if they got it right he'd give them some sweets. This was long before the rise of the drug, however.

A = ago
B = bout
C = cleft / crazed
D = doffed
E = quite
G = gripped / grazed
L = shovel
N = thrown
Q = uncued speech
R = rousted
S = scanned
Y = they left

For those with a military bent:

Ceremony damaged Tiger gunseat? (4)

Shotgun burnt Japanese military dictator (6)

F - First Fleet sailed

H - hightail out of...

T - fleet

Y = plucky

My final submission:

A - ashed
B - opening batsman dismissed
C - slips catch
D - doff
E - stripe
F - flop
G - gunseat
H - no second chance
I - Islay
J - jousted
K - think
L - bowled out
M - leftism
N - withdrawn
O - hullo
P - pout
Q - queen outed
R - boner
S - outspoken leader
T - tweed
U - turnout
V - vomit
W - wicketless
X - forgotten
Y - trashy
Z - Spitz

This would be my pick of my submissions. I had to add J, K, L and V to make the set.

A: a-bomb
B: bit off
C: carbon tax
D: last goodbye
E: eccy thump
F: f-stop
G: general release
H: smackdown
I: Kill Bill 2
J: Jill
K: OK
L: Lover
M: core promise broken
N: last train cancelled
O: lovelorn
P: disquiet
Q: Bond unequipped
R: goner
S: the fourth horseman, Death
T: model railroad
U: U-Haul
V: Break lover's heart
W: 43 voted out
X: X-Files
Y: heard why not?
Z: z-axes

Too late, but I thought of Nile last night.

Nile admires rag riot (5, 4)

Mardi gras

Ay yup. Though it really needs a !? on the end, as I realised immediately after posting.

What an all around well thought out blog post...