Guys, it's the last day. I don't have any good ideas for "home" and I don't have any good ideas for "cemetery." Here's the idea I do have. I hope you will enjoy this puzzle. A number in parentheses indicates the length of a word. A number in square brackets indicates the letter you should extract from a word.

TRANSFORMATION	BEFORE	AFTER
Expensive program (9)	Vietnamese soup (3)	Spend money [2]
Underside (6)	Study of plants (6)	A lot [2]
Panegyrize (5)	Was real, at some time (7)	Rattled off [1]
Annular island (5)	Hot drink (3)	Relate [3]
It might be brushless (5)	Antlered beast (5)	Girl's name [2]
Affluent or elevated neighborhood (6)	Child's respiratory problem (5)	Headwear [4]
Purloined (past participle) (6)	Take a break (4)	Give up [4]
Place to pop popcorn (5)	Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote that it claims itself (4)	Bedding [4]
Difficult to distinguish from croc (5)	Australian redneck, more or less (5)	Birthed [4]

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Hints: All words in the "transformation" column have something (orthographic) in common. The letters TO (the word "to"). It's like the word is saying "X to Y." Find the X in the "before" word and change it into Y to create the "after" word.

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