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Bun = DONUT changing U to A = DONAT becomes DONAU
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Leading = STAR + (E)ffortlessly = STARE becomes STARR

Thank you turast and alwayspuzzled, all clear now.

I've finished but I wonder whether there is a mistake in the clue for 6d. I think sex should become six (so that VI goes). So I is the correct letter but it needs to be E. And shouldn't it be forgoing and not foregoing?

I must be parsing it wrong.

I made that mistake to begin with, V = vide = see removed from evident. Chambers give foregoing.

Thanks djawhufc. All done now.

Thanks for that explanation, always.

However, foregoing means going in front of, and forgoing means doing without. As the VI is eliminated, I think it should be forgoing, without the e.

I see Chambers does give forego as a possible variant of forgo, but Fowler's Modern English says that it is "ill advised". I think it is nice to keep the distinction. Chambers can be a bit free and easy with words. For example, it allows wintery (which other dictionaries don't) instead of wintry.