[Walking, running, driving, waiting]

Well, depending on whether you're rounding down or are actually going exactly 0 mph... "I won't be home tonight."?

[Bringing back an old one.... Making Toast]

The third piece finishes coming off at 2:26?

[Fair division of sausages]

I was counting whole sausages as "pieces". So it was the sum. 

[Fair division of sausages]

So 1 cut then. Is a whole sausage considered a piece or just the partial ones? If whole sausages count, I stand by my original pieces count. If not, I think rocdocmac has it. 

[Fair division of sausages]

12 cuts, 42 pieces? Unless you want to line up the sausages and do one giant cut...

[I’m not a wreck]

Pogo stick?

[distance vs time]

Mike. If Mike runs and walks for the same amount of time, he will have to run further than he walks. If they both start by running, James will stop running at the halfway (distance) point but Mike has to run past the halfway point to compensate for the slower walking speed.

[Singular plurals]

Does the 2nd word have to be the plural of the 1st word or can it be a different word?

"Becomes plural by removing it." Could that mean removing the letters "i-t"?

[Singular plurals]

Adding C

Die-->Dice

[12 chess pieces]

Thanks Ed! I made a chessboard in Paint and put mini chess pieces in each of the squares. Erased the pieces as I went through the clues.

[12 chess pieces]

Thought that wording was a bit repetitive. . .

Spoiler

Knight A2

White Pawns D6, G3

Black Pawn D5

Black King D2

Black Queen H2

Bishop G1

White King F3

White Queen G4

Black Rook C6

White Rooks A1, C7

 

[12 chess pieces]

 

Spoiler

I have these set:

Knight A2

White Pawns D6, G3

Black Pawn D5

Black King D2

Black Queen H2

Bishop G1

These I can find a couple options. One option:

White King C6

White Queen D7

Black Rook F3

White Rooks A1, F4

 

[12 chess pieces]

Is Ed's interpretation of 8 correct?

[12 chess pieces]

Ed

Spoiler

Based on 3 and 8, the black queen has to be in one of the bottom 2 rows. There are 2 white rooks. One is in a column by itself (15). The other is south of the knight (1) and north of the black rook. That means the knight has to be at least the 3rd row from the bottom so that doesn't work with being directly across from the queen.

 

[12 chess pieces]

That's quite possible, but from my interpretation, without any mention of the same row, the end refers to the whole side of the board. I will try it that way though!

[12 chess pieces]

Ok. Can you tell me which of the clues my answer violates?

[12 chess pieces]

Seems like there could be multiple answers from my interpretation of the clues. 

Spoiler

Knight A3

White Rooks A2, B1

Black Rook A1

White Pawns D6, G3

Black Pawn D5

White King F3

Black King D2

White Queen G4

Black Queen H2

Bishop G1

 

[12 chess pieces]

Think I figured out my problem. What is the definition of adjacent? Sharing edges? Diagonal squares?

[12 chess pieces]

If the black queen is on the extreme east per clue 8 (N,S,W spaces adjacent), and alone in her column per clue 12, that leaves only the W space to put both the pawn and bishop mentioned in clue 8. Should it maybe read the queen is alone in her own row?

[12 chess pieces]

6 and 16 also seem to contradict as d5 is a white space according to the pictures I'm finding of notation. 

[12 chess pieces]

For number 8, does that mean the black queen is on the opposite E-W extreme or just opposite half?  Or can it potentially refer to N-S? Number 12 would seem to contradict that if it means the E-W extreme.

[Alchemical Substances]

Spoiler

Anti-emerald	crystal	red
Solid heat	crystal	orange
Envy drops	crystal	yellow
Antiruby	crystal	green
Fragments of memory	crystal	blue
Vampire heart	crystal	purple
Tongue stingy	dust	red
Salted sun	dust	orange
Tooth dough	dust	yellow
Pulverised leaves	dust	green
Stardust	dust	blue
Dragon blood	dust	purple
Faceless mandrake	leaf	red
Amber feathers	leaf	orange
Envy petals	leaf	yellow
Crocodile tears	leaf	green
Neverthen leaves	leaf	blue
Moonflower	leaf	purple
Love blood	liquid	red
Sweet sulfur	liquid	orange
Basic acid	liquid	yellow
Green wine	liquid	green
Essence of sadness	liquid	blue
Baleful destiny	liquid	purple

 

[What Am I?]

A corner?

[Ages of brothers]

Assuming coming of age means 18...

15 and 21. Original ages are 3,6, and 9.

[shuffling algorithm for letters in a word]

It looks like you're taking the first letter and essentially rotating it through the different positions while the other letters remain in the same order. I noticed that all the possible permutations begin with two letters that were next to each other in the original sequence (or in the first and last spot). For example, I don't think you can get a sequence starting with AC. So this does not seem to hold up.