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By Greg Pliska
Answer: BINAURAL

Two sets of clues are given, one in the left channel, the other in the right. Each clue is phonetically ambiguous.

Answers to the corresponding left-right clues, in the order given, form letter-change pairs.

LEFT CLUE LEFT WORD LEFT RIGHT RIGHT WORD RIGHT CLUE
Taut TIGHT T R RIGHT A common turn
Feat seen in a film STUNT U I STINT Allot sparingly
Kernel CORE R V COVE Bight’s kin
Presence opposite LACK K E LACE Knot home, maybe
Like a gorilla HAIRY I R HARRY Prince in England
Maid in Scotland LASS S B LABS Laser sites at MIT, usually
Mix suits, after a fashion SHUFFLE H O SOUFFLE Airy food item
Ate up SCARFED F R SCARRED Not well healed
Rowed OARED O D DARED Was bold
Gnu’s group HERD R E HEED Bear in mind
Eight, for example CUBE B R CURE Use a balm effectively on
Heel LOUT U F LOFT Raised part of a barn
One in the Kentucky Derby, perhaps FILLY I O FOLLY Word for a 19th century purchase that had no sense
Cereal killer BLIGHT L R BRIGHT Like a sun
Like a meat sometimes held at lunchtime CORNED D A CORNEA Lens protection
It holds the bearing straight POISE I S POSSE Band in the west
Maker’s marque BRAND N I BRAID Plait of locks
Kamen two-wheelers SEGWAYS G A SEAWAYS Mediterranean routes

The two sets of changed letters spell two clues: TURKISH FOR BUILDING and RIVER BORDER FOR ASIA. The answers to those clues are BINA and URAL, which combine to spell BINAURAL, the answer to the puzzle.