Double meaning

mean mean

reduce a psychiatrist

shrink shrink
illustration of an SDMB contributor

Poster poster

Squashed apartment

flat flat
maroon thread

strand strand

utilize function

use use
incantation stretch

nm

spell spell.

Octopus defender. (No, not marine marine. Something else.)

Argonaut Argonaut?

spike wager

Octopus defender was “army army”.

stake stake

cancels international alliances

blocks blocs doesn’t quite fit

but if that’s meant to be it,

crossdresser being pulled along

drag drag

seat informant

(army army… that was clever)

Stool stool?

(And I think the answer to cancels international alliances was Axes Axes)

directs cattle

steers steers.

Punching barker. (Two answers, try to get both.)

boxer boxer, pug pug

fish that sings in the lower register

bass bass

happy homosexual

gay gay

An instrument for rendering a colored patch on the wings of ducks to make them accessible to observation.

spotter spotter
alter coins

No – speculum speculum