Wordplay in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

First-degree wordplay:

1. [II] a great girl like you ~ (she might well say this)
   
2. [II] being drowned in my own tears ~ [figuratively]
   
3. [III] This is the driest thing I know. ~ [unwet]
   
4. [III] found it advisable ~ to go with Edgar Atheling
   
5. [III] Mine is a long and a sad tale! ~ It IS a long tail, certainly
   
6. [III] I had NOT! ~ A knot!
   
7. [III] an old Crab took the opportunity ~ [grouchy person]
   
8. [IV] W[hite] Rabbit ~ W[hatever given name] Rabbit
   
9. [IV] when I grow up ~ but I'm grown up now
   
10. [IV] Pat: Digging for apples ~ [potatoes]
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Second-degree wordplay:

1. [1] Antipathies ~ [Antipodes]
   
2. [1] Do cats eat bats? ~ Do bats eat cats?
   
3. [1] Oh my ears and whiskers ~ Oh my eyes
   
4. [II] — Curiouser and curiouser! ~ more curious
   
5. [II] O Mouse ~ vocative
   
6. [III] caucus-race ~ in a sort of circle
   
7. [IV] The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill ~ [parliament]
   
8. [IV] Oh my dear paws ~ Oh my eyes
   
9. [IV] Oh my fur and whiskers ~ Oh my eyes
   
10. [IV] as sure as ferrets are ferrets ~ as eggs are eggs
    
11. [VI] Did you say pig ~ or fig?
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