Before takeoff, turn off your smartphone's wireless capabilities by turning on this setting
Airplane Mode
A short life story of someone, & a 3-member musical act
Bio and Trio
Chip a piece of furniture, or cut yourself shaving
Nick
Let the "R" take a break from the energy required to move an object against a force & season this Asian pan
Wok
Alumni
(7 letters)
Alumnus
Hand-y term for a data storage device that plugs into a USB port
Thumb Drive
A trainee in a skilled trade, & to lure by arousing desire or hope
Apprentice and Entice
Specifically, the first light of day
Dawn
Remove an "R" from a word for a family member & get this word for annoy, which that person might do to you
Bother
Bison (5 letters)
Bison
These days, more than 70% of Internet traffic is this type of video that typically uses data compression
Streaming
A tremulous, pulsating vocal effect, & a food that can be baked or mashed
Vibrato and Potato
Toss out, or an inexpensive cut of beef
Chuck
Render the "R" from a type of cooking fat & meet this word for a young fellow
Lad
Strata (7 letters)
Stratum
Windows users do not want to encounter BSOD, this colorful but fatal-sounding error
Blue Screen of Death
Disfiguring skin disease once resulting in quarantining, & a little too interested in the affairs of others
Leprosy and Nosy
The head of a college, or the presiding official of a cathedral
Dean
Ship off the "R" on the word for a boat's docking locale (or a playoff ______) & get this first name of female characters with the last name Dutton & Harmon
Beth
Codices (5 letters)
Codex
Thousands of layers of material, like resin, are how one of these creates an object; the RepRap project led to a self-replicating one
3D Printer
To pay no attention to, & an Italian version of "Mr." heard in "That's Amore"
Ignore and Signore
By definition, a bricklayer or worker in stone
Mason
Kick out the "R" from a pile of stones on a hiking trail & wander aimlessly; the word becomes this name of a man with a famous brotherly feud in Genesis
Cain
Graffiti:
graffiti or this (8 letters)
Graffito