Oh, Camels!

Three cryptic camels have each modified their clues in some thematic fashion:

  • One camel is dehydrated. In each clue, a water-related term (AGUA, RAIN, SEA, SPRING, or STREAM) must be added into a word of the clue.
  • One camel likes to spit. In each clue, a letter must be moved from the wordplay to the definition. These letters don’t provide any additional extraction.
  • One camel is carrying some baggage. Each clue contains an extra word that must be removed before solving. These words form a helpful message for finding the final one-word answer.

The clues are grouped by row — it’s up to you to determine which clue goes with which camel. Note that some clues won’t read as sensible phrases after being transformed.

CLUES

  1. Bet held back in Malayalam — it’s possible

    Feeling guilty, some camels crash a meditation

    Level place consumed third son’s first pair

  2. Daniel distorted humps surrounding cold country

    Regularly choose to hear your gutless mouthpiece gab

    Ticket price for OFF Festival, reportedly

  3. Abnormal pulse contains señores’ tasers

    Bleak leaderless period causing accidental ding

    Martians go after a gel concoction, intersect bald babies?

  4. At home with Jr.’s relative, one becoming Euler’s first number

    Dancer fed a grape to the audience

    Smart phones occasionally, narrow row seating initially, or Jane Street sometimes

  5. Calculate starts to get endless mead, of course

    Recremated angels surround eastern neighbor of Ali

    Somehow so abrupt without a standard interface used by ERs (2 wds)

Incorrect.

That's Right!

You solved Oh, Camels!

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