READ SLOWLY -- THESE ARE RATHER CLEVER:

 
1.  ARBITRATOR: A cook who leaves Arby's to work at McDonalds.

 2.  AVOIDABLE: What a bullfighter tried to do.

 3.  BERNADETTE: The act of torching a mortgage.

 4.  BURGLARIZE: What a crook sees with.

 5.  CONTROL: A short, ugly inmate.

 6.  COUNTERFEITERS: Workers who put together kitchen  cabinets.

 7.  ECLIPSE: What an English barber does for a living.

 8.  EYEDROPPER: A clumsy ophthalmologist.

 9.  HEROES: What a guy in a boat does.

 10. LEFTBANK: What the robber did when his bag was full of money.

 11. MISTY: How golfers create divots.

 12. PARADOX: Two physicians.

 13. PARASITES: What yo! u see from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

 14. PHARMACIST: A helper on the farm.

 15. POLARIZE: What penguins see with.

 16. PRIMATE: Removing your spouse from in front of the TV.

 17. RELIEF: What trees do in the spring.

 18. RUBBERNECK: What you do to relax your wife.

 19. SELFISH: What the owner of a seafood store does.

 20. SUDAFED: Brought litigation against a government official.