Puzzletober 2024: Rhinoceros

Emerging from the forest, I headed east across the water to the next island to find myself in a grassy plain. Behold, the majestic rhinoceros! I took a calming breath and fancied myself Albert Andreas Armadillo, but the rhino seemed indifferent to my presence, continuing to graze near a patch of lavenders.

Although I conceived this puzzle idea before learning about it, I must mention LinkedIn's game CrossClimb.

Rules: Answer the ten clues in a way that forms a word ladder from RHINO to CRASH (the name for a group of rhinos). Each answer will be five letters long, and consecutive words in the ladder will differ only by a single letter, but the clues are not in the correct order.

• An adjective that Wikipedia uses to describe the skin of a rhinoceros
• Inconsiderate
• Its opposite in October is often provided as an incentive for it year-round
• Major river known for passing through Germany
• Meet on one's path
• Pain in the neck
• Pronoun that makes "To the person who is currently reading this, be true to the self of the person who is currently reading this" much easier to say
• Shoes that may be worn by Lyle?
• Smoking pot?
• Use the noggin