FORE AND AFT
Credit: GAMES Magazine - Sept./Oct. 1980
Will Shortz

Each answer is a six-letter word that becomes a five-letter word when its last letter is removed, and a different five-letter word when its first letter is removed. Guess the six-letter words from the clues to the two five-letter words.

For example, given the clue words PUSH and WRETCHED HOME, the answer would be SHOVEL, SHOVE meaning push, and HOVEL meaning wretched home.

1. TREE LIMB                          SHOULD
2. CENTER                               SOIL
3. URGENT REQUESTS         RENTAL CONTRACT
4. AUTUMN FLOWER           STRICT
5. MONTANA CITY                SPEAK
6. BOXES LIGHTLY               ANALYZE GRAMMAR
7. STATES                                STANZA
8. COMIC FEATURE              RUBBISH

Answers:

1. BOUGHT - - BOUGH - OUGHT
2. HEARTH - - HEART -EARTH
3. PLEASE - - PLEAS - LEASE
4. ASTERN - - ASTER - STERN
5. BUTTER - - BUTTE - UTTER
6. SPARSE - - SPARS - PARSE
7. AVERSE - - AVERS - VERSE
8. STRIPE - -  STRIP - TRIPE