PIECE BY PIECE I
Credit: GAMES Magazine - Dec. 1995
Stephen Sniderman

Each line of words below contains six pieces from two or three longer words that begin with the same letter. The first letter of these longer word has been dropped, and the remaining letters have been broken up into shorter words. These shorter words are listed in alphabetical order. By adding the right starter letter and regrouping the pieces, you should be able to reconstruct the original two or three words.

For example, given the set of words
___ FLAG  HIM  ON  PAN  RATION  ZEE,
you would add the starter letter C to HIM to make
CHIM-PAN-ZEE,
and to ON to make - CON-FLAG-RATION.

Given the set of words
___ CUTE  OR  POISE  ROSE  ROTE  STATION,
you would add the starter letter P to OR, ROSE, and ROTE to make
POR-POISE, PROSE-CUTE, PROTE-STATION.

The letters you add in each set, read downward, will spell a word with no repeated letters. That word, which is given as a hint, will tell you the starter letter for each line.

SET ONE
___  CUTE   OR   POISE   ROSE   ROTE   STATION
___  AT   EAT   HER   ONE   RED   STY
___ BUN   CENT   DANCE   DOLES   HER   NOT
___ A   ASTERN  ATE   OR   THE   USE
___ ION   LET   PET   RILL   RIP   RUM
___ AS   DO   ID   IS   METER   VERB
___ AX   I   IT   MUM   ON   OR

SET TWO
___ GAL   I   ION   REPO   ROD   SIT
___ ANT   ARK   ARM   LAB   LEG   ORATE
___ AMOUNT   ANT   APES   TILE   TRY   URNS
___ AMP   ART   BERATE   EGRET   EVER   TABLE
___ ABLE   ALLY   DEN   NO  PER   TIC
___ ANT   BOY   I   LACE   LAM   REP
___ EL   ELF   LED   LOW   ODE   OURS

HINTS:
The added letters, reading downward, are:
SET ONE:  PHANTOM
SET TWO: PETRIFY

Answers: 

SET ONE
PORPOISE, PROSECUTE, PROTESTATION
HATRED, HEATHER, HONESTY
ABUNDANCE, ADOLESCENT, ANOTHER
NAUSEATE, NORTHEASTERN
TRILLION, TRIPLET, TRUMPET
OASIS, ODOMETER, OVERBID
MAXIMUM, MONITOR

 SET TWO
PREPOSITION, PRODIGAL
EARMARK, ELABORATE, ELEGANT
TANTAMOUNT, TAPESTRY, TURNSTILE
RAMPART, REGRETTABLE, REVERBERATE
IDENTICALLY, INOPERABLE
FIREPLACE, FLAMBOYANT
YELLOW, YODELED, YOURSELF