PIECE BY PIECE III
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 words has been dropped, and the remaining letters have been broken up into shorter words. These shorter words are 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
___ AD   ISLE   ODE   STY   TANG   US,
you would add the starter letter M to ISLE, ODE, and US
and pair them up with AD, STY, and TANG
to form MISLEAD, MODESTY, and MUSTANG.

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

___ AND   EL   EYED   I   ION   SOB
___ ATE   DIN   DO   LA   NOR   TRY
___ DOFF   ON   PI   RITUAL   TAN   URGE
___ DIES   ESTER   OWE   RAGE   RIM   RING
___ NAB   NEAR   RED   RIDGED   SHE   THING
___ A   EAR   END   EVER   PIER   RANGE
___ A   ALL   AS   DEER  ON   SO
___ HE   ID   PA   PART   THE   TIC
___ A   I   ON   OUR   POLE   SHED
___ ANY   FEE   HOPS   OF   ON   TICKS
___ LAP   LED   NAME   PI   SING   TOME

HINT:
The added letters, reading downward, are:
DISTURBANCE

Answers:

DANDELION, DISOBEYED
IDOLATRY, INORDINATE
SPIRITUAL, STANDOFF, SURGEON
TOWERING, TRAGEDIES, TRIMESTER
UNABRIDGED, UNEARTHING, USHERED
RAPIER, REARRANGE, REVEREND
BALLADEER, BASSOON
APARTHEID, APATHETIC
NAPOLEON, NOURISHED
CANYON, CHOPSTICKS, COFFEE
ELAPSING, ENAMELED, EPITOME