PIECE BY PIECE IV
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 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
___ NAB  NEAR   RED   RIDGED   SHE   THING,
you would add the starter letter U to NAB, NEAR, SHE 
and pair them up with RIDGED, THING, and RED
to form UNABRIDGED, UNEARTHING, USHERED. 

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

___ ART  AT  CAP  EGO  THE  WEE
___ ALE  ANT  ARE  ARF  HOLES  ONLY
___ CENT  DATE  NUN  RANT  RIDES  TINE
___ A  ERR  I  OR  TILL  TORY
___ AT  HAS  HITCH  IT  ONCE  SIS
___ HER  HIP  IT  OR  SEW  TO
___ AM  EVE  RAGE  ROADS  ROUGH  WORD
___ AM  AND  ODES  OWL  PLIGHT  TONE
___ BAN  DIE  DON  RUCK  US  WEST
___ BAND  EVE  IS  LED  LOPED  RAW
___ CITY  HAG  I  LAST  SOP  US

HINT:
The added letters, reading downward, are
SWITCHBLADE

Answers: 

SCAPEGOAT, SWEETHEART
WANTONLY, WARFARE, WHOLESALE
INUNDATE, IRIDESCENT, ITINERANT
TERRITORY, TORTILLA
CHASSIS, CHITCHAT, CONCEIT
HITHERTO, HORSEWHIP
BEVERAGE, BROADSWORD, BROUGHAM
LAMPLIGHT, LODESTONE, LOWLAND
ABANDON, ADIEUS, AWESTRUCK
DEVELOPED, DISBAND, DRAWLED
ELASTICITY, ESOPHAGUS