WORD PYRAMID IV
Credit: GAMES Magazine
June, 1983
Merl Reagle

Each answer in the pyramid will contain all the letters of the previous answer plus one. To solve, add a new letter at each level and anagram the letters to correspond to one of the clues found beneath the pyramid.

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Fish that's packed in a can
Headphones cover them
Trap
Fixed, as a lopsided picture
Article
Used a filter
Like Mr. Magoo
Gotten out of bed
Cause to lose hope
While
They keep you in custody
Ocean

Answers:

            A
           AS
          SEA
         EARS
        SNARE
      ARISEN
     SARDINE
    STRAINED
   DETAINERS
  DISHEARTEN
 NEARSIGHTED
STRAIGHTENED