WORD PYRAMID VI
Credit: GAMES Magazine
Dec/Jan 1990

In this word pyramid, each answer word will contain all the letters of the answer above it plus one. To solve, add a new letter at each level and anagram the letters to correspond to one of the clues found - in random order - beneath the pyramid.
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Hard rock used in buildings
Partner of "feather" and "nicotine"
Talk in a loud, excited way
Certain geometric figures
Back part of the eye
Common article
Most incensed
"Hand" preceder, perhaps
The Orient Express, for one

Answers:

          A
         AT
       TAR
      RANT
     TRAIN
    RETINA
  GRANITE
 ANGRIEST
TRIANGLES