Braingle: 'Behead A' Brain Teaser

Behead A

Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.

Puzzle ID:	#45819
Fun:	(3.17)
Difficulty:	(2)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	MarcM1098

When you behead a word, you remove the first letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.
Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic
Answer: The words are Start and Tart.

1. Time past -> Leave
2. Street -> Event location
3. Ends "Our Father" -> Fathers
4. Shared an opinion -> Excessive desire for something
5. Misuses; harms -> Multi-passenger vehicles
6. Pursue lofty goal -> Pointed tower top
7. Sum total -> Climb on
8. Stay away from -> A gap; empty

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Answer

1. Ago -> Go
2. Avenue -> Venue
3. Amen -> Men
4. Agreed -> Greed
5. Abuses -> Buses
6. Aspire -> Spire
7. Amount -> Mount
8. Avoid -> Void
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Comments

crocodile Nov 29, 2009	Yay I'm the first one!
doehead Jun 17, 2010	Once I realized that the first word started with the letter a, they became pretty easy.
kwelchans Jun 17, 2010	I'm usually pretty good at these, but this one was tough.
bluemage Jun 17, 2010	That bus one almost got me... I thought "abuse, buse... abus, bus.... ?"
bradon182001 Jun 17, 2010	Nice teaser, took some thought but not too much to give me a headache. Thanks for posting.
patiencewithaP Jun 17, 2010	Dang it...couldn't come up with aspire/spire! Great teaser!
jcann Jun 17, 2010	I needed the hint for #2 and #6. I really enjoy these!
sunnybonghits Jun 17, 2010	I don't like 'shared an opinion' as the definition for 'agreed', but I can see it. Personally, I thought 'opined' and 'pined' would have been a better answer, but that doesn't start with 'a' and the definition of 'pined' would also have to be in the past tense.
wordmama Jun 17, 2010	I needed the hint letters for #'s 4 & 7 but enjoyed the teaser a bunch! Keep 'em comin'!
bear01 Jun 28, 2010	agree with "patiencewithaP" that one was tricky.. but got hte others..was tops fun woop woop! more please mr teaser
kwelchans Jun 28, 2010	Sunnybonghits, I think "shared an opinion" works for agreed. If two people share an opinion, then they agree, at least on that one point.