Puzzle. Feb. 24

If you take the first and last letter off of a word, sometimes you get a new word. How many can you identify? More in first question.
Ex:All of the questions are written like this: a happening/comes after sixth. The answer is "event seventh". If you add a "S" to the beginning of "event", and a "H" to the end of "event", you get "seventh".

-1.Assistant/Unmarried woman

-2.European coin/Teach

-3.Norse god/Periodic element

-4.Large piece/Style of peanut butter

5.Ask/Rocky's opponent

-6.Heroic/Illustrate

-7.Baby cage/Documenter

-8.Always/Serious

-9.Famous dog/more sophisticated

-10.Mutton/Describes Baked Alaska

1. Aide / Maiden - Hi Curly, have a good day and a great weekend

Bernie

4. Hunk = Chunky
Morning curly

2. ducat/educate

Good morning. Thanks. A toi aussi Bernie.

3. Odin / iodine

Thanks michele.

6. depict

9. Lassie/ classier

Morning curly,

Morning, merci.

7 - crib, scribe

Oui.

10 - lamb - flambe

8. ever / severe

Thanks.

5. ApollO

Thanks mxm.