Answer:
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
I get paid when I drive away my customers. What am I?
I begin with the letter āiā, if you add āaā in front of me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but still sounds exactly the same. What word am I?
Six letters do my name compound; among the aged oft I'm found; The shepherd also by the brook hears me when Leaning on his crook; but in the middle me divide and take the half on either side each backward read a liquor tell ev'ry gay toper knows it well.
It's red liquid but not liquid and it's not red. What is it?
Though not a plant, has leaves. Though not a beast, has spine. Though many wouldn't need this thing, It's more valuable than wine.