From The Enigma
NPL Magazine
February, 2016
EARL E. BYRD

The two key words to this flat, represented by FAT and ROUND, are anagrams.

The candidates this year, it seems,
Are nowhere near the stuff of dreams.
There's no one who seems Trumanesque,
Appropriate to man the desk
Where FDR and Lincoln sat.
Instead, the choices all seem FAT ---
Okay, at best, but nothing more,
A situation I abhor,
And one which I consider ROUND
Since global crises now abound.

HINT #1:
M _ _ _ _ _ _ L
A _ _ _ _ _ _ G

HINT #2:
MA _ _ _ _ AL
AL _ _ _ _ NG


Answers:

MARGINAL
ALARMING