BANANAGRAMS IV
Credit: GAMES/ World of Puzzles
January, 2018
Edmund Conti

Complete each rhymed couplet by filling in the blanks with two words that are anagrams of each other.

1. Those shoes she lent me caused such a blister.
    I must ________ the urge to hurt my ________.

2. The politician was in jail last season.
    The ________ had committed an act of ________.

3. The artist designed headstones (among other crafts),
    But was ________ when chiseling ________.

4. For every Willy Loman, there are ten
    anonymous, ________    ________.

5. That bad conductor, Herbert Hubert,
    Stands on the podium and ________
    ________.

6. Scissors, science, skiing, svelte -
    Not the ________ words, and often ________.

Answers:

1. resist / sister
2. senator /  treason
3. happiest / epitaphs
4. nameless / slaesmen
5. butchers / Schubert
6. simplest /  misspelt