Thursday, January 24, 2013

CLASSIC ANAGRAMS
Credit: Boston Globe Crossword
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

[The most interesting anagrams are those in which the anagrammed word or phrase has a particularly apt relation to the original word or phrase. For example THE EYES and THEY SEE]

1. LITHE ACTS
2. COURT POSERS
3. NAME FOR SHIP
4. AN ORAL EDICT
5. TENDER NAMES
6. DIRTY ROOM
7. MOON STARERS
8. AN AISLE GRAB
 9. A FLARING END
10. PHRASE SET IN

11. ELEVEN + TWO

HINTS:
1. One word - first letter is A
2. One word - first letter is P - lawyers
3. Gilbert and Sullivan operetta
4. One word - first letter is D
5. One word - first letter is E
6. One word - first letter is D
7. One word - first letter is A
8. Two words - B _ _ _ _  S _ _ _
9. Two words - G _ _ _ _ F _ _ _ _ _
10. One word - first letter is P - used in both writing and math

11. It all adds up



 Answers:

1. ATHLETICS
2. PROSECUTORS
3. HMS PINAFORE
4. DECLARATION
5. ENDEARMENTS
6. DORMITORY
7. ASTRONOMERS
8. BARGAIN SALE
9. GRAND FINALE
10. PARENTHESIS

11. TWELVE + ONE 

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