GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT
Credit: GAMES Magazine
October, 2001
Dick Gautier

Each sentence or short tale below is missing at least three words - which are anagrams of one another. Can you find the anagrams so that the sentence or story makes sense?

1. The prison _____ was so engrossed in reading the biography of _____ Jackson that he didn't hear as the guard _____ him, "An inmate might _____ off at any time if you don't start paying attention."

2. The knight and his wife, the lovely _____ Genevieve, _____ an appearance at the wine and cheese party, where they ate _____ and sipped medieval style _____.

3. Hey - it's Harry's choice, but if he _____ to _____ working so hard, he'll never get promoted to the highest _____  at the _____ office.

4. Her film debut had been highly _____ by critics, and she'd _____ to great fame. But, alas! Driven to _____ by the ups and downs of show business, the starlet became a nanny, changing _____ for a living.

5. The artist carefully chose the _____ shade of _____ pink for the rose _____ he was painting on the expensive China _____.

6. All the old _____ in the Lions Club respect _____, the new treasurer. He faithfully _____ all payments on time. This punctuality _____ their esteem.

7.The priestess drank the sweet _____ and fell into a deep _____. When she awoke, she tried to _____ her dire prediction, but she could only watch the knight's horse _____ off into the sunset.

8. At the _____ of the performance, the novice opera critic tried to analyze the singer's vocal _____, even jotting down a few _____. But his efforts were in vain. He might as well have been _____ deaf.

9. As part of Mary's job as a restorer of old weapons, she _____  _____. She then _____ with her assistant, to make sure the swords are in working order.

10. Captain Hook and his crew of _____ carouse and _____ merrily around the ship at their wild _____.

11. The bakery bandit will only _____ the _____  _____ bread in the store. _____ of his penchant for fresh sourdough are told all over town.

Answers:

1. Warden, Andrew, warned, wander
2. Dame, made, edam, mead
3. Opts, stop, spot, Post
4. Praised, aspired, despair, diapers
5. Palest, pastel, petals, plates
6. Timers, Mister, remits, merits
7. Nectar, trance, recant, canter
8. Onset, tones, notes, stone
9. Repairs, rapiers, parries
10. Pirates, traipsed, parties
11. Steal, least, stale, Tales