ANAGRAMS XXV

MISCELLANEOUS ANAGRAMS

1. What country is its own worst enemy?

2. What can Tasmania truthfully say about itself?

3. What do you call typical Hawaiian parties?

4. If you stood near one of these, you might be sorry. What are "these"?

5. What is unusual about the following sentence? 

    The Chinese restaurant had to close because it couldn't afford the insurance rates.

6. Can you anagram these words into new words or phrases?

    a. CHOICE  

    b. SECLUSION

    c. UNNOTICED

    d. DISNEYLAND

    e. TOURNAMENT

    f. PROGNOSTICATE

    

Answers:

 

1. YEMEN

2. "I AM SATAN."

3. USUAL LUAUS

4. TORNADOES (stood near) 

 

5. CHINESE RESTAURANT and INSURANCE RATES are anagrams. (Another anagram for Chinese restaurant is Three-star nuisance.)

 

6a. CHOICE - ECHOIC

  b. SECLUSION - CLOSES IN

  c. UNNOTICED - CONTINUED

  d. DISNEYLAND - LADY ENDS IT

  e. TOURNAMENT - RENT AMOUNT

  f. PROGNOSTICATE - OPERATING COST

Credits:

5: Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

6d - 6f: Will Shortz

6e: Jack Luzzatto