GENERAL | ENTERTAINMENT | TOPICAL | PEOPLES NAMES | OTHER NAMES |
MEDIUM LENGTH | ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE | LONG | SPECIAL | RUDE |
1 | Mey Kraus | 50 | Military weapon = Employ it in a war. |
2 | Rosie Perera | 35 | A child molester = Mother calls: "Die!" |
3 | Andrew | 28 | Shapely girl = Largely hips. |
3 | Neil Ramsay | 28 | Late Shift? ~ That's life! |
5 | Hans-Peter Reich | 22 | The crane operator = Another 'top' career. |
6 | Rick | 17 | Troop escalation = Operational cost. |
7 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 16 | Bacon and egg for breakfast = Fab, fat snack - gorge on bread. |
7 | Paul Pan | 16 | Cantonese cuisine = Notice canine's use. |
9 | View | 15 | The professional dancers ~ share floor and nice steps. |
10 | Tony Crafter | 14 | Treads the boards = Does the Bard's art. |
11 | Adie Pena | 12 | Absinth = Ban this! |
12 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 10 | The meadow lark = Meal to red hawk. |
13 | David Bourke | 4 | Home cooking the traditional oriental way = Rigid animal horn...a one-way ticket to the loo! |
Total points: | 267 | from 46 votes (DFE factor: 0.283) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 44 | 'Oliver Twist'. The novel by Charles Dickens = Scrawny bloke sent child to thieve silver! |
1 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 44 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling = A jolly hyper Hogwarts boy'll thwart dark in the end. |
3 | Mey Kraus | 40 | Puccini's opera 'Madame Butterfly' = Macabre play put to refined music. |
4 | Andrew | 36 | The film 'Steel Magnolias' = It's all some female thing! |
5 | Adie Pena | 22 | Hugh Laurie on set = Laughter in "House." |
6 | Rick | 15 | An Oscar nomination = As in, "No, no, I'm an actor!"? |
7 | David Bourke | 14 | The singer Amy Jade Winehouse = A dynamite Jew... her nose is huge! |
8 | Paul Pan | 10 | Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" = Oops! Bill Gates' company! |
9 | Neil Ramsay | 8 | Author Chris Brookmyre = Hurrah! Crime story book. |
10 | View | 7 | Martin Scorsese's 'The Departed' = The 'Desires Oscars' department. |
10 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 7 | Boris Leonidovich Pasternak = Hint: Book I pen discovers Lara. |
10 | Rosie Perera | 7 | "Ocean's Deadliest" starring Steve Irwin ~ is startling: a wet diver dies on a screen. |
Total points: | 254 | from 43 votes (DFE factor: 0.279) |
1 | Mey Kraus | 48 | United States politics = Suspect it's oil-tainted. |
2 | Andrew | 36 | George 'Dubya' Bush's State of the Union Address = So, the dud threatens a surge in use of body bags. |
3 | Rosie Perera | 26 | President George W. Bush's State of the Union Address = Enough deaths, persistent snob. For we are disgusted! |
4 | Tony Crafter | 23 | Kylie Minogue's 'Showgirl Tour' opens at Wembley Arena = New Year hit! Gutsy gal blooms anew in solo UK premiere. |
5 | Paul Pan | 22 | Japan ship collides with U.S. sub = Sushi, soja & BLT sandwich pile-up! |
6 | Horrid Stretchy Pus | 21 | America's upset with ~ a white supremacist. |
7 | Neil Ramsay | 16 | The late dictator Saddam Hussein = Moustached sadist in death-alert. |
8 | Wayne Baisley | 13 | Israeli President = Reptilian desires. |
9 | Rick | 11 | Miss America, Lauren Nelson = I'm real sensual in romances. |
9 | Dee4j | 11 |