RENAL
R ----> D
LADEN
we are now scoring a symmetrical 1001 posts on 101 pages (a good place to stop).
Now we've reached 2002 posts in the current thread, it may be a good time to declare it closed and start Anagrams X.
ANKLED
K ---- > G
..before me
DANGLE
we are now scoring a symmetrical 1001 posts on 101 pages (a good place to stop).
Now we've reached 2002 posts in the current thread, it may be a good time to declare it closed and start Anagrams X. Good on yer; totally agree.
Moving along:
DANGLE
add N
ENGLAND
ENGLAND
N ---- > I
..where the indicators are
LEADING
LEADING
drop the D
GENIAL
(a "false adjective" - it has nothing at all to do with being like a Genie)
TANGLE
+ T
..back at Ft Benning; but ducking those machine-gun bullets was truly indelibly ensconced ...
GANTLET
...it touches the subject without covering it
GANTLET
L -> N
TANGENT
(a.k.a. lotsa time he spent at the beach)
TANGENT
T -------> B
BANTENG
How's your immune system today?
BANTENG
B -> I
ANTIGEN
GANNET
add U
TUNNAGE
cubic feet........what type of feet do you have??
TUNNAGE
A ---- > U
..displacement always had an O over here ..no worries ...never mind; we'll just slap a little salve on that, and all'll be well ..there, there, now
UNGUENT
UNGUENTA
N ---- > L
..or maybe more earthbound than Pegasus
UNGULATE
NUTMEG
E ---- > I
..that kept me from what you've been trying to tell me; its effect has been
MUTING
MINUET
- M
...in a New York MINUTE
UNITE
AUNTIE
U ---- > L
..to do these things, find out what they
ENTAIL
RETAIL
E ---- > O
..Tinker to Cornwall (aka LeCarre')? ..not a Chance
TAILOR
SAILOR
O ---- > T
..he on Trigger, she astride Buttermilk, singing Happy..
TRAILS .. and who was the guy in the jeep Clarabelle?
Gabby Hayes, Andy Devine, or Pat Brady (Roy Rogers)(re: endy6)
-S
ASTRIDE
ASTRIDE
- D
isn't it ironic?
SATIRE ..Thanks, Luke..I think it was Brady I had in mind; I also kept getting Smiley Burnette on the brain..???what's left of it ..Good on'ya, Luke
STREAMED
S ---- > R
MASTERED the art of fantasizing are called
DREAMERS .. I just saw that we've gone from REALIST in relatively few iterations
T ---- > R, actually.
D > C
CREAMERS or SCREAMER
SCREAMER
add T
CREMASTER
FWIW Dep't: Did you know that the cremaster muscle of an elephant is s'posed to be as large as the biceps on a human?
CREWMASTER
C ---- > B
BREWMASTER I had a lot of trouble with this initially, and admit to taking the easy way out. But noticed adding O to CREWMASTER would have brought us to WORCESTER, MA
SWEETBRIARS + T = STRAWBERRIES
but fortunately that's a forbidden transition, because I don't think there's any way forward from there...
SWEETBRIAR
drop W
BISERRATE
BISERRATE
(resisting the temptation to identify the two-year-old twins hext door as A -> L "TERRIBLES". I think I'm spending too much time on Mensopause.)
E -> R
BARRISTER
[Anagram of BISERRATE: Is the party on the other side of the legal process a "barristee", a la employer/-ee ?]
Mensopause? I can concur.
-B
STARRIER
SIERRAN
I -> D
errands
(the culminating pleasure, which we treasure beyond measure)
ERRANDS
R ---- > C
..include the winds of March, that make our hearts
DANCERS
CINDERS
RESCIND its order ...
C ---- > M
to send in more
MINDERS
TINDERS
D ---- > K
...that this should have been my nickname
STINKER
TICKER
C -> S
...i'm goin' on
STRIKE
KISSER
maybeso.
But k to t
I must
RESIST
I want to, I shouldn't, I want to, I shouldn't. Approach, avoid, approach, avoid.
RESIST, SISTER !
I -> S
Now that's STRESS !
-- Nice touch, JJ !
VERSTS
S -> I
STRIVE(there's often a VERSUS when you strive, but I refrained)
(or maybe of the Priests)
STARVE
A -> Y
VESTRY
VESTRY
V ---- > N
..either right or left ..
SENTRY
TRYING
Y ---- > A
..but I don't know how to give it a
RATING
INTRO
O ---- > U
..is also known as
TURIN
RUNT ("To everything...there is a season..." sang (and composed) Pete Seeger)
R -> A
TUNA
TUNA
+ J
..I'd go to see her ..
..but it's a
JAUNT
JAUNT
What's cookin'?
T-> C
CAJUN
CAJUN
J ---- > S
..just hope it doesn't taste like a Leatherstocking ..
UNCAS
RAUNCH
A ---- > C
..for my first commanding officer, Cap'n
CRUNCH
Euchre? you're a Dubuquer!
C >S
SHEER
VERSE
add W
SWERVE
..............to miss that one.
SWERVE
- W
..like Poe's, talked about souls never being dissevered..the original was tossed into a sewer ...
SEVER
SEVER
V ---- W
Sorry, Luke..just saw your earlier arrival ...this can either be a waste-water channel, or a darn good needler
SEWER
No prob...happens frequently.
-S
EWER
EWER
E ---- > I
..happens to lead to and over a
WEIR
WHINED
W ---- > B
.. are better left
BEHIND
INCHED
+ P
..especially those that have been stolen
PINCHED
COMEDIAN
O ---- > P
PANDEMIC
MINCER
N ---- > A
..the one-eyed man is king
CRIMEA
MERCIA
- I
..MARCIE told me that she likes ice
CREAM
DREAM
...de Dios ! MERDE! I have a document I urgently must
AMEND
AMEND
add E
DEMEAN
(and an R and wander around)
MEANIE
E -> R
You mean like aqua-MARINE ?
VERMIAN
M ---- > D
..here comes the
INVADER
DRIVEN
N ---- > L
...when i got to school, they said I was spewing
DRIVEL
RIVALED
- L
..my reply is that I simply have interests that are
VARIED
...if you
ARRIVE not at but in a (minus a)
RIVER
RIVER
I ---- > O
..that by definition (hyperbolically enhanced by its proclaimers, that is) would be too large for a river is the Irish
ROVER
DROVER
R ---- > U
...I've been on a see-food diet, the more to
DEVOUR
BOLDER
D -> O
BOLERO
(I think Ravel's is a passacaglia)
BOLERO
L ---- > N
..ith being a mid-summer nighth, and all ...how nith it would be to be the king ..
OBERON
Dream on
OBERON by changing n to g
you can become a
GOOBER
BORNEO
O ---- > R
..but otherwise I feel
REBORN
REBORN
Certainly better than to be
O -> A
BARREN
Mister Earl
WARREN of the Supreme Court
He wasn't very bright but at least he (w to t)
wasn't a typical liberal loudmouth
RANTER
RANTER (also = TERRAN)
add I
TERRAIN
Oh, and I'll be out of contact for about 8 days - not to worry!
BRAINER
R ---- > G
..when they spoke of his military
BEARING
BEATING
but a more apt match for a lamb
might be
BLEATING
.......back in my high school days!!
BELTING
- N
GIBLET
GIBLET
B ---- > M
..but 'way too strong for me ...
GIMLET
GIMLET
L ---- > D
...referred as 'Sir Flea' to a character that was a
MIDGET
You beat me by five seconds, but it had not yet been sent
to me as yet, gimlet was still there, you lucky guy....
-T
MIDGE
MIDGE
M ---- > R
..but we forge on; meanwhile, my 'fave' song genre is still the
DIRGE
If ye be an insect, it be a butterfly.
+B
BRIDGE
BRIDGE
B ---- > G
..the contest'd have to be
RIGGED
BIGGER
G ---- > L
..than your
GERBIL
GERBIL
...and few things are fibber than a woman (g to b)
LIBBER
WABBLER
B ---- > R
..i do; then again, maybe i don't..but i do know my little chickadee, my little t'rush, whenever she sang to me, was a
WARBLER ... but never a BRAWLER
variant spelling of wobble
-W
BARREL
CARTER
- R
..without a
TRACE
TRACE
recalled the stonefaced Nurse (add h)
RACHET
RACHET
R ---- > C
..around that gives her that certain, je ne sais quoi...comme on dit ...
CACHET
CACHE
A ---- > K
...FOR SOME PEOPLE TO EVER PICK UP IS THE
CHECK
CHOCK
C ---- > S
..will give you quite a
SHOCK
K > E
STORE
(at least we now have two vowels)
STORE
O ---- > I
..STORM, I run out and check my
TIRES
TRITE
T ---- > P
..something else, but this Italian fave is on the menu..and not in a PETRI dish
TRIPE
PRATE
P ---- > F
..and maybe sleep will come
AFTER
DRAFTEE
D ---- > H
..with a salary cap
FEATHER
HEATHER
R ---- > N
..would call me when things got bad
HEATHEN
NETHER
+ I
..and I'll say NIGH-there
NEITHER
NEITHER
and therein lies
THEREIN
THEREIN
H ---- > G
...is in a number?
INTEGER
REGENT maybeso
But (e to y)
he or she whichever it may be
should be a snooty dues-paying member of the
GENTRY
GENTRY
R ---- > L
..Or acting kingly? It's everso nice, when all uv'em royals are round, 'cuz all'uv'em alluys speeks everso
GENTLY
NIGHTLY
n > r
Quite
RIGHTLY
At least we have the same word this time.
RIGHTLY
R ---- > F
..or technicolor dreamcoat, or anything else that seems
FLIGHTY
FLIGHTY
- Y
..hadn't been involved in
FLIGHT
..hadn't been involved in
FLIGHT
their significance would have been
F ----> S
SLIGHT
SLIGHT (Good one, ACB!)
L ---- > S
...and see (from on high?) the
SIGHTS
SIGHTS ( -h )
transportation and bombing are among the
GISTS of aeroflight
SITES
Yes, but you probably had more fun experiencing
your first set, rather than you will at your last set of -> s>r
RITES
And that goes double for your
SISTER SISTER
TIMES
put the Y back
STYMIE
THYMES
E ---- I
..Madison, & Gary Cooper if not the Duke..
... where stands the ol'
SMITHY
MYTHS
S ---- > E
..about whatever and rosemary and
THYME
We seem to be on a loop again. Thyme twice. No problem
a couple of us are traveling the loop, hope we don't get
dizzy.
+M
METHYL
METHYL
H ---- I
..most
TIMELY I was tempted to add an E to methyl, but thought that making themely would actually be unthemely (ouch)
I've done it so often I've lost count this past decade.
Most kind approach he said
I > A
TAMELY
TAMELY
(We've done this long enough we're all MENTAL by now!)
Y -> N
LAMENT
(But seriously, I don't know how to avoid this after ten years of the game, short of Searching the site before every turn. Definitely not worth the aggravation.)
LAMENT
M ---- > T (describes my head)
...continued to do requires real
TALENT
And that would cause me to have
an
+I
AILMENT
of the brain. (Welcome back doc)
AILMENT
+ G
...I knew I'd torn my
LIGAMENT
EMULATING
U ---- > N
..Jeremiah? Wait'll you hear this guy's
LAMENTING
LAMENTING
E ----> A
MALIGNANT
ALIGNMENT
N ----> L
METALLING (British spelling)
-L
LIGAMENT
above
"I got nuthin"
Appreciate your 'unflagging'....
T > C
ANGELICAL
you missed posts 217982,217983,217984
THE CURRENT WORD
IS ANGELICAL
ANGELICAL
A ---- > O
COLLEGIAN
I don't see a -985 ...or a few other recent posts ...???? I think -979 and one or two others ..can't see the post #'s right now ...
They've been deleted by the poster.
COLLEGIAN
- I
..but it's very strong tissue
COLLAGEN
Luke - did you ever stay away for a while, so that the first unread post on your screen when you come back is old, and you don't notice newer ones down below, maybe even on the next page and not on your screen at all? And you reply to what turned out to be an old post? Happens to me relatively often...
Nope, that won't work. Go on without me; I'll be back later.
COLLEGIAN
Luke - did you ever stay away for a while, so that the first unread post on your screen when you come back is old, and you don't notice newer ones down below, maybe even on the next page and not on your screen at all? And you reply to what turned out to be an old post? Happens to me relatively often...
Yup, I have, especially when it is on the next page. When I post
it, I go and see my posting. If I find that others have posted
inbetween I delete it, or apologize, or strike through it. Some
people never check their posting even though it is a half hour
to one hour later than the previous one. This happens too
frequently to me to be mere coincidence . Doesn't everyong
preview their post, or check it out after posting. Maybe
everyone should, because certain ones definitely do not.
And as I say it happens to my posting far too often to
be mere coincidence.
The previous word was actually COLLAGEN, not COLLEGIAN. So:
COLLAGEN
- C
GALLEONHope this gets things back on track!
I bet our
MORALE m>c would improve if our
ORACLE
would stop predicting death, doom, and gloom
LOWLIER
L ---- > O
...are those that are
WOOLIER
FOODIE
I ---- > R
...it seems that every place, Milano, Firenze, Torino...all have buildings that are slate-
ROOFED
your choice: whoever is next
D > S,L,P
SOCKET, LOCKET, POCKET
DOCKET
K ---- > A
...like a ROCKET, but somebody had me lead-
COATED
TEACH
E ---- > H
.. of eggs
HATCH
HATCH you'd best affix a LATCH to the henhouse door.
You want a big
BATCH don't ja?
and it just won't move
BROACH
B -> N
ANCHOR
...said CHARON, the Boatman
MONARCH
O ---- > I
..This brand says NO SQUEEZE!
CHARMIN
MARCHING
M ---- > I
..that they say the person running the meeting is the one who is
CHAIRING
CHAGRIN (like!)
drop A
GRINCH
GRINCH
+ U
..to do this little sewing technique?
RUCHING
EUCHRING
U ---- > E
..had me
CHEERING
ENRICHED
R ---- > L
..saw to being covered with fungus:
LICHENED
GLISTENED
L ---- > T
.. especially in August
DETESTING
INGESTED
drop the G
DESTINE
DESTINE
E ---- > N
..does what he or she
INTENDS
DENTIN
T ---- > S
..if we didn't INDENT enough, you'd swear we had grievously
SINNED
DESIGN
D ---- > R
..get commissions they can
RESIGN
RESIGN
e>o
just ask
SIGNOR Mussolini
just ask
SIGNOR Mussolini
whose reputation was
+ U
SOURING
IGNORES
E ---- > N
..one who is
SNORING
SNORING
especially when we are laying in a ditch dead drunk and it is
r>w
SNOWING
SNOWING
N ---- > D
..you'll probably need some H2O ...
DOWSING
FORDING
D ---- > G
..or just getting ahead
FORGING
GORGING
- G
..was the one they called
GRINGO
NOBBIN
B -> U
BUNION
(that's simply a-Paul-ing)
BUNION
I ---- > R
...but my guess is the next Blue Ox is as yet
UNBORN
UNBORN
N ---- > W
..take us to
WOBURN
BURROW
B ---- > F
...to my brow, now!
FURROW
FURROW u>a
come see the
FARROW Ain't they cute?
ARROW
A ---- > E
..the boat, gently down the stream
ROWER
BOWER
+ S
..my eyes are still open, so I'm able to
BROWSE
WORSEN
O ---- > T
..with everything just
STREWN
REENACTS
R ---- > N
...they carried their water in
CANTEENS
TANNERS
T ---- > C
..on a
SCANNER There was a good TV show years ago I'm drawing a blank on that was similarly named ...??? Great lead actor..
CANNIER
- N
..sometimes a conniver
CARNIE
...semi-precious, anyway
CANTER ( = TRANCE = NECTAR = RECANT )
C -> G
GARNET
ESTRANGE
E ---- > L
(NACRE ..evolving to ..TANAGER, etc.)
..but I don't think we've ever been tempted to
STRANGLE
TRIANGLE
which is
E ----> O
TRIGONAL
If sides are to be proved or disproved
TRIGONAL
r>t
you must first count each side and then add up your
TOTALING
TONALITY
- O
..was a sharp dresser; always attired
NATTILY
ALACRITY
L ----> P
RAPACITY
CAPTAIN
A ---- > O
..a city in Michigan; and, the make of the last car I bought 'new'
PONTIAC
OPTICIAN
- I
..according to the
CAPTION ..so it can be more than just a car
CAPTION
-p
that hoodwinks the Pontiac's dearth of
ACTION
ACTION
add N
Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then, I contradict myself.
I am large; I
CONTAIN
multitudes.
Walt W _ _ _ _ _ _
ANOINT
A ---- > E
..is, even with an OILY voice,
INTONE
NINETY
N ---- > T
..what it is
ENTITY
BIRETTA
- I
..was sometimes a
BATTER
BATTEN (nice, Luke)
N -> L
TABLET
EJECT
J ---- > R
...the die is cast..now, let's build something together
ERECT
Sure, why not!
ERECT
add A
CREATE
CRAZE
R ---- > T
..why, I 've seen it done by even an
AZTEC
AZTECs without a Z do it
Even Caters without a
CARTE do it
CARTE
R ---- > H
...exercise TEACH us? To never, ever
CHEAT
ETHIC + c
your life will surely be socially
HECTIC
or maybe just wine?
CARTE
add L
CLARET
CLARET c>y
while talking
REALTY and stock cars.
REALTY
E ---- > P
..all there is?
PALTRY
PALTRY p>a
is another man's
ALTARY
How did ACETIC turn into CARTE (and then CLARET)?
Vinegar into wine in two stages...
ALTARY
A ---- > T
..choice , to respond with disdain; one woman's,
TARTLY
I'm not sure.. I had an awful temptation to respond to ACETIC, with a ? 'want fries with that?' reply, no, I'll take just the 20% solution, gimme an 'S'...ASCETIC ... but by the time I saw it, we were on to REALTY or another >>>???!!
OK, let me provide some missing links in the chain...
ACETIC
ACCENT
CHANCE
CANCEL
CANTLE
CATTLE
RATTLE
TARTLY
Oops.
It's my fault - I fell into the very error I described above: replying to the last post on a page, never noticing that there were four after it that I hadn't seen, Apologies to all I may have inadvertently pre-empted.
TARTLY
L -> N
TYRANT
All is forgiven.
T > O
NOTARY
NOTARY n>r
I'll save my forgiveness for an affront
less petty than accidental posting out of the
ROTARY of this fun game.
Yes, Luke.
ORATORY is bullshit
but
your bullshit
is
minor bullshit
ORATORY
No less than Horace might resort to the
Hortatory Subjunctive, but .. wish I may, wish I might,
I've got to get to sleep tonight .. and hope for better DAIS
by dropping the WHY????
ORATOR
Praise the Lord and call the Orthopedist -
I hurt my (add a T to ORATOR)
ROTATOR cuff :-(
ROTATOR
O ---- > I
..or cheek, or maybe tail ..and run
TRAITOR
Yes, Luke.
ORATORY is bullshit
but
your bullshit
is
minor bullshit
touchy, touchy
T > P
AIRPORT
PIERROT mon ami,
with a nice glass of
drop the I
PORTER
PORTER
P ---- > T
..it had taken me so long, I'd forgotten the question..so much for a clever
RETORT
SCOUTED
very thoroughly
T ----> R
SCOURED
SUCCEED
- C
..development
EDUCES
REDUCES
(same as RESCUED)
and then yelled at his benefactor
drop E
CURSED
RENDER
R ---- > F
..and his guitar
FENDER
FENDER
E -> I (except after, see?)
FRIEND
BREAD
made by a
D ----> K
BAKER
BACKER
...or was that 3-carom billiards?
C -> N
BANKER
BANKER
B ---- > H
..desire ..
HANKER
MERCHANT
drop the N
REMATCH
Nope, not spineless at all
CHORDATE
T -> N
ANCHORED
ENCROACH
R ---- > M
...these EARTHMEN learned how to guide horses, then they formed a singing group
COACHMEN
COACHMEN
C ----> G
MANCHEGO
MANCHEGO
G ---- > C
..was not a staple of their diet
COMANCHE ..COACHMEN might have been
COMANCHE
O ---- > I
I looped back inadvertently..should have hired a
MECHANIC
CLINCHED
C ---- > R
..to have
CHILDREN
HARDLINE
- R
..he never
INHALED
HANDLE
H -> D
"The Eagle has LANDED !"
...LANDED
D ----> R
Ah yes, the lunar
LANDER
...said LEANDER, adding an E
LEANDER
..you're either a DEALER or a LEADER ..
and if you drop an A you're either my HERO Ed RENDEL(L), or a
LENDER .. but not a borrower, or a Molly Malone
PLUNDER
P ---- > A
...you'd like me to
LAUNDER
DIURNAL
- D
.. but those with the quotidian duty of cleaning these think that's frequent enough
URINAL
I did it in boarding school during work period, it was
called 'honey dipping'
U > E
LINEAR
LINEAR
- I
..cute euphemism! did you learn anything about glands of this variety?
RENAL
VENAL
+ I
..May all your sins be
VENIAL
REVEAL
- A
..with a basic tool; there's no 'fuller crumb' (cf. fulcrum) than I ...
LEVER
LEVER
..in the chance to add another word...we must, the onslaught of our baser instincts, ..
REPEL
add Y
EVERLY - Phil or Don, a singing Brother from the 1950s. Remember
Bye, Bye, Love and
Let It Be Me?
(And
others...)
Oh well, it's the almost September anyway, so leave it there. Enjoy the music. (See post above, on the previous page...)
-------
REPEL
E -> A
PEARL
PEARL
+E
LEAPER
PS: Is there a full moon? I just read yesterday about Gilbert Becaud, aka "M. 100K Volts,' who wrote Let It Be Me ...??!?
LEAPER
R ---- > S
..My target is to REPEAL .. as an indication of my intent to
PLEASE
and we're not ASLEEP/PLEASE
change E to P and make little green
APPLESThat was Glenn Campbell, ten years later
APPLES
P ---- > M
... has music terms to try to get used to (even if I don't understand what they mean): such as 'cover' and
SAMPLE
IMPALES
- A
..when someone told me they thought i was
SIMPLE
DIMPLE
+ I
..or merely
IMPLIED
MIDLIFE
- I
..you'll be this;but if the lens is this, chances are you won't be
FILMED
...is a practical definition of telepathy!
FILMED
M -> D
If I have an Amati violin and I buy a Stradivarius, which one is second
FIDDLE ?
and at the head of their class
MIDDLE
L -> A
DIADEM
MEDIAN
- I
On a MAIDEN voyage from MEDINA,OH, to a place in PA called MEDIA, where names were
NAMED
TAMED
+ E
..including oxen, are
TEAMED
+A
intercellular spaces of tissues:
EDEMATA
EDEMATA (WOW!)
E ---- N
MANDATE
yup, it's a mouthful, more of a word from wofa, the good doc.
+E
EMANATED
DEMENTIA
N ---- > R
..right down the middle
DIAMETER
CREMATE
Add another A
MACERATE
MACERATE
E ----> A
CAMERATA
Difficult one! With some help from morewords.com, I found:
CAMERATA
+ B
CARBAMATE
CARBAMATE (= AAABCEMRT)
Where do you keep your Leica? T -> G CAMERABAG
Who's directing the taxi fleet ? A->S CABMASTER
Look at the locomotive headlight way down there! A-> K TRACKBEAM
I'll go with CAMERABAG first...
CAMERABAG
..we're one N short (C -- > G) of GARBAGEMAN ..
If you'd gone with CABMASTER, we could have had BATMASTER, who's obviously the sire of BAT MASTERSON ... James Garner/Jim Rockford, RIP
...but TRACKBEAM minus B would enable
MEATRACK .. I yield to the higher powers ...
RACEKART
- A
..and neither is Walt Longmire at times...
TRACKER
"The Devil's Tool" is what Harold Hill (a.k.a. the Music Man) called That Game with the Fifteen Balls...
Set 'em up again!
CRACKER - C
RERACK
RERACK
K ---- > T
..something opponents of Jim Rempe of Scranton did often (he's a major pool champion)
...anyway, I was keen to listen to the Blue Network and Mr Keen, who was to Lost Persons their
TRACER
DEPORT
add O
TROOPED
Even better - put the kibosh on that plan in a hurry -
TORPEDO
EXPORT
X ---- > R
..at 15 E 7th St., the drink was Hull's, but you had to buy 2 at a time ..no charge for the sawdust or peanut shells on the floor, but the Hull's from CT was good
PORTER
TROPE
+ L
..especially if you live in the land of Anthony Trollope and drive on the left ...
PETROL
BLOTTED
O ---- > A
...made her furious; oh, how we
BATTLED
TABLETS
- T
..will these pills have made me
STABLE
BUSTLE
+ B
..meaning to shave
STUBBLE
SUBTLE
B ---- > D
..go to jail for what you're thinkin' .. good thing!
LUSTED
BUSTED (Good one!)
- S
..I'm happy to say it'll be this kind of performance in that venue ..
DEBUT
BINDER
+ L
..one's way less clear
BLINDER
BRINDLED
N ---- > B
.. (and was it Bobby Vee?)took the bait; or simply drooled
DRIBBLED
DRIBBLER
- B
..puts the harness on the horse..not the guy at the wedding
BRIDLER
REDIAL
R ---- > S
..on these nights, so we cherish the
LADIES
DETAILS, DETAILS(if you apply a
Banach-Tarsky transformation, that is)
DETAILS
- I
.. containing fries, some good enough to be exalted, but I'm just glad all were
SALTED ...or, as we said that night at the Greek Church festival, what goes around comes around
but it isn't clear that it changes
SALTED
D -> R
ALTERS
ALTERS
...or else it becomes
- R
STALE
STALE
S ---- > R
..that we must remain
ALERT
CATER
+ S
..implies a to-do list that is constantly being
RECAST
CREPES
+ I
..or is it Mildred?
PIERCES
PEDICURE
I ---- > O
..and that includes our homing pigeons
RECOUPED
CROPPED
- D
...atomic number 5-0?
COPPER
CHOPPER
P ---- > A
...aren't the only ones caught up in headlights
POACHER
CHAPTER
- T
...practice what you
PREACH
CHAPEL
E ---- > I
..who won't rule it out
CALIPH
CALIPH
- C
..under chemical container
PHIAL
LADLE
L ---- > Y
..the only way to eat it is without
DELAY
DEADLY
Y ----> D
it may be, if it is
ADDLED
ADDLED
+ W
..that's why I demurred, and cautiously
DAWDLED
PADDLED
D ---- > P
..and I'm puttin' a bet down on that gray horse, the one that's
DAPPLED
DAPPLED
D ---- > I
..he was tested for the institution and was crazy enough to pass, so that's when I
APPLIED
EDIBLE
+ L
..my craving for beer, so up to the bar I
BELLIED
BILLED
L ---- > K
..may mean you're being
BILKED
a couple words repeating again.
D > R
EERILY
Undoubtedly, but I'm
LEERY
of the amount of work needed to create the list of ten or so years of words (it is "Anagrams 10," after all) to insure against this reoccurring.
Edit: Okay, maybe only five. But still.
LEERY
L ---- > M
..would read Ellery Queen, the grinding of his nails tested any board of
EMERY
Just saying. We don't need no 'stinkin list'.
+D
REMEDY
affectionately known as the
REMEDY
M -> E
RED-EYE
DECREE
add S
RECEDES
Maybe I should buy a fancy expensive car.
RECEDES
E ---- > S
..thought I'd laid them out like concrete, 'til they said I wrote boring
SCREEDS
RADIATES
A ---- > T
..but they told me my heart wasn't in it; I was
STRIATED
STRIATED
R ----> S
DISTASTE
STRIATED
T -> S
DISASTER - Someone took a flower from my bouquet :-(
(see also LACKADAISICAL)
STRIDES
T ---- > E
..on the building I live in
RESIDES
EPRISE
(If you say so; good 'un!)
- I
..for equals?
PEERS
SERAPE
E ---- > S
..or the other kind
SPEARS
SPACERS
S ---- > K
..for another bivouac
REPACKS
RESTACK
R ---- > L
..Brown and Grier were Giants
TACKLES
HACKLES
H ---- > R
..made it difficult to run ... since then I've been a
SLACKER
SACKER
S ---- > N
..is not the only thing that makes me sore..
CANKER
we go from
BARREN
to A --> O
REBORN
RECKON
N ---- > T
..what CONKED me on the head was detritus from a falling
ROCKET
POCKET
O ---- > I
..sink one in the CORNER POCKET...I was behind a fence of
PICKET
PACKET
T ---- > D
...down my RACQUET if I'd known the place was
PACKED
PACKED
K ----> R
...I'd have just
CARPED
at the umpire
CARPED
C ---- > T
..whose hair down the middle, appropriately, was
PARTED
ADAPTER
A ---- > E
..or go where no one else has gone/been?
PREDATE
TRAPPED
D ---- > A
..especially if you're on a
PARAPET
APPARENT
P ---- > L
..of the best kind
PARENTAL
MATERNAL
N ---- > I
..what one's made of
MATERIAL
MALTIER
M ---- > N
..about my eye
RETINAL
ALERTING
(oops, sorry)
RETINAL
add G
TRIANGLE
FALTERING
F ---- > I
..the whole country
RETAILING
LIBERATING
T ---- > Y
..get caught up in
BILAYERING
I've seen some hyphens: if you all don't like it I will delete it.
Y > L
ILL-BEARING
ILL-BEARING
...to be able to use another hyphenate BRAILLE-ING
but, as change is de rigueur, let's dele the A to get a term from my air cargo days:
REBILLING
ILL-BEARING
G --> C
BRILLIANCE
All that brilliance wasted, for being three minutes too late. Sorry.
OK. Back up a step.
REBILLING.
Where's that darn cat again? It needs
REBELLING
RETELLING
L ---- > T
..is one form of
LETTERING
FETTERING
drop one E
FRETTING
FRETTING
T ---- > H
..is doing that might
FRIGHTEN
BRIGHTEN
+ E
..or keeps others in the dark
BENIGHTER
BENIGHTER
E --> A
BREATHING
BREATHING
B ---- > G
..and they were all BREATHING
GATHERING
GATHERING
G ---- > F
Yes; summon all the children
FATHERING
FRIGHTEN
- N
..that that was used only yesterday; continue to be a
FIGHTER
RELIGHT
L ---- > T
..I was LIGHTER than air; now I wish my waistband were less
TIGHTER
GLITTER
- G
..weekly if not more often, by the appearance of inexcusable
LITTER
TURTLE
R --> S
and we've gone from GLITTER to LUSTER in three easy steps.
LUSTER
L ---- > M
...those shoes (and boots&belt buckles); we have to pass
MUSTER
ULSTER
T ---- > K
..and at least one of them was a
SULKER
and came from the city, so they called them
SULKIER
U-->C
SLICKER
TRICKLE
+ S
..little did I know they meant nit-picking pedant, saying I was a
STICKLER
STICKER
S ---- > A
..when they said I couldn't be any
TACKIER
TALKER
K ---- > H
..or what are these that this is holding up?
HALTER
THRILL
T ---- > S
..or I'll yell at you; my voice is
SHRILL
GLOBE
+ T
..just about anything served in a
GOBLET
GOBLET (that's a small GOB, right?)
...just about anything that comes out of a
G -->T
BOTTLE
BOTTLE
O ---- > A
..of me GOB over the years that's caused many a
BATTLE
Best take two TABLETs and call me in the morning.
And no dancing around the subject, now...
T --> L
BALLET
(which of course is what's done at a little Ball)
WEALTH
T ---- > S
..and CRUEL when they're doomed to being on the beach
WHALES
WHALES
A ----> K
among the
WHELKS
WHEELS
H ---- > A
..universally disliked is the
WEASEL
WEASEL
- E
..I actually know something about is depression on a golf course
SWALE
STALE
- S
The LEAST I can do is listen with interest to your
TALE
LATER
+ E
I can
RELATE
PS: Something happened to this a minute or so ago, after I must have hit a key in error..???? I couldn't edit, so am trying this
RELATE
...is a tale that's
E --> L
TALLER
TALLER
- L
..to that I was not
ALERT
FALTER
R ---- > Y
..my liege-ance, milord (or, mi-luhd as it sounds)
FEALTY
OUTFLY
- Y
..my teammates scoffed that when I didn't ground out, I'd hit a FLYOUT; all they could do was
FLOUT
ATONAL
O ---- > I
..and in another language; the singer is a
LATINA
LATINA
...not sure just what that might
ENTAIL
GENIAL
A ---- > R
..or maybe laughable, one wants to
LINGER
FRIEND
R ---- > E
..in writing
DEFINE
INVITEE
E ---- > R
..is 'The Prophesy of...
TRIVINE ...If not acceptable, please ignore it
INVERT
N ---- > T
..but place it on a
TRIVET I came up with an alternate to TRIVINE...VITRINE, same letters so, no harm, no foul I guess...
TITTER
- T
..is easier when the topic is
TRITE
TRITE
add S
TRISTE (said the baby-SITTER)
STRICT
T --> P
...and closely following the
SCRIPT
SCRIPT
- T
..and for you, A C, a
CRISP
CRISP
add E
PRECIS
(or, more precisely, PRÉCIS)
PRECIS
S ---- > E
...Hastings, Poirot has the
RECIPE
RECIPE
...and, if we remove the I, Suzette ...
we can PIERCE that flat little pancake. Take that, you
CREPE
REPEL
in one easy step E --> A a LEPER turns into a
PEARL
PARCEL
add I
CALIPER
(I'll make another one just like it: REPLICA)
PERCALE
- C
..When you're a kid & jump on those sheets,especially from across the room, you're a real
LEAPER
REAPED
E ---- > I
..to cover a bottom
DIAPER
PLANER
P ---- > I
..I'd be a 'would worker,' of those equations
LINEAR
NEARLY
N ---- > B
...get to the beach these days
BARELY
BARELY
Y --> A
ARABLE
(which, strangely enough, does not mean "a small Arab")
ARABLE
A ---- > S
...does it resonate; it's so loud it
BLARES
GLARES
+ E
..it's what she does with them..it's me she
REGALES
RESALES
Drop A and choose the
LESSER
UNLESS
U ---- > O
...learned
LESSON
RAISES
A ---- > K
..right in the
KISSER
KISSER
S --> T
What? You would STRIKE a Lady ?
STRIKE
K ---- > F
..but Ralphie-boy Kramden; indicating that the life of a bus driver in New York was laden with
STRIFE
FURIES
I ---- > E
...every Monday, when I take out the trash, that wretched
REFUSE
(The Furey Brothers --and their Da' -- are quite a group)
UNFREE
E ---- > D
..and you paid cash, you may be entitled to a
REFUND
(My chorus is doing Beethoven's Ninth in about three weeks)
REFUND
add E
FREUNDE
FREUNDE
U ---- > I
...aber sicher nicht Lieder ohne Woerte...Schiller wouldn't want it that way! Freuen Sie sich!
Ich bin sicher dass Sie Alle sind sehr
REFINED
My chorus is doing Beethoven's Ninth in about th[r]ee weeks
We did it three years ago, and I had to make the choice of playing or singing; the maestro wanted me in the chorus, so that's what I did. No regrets.
REFINED
N ----> I
...in Schiller's ode, joy was
REIFIED
REIFIED
I ---- > L
..quite the opposite of being a
DEFILER
My chorus is doing Beethoven's Ninth in about th[r]ee weeks
We did it three years ago, and I had to make the choice of playing or singing; the maestro wanted me in the chorus, so that's what I did. No regrets.
Great Picture you drew there, Peter.
REFILER
+ T
..a seine ?
FILTERER
FILTERER
F --> B
TERRIBLE
(I hesitate even to use the word on the same page as Beethoven and Schiller)
TERRIBLE
I ---- > M
TREMBLER
TREMBLE
drop M
...was a BELTER
(Did she sang alto or TREBLE ? )
BELTER
B ---- > P
..but that screech'd take the skin off 'most anyone..including the walls in the back of the theater
PELTER
RELATE
R ---- > G
..someone you can DELEGATE to
LEGATE
INLET
T ---- > S
..has 16
LINES
SILENT
(could have come from any of the last three)
SILENT
+ C
..is a way to make many more
STENCIL ..used by many CLIENTS
WINCES
- C
...Let me cast a few pearls out there...
SWINE
TWINES
W ---- > P
..in the next apartment
SPINET
PINOT
a few black thoughts:
If you hit a deer with your PINTO, do you get to keep the POINTS?
And if you take a picture be sure to make
PRINTS
(and email me a copy via SPRINT)
PROFIT
+ S
..he could always predict what he'd make by counting his pre-season FIR-TOPS ..He was truly a PROPHET
PROFITS (He also used the pro-fit model chain saw)
COFFERS
F ---- > R
..is negative; a lot of them can influence, becoming
FORCERS
SCORE
E ---- > U
..look all over for that
SCOUR
SCOUT
S ---- > R
...works on the
COURT
TOUR
+ S
..have really been
ROUTS
EARTH
add D
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and there's no DEARTH of possibilities here !
and separate yourself from all this
HATED
(or put the R back in making HATRED - but that's where we came from, in a manner of speaking)
add C
DETACH
TEACH
E ---- > C
..grab that falling star, would you?
CATCH
ACETIC
+ S
..a drill sergeant
ASCETIC
CAGIEST
E ---- > N
..or after an audition
CASTING
WITNESS
S ---- > G
..or bringing to a boil
STEWING
I'll have to mull this over for a while
WIDGETS
drop W
DIGEST
DIGITS
D ---- > N
..or providing with a site; locating
SITING
SITTING
T ---- > F
..and maybe doing it with fingers clenched
SIFTING
SHINDIG
- S
..that I'm going into
HIDING
PIDGIN
P ---- > O
..with the Duke
INDIGO
NADIR
D ---- > G
..comes in small packages
GRAIN ..grab it before it's down the DRAIN
GRAIN
R --> A
Couldn't hear you, better say it
AGAIN
AGAIN
G ---- > D
..those nymphs splashing around, making too much noise
NAIAD
..DIANA, herself!
NAIAD
add R
RADIAN
(just going around in circles)
RADIAN
+ H
..would you, Old Boy?
HADRIAN
HINDER
I ---- > A
HARDEN
You're too fast for me, Luke!
HARPED
R ---- > S
..until I found my benefits were being
PHASED
SERAPH
+ M
..that's preventing me from putting my dirty clothes in the
HAMPERS
MANAGER
M ---- > T
..in scarlet
TANAGER
HUP, two, three, four
ANTARES
A --> G
SARGENT
(as in John Singer)
REGATTA
A ---- > O
..a variant on word for strangling device (half-nelson??)
GAROTTE
TENOR/TONER
R ---- > S
...Beginning now
ONSET
S > P,L,R,D (Your choice)
POCKET, LOCKET,DOCKET, ROCKET
POCKET, LOCKET, DOCKET, ROCKET
P,L,D,R ----> C
COCKET
CROCKET [two Ts for Davy, btw)
K-->H
CROCHET
CROCHET
C ---- > L
CHORTLE
FALTER
A --> I
TRIFLE(and
yummy, too)
TRIFLE
+ T
..and you'd never put cherry trifle through a FILTER; once you try it, you
FLITTER[u][/u]
ULSTER
- T
..All from there always say "God Help Us' after saying they're from County Mayo..so how could I say that Mayo
RULES
YOURS
Y ---- > H
Were I not so SOURY, I'd say what's YOURS & mine is OURS, but I have neither world enough nor time
HOURS
BROOK
K --> N
BORON is Number 5 on the Periodic Table
VIES (What? No "SWIVEL?)
W --> E
SIEVE
ELVES
add S
VESSEL
(Messiah rehearsals start in a couple of weeks)
Loess: just across the river from me !
L > M
MOSES
MOSSO
O ---- > Y
..by a stone that is
MOSSY
PYLON
P ---- > N
..Hey, Nonny Nonny! said Will S...
NYLON
NOBLY
Y ---- > D
...about 'tennis elbow' and 'golf balls'? It's this kind of joke
BLOND
BOBBIN
B ---- > R
..preferably yellow
RIBBON
GLOWING
+ R
..I'm becoming very good at
GROWLING
GROWLING
G ---- > E
..looking out the window at the sky as it's
LOWERING
Or, as the Lord Chancellor says, "It's a nice point. I don't know that I've ever met it before."
REGIONAL
E --> I
ORIGINAL
(as long as we're being literary)
ROILING
I -->E
GONERIL
IGNORABLE
add another B
BELABORING
BELABORING
O ----> B
BLABBERING
REBULBING
B --> M
LUMBERING
...he asked woodenly.
LUMBERING
+ S
quiescent ....meaning it's maybe sleepwalking
SLUMBERING
SUBLIMER
I ---- > T
..more often than not
STUMBLER
STUMBLER
Pay him no mind, said Howdy Doody, he's all
BLUSTER
BUILDER
I --> O
DOUBLER (also BOULDER, he said stone-faced)
HURDLER
- D
..or even the KC Royals' pitcher Finnegan
HURLER
...preferably a satirical song
HURLER
U --> E
"Been there, done that," said Tom LEHRER
REALER
R ---- > H
..of something, St Luke ..
HEALER
HEALER
or the top of a woman's two-piece summer suit
E --> T
or a strappy apparatus designed to make it easier to control or lead or show a horse
HALTER
"Do you use a halter on your mount when you ride, Tom?"
"Not a bit!" he answered swiftly.
FALTER
- F
..when I said, See you
LATER
...to a small
PENAL + T
PLANET
CALENDAR
D ----> B
BARNACLE
PARLANCE
L --> C
PANCREAS
(after all, that is what the pancreas makes...)
Ooh, nice one, Luke !
CESAREAN
E --> I
CANISTER
thankee!
R > B (not going for banister)
CABINETS
ANCIENT
N --> A
CANTINA she sang out.
CANTINA
C ---- > F
..in honor of a Princess who could not sing out, a dead
INFANTA
FAINEANT ......wow!
F ---- > D
..that you'll have to wait 'til 2373 to ride in a starship that's
ANTIDEAN
ANDANTE
- T
..I seek out my local guide Al Dante, an expert on all things
ANDEAN
That is to say, (H-)C(-CH3)(-NH2)(-COOH)
ANNEAL + I
gives the amino acid
ALANINE
LINEMEN
M ---- > P
..or perp-walkers?
PENLINE
DANGLED
E ---- > I
..was one of
ADDLING
D > P
JAPING
trick or treat
JAPING
J ---- > P
(two of my initials)
PAGING
I think I may have inadvertently ADDLED ...apparently ADDLED myself,
I turned JAPING into PAGING, but there was a GAP in my typing
It should have appeared as J --> G, not J -- > P.
Sorry for the confusion.
JAPING
J ---- > G
(two of my initials)
PAGING
Did I miss an intervening post somewhere?
PAGAN
drop G
NAPA, he whined.
visited 4 times: nice
M > R
URCHIN
GRINCH
G ---- > E
..would be ein CHIRURG; many of them do this to SuedBayern
ENRICH
ENRICH
I ----> W
[Verb] Yank with a spanner
[Noun] Yank's word for a spanner
WRENCH
WENCH
H ---- > I
..an expression attributed to me
WINCE
and I'm sure I don't know where that came from!
NICHE
add L
half alga, half fungus
LICHEN
INCHED
N ---- > M
..he put in his two cents (thinking it might sound better?)
He ...CHIMED ..in
DICED
so you [add E]
DECIDE
+R
RIDDLER
As a Batman fan I could not pass on that one. Mr. Nigma, and he's
already on 'Gotham', along with Penguin and Catwoman.
RIDDLER
R ---- > F
..it's a bird, a plane; no, it's Tevye, the
FIDDLER
FIDDLER
even if the Series is over
D --> E
I want to see Cecil, the
FIELDER(not to be confused with Arthur Fiedler, the Boston Pops conductor)
FIELDER
- R ...as in Prince (another musician) ...
..he wasn't a bad FIELDER (not as bad as 'Pops,' for sure)...and
despite his leaving town, he wasn't a DEFILER, as some locals thought ...
so, let's REFILE him, as one who did not
DEFILE ..more like a D - H
DEFILE
E --> O
Curses! FOILED again!
LIEDER
Well, that one was DERAILed in a hurry...
DETAIL
I ---- > E
..so good, in fact, that I'm
ELATED
ELATED
Defunct airline whose planes had triangular wings?
drop E (or, for that matter, the I from DETAIL)
DELTA
...I learned in kindergarten.
ADEPT
add S
PASTED
PASTED
D ---- > R
..some get PASTED; not the best kind of
REPAST
CHANGER
- C
..those that are aged on hooks, anyway
HANGER
REIGN
+ O
..I wasn't paying attention
IGNORE
GONER
add O
OREGON just legalized pot
OREGON
+ A
...maybe they'll put it on pizza out there
OREGANO
ORANGE
add I
Hair today, gone tomorrow, is why they invented
ROGAINE
ANEROID
N ---- > S
..if you can't remember
ISADORE
ASTEROID
D ----> S
ROSASITE
STORIES
E ---- > O
.. as in a-roni's ?
RISOTOS
RISOTOS
(thought it had two Ts, anyway)
R --> B
OBOISTS
BISTROS
I ---- > E
..brighter lights than others
STROBES
SOBERS
R ---- > T
..that
BESOTS
SUBSET
T ---- > S
...kissing booths?
BUSSES
...and indulgent.
ABETS
B --> F
FEAST
TEXAS
X ---- > R
..he RESAT, heavily & fast
TASER
LASER
S ---- Y
..becomes Chicken Big, she'll become an Egg-
LAYER
TAMER
A ---- > I
..keep your hat on, Your Excellency
MITER
MITER
T ----> P
...he was reciting some psalms for the Hour of...
PRIME
PRIMER
I ---- > O
..there was a room called this
ROMPER
EMPEROR
P ---- > T
...sat further(farther?maybe it was Father)back from the tv,I'd be
REMOTER
EMOTER ..clever, Luke
E ---- > H
..who was Mama and a Reverend
MOTHER
POTHER
+ S
..comes the
STROPHE
HOTSPUR
I think he wath thomeone's PHOSTER PHATHER
..and wasn't that a revoltin' development?
- R
UPSHOT
Ooh, that Wascally Wabbit...
I'm sure Elmer Fudd would have liked to see Bugs Bunny
SHOT UP
but he could never manage it, so he hired a couple of
TOUGHS
TOUGHS
T ---- > L
I lived in a place near Hounslow and Heathrow called
SLOUGH ... where The Office originated, I think
SHOULD
L ---- > N
That was really good!
The THOUGHT that ..had we world ENOUGH and time really
HOUNDS me .. and I can't SLOUGH it off,no matter how gruff I get
There actually are real places, not hiding, called Podunk:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PodunkAll I could come up with:+ S -K
POUNDS
..all these POUNDS!
O --> E
UPENDS
UPENDS
D ---- > I
..lying down
SUPINE
SUPINE
P ----> Q (mind your P's and Q's)
SEQUIN
Q > D
UNDIES
you mind your own p's and q's.
SEQUIN
S ---- > C
pear?
QUINCE
UNDIES
I --- > O
...what Luke's alacrity does to my pear-shaped stolidity
UNDOES
SOUNDER
drop U
If he slept any sounder he would have
SNORED
BTW don't expect Hertz ever to feature a car by the trade-name [drop O] "Sunder." They know nobody would ever use one: if you rent a Sunder it's torn to pieces...
SNORED
That was a real groaner ...but a clever one!
Don't know if this is acceptable, but I can't resist
add E
REDNOSE ...Rudolph by another name
ENDORSES
Could have made RUDENESS but my remark was, happily,
S --> C
CENSORED
CENSORED
O ---- > U
..and you'll be
CENSURED .. for sure
SECURED
D --> I
INSECURE
(Is "I lost my fear of trigonometry!" a synonym for "sinecure" ?)
RESCUER
E ---- > O
..you were unstoppable, a relentless
SCOURER
CURSORY
and always (drop O)
SCURRYing around...
SCURRY
Y ---- > E
..dogging it again?
RECURS
RERUNS
R --> T
UNRESTY'know - at 1300 posts I think I'm going to suggest we segue into ANAGRAMS XI,
here ...