| GENERAL | ENTERTAINMENT | TOPICAL | PEOPLES NAMES | OTHER NAMES |
| MEDIUM LENGTH | ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE | LONG | SPECIAL | RUDE |
1 | Christopher Sturdy | 41 | Smoking can damage your health = A toke on a cig has harmed my lung! |
2 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 29 | Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery = To mimic is not effrontery, as it is heart-felt. |
3 | Scott Gardner | 26 | House cat = Ah, so cute! |
4 | Ellie Dent | 24 | Nothing's easy = Honest saying. |
5 | Rick Rothstein | 18 | Naked breasts = Tsk! Needs a bra! |
6 | Tony Crafter | 13 | Understanding wife ~ enduring daft swine! |
6 | Larry Brash | 13 | The epidural haematoma = A pole hit me - head trauma! |
8 | Meyran Kraus | 12 | The radical feminist = Recited: "a man is filth!" |
9 | Adie Pena | 11 | Arithmetically ‡ Math illiteracy. |
10 | Adrian Hickford | 10 | Losing one's marbles = So, being less normal? |
10 | Rosie Perera | 10 | Travel destinations = Distant relatives, no? |
12 | View | 6 | Motherly advice = Ma to every child. |
13 | Hans-Peter Reich | 3 | The expiration date = Ah, "eat-in-period" text. |
13 | Dharam Khalsa | 3 | The worst dangers of scuba diving = Grave bends, swordfish acting out. |
Total points: | 219 | from 38 votes (DFE factor: 0.368) |
1 | Adrian Hickford | 42 | The accordion = Chaotic drone. |
2 | Scott Gardner | 39 | Parental discretion advised = R-rated television panics Dad! |
3 | Ellie Dent | 29 | Claude Monet's 'Impression: Sunrise' = Seems nature, unspoiled, is crimson. |
4 | Larry Brash | 24 | Gary Larson's Far Side Cartoons = Fantasy roles: dogs roar in cars. |
5 | Meyran Kraus | 19 | The surrealist master Dali = A dreamer illustrates this. |
6 | Tony Crafter | 16 | The old, animated Walt Disney movie 'Fantasia' = Loadsa talent and ahead of its time, in my view! |
7 | Dharam Khalsa | 15 | "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" = Worries? Hon, we're above them! |
8 | View | 12 | 'Cosi fan tutte' = Finest act out. |
9 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 7 | Confessions of a Shopaholic = No cash, if cool fashion poses. |
10 | Adie Pena | 3 | "WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE?" = DULL (Hot? No!), HEAVY (A ton!), UGLY (Woe!) WIFE! |
Total points: | 206 | from 36 votes (DFE factor: 0.278) |
1 | Ellie Dent | 45 | Shares tumble = True shambles. |
2 | Rosie Perera | 39 | The banking crisis = Rethinking basics. (Awardsmaster's Choice Award) |
3 | Rick Rothstein | 24 | The Ides of March = Shh! Date of crime. |
4 | Meyran Kraus | 23 | A coming recession = Scaring economies. |
5 | Tony Crafter | 19 | Britain's motor industry. = Transitory? It's moribund! |
6 | Scott Gardner | 17 | The Endangered Asiatic Elephant = Percentage see death in Thailand. |
7 | Dharam Khalsa | 14 | The forty-fourth president's first hundred days = He's for thrift, yet pressed hard to fund industry. |
8 | Adie Pena | 10 | The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ~ is an earthy and edgy assembly in drag. |
9 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 9 | Students on spring break = Drunken beings at sports. |
10 | Christopher Sturdy | 7 | Richard Timney's claiming for expenses, e.g. ~ sex film in cringeing Home Secretary's pad! |
11 | View | 6 | Obama's New Tack: Blaming Bush = Man also human - backbites GWB. |
12 | David Bourke | 4 | The Brawn GP Formula One team = Mr. Button on a rampage... he flew! |
13 | Chris Chatfield | 3 | Finding the end of the Sellotape = Tenth nail split. Ego offended, eh? |
Total points: | 220 | from 38 votes (DFE factor: 0.342) |
1 | View | 65 | President Barack Hussein Obama = He's boss in a bankrupted America. |
2 | Scott Gardner | 33 | Impressionist Claude Oscar Monet = Man in studio colors masterpieces. |
3 | Meyran Kraus | 19 | Octuplets' mother Nadya Denise Suleman = Here's a complete nut I'd send to an asylum... |
4 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 18 | Stephenie Meyer = I pen eery themes. |
4 | Dharam Khalsa | 18 | Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan = Man is frightened of a Pakistani hazard. |
6 | Adie Pena | 17 | President Barack Hussein Obama = America banks on its superb head. |
7 | Tony Crafter | 13 | Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor = Marries the ultra-photogenic Di, but her plan's wrong. |
8 | Rosie Perera | 9 | United States President Barack Obama = To end debate, assist bankrupt America. |
9 | Neil Ramsay | 8 | Helg Sgarbi = He bags girl. |
10 | John Fidler | 6 | Sir Fred Goodwin = Did feign sorrow. |
10 | David Bourke | 6 | Mister Richard Timney = "I'm her dirty miscreant!" |
12 | Ellie Dent | 4 | German philosopher Schopenhauer = Hear such gloom: inner hope perhaps? |
Total points: | 216 | from 37 votes (DFE factor: 0.324) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 43 | The remains of Auschwitz Birkenau in Poland = Here is the sad ruin of a known Nazi-built camp. |
2 | Dharam Khalsa | 40 | International Space Station = It's a pertinent NASA location. |
3 | Chris Chatfield | 35 | Mighty action ~ in Gotham City. |
4 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 28 | The Sydney Harbour "Coat Hanger" Bridge = An arch by the shore: ruddy great big one! |
5 | Scott Gardner | 12 | The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race = Cox and team do board big craft here. |
5 | Tony Crafter | 12 | The California Gold Rush = Ah! Lusting for a rich lode! |
7 | David Bourke | 8 | Hot females in ~ The Isle of Man! |
7 | Rick Rothstein | 8 | The Islamic Resistance Movement = Hamas met stern semitic violence. |
7 | Adie Pena | 8 | The Islamic Resistance Movement = Hamas teems in violent crimes, etc. |
10 | Rosie Perera | 5 | Narcotic Officers Associations Coalition = Cocaine's confiscation, for it is a social rot. |
11 | View | 4 | The cold men snow ski ~ in Stockholm, Sweden. |
Total points: | 203 | from 35 votes (DFE factor: 0.314) |
1 | Dharam Khalsa | 32 | "Life begins on the other side of despair"--Jea... = Is a depression just a period felt before near... |
2 | Larry Brash | 22 | The keepers of the sacred words: 'Ni', 'Peng', ... = Decree: "We're knights who demand fee or none ... |
2 | Rosie Perera | 22 | Burmese pythons released in the Everglades thre... = Ah, enormous snakes eat everything: birds, pet... |
4 | Tony Crafter | 19 | "Well ... It makes me feel masculine to tell yo... = It's feminist stage-writer Lillian Hellman, op... |
5 | Adie Pena | 18 | "Money talks. Trouble is, it knows only one wor... = Well, your tiny modest bankbook is sorely down... |
6 | Ellie Dent | 17 | The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his ... = See phobic pessimist, he of cartoon provided b... |
7 | Christopher Sturdy | 13 | When you translate 'Plus ça change, plus c'est l... ~ see set message occur: 'not much new shall actu... |
7 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 13 | The first Sunday after the first full moon afte... = The methods that can try to affirm first off w... |
9 | Meyran Kraus | 9 | The Russian Federation president Dmitry Medvedev = Putin's in the driver's seat, yet demanded: "Drive for me!" |
Total points: | 165 | from 29 votes (DFE factor: 0.310) |
1 | Larry Brash | 28 | It's a provision, but it ranks equal of an action of Germany in the Twenties. |
2 | Tony Crafter | 22 | G. Brown: "One fine Utopia!" Kate Moss: "A thinner fit?" A Ventriloquist: "I can't say." |
3 | Meyran Kraus | 18 | It is a notion so fantastic, that I prefer to answer by invoking Manuel: "Que?" |
4 | Ellie Dent | 17 | In short, men set on quick profit, use as an alternative way of obtaining it. |
5 | Rosie Perera | 16 | Unbegotten waste! That innovation is a quirky recipe for mass inflation. |
6 | Christopher Sturdy | 14 | To me, a blank cheque to inapt investors in far away foreign institutions. |
7 | Dharam Khalsa | 13 | Evokes quaint fairy tale intent to spin a shining coin out of amber straw. |
7 | Neil Ramsay | 13 | A naive action; in an attempt to re-liquify forsaken business into growth. |
9 | Adie Pena | 9 | It's like we American investors obtain a quantity of peanuts for NOTHING! |
10 | David Bourke | 6 | Labour's thieving now incorporates instant fake equity manifestation. |
11 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 5 | Isn't it via these loans I can take quite a bit from our infants' progeny now? |
12 | John Fidler | 3 | As far as I know, it's a queer type of unmentionable invoicing. That's torn it! |
12 | Rich Napier | 3 | It’s a quasi-fake way for an investment institution to help rob ignorance |
14 | Adrian Hickford | 1 | A: Thanks to your financial bottom-pain, saving is now quite interest-free! |
Total points: | 168 | from 29 votes (DFE factor: 0.483) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 68 | A tourist called in at an antiques shop whilst ... = A doctor telephoned a nearby plumber to compl... |
2 | Dharam Khalsa | 44 | One Sunday, as a church pastor totaled the stan... = "Why yes," the lady acknowledged, "Each week ... |
3 | Adie Pena | 37 | THE PROOF THAT MEN HAVE IDEAL FRIENDS Friendshi... = Friendship among Men A man didn't come home ... |
Total points: | 149 | from 27 votes (DFE factor: 0.111) |
1 | Adie Pena | 34 | March Puzzle |
2 | Adie Pena | 30 | WRITTEN IN MARCH by William Wordsworth |
3 | Tony Crafter | 27 | A husband and wife are travelling by motorcar from Brisbane to Melbourne. |
4 | Dharam Khalsa | 19 | Welcome |
4 | Tony Crafter | 19 | BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (From the Walt Disney movie) |
6 | Dharam Khalsa | 18 | When all the trees have been cut down, |
Total points: | 147 | from 25 votes (DFE factor: 0.240) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 24 | A sensual dream, then ~ a man launders sheet. |
1 | View | 24 | A lengthy penis = He gains plenty. |
3 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 15 | Premature ejaculations ~ mar acute joint pleasure. |
3 | Rick Rothstein | 15 | I have a girlfriend = I rifled her vagina. |
5 | David Bourke | 14 | Sexually aroused = So use a Durex, y'all! |
5 | Adie Pena | 14 | Batteries not included = See it? Bet dildo can't run! |
7 | Tony Crafter | 13 | Premature ejaculations = Male out-juices a partner! |
8 | Don Fortier | 9 | She's sitting on my face = Go in fem's tasty niches. |
9 | Christopher Sturdy | 7 | a three-pack of condoms ~ had me cock safe, pronto. |
Total points: | 135 | from 24 votes (DFE factor: 0.375) |
Daniel F. Etter Memorial Award Points*
*Adjusted Points = Sum of (Points * 'DFE factor') |
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