| GENERAL | ENTERTAINMENT | TOPICAL | PEOPLES NAMES | OTHER NAMES |
| MEDIUM LENGTH | ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE | LONG | SPECIAL | RUDE |
1 | Scott Gardner | 36 | One's valentine = An intense love. |
2 | Ed Pegg Jr | 27 | The road to Hell is paved with good intentions = Apt to do no wrong? Oh, the devil is in the details. |
3 | View | 20 | Ladies wish to get ~ a weight loss diet. |
4 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 19 | The professional criminal ~ has a cell for time in prison. |
5 | Adie Pena | 14 | An editor-in-chief = I hear of incident. |
6 | Rosie Perera | 11 | The romantic date = One attracted him. |
7 | Maurice Goddard | 9 | Marriage is a lottery = A trial I may so regret? |
7 | nedesto | 9 | Relationships ~ lit her passion. |
7 | Christopher Sturdy | 9 | Advantageous ‡ Gave nada to us. |
10 | Ellie Dent | 8 | An England Spring = Planning gardens. |
11 | Ivan Andonov | 6 | Omertá = A morte! |
12 | Tony Crafter | 5 | A model's figure ~ defies glamour. |
13 | David Bourke | 4 | Men + the post + ladies balancing = A pole dancing establishment. |
14 | Dharam Khalsa | 3 | Children's breakfast cereal = Lacks fibre, dental research. |
14 | Meyran Kraus | 3 | The suicide prevention hotlines = I helped one, so their vein isn't cut. |
14 | Rick Rothstein | 3 | Lady Godiva on horseback = Havoc? O, a girl's naked body. |
Total points: | 186 | from 31 votes (DFE factor: 0.516) |
1 | Rosie Perera | 31 | The Monopoly game = Money; map; hotel; "Go!" |
2 | Scott Gardner | 29 | Super Bowl advertisements = Budweiser's most prevalent. |
3 | Meyran Kraus | 26 | Iran hostage crisis = This scare is in Argo. |
4 | Ellie Dent | 14 | Adele's Oscar: the winning Skyfall theme = She sang sweetly on headline film track. |
4 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 14 | "L'Origine du Monde" = I model nude groin. |
6 | Adie Pena | 13 | La Desintegracíon de la Persistencia de la Memoria = Dali's old timepieces re-imagined on ancestral area. |
7 | nedesto | 12 | Richard III: "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" = Heard heroic roaring die as his army forsook him. |
8 | Rick Rothstein | 10 | The Baltimore Ravens = A nobler team thrives. |
9 | Tony Crafter | 9 | "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." = Late Henry was neurotic as he saw death. |
10 | Ed Pegg Jr | 8 | The Tragedy of Hamlet = Tamely, The Godfather. |
11 | Dharam Khalsa | 6 | "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition" = Wild souls strip to semi-nudist attire. |
12 | Christopher Sturdy | 5 | Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word = Both rowed yet had remorse stress. |
12 | David Bourke | 5 | Gustave Courbet's 'L'Origine du Monde' = Game slut gets uncovered in boudoir. |
14 | View | 3 | 'Whose line is it anyway?' = Yea, it's inane, wily show. |
15 | David A Green | 1 | Hiram Bingham: 'Lost City of the Incas' = A nifty man climbs so high to reach it. |
Total points: | 186 | from 31 votes (DFE factor: 0.484) |
1 | Adie Pena | 31 | Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp = As police ask, "Can a star sprinter murder a loved one?" |
2 | Richard Grantham | 23 | Position vacant = Spot in Vaticano. |
3 | Adrian Hickford | 16 | Lasagne = Nag sale. |
4 | Ellie Dent | 15 | Pope Benedict has left the Vatican = Chaps debate the pontifical event. |
5 | Scott Gardner | 14 | The Boy Scout organization = About to honor gay citizens. |
6 | Christopher Sturdy | 13 | Situation vacant = Vatican saint out. |
7 | Rob Bretveld | 11 | Senate confirmation hearings = Researching nomination's fate. |
7 | Dharam Khalsa | 11 | Sequestration = A request? It's "No!" |
9 | Rosie Perera | 10 | Pope Emeritus = Time up! Repose. |
10 | Tony Crafter | 8 | Tesco burgers and hot Findus lasagne - the furore = Get set, for this horse-beef saga could run and run! |
10 | nedesto | 8 | A rather sudden retirement for the Pope, Benedict XVI = Numb experts never pontificated he'd retreat or hide! |
12 | David Bourke | 7 | Pretoria Magistrates' Courts = Great Oscar Pistorius matter. |
13 | naturegirl | 5 | Richard the Third, remains found = Raid further: he's in random ditch. |
14 | View | 4 | Oscar Pistorius - Reeva Steenkamp tragedy = Naive-scared mistake, strategy or purpose? |
15 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 3 | Reeva Steenkamp and Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius = Love in error makes a corpse and a suspect and trial. |
15 | Meyran Kraus | 3 | The Israeli Iron Dome system = It is one army's remote shield. |
17 | Andrew Brehaut | 2 | Horse meat stuck in garnish ~ in 'nightmares' across the UK. |
Total points: | 184 | from 31 votes (DFE factor: 0.548) |
1 | Scott Gardner | 24 | The double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius = He is absolute top suspect in Pretoria murder. |
2 | nedesto | 22 | Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis = Is war-weary indeed as Lincoln. (Awardsmaster's Choice Award) |
3 | Larry Brash | 19 | Cardinal Keith O'Brien = Heck! Irrational in bed! |
4 | Ellie Dent | 17 | The paralympian, Oscar Pistorius = Papers say it is our champ on trial. |
4 | Adie Pena | 17 | Mayor Ed Koch = Croaked. Oh my! |
6 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 15 | His Holiness, The Pope-Emeritus = Tie these house slippers on him! |
6 | Dharam Khalsa | 15 | Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge = Careful, she's cherished by the dashing groom! |
6 | Meyran Kraus | 15 | The amputee "Blade Runner", Oscar Pistorius = An athlete is a suspect in our murder probe. |
9 | Christopher Sturdy | 11 | Swansea Manager, Michael Laudrup = Man has real drama - wins League Cup! |
10 | Rick Rothstein | 10 | The US Secretary of State John Kerry = Fussy North Korea rejects treaty, eh? |
11 | Tony Crafter | 9 | The sprinter Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius = Star lies accused in partner pistol horror. |
12 | View | 6 | Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger = I just gossip or real Nazi, eh? |
Total points: | 180 | from 30 votes (DFE factor: 0.400) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 36 | Vatican's palace = A place is vacant. |
2 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 31 | Asperger's syndrome = Pardon my regresses! |
3 | Andrew Brehaut | 27 | The Findus Corporation = Horse fat in production. |
4 | View | 22 | Australopithecus = It has our past clue. |
5 | Tony Crafter | 18 | DIGNITAS (the assisted suicide organisation) = Aiding a death is not God's cause. It is sinister. |
6 | Scott Gardner | 9 | The University of California = Faculty I have is not inferior. |
6 | David A Green | 9 | The Vestibular Disorders Association (VEDA) = Tries so hard to divert/avoid balance issues |
6 | Dan Fortier | 9 | New Orleans Half Marathon = When all honor a faster man. |
9 | nedesto | 7 | Pinterest = 'Net esprit. |
9 | Adie Pena | 7 | The O2, Greenwich Peninsula, South-East London = Thought I'll now spend to see U2 in chosen arena. |
11 | David Bourke | 6 | Thousands die from thirst and other stuff, in ~ the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. |
12 | Christopher Sturdy | 4 | Commonwealth of Independent States = Men and women open to the leftist cads. |
13 | Dharam Khalsa | 1 | DIGNITAS (assisted dying organisation) ~ is degrading dignity to assassination. |
Total points: | 186 | from 31 votes (DFE factor: 0.419) |
1 | Scott Gardner | 41 | Top five best sellers 1. A Tale of Two Cities... = 1. Paris embattled 2. Big three-part Frodo ... |
2 | Dharam Khalsa | 34 | The First Five Presidents of the US: Washingt... = Founding Father Statesman John The vision pe... |
3 | Adie Pena | 16 | POPE BENEDICT'S NICKNAMES 1. German Shepherd ... = 1. Chaperoning tempted sheep? 2. Asked strict... |
4 | Richard Brodie | 14 | A meteor explodes a fireball terror above Russia... = Galaxy wanderer recently strikes over populous ... |
5 | David Bourke | 13 | The South African Police Service's detective Hi... = If I bet, he'll not have the evidence to catch... |
6 | nedesto | 11 | "Hey hey hey! Guess what Honey? At long last we... = The eager wife loudly asks, "Why, you mean to ... |
7 | Ellie Dent | 10 | A haughty camel walks into one Irish bar with a... ~ then makes his way up to the bar. 'What'll I g... |
7 | Maurice Goddard | 10 | Ahmadinejad says Iran can create nuclear weapon... = One can't trust that paranoiac wild-eyed jacka... |
9 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 6 | The skeletal remains of the last Plantagenet, K... = Leicester has seen the main kill after that di... |
9 | View | 6 | Former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson = Eager crime-concealer. Proof: corpse of a third wife. |
11 | Meyran Kraus | 5 | "Iceland is considering a ban on Internet porn.... = "China tried to censor online porn. Now the de... |
12 | Tony Crafter | 4 | Wear tight shoes and you will forget all your o... = I tell you, world, the foot-blister onslaughts... |
13 | Christopher Sturdy | 2 | Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and... = Death or Maternal Bonding I think, but I cure ... |
Total points: | 172 | from 29 votes (DFE factor: 0.448) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 35 | "Do all you freeloading buggers realise, this one wedding day cost me a humungous eleven grand?!" Tony - Bride's Papa |
2 | Dharam Khalsa | 22 | The cued bride giggles "I do! Gad, he's noble and true!" As up from a pew A young girl yells, "Me too!" And a nun sa... |
3 | Ellie Dent | 14 | As you see, my daughter Pauline is now pregnant, and I do urge you all, get moving... before a blessed grandchild does.... |
4 | Meyran Kraus | 13 | Our eager plea confused a livid grandma, who misunderstood and obeyed... by plugging her eyeglasses in an outlet. |
4 | Larry Brash | 13 | "As this bloody enormous event cost me a few hundred grand, you idle gaggle are being seriously unappealing," - Dad. |
4 | Christine Parker | 13 | Husband and wife united; one young couple, legally married; spouses tightly bonded and marriage goes over ages. |
7 | View | 10 | Unbiased lad persuaded graceful lady: 'So gorgeous' 'We are young' 'Love is a many-splendored thing' 'Be mine ton... |
7 | Christopher Sturdy | 10 | A swooning young man truly loved a gorgeous girl, dared hope I'd be speechless and must be due a fairytale ending. |
9 | David Bourke | 9 | ...and applied to a Civil Union, by default you generally see "a Groom and Groom" used when addressing these buggers! |
9 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 9 | So many years of cuddling up to tease a beau's love sees our model girl hiding a pregnant bulge on her wedding day |
11 | nedesto | 7 | "Peggy's an untidy underdressed outgoing open slut. Woody's a gullible fool... A bad marriage made in heaven! Cheers!" |
12 | Rosie Perera | 5 | Gee, a mere sluggard, a goon, pursued peaceful Sis and is even going to be my brother-in-law?! Dad, didn't you say "Hel... |
13 | Richard Brodie | 4 | Enamoured couple had rehearsed obligations. "Rise mugs, even if only staggeringly, you deadbeats, and gulp down!" |
13 | Adie Pena | 4 | Boys and Girls; I do suggest a generous alimony plan agreed upon... you'll meet the divorced Husband and eager Wife! |
15 | Maurice Goddard | 2 | "Guess? I later divorced after a sublime honeymoon shagging and sleeping nude. A sure rule: God! DON'T wed a Playboy!" |
Total points: | 170 | from 29 votes (DFE factor: 0.517) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 46 | The elderly couple, who had been courting a lon... = I got dancing with an older woman at a club l... |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 30 | ... |
3 | Christopher Sturdy | 21 | Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United ... = The undertaking one willingly subscribes to wh... |
4 | Adie Pena | 12 | His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop of Rome,... = CONTROVERSIES OF THE PAPACY - Offensive tho... |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 6 | After being married for going on 50 years, I to... = My wife gave me her 2 cents. Okay, the upshot... |
5 | Richard Brodie | 6 | A fireball terror as a meteor explodes above Rus... = Recently both an unpleasant boom heard and a f... |
Total points: | 121 | from 21 votes (DFE factor: 0.286) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 43 | A Shakespearean sonnet is anagrammed into 2 poems containing 3 relevant acrostics. |
2 | Tony Crafter | 33 | The best-selling novel 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' has seduced women and baffled men. Now a clever spoof, 'Fifty Sheds Of ... |
3 | Tony Crafter | 16 | SUPER TROUPER By Abba. |
4 | Dharam Khalsa | 14 | Proverbs. |
5 | Adie Pena | 13 | Alexander Pope's VERSES LEFT BY MR. POPE is anagrammed into another poem (about another Pope) with an acrostic constrain... |
6 | Christopher Sturdy | 6 | One careless young queer in Khartoum. |
Total points: | 125 | from 21 votes (DFE factor: 0.286) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 27 | The film actresses of porno = Lots of sperm on their faces. |
2 | Christopher Sturdy | 22 | The three most useful parts of a woman = For the pleasure of men: mouth, ass, twat. |
3 | Christine Parker | 18 | Pope Benedict the Sixteenth ‡ I expect he's potent in the bed! |
4 | Maurice Goddard | 14 | Once upon a time as a boy I had wet dreams = A noisy "Whoopee!" I masturbated and came! |
4 | Adie Pena | 14 | A peeping tom = Open gap time! |
6 | nedesto | 11 | This man's got weird sexual fantasies ~ of latex nursemaids with giant asses! |
7 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 9 | Lady Godiva on horseback ~ gave ol' boy's dick a hard-on. |
8 | Tony Crafter | 5 | She's as thin as a catwalk model = Lacks that ideal woman's ass, eh? |
9 | Dharam Khalsa | 2 | Lady Godiva on horseback = Heavy locks and a big odor. |
Total points: | 122 | from 21 votes (DFE factor: 0.429) |
Daniel F. Etter Memorial Award Points*
*Adjusted Points = Sum of (Points * 'DFE factor') |
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