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EDGEWAYS Compiled by David Sutton (Puzzle solutions on inside back cover) The Five-Minute Anagram Challenge Below are four sets of anagrams, presented in ascending order of difficulty based partly on the likely familiarity of the words and partly on the nature of their 'pattern'. Each anagram has a unique solution. It is suggested that full marks in set A corresponds to an ABSP rating of around 125; in set B to 150; in set C to 175; and in set D to 200, though of course people differ in their vocabularies and anagramming skills so any such categorisation can only be loose and intuitive. Give yourself five minutes for the chosen set. Of course, by all means try the harder sets, but don't be discouraged if the going gets tough! A. OUTRASH OVERGAY PALMOID PLOYERS PINHOLD PUBCASH DROIDS ABISHOP ARMURED BADCUTS B. PONTULE POSHIER REMINED RENOTED RICEBAG CLAPLESS COCKTRAP COINVITE COLDWARY COGYRATE C. PIGWIRE PETLIKE RATBANE RAGBONE ROMANCY RUDEISH BENTLY AENEID NURSEY ACIDWORN D. PRAYMAN POXYHEN POORSEA RUESSEX ABRIGADE ACHLORIC ANNAYING CLAPHEAD DDDIIOOR HHIIPSST You Can Put An H On That?! Finishing our look at words which take a possibly surprising -Y hook. Here are some beginning with T thru Z. BAIT BEAT BUMP CADDIS CAP CHIC COMET DOSE DUNS EIGHT GRIT GRUMP GULP GURS HAGGIS HEIGHT HET HIS HOG HUMP IMPIS INWIT LAIC LAMED LEIS MAC MANE MINIS MOC MUST NEAT OCTOPUS OUTWIT PEG PENNYWORT ROUT SAMEK SCARP SCAT SCOUT SOP SPILT STOUT SUMP TENT TILT TOP TROT UNGIRT WOOS 28 Anagrid: 1a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 HORIZONTAL CLUES: VERTICAL CLUES: 1. HYALING - RIGROUP a. INNGAFF - HERMITY 2. - b. - 3. DEFBOB - ROOSLOOS c. SUBLARDB - NELEST 4. - d. - 5. PAIRAGES - DESIAR e. EHWHAE - HEELVENT 6. NSWERVY f. PENCITY 7. OCHOSA g. REDAVE 8. HYNEDS - HYNERS h. SHOSIE - TRIORY 9. RELIEN i. SHYNER 10. TRISEER j. SERRSON 11. LETVEW - AIRSUMOS k. ANONSURE - ANOYSS 12. - l. - 13. TRENDINE - COOSER m. UNSIRE - CHUBSISI 14. - n. - 15. DECHERE - TSINISS o. DOSSIEN - SIMALES 29
Author! Author! Marvellous descriptive powers, impenetrable plots, grotesque yet sometimes oddly touching characters - reading Dickens is like being borne along on a very energetic river, sometimes wishing you had a bit more control over where it was taking you. Here are some perhaps less familiar words that you will meet in his work. bagwig a black hair wig carried in a small silk bag. barouche a four-wheeled hooded carriage. beadle a minor parish official whose duties include preserving order at services and sometimes civil functions. Some parishes hired them to run the workhouse after the 1834 New Poor Law was passed, as was the case with Bumble, the beadle in Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens biffin a kind of apple, often baked and flattened into a cake. blucher a strong leather half-boot, named after Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher (1742- 1819), the Prussian field-marshal at Waterloo. bootjack a device used to remove boots. brazier a large flat pan filled with coals, used as a heater. bridewell a house of correction, a jail (contraction of St. Bridget's Well in London, site of a prison until 1869). burgess a town magistrate or government official. caul a membrane that surrounds a foetus, believed to protect against drowning. David Copperfield was born with a caul, which was then advertised for sale. chandler originally a maker or seller of candles, later a small grocer. chouse to cheat. cotillion, cotillon a lively ballroom dance. dreadnought, dreadnaught a closely-woven thick woollen material (now more often used to mean a battleship). ecod a mild oath on par with, and probably derived from, 'My God'. This was a favourite expression of Jonas Chuzzlewit in Martin Chuzzlewit. equipage equipment used in relation to horse and carriage. fagin an adult who instructs others in crime, from the character of that name in Oliver Twist. gammon a misleading or deceptive comment; (verb) to perpetrate a hoax on. gingham a clothing fabric usually of yarn-dyed cotton. hogshead a large cask or barrel, equal to 521/2 imperial gallons. hostler, ostler one who tends horses at an inn. Hugh is hostler at the Maypole in Barnaby Rudge. laudanum a mixture of opium and alcohol used as a tranquilizer, pain-killer, or to induce sleep. lucifer a match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction. First manufactured in the 1830's. lummy excellent: LUMMIER, LUMMIEST. nankeen, nankin a pale yellowish cotton cloth, also trousers made from this cloth. [From Nanking in China]. negus a liquor made from wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon-juice. oakum loosely twisted hemp fibres, impregnated with tar, used in rope. Picking oakum apart was a common task in prisons and workhouses: the separated oakum was then used to caulk ships. Oliver picked oakum at the workhouse in Oliver Twist. 30 patten a device attached to the bottom of lady's shoes to keep them out of the mud in the streets, sometimes consisting of circular metal rings which caused a distinctive sound on the pavement. peacoat a short double-breasted navy blue or black overcoat worn by seamen. phaeton an open four-wheeled carriage. pompey to pamper. postern a back entrance. postilion, postillion one who guides a horse-driven coach by riding on the left-hand lead horse. potboy an employee at a tavern who served beer to customers. quadrille a card game played by four people. recusant one who refused to attend Church of England services. scrivener a professional scribe or copier. surtout a double-breasted, full-skirted, close-bodied suit. tumbrel, tumbrel an open cart which tilted backwards to empty its load. Used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution, as in A Tale of Two Cities. turnkey a jailor. John Chivery was turnkey at the Marshalsea prison in Little Dorrit. turnpike a toll road. vintner a wine merchant. waterman one who operated boats on the Thames carrying passengers for a fee. worrit to worry, annoy. Blank Racks Add a blank to each of the following eight racks to make a total of twenty-six eight-letter words, with the blank being a different letter in each case. An intermediate solution is available on page 35 showing the values the blank must take in each case but not giving the actual anagrams. AADIKNR ABEENRT AAEJRSS CEOOPSW AAENRTU EIKNSTU AAGHKMN EIMOPRU Curio Corner Normally, adverbs ending in -LY do not have comparative or superlative forms e.g. one says “more glibly”, not GLIBLIER*. Some of those words that appear to be exceptions prove on investigation to be the comparative forms of adjectives that happen to have the same form as the adverb e.g. HOOLY/HOOLIER, KINDLY/KINDLIER, UNKIND- LY/UNKINDLIER, WEAKLY/WEAKLIER. But there are just a very few genuine adverbs that cannot be used as adjectives and yet still compare: BRAWLY BRAWLIER BRAWLIEST FEATLY FEATLIER FEATLIEST FITLY FITLIER FITLIEST LOUDLY LOUDLIER LOUDLIEST WISELY WISELIER WISELIEST Why these five should have been singled out for special treatment I don’t know. 31
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