Braingle: 'Professional Anagrams 2' Brain Teaser

Professional Anagrams 2

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Puzzle ID:	#30423
Fun:	(2.97)
Difficulty:	(2.85)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	MarcM1098

Can you determine the professions/jobs described below? Each clue is an anagram of the answer.

One Word
1. Stamp on
2. For trees
3. Remit sin
4. Menial cop
5. Court poser

Two Words (first word is "a" or "the")
6. Dints teeth
7. He tots income
8. Sit, chat, pay, sir
9. I seen at birth cot
10. Their art's caustic

Two Words
11. Spirit shaper
12. Poles gather a report

Bonus (two jobs, middle word is "and")
13. Mass dress alteration

Answer

1. Postman
2. Forester
3. Minister
4. Policeman
5. Prosecutor
6. The dentist
7. The economist
8. A psychiatrist
9. The obstetrician
10. The caricaturists
11. Parish priest
12. Telegraph operators
13. Seamstress and tailor
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Comments

zonarita May 11, 2006	MarcM I'm so glad I get to be first. These are my favorite types of teasers. I enjoy playing with words. Thanks for sharing.
coolblue May 21, 2006	Anagrams, eh?
RRAMMOHAN May 29, 2006	Great anagrams! Got all except nos. 10 to 12. I love anagrams, and what you have presented are special!
OldChinaHand Sep 29, 2006	Very well done, even through I missed the caricaturists...
marschie Sep 29, 2006	Super good anagrams; I really enjoyed working on these ...and didn't get them all.
Rach_ Sep 29, 2006	Wow! Brilliant anagrams!
coachpisco Sep 29, 2006	Whew! That was tough.
Badger Sep 29, 2006	Too much for me this a.m.! I would not only have needed more coffee, but I would also have had to pack a lunch! Great teaser. Thanks for your hard work.
bradon182001 Sep 29, 2006	This one took a lot of thought, both on the part of the submitter and the one trying to figure them out. A real work-out!! Thanks for the super great teaser. It was fun.
vinchenzo Sep 29, 2006	very well thought out teaser. the best one i've seen in a while
undertherift Sep 29, 2006	This is the first REAL teaser i've seen on this site in a while. Worthy of Games magazine. Well done.
kman613 Sep 29, 2006	Those definitely got tougher!
Tracey2209 Sep 29, 2006	This was very tough, but amazingly written. Very well done!
Trishgal Sep 29, 2006	Thought it was hard... I ended up looki8ng to see the answers. Maybe its just too early anyway thx for the mind workout.
iteachkids Sep 29, 2006	Very cleverly done. GD WRK!
BeckyD Sep 29, 2006	Hooo boy, these were hard!! I was only able to answer 1-4, and number 6 correctly. The rest were too difficult. However, it was fun and interesting... and very nicely put together!!
scallio Sep 29, 2006	I missed several as well! Impressive! This teaser was very well written. It was obvious you had put a lot of time into scrambling the words to make a mini definition of the job. Very high quality teaser!
gracieboo Sep 29, 2006	This WAS hard! I missed 7 1/2 of them! I figured out seamstress (how could I miss tailor after that!) but I never would have gotten it if you hadn't put that it was two words w/"and"! EXCELLENT WORK!
rhmaustin Sep 29, 2006	I'm with Badger. Coffee and toast wasn't enough.
speedqueenkmw Sep 29, 2006	Very good! I came up with arborist for #2 and mid-wife for the obstetrician. Fun.
suganue Sep 29, 2006	Whew!! Those were hard. You did a great job w/the anagrams. Thanks for the mind bender today.
labsmith Sep 29, 2006	Outstanding teaser, Marc. I had to give up before finishing. Maybe next time you could turn thirteen clues into six or seven as many people did not seem to devote as much time to this teaser as it deserved. More points for you, more fun for the puzzle solvers! Thanks for a fun,taxing teaser.
HScott13 Sep 29, 2006	That was a great teaser. Really well thought out, it must have taken ages to come up with.
mercenary007 Sep 29, 2006	Wow... I am really impressed... and I am a tough customer... very good level of difficulty, VERY fun... well done
jabdr Sep 29, 2006	I must admit I was overwhelmed. I got the first two, then the 4th, then decided it was too much work to continue. Love anagrams, but too late on a Friday for my brain to work so hard. My bad Marc, not yours! Good job.
FeaerFactorY666 Sep 29, 2006	nice!
RRAMMOHAN Sep 29, 2006	This is an irresistable teaser for an anagram lover like me! I had to try this again after my first attempt in May 2006, and got them all, including # 10 to 12! This surely goes into my favourites. Great effort has surely gone into the making of this teaser! Thanks for the challenge and fun.
Shadowmist Sep 29, 2006	Very fun, some more difficult than others. Oddly enough I thought the bonus was easier than some of the other ones.
tdbrsun Sep 29, 2006	This is a good one. I had to peek.But, I am still working on it as it goes.
thimblenoggin Sep 29, 2006	Outstanding!
cajm Sep 29, 2006	Good, didn' t get last 3.
lmurray Sep 30, 2006	I HATE THESE, BUT I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT THIS WAS WELL WRITTEN AND IT TOOK SOME THOUGHT TO GET IT RIGHT.
vlerma Sep 30, 2006	Wow Imurray, compliments for you and the Teaser writer. Great work for both of you. These were hard only got a couple. Best I have seen.
utnative Oct 04, 2006	great wonderful teaser great job
schmedley9 Oct 13, 2006	WOW DUDE THAT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!! i LOVED IT KEEP IT COMING.
Qrystal Oct 13, 2006	Wow, these would take a professional anagram-solver to tackle them all! ...or someone who had attempted them in a previous year, and who is coming back to them for this teaser of the day...! ;) (Sorry I just thought that was funny. Seriously though, I got all but #10 and #12, and decided that had to be "good enough" .. and that's a good thing, because after looking at the answers, I'm not sure I would've gotten them. For caustic, I was thinking literally burning, and I the poles and report one I simply had no idea. Mixing up and rewriting the letters, the way I tend to solve anagrams, was getting me nowhere close to the actual answers either. Good job, excellent even.
sarita01 Oct 18, 2006	the only one i got was the dentist
Jimmymo Sep 29, 2009	AWESOME!! One of the best ever!!
nikitafullmoon Sep 29, 2009	These are brilliant! Thanks for the teaser.
dalfamnest Sep 29, 2009	Great work-out to start the day. An outstanding collection of fun anagrams. And thanks for reminding me I have a dentist appointment next week. Yeah, thanks.
patiencewithaP Sep 29, 2009	Very impressive! Great job! I just wish I'd gotten more of them!
UptheHill Sep 29, 2009	NICE!!!
Babe Sep 29, 2012	Good teaser and I got the first group and then I tired and quit. Too long for me, but good job in doing it!
freakshow07 Sep 29, 2012	Dang these are hard!!!!! Got all through 6 then was lost. Great job!!!
iggy39 Sep 29, 2012	This was really hard I wish I had the time today to figure them out. Too busy but I thought it was one of the best one posted. Thanks I did get some of them very quickly but just didn't have the time, like I said to figure the rest of them. Really really great teaser in my opinion.