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Professional Anagrams 2
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
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. Postman2. 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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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.
Anagrams, eh?
Great anagrams! Got all except nos. 10 to 12. I love anagrams, and what you have presented are special!
Very well done, even through I missed
the caricaturists...
the caricaturists...
Super good anagrams; I really enjoyed working on these ...and didn't get them all.
Wow! Brilliant anagrams!
Whew! That was tough.
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.
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.
very well thought out teaser. the best one i've seen in a while
This is the first REAL teaser i've seen on this site in a while. Worthy of Games magazine. Well done.
Those definitely got tougher!
This was very tough, but amazingly written. Very well done!
Thought it was hard... I ended up looki8ng to see the answers. Maybe its just too early anyway thx for the mind workout.
Very cleverly done. GD WRK!
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!!
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!
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!
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!
EXCELLENT WORK!
I'm with Badger. Coffee and toast wasn't enough.
Very good! I came up with arborist for #2 and mid-wife for the obstetrician. Fun.
Whew!! Those were hard. You did a great job w/the anagrams. Thanks for the mind bender today.
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.
Thanks for a fun,taxing teaser.
That was a great teaser. Really well thought out, it must have taken ages to come up with.
Wow... I am really impressed... and I am a tough customer... very good level of difficulty, VERY fun... well done
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.
nice!
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.
Very fun, some more difficult than others. Oddly enough I thought the bonus was easier than some of the other ones.
This is a good one. I had to peek.But, I am still working on it as it goes.
Outstanding!
Good, didn' t get last 3.
I HATE THESE, BUT I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT THIS WAS WELL WRITTEN AND IT TOOK SOME THOUGHT TO GET IT RIGHT.
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.
great wonderful teaser great job
WOW DUDE THAT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!! i LOVED IT KEEP IT COMING.
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.
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.
the only one i got was the dentist
AWESOME!! One of the best ever!!
These are brilliant! Thanks for the teaser.
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.
Very impressive! Great job! I just wish I'd gotten more of them!
NICE!!!
Good teaser and I got the first group and then I tired and quit.
Too long for me, but good job in doing it!
Too long for me, but good job in doing it!
Dang these are hard!!!!! Got all through 6 then was lost. Great job!!!
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.
I got the first 6 without any trouble.....must have run out of usable brains cells for the rest of them.
Excellent! Best teaser in some time
I like previous comments! Many reflected my own thoughts- Excellent teaser! but my performance waned after a bit- Very impressed with all the effort put into creating this!
Very tough, but really interesting. I love self referential anagrams. This must have been a "found" teaser. I can't imagine someone creating this from scratch.
Brilliant Marc, thank you!
What a wonderful, well thought out, fun teaser.
Solved them all using a bit of brain power; couldn't manage it in one sitting though.
What a wonderful, well thought out, fun teaser.
Solved them all using a bit of brain power; couldn't manage it in one sitting though.
Great teaser, Marc. Impressive! This must have taken a great deal of time and effort to create. I solved them all eventually with some persistence. Thanks!
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