| GENERAL | ENTERTAINMENT | TOPICAL | PEOPLES NAMES | OTHER NAMES |
| MEDIUM LENGTH | ANAGRAMMY CHALLENGE | LONG | SPECIAL | RUDE |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 33 | The professional waitress = Tip was so essential for her. |
2 | Christopher Sturdy | 29 | Her fault = Half true. |
3 | Ljubica Bilalovic | 20 | 3, 2, 1... 0! = 2013 |
4 | Adie Pena | 18 | Winter comes = New ice storm. |
5 | Ellie Dent | 16 | Seasonal = A sale's on! |
6 | Larry Brash | 13 | Seasonal affective disorder = I advocate relief for sadness. |
7 | David Bourke | 12 | Relationship guidance = Aid, counseling the pair. |
7 | Dean Mayer | 12 | The serious accident = See deaths occur in it. |
9 | Ivan Andonov | 9 | Godforsaken = One's dark fog. |
10 | Maurice Goddard | 7 | Thieving cat burglars ~ grab lucrative things! |
10 | Dharam Khalsa | 7 | There are two kinds of persons; those who ~ work, and others--the ones who see profits. |
10 | Ed Pegg Jr | 7 | Seasonal affective disorder = Faint solar cover fed disease. |
13 | nedesto | 6 | Passion ~ pains so! |
14 | View | 2 | Responsible gun ownership = Sensible in proper gun-show. |
14 | Tony Crafter | 2 | Decrepit dinosaur = A rude description! |
14 | Rosie Perera | 2 | Religious rite observance = Tenacious believers' rigor. |
Total points: | 195 | from 33 votes (DFE factor: 0.485) |
1 | Dharam Khalsa | 51 | I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas ~ in this time of warm shared magic. |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 25 | Milton's poem Paradise Lost = One's immortal past spoiled. |
3 | View | 20 | Nina Simone - Feeling Good = Imagine one old fine song. |
3 | nedesto | 20 | Organist Franz Gruber's "Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht" = Each gentle ringing stanza laurels birth of Christ. |
5 | Scott Gardner | 17 | The motion picture "Les Miserables" = Policemen set to hit Marius' rebels. |
5 | Tony Crafter | 17 | The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl: 'Fairytale Of New York' = Wry, Yuletide folk-anthem. Cracker of a song (so play it!) |
7 | Adie Pena | 15 | Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas = That crime must frighten the babes or minors! |
8 | Larry Brash | 11 | Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race = The best racy cohort any day. |
9 | Ellie Dent | 10 | Manet's Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus = Model's formal picture at seasonal time? |
Total points: | 186 | from 32 votes (DFE factor: 0.281) |
1 | Rosie Perera | 25 | Advent carols = Ardent vocals. |
2 | Ed Pegg Jr | 23 | Republicans = I curse Plan B. (Awardsmaster's Choice Award) |
3 | Adie Pena | 19 | Sandy Hook Elementary School, Connecticut = One man shocked local society, then country! |
4 | Ellie Dent | 17 | Dave Brubeck has died at the age of Ninety-One = Goodbye ... his Take Five and the beat can endure. |
4 | Scott Gardner | 17 | The carol "What Child is This?" = To which all said "the Christ". |
6 | Dean Mayer | 13 | Those two disc jockeys in Australia = That royal joke's cost was in suicide. |
7 | Christopher Sturdy | 12 | As the customer is always right, ~ let's wish you a Great Christmas. |
8 | Maurice Goddard | 11 | Newtown school gunman forced his way in, police say = News: Now pains of icy agony. We mourn each child lost. |
9 | Richard Brodie | 10 | The President's fiscal cliff = If credit's spent, Chief falls! |
9 | nedesto | 10 | A simple carpenter from Galilee = Eternal realm's pilgrim of peace. |
11 | Dharam Khalsa | 8 | The Mayan Apocalypse = A myth, easy con appeal. |
11 | Meyran Kraus | 8 | Victims of Sandy Hook Elementary = A hefty cost: many kids live no more. |
13 | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons | 6 | Sir Bradley Wiggins = Rider was big, singly. |
13 | Tony Crafter | 6 | US gun rights lobbyists want to deport Piers Morgan = Angry groups blasting: "Send Brit home. Toss twirp out!" |
15 | View | 4 | Kate Middleton's pregnant = Tender dame plans King-tot. |
15 | Rick Rothstein | 4 | Surveillance cameras = An evil, cruel massacre. |
17 | Dr Charles G Waugh | 1 | There is a war against Christmas. A din ~ as Antichrist ideas gather in a swarm. |
Total points: | 194 | from 33 votes (DFE factor: 0.515) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 41 | The sprinter Oscar Pistorius = Superior star in prosthetics. |
2 | Scott Gardner | 39 | The blessed virgin Mary = Given myrrh stable-side. |
3 | nedesto | 23 | Catherine "Kate" Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge = Duke's child-bearing mate, henceforth domesticated. |
4 | Ivan Andonov | 17 | Michael Fassbender ‡ He screens a bad film. |
5 | View | 15 | Donald Fehr = Dread of NHL. |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 15 | British cartoonist Ralph Steadman = Star behind satirical Thompson art. |
7 | Ellie Dent | 14 | Catherine and William, the Royal parents-to-be = And let's all await heir to throne ... prince, maybe? |
8 | David Bourke | 9 | Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE = "Bring me big cycle awards!" |
9 | Adie Pena | 8 | Big-breasted star Pamela Anderson = Person manages real bad debt at IRS. |
10 | Tony Crafter | 6 | Cherie Blair = "CBE? Her?" I rail. |
Total points: | 187 | from 32 votes (DFE factor: 0.312) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 40 | The National Rifle Association of America = I note it's fatal if in a school area or cinema. |
2 | Adie Pena | 35 | The Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy = They maintain it for true love. |
3 | nedesto | 25 | Festivals: 1. Advent 2. Christmas 3. Boxing ... = 1. Calendar 2. Nativity 3. Boss served many ... |
4 | Dean Mayer | 22 | The Tesco supermarket chain = Ha! Can't keep their customers. |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 19 | The National Rifle Association = Is it an alliance to shoot in fear? |
6 | Ed Pegg Jr | 12 | "The republic has no need for genius." = Bureau of Enlightened Censorship. |
7 | View | 9 | Palestinian political organization Hamas = Anti-Israel plan in Gaza, a hot Islamic option. |
8 | Tony Crafter | 8 | The National Sex Offenders Register = X-rated sinners safe together on file. |
9 | Ivan Andonov | 6 | Krating Daeng (Thai Red Bull) = A legal drug be in that drink. |
9 | Rosie Perera | 6 | Earth Liberation Front = Notable faith in terror. |
11 | Ellie Dent | 5 | The Disney 'Tinker Bell' doll = Kindly little blonde's here! |
Total points: | 187 | from 32 votes (DFE factor: 0.344) |
1 | nedesto | 47 | The world's five all-time most noteworthy peopl... = 1. Mona Lisa painter 2. "I'll follow gravity ... |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 32 | Pretend you are on the beach on some desert isl... = - Michael Ende's 'The Neverending Story' - 'E... |
3 | David Bourke | 20 | The Australian radio disc jockeys Mel Greig and... = Regal mimicry leading to Jacintha Saldanha's s... |
4 | Tony Crafter | 16 | It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, ev... = I agree: Snow. Everything costing a lot. ... |
5 | Adie Pena | 12 | The classic Christmas carol "It Came Upon the M... = "Child in a manger" spectacle matters much to ... |
6 | Scott Gardner | 11 | The Universal Studios motion picture ... = Cosette thrills Marius; Éponine loves Marius,... |
6 | Christopher Sturdy | 11 | I am open and responsive to all the universe has to offer = This is the mantra of unevolved people or of inane arses! |
8 | Dharam Khalsa | 10 | Evening: to pray, revitalize and arise, thus br... = I stay up every night and realize it's a bad t... |
9 | Ellie Dent | 8 | Daniel Craig, who is our Special Agent Bond, sa... = *Big baddy: 'Nice. So go ahead and oblige me. ... |
10 | Rosie Perera | 5 | Besse Cooper's secret to long life: "I mind my ... = Oldest person in world just died; seems maybe ... |
11 | View | 4 | The Mayan apocalypse: panic spreads as December... = A mystery predicts end of Planet Earth - a spa... |
12 | Richard Brodie | 2 | National Rifle Association calls for armed poli... = Role of nice clear official policy is to save c... |
12 | Ed Pegg Jr | 2 | Telecommunication overdramatising MEDICAL TESTS!! ? = Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act. |
Total points: | 180 | from 30 votes (DFE factor: 0.433) |
1 | Meyran Kraus | 64 | ... |
2 | Adie Pena | 33 | Tomorrow, a chubby, bearded and costumed Santa with tactless laughter begins to enter countless homes! Ho-ho-ho! |
3 | Dharam Khalsa | 17 | Ambushed by the cold school shooter, Students and teachers wait, as angels, To come to be reborn without gun harm. |
4 | David Bourke | 13 | More thoughts: Is tomorrow the end? Oh no, we doubt that ...because the Mayans' calendar design's such total cobblers! |
5 | Rosie Perera | 12 | The Loch Ness Monster, with dragon body mass, comes as a babe, lurching beneath the water. Could outdo those trout! |
5 | Tony Crafter | 12 | Could change come to the world this time as 'that new-born baby'? Or the murderous, gun-obsessed Satan at the school.... |
7 | nedesto | 11 | ... |
7 | Ellie Dent | 11 | So, author can argue thoughtless man descends to war and to tomb: but others see birth ... new boy child comes to h... |
Total points: | 173 | from 29 votes (DFE factor: 0.276) |
1 | Tony Crafter | 37 | One by one, the managers of a company were call... = The CEO of an international company was due t... |
2 | Ellie Dent | 35 | MANSPEAK: And what it really means. It is a g... = I was thinking about you this afternoon at wo... |
3 | nedesto | 28 | Benny walked into his welfare office to pick up... = Will goes into a pub. The bar is completely e... |
4 | Meyran Kraus | 17 | ... = ... |
5 | Dharam Khalsa | 11 | Five offensive Christmas songs you should stop ... = 1. Why give date rape blessings? 2. My god, ... |
6 | Adie Pena | 7 | Top Ten Worst Christmas Songs Ever 10. The Twel... = 10. Five golden rings?! Here, Gollum. Come on,... |
7 | Christopher Sturdy | 6 | Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy ... = A heathen Christmas Eve shopping list: liver ... |
8 | Maurice Goddard | 5 | When someone becomes dependent or addicted to a... = Most don't, don't acknowledge they've difficu... |
Total points: | 146 | from 25 votes (DFE factor: 0.320) |
1 | nedesto | 35 | Crossword puzzle |
2 | Meyran Kraus | 18 | Riding upon the Goat, with snow-white hair... |
3 | Dharam Khalsa | 15 | The Naming of Cats by T.S. Eliot |
4 | Adie Pena | 11 | HURRICANE SANDY by Melani Udaeta |
4 | Tony Crafter | 11 | END OF THE WORLD By Skeeter Davis |
6 | Tony Crafter | 10 | OH NO - I GOT A COLD by Pam Ayres |
6 | nedesto | 10 | The Road goes ever on and on... |
8 | nedesto | 5 | A successful elderly rancher died and left everything to his devoted wife. |
8 | Ed Pegg Jr | 5 | The Lament of Icarus = |
8 | Ellie Dent | 5 | NOVEMBER |
11 | Rosie Perera | 1 | Fire and Ice (a poem by Robert Frost) |
Total points: | 126 | from 21 votes (DFE factor: 0.524) |
1 | Dean Mayer | 28 | The folk musicians = Same ol' fuckin' shit. |
2 | Rick Rothstein | 21 | Tight sweater = Tits wag there. |
3 | Scott Gardner | 20 | The house of ill repute = I hope to fuel lust here. |
4 | Adie Pena | 15 | The custom of kissing under the mistletoe = The sole interest is modest mouth-fucking! |
5 | Meyran Kraus | 14 | Implants in chest are for ~ the actress in a porn film. |
6 | Maurice Goddard | 8 | Give myself satisfaction = Velocity in stiff massage!! |
7 | Ivan Andonov | 7 | The pornographic actors = Cop-to-cop rear thrashing. |
7 | Tony Crafter | 7 | Soapy tit wank = "Ok wasn't it? Pay!" |
9 | Christopher Sturdy | 6 | The Big Bang theory = e.g. tight, horny babe. |
10 | nedesto | 4 | The cosmetic silicone breast implants = Bosom science I call, "Tempest in a t-shirt". |
11 | View | 1 | Intent on sex ‡ Non-existent. |
Total points: | 131 | from 22 votes (DFE factor: 0.500) |
Daniel F. Etter Memorial Award Points*
*Adjusted Points = Sum of (Points * 'DFE factor') |
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