Anagram Solver Links

Fair's Fair - The Nation. (blog)

Fair's Fair The Nation. (blog) Before considering this complaint, let's take a minute to rehearse what constitutes a forbidden indirect anagram. By longstanding convention, a constructor who asks a solver to anagram a group of letters is expected to supply those letters (the ...

Ars Magna | The Nation - The Nation. (blog)

Ars Magna | The Nation The Nation. (blog) Early on in our stint as The Nation's cryptic constructors, we heard complaints from more than one solver that our puzzles contained too many anagrams. At the same time, we heard from a friend who was helping a newbie learn about cryptics that she ...

Variety: All Mixed Up - New York Times (blog)

Variety: All Mixed Up New York Times (blog) That's not a mistake; if you noticed the Notepad hint (“In each pair of clues, one is for the answer word, the other for an anagram of the answer. Which is which is for you to discover.”), both clues are there for a reason, and solving may feel like a ...

Crossword blog: Meet the Setter - Puck - The Guardian (blog)

The Guardian (blog)

Crossword blog: Meet the Setter - Puck The Guardian (blog) I began by helping with the Daily Express Make You Very Cross-Word, which was barred and non-cryptic apart from some signalled anagrams. Soon I was pretending I hadn't got the answers in order to give my granddad a chance to solve some first.