This list is intended to reflect the elements which may be encountered in cryptic clues. It will remain a work in progress, and all suggestions for additions will be gratefully received and incorporated.
The first column shows a word or group of words that may appear in a clue. The second column shows how that might translate directly into a group of letters, eg ‘artist’ may translate into ‘RA’. The third column shows what cryptic operation might be indicated, eg ‘holding’ for containment. Where (A), (D), or (A/D) is shown, this means that the indicator is likely to have this meaning in across clues only, down clues only, or any clue.
Interpretations which appear in the standard text colour are ‘mainstream’ and likely to be encountered in any puzzle (these fall into the ‘Standard’ category in the various lists on this site); those shown in grey rely on more obscure senses of the words, and are likely only to be found in barred crosswords (these come from the ‘Advanced’ category); those which appear in purple are ones about which I have reservations (and would not use in my own puzzles) but which have been seen in published crosswords and therefore are likely to reappear.
The list can be searched/filtered using the first column.
| Text | Can Represent | Can Indicate |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | V | |
| 10 | X | |
| 50 | L | |
| 50% | Select: First or second half | |
| 100 | C | |
| 500 | D | |
| 1000 | K, M | |
| a | PER | |
| a great deal of | Remove: last letter | |
| a lot of | Remove: last letter | |
| aback | Reversal (A/D) | |
| abandoned | Anagram, Departure | |
| abandoning | Departure, Expulsion | |
| abandons | Departure, Expulsion | |
| aberrant | Anagram | |
| abject | Departure | |
| abnormal | Anagram | |
| aboard | Insertion | |
| abominable | Anagram | |
| about | A, C, CA | Anagram, Containment, Reversal |
| above | Before (D) | |
| abroad | Anagram | |
| abrupt | Remove: last letter | |
| absent | A, ABS | |
| absolute | A, ABS | |
| absorbed by | Insertion | |
| absorbing | Containment | |
| absorbs | Containment | |
| absurd | Anagram | |
| abused | Anagram | |
| abysmal | Anagram | |
| abysmally | Anagram | |
| acceleration | A | |
| accepted | A | |
| accepted by | Insertion | |
| accepting | Containment | |
| accepts | Containment | |
| accommodated | Anagram | |
| accommodated by | Insertion | |
| accommodates | Containment | |
| accommodating | Containment | |
| accompanies | Before/After (A/D) | |
| accompanying | Before/After (A/D) | |
| according to hearsay | Homophone | |
| account | AC | |
| ace | A | |
| acre | A | |
| acres | A | |
| acting | A | |
| acting | Anagram | |
| activated | Anagram | |
| active | A | Anagram |
| actively | Anagram | |
| acts | Anagram | |
| adapted | Anagram | |
| added to | Before/After (A/D) | |
| adjacent to | Before/After (A/D) | |
| adjective | A | |
| adjoining | Before/After (A/D) | |
| adjoins | Before/After (A/D) | |
| adjusted | Anagram | |
| admits | Containment | |
| admitted by | Insertion | |
| admitting | Containment | |
| adopted by | Insertion | |
| adopting | Containment | |
| adopts | Containment | |
| adrift | Anagram | |
| adult | A | |
| advance | A | |
| advanced | A | |
| advantage | AD | |
| affected | Anagram | |
| afflicted | Anagram | |
| after | After (A/D) | |
| after death | PM | |
| after noon | PM | |
| afternoon | A | |
| against | CON, V, VS | Before/After (A/D) |
| aggrieved | Anagram | |
| agitated | Anagram | |
| agitating | Anagram | |
| agitato | Anagram | |
| agued | Anagram | |
| ahead of | Before (A/D) | |
| air-conditioned | AC | |
| air-conditioning | AC | |
| Alabama | AL, ALA | |
| alarmed | Anagram | |
| Alaska | AK | |
| Albania | AL | |
| Alberta | AB | |
| Alcoholics Anonymous | AA | |
| Algeria | DZ | |
| alias | AKA | |
| all around | Reversal (A/D) | |
| all but | Expulsion | |
| all except | Expulsion | |
| all over the place | Anagram | |
| all right | OK | |
| almost | Remove: last letter | |
| almost entirely | Remove: last letter | |
| alongside | Before/After (A) | |
| aloud | Pun | |
| alpha | A | |
| alpha and omega in | Select: First and last letters | |
| altered | Anagram | |
| altering | Anagram | |
| alternate bits of | Select: alternate letters | |
| alternate parts of | Select: alternate letters | |
| alternately | Select: alternate letters | |
| alternating current | AC | |
| alters | Anagram | |
| aluminium | AL | |
| amateur | A, AM | |
| ambassador | HE | |
| ambient | Insertion | |
| amended | Anagram | |
| America | A, AM, US | |
| American | A, AM, US | |
| American ship | USS | |
| amid | Hidden, Insertion | |
| amidst | Hidden, Insertion | |
| amiss | Anagram | |
| amok | Anagram | |
| among | Hidden, Insertion | |
| amongst | Hidden, Insertion | |
| amount of | Hidden | |
| ampere | AMP | |
| amplifier | AMP | |
| anagram | Anagram | |
| anarchic | Anagram | |
| and | Before (A/D) | |
| Angola | AN | |
| angrily | Anagram | |
| angry | Anagram | |
| animated | Anagram | |
| animatedly | Anagram | |
| announced | Pun | |
| anonymous | A | |
| answer | A, ANS | |
| anti-aircraft | AA | |
| antimony | SB | |
| anyhow | Anagram | |
| anyway | Anagram | |
| apart from | Expulsion | |
| appalling | Anagram | |
| appallingly | Anagram | |
| appeal | SA, IT | |
| applied | Anagram | |
| apppeal for help | SOS | |
| apprehended by | Insertion | |
| apprehending | Containment | |
| apprehends | Containment | |
| April | APR | |
| Arab | AR | |
| are | A | |
| area | A | |
| Argentina | RA | |
| argon | AR | |
| arises | Reversal (D) | |
| arising | Reversal (D) | |
| Arizona | AZE | |
| Arkansas | AR, ARK | |
| around | Anagram, Containment, Reversal | |
| aroused | Anagram | |
| arouses | Anagram | |
| arousing | Anagram | |
| arranged | Anagram | |
| arrayed | Anagram | |
| arrested by | Insertion | |
| arresting | Containment | |
| arrests | Containment | |
| arsenic | AS | |
| article | A | |
| articulated | Pun | |
| artist | RA | |
| as stated | Pun | |
| ascendant | Reversal (D) | |
| ascending | Reversal (D) | |
| ascends | Reversal (D) | |
| askew | Anagram | |
| assembled | Anagram | |
| associate | A | |
| assumed by | Containment, Insertion | |
| assumes | Containment, Insertion | |
| assuming | Containment, Insertion | |
| assuming role of | Replacement | |
| astatine | AT | |
| astray | Anagram | |
| at end of | After (A/D) | |
| at first | Select: First letter(s) | |
| at heart | Select: Middle letter(s) | |
| at intervals | Select: regular letters | |
| at last | Select: Last letter(s) | |
| at sea | Anagram | |
| at the edges | Select: First and last letters | |
| atrocious | Anagram | |
| audible | Pun | |
| audibly | Pun | |
| August | AUG | |
| Auntie | BBC | |
| Australia | A, AUS | |
| Australian | A | |
| Austria | A | |
| Automobile Association | AA | |
| avenue | AV, AVE | |
| avoided | Departure | |
| avoiding | Departure, Expulsion | |
| avoids | Departure, Expulsion | |
| away | Departure | |
| away from | Departure | |
| awful | Anagram | |
| awfully | Anagram | |
| awkward | Anagram | |
| awkwardly | Anagram | |
| awry | Anagram | |
| axed | Departure | |
| axes | XY | Expulsion |
| axing | Expulsion | |
| axis | X, Y, Z | |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | |
| bachelor | B | |
| Bachelor of Arts | BA | |
| Bachelor of Medicine | MB | |
| Bachelor of Science | BSC | |
| back | Reversal (A/D), Select: Last letter | |
| back at the start | Shift: Last letter to start (A) | |
| back to front | Reversal (A/D) | |
| backed | Reversal (A/D) | |
| backing | After (D), Reversal (A/D) | |
| backs | After (D), Reversal (A/D) | |
| backside of | Select: Last letter | |
| backsliding | Reversal (A/D) | |
| backtracking | Reversal (A/D) | |
| backtracks | Reversal (A/D) | |
| backward | Reversal (A/D) | |
| backwards | Reversal (A/D) | |
| bad | Anagram | |
| bad smell | BO | |
| badly | Anagram | |
| baffling | Anagram | |
| bagged by | Insertion | |
| bagging | Containment | |
| bags | Containment | |
| Bahamas | BS | |
| Bahrain | BRN | |
| bailing | Containment | |
| bails | Containment | |
| balmy | Anagram | |
| bananas | Anagram | |
| Bangladesh | BD | |
| banished | Departure | |
| banishes | Expulsion | |
| banishing | Expulsion | |
| banks of | Select: First and last letters | |
| banned | Departure | |
| bar | Expulsion | |
| Barbados | BDS | |
| barbaric | Anagram | |
| bare | Remove: both ends | |
| barges | Anagram | |
| barging | Anagram | |
| barium | BA | |
| barking | Anagram, Containment | |
| barks | Containment | |
| barmy | Anagram | |
| Baron | B | |
| baroque | Anagram | |
| barrel | B | |
| barrels | B | |
| barring | Expulsion | |
| base | E | Anagram |
| Basque separatists | ETA | |
| bass | B | |
| bathed in | Insertion | |
| bathes | Containment | |
| bathing | Containment | |
| bats | Anagram | |
| batted | Anagram | |
| battered | Anagram | |
| batty | Anagram | |
| bearing | After (D), Containment | |
| bears | After (D), Containment | |
| beaten | Anagram | |
| beaten up | Anagram | |
| beating | Anagram | |
| beats | Anagram | |
| becoming | Replacement | |
| bedded in | Insertion | |
| bedding | Containment | |
| bedevilled | Anagram | |
| bedlam | Anagram | |
| beds | Containment | |
| bee | B | |
| before | Before (A/D) | |
| before noon | AM | |
| befuddled | Anagram | |
| beginner | Select: First letter | |
| beginning | Select: First letter | |
| beginning to end | Shift: First letter to end (A/D) | |
| beginning to fall | Shift: First letter moved down (D) | |
| beginning to retreat | Shift: First letter moved back (A) | |
| behind | After (A/D) | |
| belaboured | Anagram | |
| Belarus | BY | |
| Belgium | B | |
| Belize | BH | |
| belly of | Select: Middle letter(s) | |
| below | After (D) | |
| belted | Anagram | |
| belted out | Departure | |
| belting out | Expulsion | |
| belts out | Expulsion | |
| bemused | Anagram | |
| bend | S, U, Z | |
| bending | Anagram | |
| bendy | Anagram | |
| beneath | After (D) | |
| Benin | DY | |
| bent | Anagram | |
| bereft of | Expulsion | |
| berserk | Anagram | |
| beryllium | BE | |
| beset | Insertion | |
| besets | Containment | |
| besetting | Containment | |
| beside | Before/After (A) | |
| besieged by | Insertion | |
| besieges | Containment | |
| besieging | Containment | |
| bespoke | Anagram | |
| bestridden by | Insertion | |
| bestrides | Containment | |
| bestriding | Containment | |
| bewildered | Anagram | |
| beyond | After (A/D) | |
| bickering | Anagram | |
| bickers | Anagram | |
| big end of | Select: First letter (cap) | |
| billion | B | |
| binding | Containment | |
| binds | Containment | |
| binned | Departure | |
| bins | Expulsion | |
| bishop | B | |
| bismuth | BI | |
| bit of | Select: First letter | |
| bites | Containment | |
| biting | Containment | |
| bitten by | Insertion | |
| bitten off | Remove: last letter | |
| bizarre | Anagram | |
| bizarrely | Anagram | |
| black | B | |
| black and white | BW | |
| blanked out | Departure | |
| blankets | Containment | |
| blanking out | Expulsion | |
| blanks out | Expulsion | |
| blast | Anagram | |
| blasted | Anagram | |
| blazing | Anagram | |
| blended with | Anagram | |
| blessed | Anagram | |
| blighted | Anagram | |
| blob | O | |
| blood pressure | BP | |
| blots | Expulsion | |
| blotted out | Departure | |
| blotting | Expulsion | |
| blowing | Departure, Expulsion | |
| blown | Anagram | |
| blown up | Anagram | |
| blows | Departure, Expulsion | |
| blows up | Anagram | |
| blues | Expulsion | |
| blundering | Anagram | |
| blunders | Anagram | |
| blurred | Anagram | |
| blurry | Anagram | |
| boarded by | Containment | |
| boarding | Insertion | |
| boards | Insertion | |
| body odour | BO | |
| boiled | Anagram | |
| boiling | Anagram | |
| boils | Anagram | |
| boisterous | Anagram | |
| Bolivia | BOL | |
| bolstered by | Before (D) | |
| bolstering | After (D) | |
| bolsters | After (D) | |
| bombed | Anagram | |
| bombing | Anagram | |
| bombs | Anagram | |
| bones | Containment | |
| bonkers | Anagram | |
| book | B | |
| bookends | Containment | |
| books | NT, OT | |
| boomerangs | Reversal (A/D) | |
| boosted | Reversal (D) | |
| bordered by | Insertion | |
| bordering | Before/After (A/D), Containment | |
| borders | Before/After (A/D), Containment, Select: First and last letters | |
| bored by | Containment | |
| bores | Insertion | |
| boring | Insertion | |
| born | B | |
| borne by | Before, Insertion | |
| boron | B | |
| boss | Anagram | |
| bossed | Anagram | |
| botched | Anagram | |
| both sides of | Select: First and last letters | |
| bothered | Anagram | |
| Botswana | RB | |
| bottled | Anagram | |
| bottled by | Insertion | |
| bottles | Containment | |
| bottling | Containment | |
| bounced | Departure | |
| bounces | Expulsion | |
| bouncing | Expulsion | |
| bound by | Insertion | |
| boundary | Select: Last letter | |
| bounded by | Insertion | |
| bounding | Containment | |
| boundless | Remove: both ends | |
| bounds | Containment, Select: First and last letters | |
| bowed | Anagram | |
| bowled | B | |
| box | TV | |
| boxed by | Insertion | |
| boxes | Containment | |
| boxing | Containment | |
| bracketed by | Insertion | |
| bracketing | Containment | |
| brackets | Containment | |
| Brahms and Liszt | Anagram | |
| bravo | B | |
| Brazil | BR | |
| breadth | B | |
| breaking | Anagram, Insertion | |
| breaks | Anagram, Insertion | |
| brewed | Anagram | |
| brewing | Anagram | |
| brews | Anagram | |
| bridge | BR | |
| Britain | B, BR | |
| British | B, BR | |
| British Airways | BA | |
| British Telecom | BT | |
| broadcast | Anagram, Pun | |
| broken | Anagram | |
| broken by | Containment | |
| bromine | BR | |
| brother | BRO | |
| brought about | Reversal (A/D) | |
| brought up | Reversal (D) | |
| brown | BR | |
| bruised | Anagram | |
| Brunei | BRU | |
| brushing aside | Expulsion | |
| brushing off | Expulsion | |
| bubbly | Anagram | |
| buckled | Anagram | |
| buckles | Anagram | |
| buckling | Anagram | |
| buffalo | Anagram | |
| buffet | Anagram | |
| buffeted | Anagram | |
| Bulgaria | BG | |
| bulk of | Remove: last letter | |
| bum | Anagram | |
| bumbles | Anagram | |
| bumbling | Anagram | |
| bumped by | Replacement | |
| bumping | Replacement | |
| bunged by | Containment | |
| bunging | Insertion | |
| bungled | Anagram | |
| bungles | Anagram | |
| bungling | Anagram | |
| bungs | Insertion | |
| buried | Departure | |
| buried in | Insertion | |
| buries | Containment, Expulsion | |
| Burkina Faso | BF | |
| burst | Anagram | |
| bursting | Anagram | |
| bursts | Anagram | |
| Burundi | RU | |
| burying | Containment, Expulsion | |
| bust | Anagram | |
| busy | Anagram | |
| but for | Expulsion | |
| butchered | Anagram | |
| butt of | Select: Last letter | |
| by | X | Before/After (A) |
| by the sound of it | Pun | |
| bypassed | Departure | |
| bypasses | Expulsion | |
| bypassing | Expulsion | |
| Byzantine | Anagram | |
| cadmium | CD | |
| caesium | CS | |
| calamitous | Anagram | |
| calamitously | Anagram | |
| calcium | CA | |
| California | CA, CAL | |
| calorie | CAL | |
| Cambodia | K | |
| camouflaged | Anagram | |
| Canada | CDN | |
| cancelled | Departure | |
| cancelling | Expulsion | |
| cancels | Expulsion | |
| canine letter | R | |
| canned | Anagram | |
| canned by | Insertion | |
| cans | Containment | |
| cap | Select: First letter | |
| cape | C | |
| capital | CAP | Select: First letter (cap) |
| capped by | After (D) | |
| capping | Before (D) | |
| caps | Before (D) | |
| capsized | Reversal (D) | |
| capsizes | Reversal (D) | |
| capsizing | Reversal (D) | |
| captured by | Insertion | |
| captures | Containment | |
| capturing | Containment | |
| carbon | C | |
| carbon copies | CC | |
| carbon copy | CC | |
| care of | CO | |
| careering | Anagram | |
| careers | Anagram | |
| careless | Anagram | |
| carelessly | Anagram | |
| carriage return | CR | |
| carried by | Insertion | |
| carried forward | CF | |
| carries | Containment | |
| carrying | Containment | |
| case | Select: First and last letters | |
| cased by | Insertion | |
| cases | Containment | |
| cash machine | ATM | |
| cashiered | Departure | |
| cashiers | Expulsion | |
| casing | Containment, Select: First and last letters | |
| cast | Anagram | |
| cast out | Departure | |
| cast up | Reversal (D) | |
| casting out | Expulsion | |
| casts out | Expulsion | |
| casual | Anagram | |
| casually | Anagram | |
| catches | Containment | |
| catching | Containment | |
| Catholic | C | |
| caught | C | Pun |
| caught by | C | Insertion |
| caught in | Insertion | |
| cavorting | Anagram | |
| ceded | Departure | |
| cedes | Expulsion | |
| ceding | Expulsion | |
| cent | C | |
| centilitre | CL | |
| centimetres | CM | |
| Central African Republic | RCA | |
| Central America | CA | |
| central heating | CH | |
| central ingredient | Select: Middle letter | |
| centre | Select: Middle letter(s) | |
| centrepiece | Select: Middle letter(s) | |
| cents | C | |
| century | C | |
| century | C | |
| Chad | TCH | |
| chambers | Containment | |
| changed | Anagram | |
| changed to | Replacement | |
| changes | Anagram | |
| changing | Anagram | |
| Channel Islands | CI | |
| chaotic | Anagram | |
| chapped | Remove: last letter | |
| chaps | Insertion | |
| chapter | C, CH | |
| character facing | Select: First letter | |
| charged with | Containment | |
| charges | Insertion | |
| charging | Insertion | |
| Charlie | C | |
| Chartered Accountant | CA | |
| check | CH | |
| checked by | Insertion | |
| checking | Containment | |
| checks | Containment | |
| chewed | Anagram | |
| chewed up | Anagram | |
| chiefly | Remove: last letter | |
| child | CH | |
| childless | Whimsical: Removal of CH | |
| children | CH | |
| Chile | RCH | |
| chlorine | CL | |
| choked by | Insertion | |
| chokes | Containment | |
| choking | Containment | |
| chopped | Deletion | |
| chopped by | Containment, Insertion | |
| chopped up | Anagram | |
| chopping | Insertion, Expulsion, Containment, Anagram | |
| choppy | Anagram | |
| chops | Insertion, Expulsion, Containment | |
| chromium | CR | |
| chucked (out) | Departure | |
| chucking (out) | Expulsion | |
| chucks (out) | Expulsion | |
| chump | Select: Last letter | |
| church | CE, CH | |
| Church of England | CE | |
| churned | Anagram | |
| churning | Anagram | |
| churns | Anagram | |
| circled by | Insertion | |
| circles | Containment | |
| circling | Containment | |
| circular letter | O | |
| circumvented by | Insertion | |
| circumventing | Containment | |
| circumvents | Containment | |
| Civil Service | CS | |
| clad in | Insertion | |
| clad with | Insertion | |
| cladding | Containment | |
| clads | Containment | |
| clasped by | Insertion | |
| clasping | Containment | |
| clasps | Containment | |
| clear | Anagram | |
| clear of | Expulsion | |
| cleared | Departure, Anagram | |
| cleared of | Expulsion | |
| cleared out | Departure, Select: First and last letters | |
| cleft | Departure | |
| clenched in | Insertion | |
| clenches | Containment | |
| clenching | Containment | |
| climbing | Reversal (D) | |
| climbs | Reversal (D) | |
| clinging to | Containment | |
| clings to | Containment | |
| clipped | Remove: last letter | |
| clipped by | Insertion | |
| clipping | Containment | |
| clips | Containment | |
| cloaked in | Insertion | |
| cloaking | Containment | |
| cloaks | Containment | |
| clobber | Anagram | |
| clobbered | Anagram | |
| close | CLO | Select: Last letter |
| close by | Before/After (A/D) | |
| close on | After (A/D) | |
| close to | Before/After (A/D) | |
| closed by | Insertion | |
| closer | Select: Last letter | |
| closes in | Containment | |
| closing in | Containment | |
| closure | Select: Last letter | |
| clothed by | Insertion | |
| clothed in | Insertion | |
| clothes | Containment | |
| clothing | Containment, Select: First and last letters | |
| club | Anagram | |
| clubbed | Anagram | |
| clubs | C | |
| clumsy | Anagram | |
| clutched by | Insertion | |
| clutches | Containment | |
| clutching | Containment | |
| co-ordinate | X, Y, Z | |
| coasts of | Select: First and last letters | |
| coated in | Insertion | |
| coated with | Insertion | |
| cobalt | CO | |
| cocaine | C | |
| cocked (up) | Reversal (D) | |
| cold | C | |
| collapsed | Anagram | |
| collapses | Anagram | |
| collapsing | Anagram | |
| collared by | Insertion | |
| collaring | Containment | |
| collars | Containment | |
| Colombia | CO | |
| colonel | COL | |
| Colorado | CO, COL | |
| column | COL | |
| comes back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| comes out | Departure | |
| comes up | Reversal (D) | |
| coming back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| coming in for | Replacement | |
| coming out | Departure | |
| coming up | Reversal (D) | |
| Commanding Officer | CO | |
| commuted | Anagram | |
| compact disc | CD | |
| Companion of Honour | CH | |
| company | CO | |
| compare | CF | |
| compasses | Containment | |
| complex | Anagram | |
| complicated | Anagram | |
| component of | Hidden | |
| composed | Anagram | |
| comprehended by | Insertion | |
| comprehending | Containment | |
| comprehends | Containment | |
| compressed in | Insertion | |
| compresses | Containment | |
| compressing | Containment | |
| comprised by | Insertion | |
| comprises | Containment | |
| comprising | Containment | |
| computer | PC | |
| concealed | Departure | |
| concealed by | Replacement | |
| concealing | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| conceals | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| conceded | Departure | |
| concedes | Expulsion | |
| conceding | Expulsion | |
| conceding to | Replacement | |
| conclusion | Select: Last letter | |
| concocted | Anagram | |
| condemned | Anagram | |
| condition | Anagram | |
| conditioned | Anagram | |
| confined in | Insertion | |
| confines | Containment, Select: First and last letters | |
| confining | Containment | |
| conform | Anagram | |
| conformed | Anagram | |
| confound | Anagram | |
| confounded | Anagram | |
| confuse | Anagram | |
| confused | Anagram | |
| Connecticut | CT | |
| Conservative | C, CON | |
| conserved by | Insertion | |
| conserves | Containment | |
| conserving | Containment | |
| constant | PI, E | |
| constrained by | Insertion | |
| constraining | Containment | |
| constrains | Containment | |
| consumed | Departure | |
| consumed by | Insertion | |
| consumes | Containment | |
| consuming | Containment | |
| contained by | Insertion | |
| contained in | Insertion | |
| containing | Containment | |
| contains | Containment | |
| contaminated | Anagram | |
| contort | Anagram | |
| contorted | Anagram | |
| contributing to | Hidden | |
| contribution to | Hidden | |
| contrive | Anagram | |
| contrived | Anagram | |
| converse | Reversal (A/D) | |
| conversely | Reversal (A/D) | |
| convert | Anagram | |
| converted | Anagram | |
| convoluted | Anagram | |
| convulsed | Anagram | |
| convulsive | Anagram | |
| cooked | Anagram | |
| cooking | Anagram | |
| cooks | Anagram | |
| copper | CU | |
| cops | Containment | |
| core of | Select: Middle letter(s) | |
| cored | Remove: middle letter(s), Select: First and last letters | |
| corrupt | Anagram | |
| corrupted | Anagram | |
| corruption of | Anagram | |
| Costa Rica | CR | |
| could be | Anagram | |
| could become | Anagram | |
| could produce | Anagram | |
| counter | Reversal (A/D) | |
| counterfeit | Anagram | |
| county | CO | |
| court | CT | |
| cover | Select: First and last letters | |
| covered | Departure | |
| covered by | After (D), Insertion | |
| covered in | Insertion | |
| covered up | Departure | |
| covered with | After (D) | |
| covering | Before (D), Containment, Replacement<, Select: First and last letters | |
| covering for | Replacement | |
| covering head(s) | Remove: first letter(s) | |
| covers | Before (D), Containment | |
| cowling | Containment | |
| cowls | Containment | |
| cracked | Anagram | |
| cracked by | Containment | |
| crackers | Anagram | |
| cracking | Anagram, Insertion | |
| cracks | Anagram, Insertion | |
| craft | Anagram | |
| crafted | Anagram | |
| cramped by | Insertion | |
| cramping | Containment | |
| cramps | Containment | |
| crashed | Anagram | |
| crashed by | Containment | |
| crashes | Anagram, Insertion | |
| crashing | Anagram, Insertion | |
| crazed | Anagram | |
| crazily | Anagram | |
| crazy | Anagram | |
| cream | Anagram | |
| creamed | Anagram | |
| credit | CR | |
| credit note | CN | |
| cribbed by | Insertion | |
| cribbing | Containment | |
| cribs | Containment | |
| Cricket Club | CC | |
| criminal | Anagram | |
| Croatia | HR | |
| crocked | Anagram | |
| crook | Anagram | |
| crooked | Anagram | |
| cropped | Remove: last letter | |
| cross | X | |
| crossed by | Insertion | |
| crosses | Containment | |
| crossing | Containment | |
| crowded by | Insertion | |
| crowded with | Containment | |
| crowding | Containment, Insertion | |
| crowds | Containment, Insertion | |
| crown | Select: First letter | |
| crowned by | After (D) | |
| crowning | Before (D) | |
| crowns | Before (D) | |
| crude | Anagram | |
| crudely | Anagram | |
| crumbled | Anagram | |
| crumbling | Anagram | |
| crumbly | Anagram | |
| crunched | Anagram | |
| crushed | Anagram | |
| crushed by | Insertion | |
| crushes | Containment | |
| crushing | Containment | |
| crust | Select: First and last letters | |
| crusts | Containment | |
| crux | Select: Middle letter(s) | |
| cryptic | Anagram | |
| Cuba | C | |
| cubic centimetre | CC | |
| cuckoo | Anagram | |
| cuddled by | Insertion | |
| cuddles | Containment | |
| cuddling | Containment | |
| cue | Q | |
| cultivated | Anagram | |
| cups | Containment | |
| curbed by | Insertion | |
| curbing | Containment | |
| curbs | Containment | |
| curious | Anagram | |
| curiously | Anagram | |
| curium | CM | |
| curled | Anagram | |
| curling | Anagram | |
| curls | Anagram | |
| current | AC, DC, I | |
| curriculum vitae | CV | |
| curt | Remove: last letter | |
| curtailed | Remove: last letter | |
| curve | J | |
| cut | Departure, Remove: last letter | |
| cut by | Expulsion | |
| cut of | Hidden | |
| cut out | Departure | |
| cuts | Expulsion, Insertion | |
| cutting | Expulsion, Insertion | |
| cycled | Shift: Cyclic (A/D) | |
| cycles | Shift: Cyclic (A/D) | |
| cycling | Shift: Cyclic (A/D) | |
| Cyprus | CY | |
| Czech Republic | CZ | |
| daft | Anagram | |
| damaged | Anagram | |
| danced | Anagram | |
| dances | Anagram | |
| dancing | Anagram | |
| dash | Anagram, Select: First letter | |
| dashed | Anagram | |
| date | D | |
| daughter | D | |
| day | D | |
| dead | D | |
| dealt with | Anagram | |
| debased | Whimsical: Removal of E | |
| December | DEC | |
| decent | Whimsical: Removal of C | |
| deceptively | Anagram | |
| decibel | DB | |
| decibels | DB | |
| decked by | Insertion | |
| decking | Containment | |
| decks | Containment | |
| declined | Departure | |
| declines | Expulsion | |
| declining | Expulsion | |
| decoration | VC | |
| deducted | Departure | |
| Dee | D | |
| defaced | Whimsical: Removal of first letter | |
| defective | Anagram | |
| deficient in | Expulsion | |
| defiled | Anagram | |
| defined | Whimsical: Removal of F | |
| degaussed | Whimsical: Removal of G | |
| Delaware | DE, DEL | |
| deleted | Departure | |
| deletes | Expulsion | |
| deleting | Expulsion | |
| delirious | Anagram | |
| delivered | Departure | |
| delivered | Pun | |
| delivering | Expulsion | |
| delivers | Expulsion | |
| delta | D | |
| Democrat | D | |
| Democratic | D | |
| demolished | Anagram | |
| denied | Expulsion | |
| denied opening | Remove: first letter | |
| Denmark | DK | |
| denoted | Whimsical: Removal of N | |
| density | D | |
| departed | Whimsical: Removal of PT | |
| departing | Departure | |
| departs | Departure | |
| depleted | Select: First and last letters | |
| deplorable | Anagram | |
| deplorably | Anagram | |
| deployed | Anagram | |
| deported | Departure | |
| deporting | Expulsion | |
| deports | Expulsion | |
| deprived of | Expulsion | |
| deranged | Anagram | |
| deserted by | Expulsion | |
| deserting | Departure | |
| deserts | Departure | |
| desperate | Anagram | |
| desperately | Anagram | |
| destroyed | Anagram | |
| desultory | Anagram | |
| detached | Departure | |
| detailed | Whimsical: Removal of last letter | |
| detained by | Insertion | |
| detaining | Containment | |
| detains | Containment | |
| detected by auditors | Pun | |
| Detective Inspector | DI | |
| detectives | CID | |
| devastated | Anagram | |
| developed | Anagram | |
| developing | Anagram | |
| develops | Anagram | |
| devious | Anagram | |
| devoid of | Expulsion | |
| devoured by | Insertion | |
| devouring | Containment | |
| devours | Containment | |
| diameter | D | |
| diamonds | D | |
| dicky | Anagram | |
| dictionary | OED | |
| died | D | |
| digested | Anagram | |
| digested by | Insertion | |
| digesting | Containment | |
| digests | Containment | |
| dilapidated | Anagram | |
| dinner jacket | DJ | |
| dire | Anagram | |
| direct current | DC | |
| direct debit | DD | |
| directed | Anagram | |
| Director-General | DG | |
| disappearing | Departure | |
| disappears | Departure | |
| disarranged | Anagram | |
| disarrayed | Anagram | |
| disastrous | Anagram | |
| disastrously | Anagram | |
| disc | CD | |
| disc jockey | DJ | |
| discarded | Departure | |
| discharged | Departure, Select: First and last letters | |
| discharges | Expulsion | |
| discharging | Expulsion | |
| disclosed | Whimsical: Removal of CLO, Whimsical: Removal of last letter | |
| discomposed | Anagram | |
| discontented | Whimsical: First and last letter selection | |
| discounted | Departure | |
| discounting | Expulsion | |
| discounts | Expulsion | |
| discovered | Whimsical: Removal of first and last letters | |
| discredited | Whimsical: Removal of CR | |
| disembowelled | Remove: middle letter(s), Select: First and last letters | |
| disfigured | Anagram, Whimsical: Removal of FIG | |
| disgorged | Departure | |
| disgorges | Expulsion | |
| disgorging | Expulsion | |
| disguised | Anagram | |
| dish | Anagram | |
| disheartened | Remove: middle letter(s), Select: First and last letters | |
| dished | Anagram | |
| dishevelled | Anagram | |
| disintegrated | Anagram | |
| disintegrates | Anagram | |
| disintegrating | Anagram | |
| disjointed | Anagram, Whimsical: Removal of J | |
| dislocated | Anagram | |
| dismantled | Anagram | |
| dismissed | Departure | |
| dismisses | Expulsion | |
| dismissing | Expulsion | |
| disordered | Anagram | |
| disorderly | Anagram | |
| disorganized | Anagram | |
| disoriented | Anagram | |
| disowned | Departure | |
| disowning | Expulsion | |
| disowns | Expulsion | |
| dispatched | Departure | |
| dispatches | Expulsion | |
| dispatching | Expulsion | |
| dispelling | Anagram | |
| dispenses with | Expulsion | |
| dispensing with | Expulsion | |
| dispersed | Anagram | |
| displaced by | Replacement | |
| displacing | Replacement | |
| disporting | Anagram | |
| disposed | Anagram | |
| disposed of | Departure | |
| disposes of | Expulsion | |
| disposing of | Expulsion, Anagram | |
| disregarded | Departure | |
| disregarding | Expulsion | |
| disregards | Expulsion | |
| disreputable | Anagram | |
| disrupted | Anagram | |
| disseminate | Anagram | |
| disseminated | Anagram | |
| dissipated | Anagram | |
| distorted | Anagram | |
| distracted | Anagram | |
| distraught | Anagram | |
| distressed | Anagram | |
| distributed | Anagram | |
| District Attorney | DA | |
| disturbed | Anagram | |
| disturbed by | Containment | |
| disturbing | Insertion | |
| disturbs | Insertion | |
| ditched | Departure | |
| ditches | Expulsion | |
| ditching | Expulsion | |
| dithered | Anagram | |
| dithering | Anagram | |
| dithery | Anagram | |
| divested of | Expulsion | |
| divided by | Containment | |
| divides | Insertion | |
| dividing | Insertion | |
| dizzy | Anagram | |
| do | Anagram | |
| docked | Remove: last letter | |
| doctor | DR, GP, MD, MO | Anagram |
| Doctor of Divinity | DD | |
| Doctor of Medicine | MD | |
| Doctor of Philosophy | PHD | |
| doctored | Anagram | |
| doddering | Anagram | |
| dodgy | Anagram | |
| doesn't close | Remove: last letter | |
| doesn't enjoy | Expulsion | |
| doing duty for | Replacement | |
| Dominca | WD | |
| done | Anagram | |
| done up in | Insertion | |
| done up with | Insertion | |
| dons | Insertion | |
| dotty | Anagram | |
| doubles | Reversal (A/D) | |
| doubling | Reversal (A/D) | |
| downed by | Replacement | |
| downing | Replacement | |
| drained | Select: First and last letters | |
| drawing in | Containment | |
| drawn in by | Insertion | |
| draws in | Containment | |
| dreadful | Anagram | |
| dreadfully | Anagram | |
| dressed | Anagram, Reversal (D) | |
| drifting | Anagram | |
| drifts | Anagram | |
| drilled by | Containment | |
| drilling | Insertion | |
| drills | Insertion | |
| drinking | Containment | |
| drinks | Containment | |
| drive | DR | |
| driven out | Departure | |
| drives out | Expulsion | |
| driving off | Replacement | |
| driving out | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| drop of | Select: First letter | |
| dropped | Departure | |
| dropped for | Replacement | |
| dropping | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| dropping every second | Select: odd letters | |
| drops | Expulsion | |
| drunk | Anagram, Insertion | |
| drunken | Anagram | |
| dry | TT | |
| duck | O | |
| ducking | Departure | |
| ducks | Departure | |
| duff | Anagram | |
| duke | D | |
| dumped | Departure | |
| dumping | Expulsion | |
| dumps | Expulsion | |
| during | Insertion | |
| Earl | E | |
| early sign of | Select: First letter | |
| early signs of | Select: First two letters | |
| East | E | |
| Eastern | E | |
| eaten by | Insertion | |
| eating | Containment | |
| eats | Containment | |
| ebbing | Reversal (A/D) | |
| ebbs | Reversal (A/D) | |
| eccentric | Anagram | |
| echo | E | |
| eclipsed | Departure | |
| eclipses | Expulsion | |
| eclipsing | Expulsion | |
| Ecstasy | E | |
| Ecuador | EC | |
| edged by | Insertion | |
| edges | Containment, Select: First and last letters | |
| edging | Containment, Select: First and last letters | |
| edit | Anagram | |
| edited | Anagram | |
| edition | ED | |
| editor | ED | |
| effects | FX | |
| effervescent | Anagram | |
| egg | O | |
| ego | I | |
| Egypt | ET | |
| ejaculates | Expulsion | |
| ejaculating | Expulsion | |
| ejected | Departure | |
| ejecting | Expulsion | |
| ejects | Expulsion | |
| El Salvador | ES | |
| elaborate | Anagram | |
| electronic | E | |
| element of | Hidden, Select: First letter | |
| elevated | Reversal (D), Anagram | |
| eliminated | Departure | |
| eliminates | Expulsion | |
| eliminating | Expulsion | |
| eluded by | Expulsion | |
| eludes | Departure | |
| eluding | Departure | |
| embedded in | Insertion | |
| embedding | Containment | |
| embeds | Containment | |
| embodied by | Insertion | |
| embodies | Containment | |
| embodying | Containment | |
| embraced by | Insertion | |
| embraces | Containment | |
| embracing | Containment | |
| embroiled | Anagram | |
| emergency room | ER | |
| emerges | Departure | |
| emerging | Departure | |
| Emma | M | |
| emptied | Select: First and last letters | |
| empty | Select: First and last letters | |
| encapsulated by | Insertion | |
| encapsulates | Containment | |
| encapsulating | Containment | |
| encased in | Insertion | |
| encases | Containment | |
| encasing | Containment | |
| encircled by | Insertion | |
| encircles | Containment | |
| encircling | Containment | |
| enclaves | Containment | |
| enclosed by | Insertion | |
| enclosed in | Insertion | |
| encloses | Containment | |
| enclosing | Containment | |
| enclosure to | Hidden | |
| encompassed by | Insertion | |
| encompasses | Containment | |
| encompassing | Containment | |
| encrusted | Insertion | |
| encrusting | Containment | |
| encrusts | Containment | |
| end | Select: Last letter | |
| ending | Select: Last letter | |
| ending on top | Shift: Last letter to start (D) | |
| endless | Remove: last letter, Remove: both ends | |
| endlessly | Remove: last letter | |
| energized | Anagram | |
| energy | E | |
| enfolded by | Insertion | |
| enfolded in | Insertion | |
| enfolding | Containment | |
| enfolds | Containment | |
| engaged by | Insertion | |
| engaged in | Insertion | |
| engages | Containment | |
| engaging | Containment | |
| engineer | Anagram | |
| engineered | Anagram | |
| England | ENG | |
| English | E | |
| English | ENG | |
| engulfed by | Insertion | |
| engulfing | Containment | |
| engulfs | Containment | |
| enigmatic | Anagram | |
| enlivened | Anagram | |
| enshrined in | Insertion | |
| enshrines | Containment | |
| enshrining | Containment | |
| enshrouded | Insertion | |
| enshrouding | Containment | |
| enshrouds | Containment | |
| ensnared in | Insertion | |
| ensnares | Containment | |
| ensnaring | Containment | |
| enswathed in | Insertion | |
| enswathes | Containment | |
| enswathing | Containment | |
| entangled | Anagram | |
| entered by | Containment | |
| entering | Insertion | |
| enters | Insertion | |
| entertained by | Insertion | |
| entertaining | Containment | |
| entertains | Containment | |
| enthralled by | Insertion | |
| enthralling | Containment | |
| enthralls | Containment | |
| enveloped by | Insertion | |
| enveloping | Containment | |
| envelops | Containment | |
| environs | Containment | |
| environs of | Select: First and last letters | |
| epistle | EP | |
| eradicated | Departure | |
| eradicates | Expulsion | |
| eradicating | Expulsion | |
| erected | Reversal (D) | |
| errant | Anagram | |
| erratic | Anagram | |
| erratically | Anagram | |
| erroneous | Anagram | |
| erupted | Anagram | |
| erupting | Anagram | |
| erupts | Anagram | |
| escape | ESC | |
| escape key | ESC | |
| escapes | Departure | |
| escaping | Departure | |
| escaping from trap | Pun | |
| eschewed | Departure | |
| eschewing | Expulsion | |
| eschews | Expulsion | |
| essential character of | Select: Middle letter | |
| essential ingredient of | Select: Middle letter | |
| essentially | Select: Middle letter(s) | |
| established | EST | |
| Estonia | EST | |
| Ethiopia | ETH | |
| Europe | EUR | |
| European | E, EUR | |
| European Community | EC | |
| European Union | EU | |
| evacuated | Select: First and last letters | |
| even bits of | Select: even letters | |
| even letters from | Select: even letters | |
| even pieces of | Select: even letters | |
| evenly | Select: even letters | |
| evens out | Select: odd letters | |
| every now and again | Select: regular letters | |
| every now and then | Select: regular letters | |
| every other piece | Select: alternate letters | |
| every second | Select: even letters | |
| every so often | Select: regular letters | |
| evolved | Anagram | |
| evolves | Anagram | |
| evolving | Anagram | |
| ex | X | Expulsion |
| except | Expulsion | |
| except for | Expulsion | |
| exchanging | Replacement | |
| exchanging tips | Shift: First/last swapped (A/D) | |
| excited | Anagram | |
| excitedly | Anagram | |
| excluded | Departure | |
| excludes | Expulsion | |
| excluding | Expulsion | |
| exercise | PE, PT | |
| exercised | Anagram | |
| exercises | PE, PT | Anagram |
| exercising | Anagram | |
| exhausted | Select: First and last letters | |
| exiled | Departure | |
| exiles | Expulsion | |
| exiling | Expulsion | |
| exiting | Departure | |
| exits | Departure | |
| exotic | Anagram | |
| expelled | Departure | |
| expelled by | Replacement | |
| expelling | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| expels | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| exploded | Anagram | |
| explodes | Anagram | |
| exploding | Anagram | |
| exploited | Anagram | |
| explosive | HE, TNT | Anagram |
| explosively | Anagram | |
| expressed | Departure | |
| expresses | Expulsion | |
| expressing | Expulsion | |
| expunged | Departure | |
| expunges | Expulsion | |
| expunging | Expulsion | |
| externally | Containment | |
| extra | Containment | |
| extra large | OS, XL | |
| extra-special | Whimsical: Containing S (or SP) | |
| extract from | Hidden | |
| extracted | Departure | |
| extracted from | Hidden | |
| extraordinary | Anagram, Whimsical: Containing O | |
| extrasensory perception | ESP | |
| extraterrestrial | ET | |
| extravagant | Anagram | |
| extravagantly | Anagram | |
| extreme of | Select: Last letter | |
| extremes of | Select: First and last letters | |
| extremities of | Select: First and last letters | |
| extruded | Departure | |
| extrudes | Expulsion | |
| extruding | Expulsion | |
| exuded | Departure | |
| exudes | Departure, Expulsion | |
| exuding | Departure, Expulsion | |
| fabricated | Anagram | |
| face of | Select: First letter | |
| faceless | Remove: first letter | |
| factor | X | |
| factor in | Hidden | |
| Fahrenheit | F | |
| failed | Anagram | |
| failing | Anagram, Departure | |
| fails | Anagram, Departure | |
| fake | Anagram | |
| falling back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| falling for | Replacement | |
| false | Anagram | |
| falsely | Anagram | |
| faltering | Anagram | |
| falters | Anagram | |
| fan | Anagram | |
| fancy | Anagram | |
| fantastic | Anagram | |
| far side of | Select: Last letter | |
| Faroe Islands | FO | |
| fashion | Anagram | |
| father | FR | |
| faults | Anagram | |
| faulty | Anagram | |
| February | FEB | |
| fed to | Insertion | |
| feet | FT | |
| fellow | F | |
| female | F | |
| feminine | F | |
| fenced by | Insertion | |
| fences | Containment | |
| fencing | Containment | |
| fevered | Anagram | |
| feverish | Anagram | |
| fickle | Anagram | |
| fiddled | Anagram | |
| fiddling | Anagram | |
| fidgeting | Anagram | |
| fidgets | Anagram | |
| fiery | Anagram | |
| fifth | V | |
| fifty | L | |
| fighting | Anagram | |
| fights | Anagram | |
| figure | FIG | |
| Fiji | FJI | |
| filled by | Containment | |
| filled with | Containment | |
| filleted | Remove: middle letter(s), Select: First and last letters | |
| filling | Insertion | |
| fills | Insertion | |
| final | Select: Last letter | |
| final bit | Select: Last letter | |
| finale | Select: Last letter | |
| finally | Select: Last letter(s) | |
| Financial Times | FT | |
| fine | AOK, F, OK | |
| finish | Select: Last letter | |
| finishing touch for | Select: Last letter | |
| Finland | FIN | |
| fired | Departure | |
| fires | Expulsion, Anagram | |
| firing | Expulsion, Anagram | |
| first | I | Select: First letter |
| first class | A | |
| first lady | EVE | |
| first pair of | Select: First two letters | |
| first person | I | |
| first show of | Select: First letter | |
| first sign of | Select: First letter | |
| first to back | Shift: First letter to end (A) | |
| first to be relegated | Shift: First letter moved down (D) | |
| first to finish | Shift: First letter to end (A/D) | |
| first to last | Shift: First letter to end (A/D) | |
| first to retreat | Shift: First letter moved back (A) | |
| first-class | A1 | |
| fits | Anagram | |
| fitted | Anagram | |
| fitting | Anagram | |
| five | V | |
| five hundred | D | |
| fixed | Anagram | |
| fixed up | Reversal (D) | |
| flanked by | Insertion | |
| flanking | Containment | |
| flanks | Containment | |
| flanks of | Select: First and last letters | |
| flashes | Anagram | |
| flashing | Anagram | |
| flawed | Anagram | |
| flickering | Anagram | |
| flickers | Anagram | |
| flies | Anagram, Departure | |
| flipped | Reversal (A/D) | |
| flipping | Reversal (A/D) | |
| flips | Reversal (A/D) | |
| Florida | FA, FL, FLA | |
| floundering | Anagram | |
| flounders | Anagram | |
| flourished | Anagram | |
| flourishes | Anagram | |
| flourishing | Anagram | |
| fluorine | F | |
| flushed | Departure | |
| flushes | Expulsion | |
| flushes | Anagram | |
| flushing | Expulsion, Anagram | |
| flustered | Anagram | |
| flying | Anagram, Departure | |
| focus of | Select: Middle letter | |
| fog | Anagram | |
| folded in | Insertion | |
| folding | Containment | |
| folds | Containment | |
| followed by | Before (A/D) | |
| following | F | After (A/D) |
| follows | After (A/D) | |
| foolish | Anagram | |
| foot | FT | |
| Football Association | FA | |
| football club | FC | |
| footloose | Whimsical: Removal of F | |
| for audience | Pun | |
| for auditors | Pun | |
| for example | EG | |
| for listener | Pun | |
| for the most part | Remove: last letter | |
| forbidden to | Departure | |
| force | F | |
| forced out by | Replacement | |
| forcing out | Replacement | |
| foremost | Select: First letter | |
| forged | Anagram | |
| forgets | Expulsion | |
| forgetting | Expulsion | |
| forgotten | Departure | |
| forlorn | Departure | |
| forte | F | |
| fortissimo | FF | |
| found in | Insertion | |
| foxed | Anagram | |
| foxtrot | F | |
| fragment of | Hidden | |
| fragmentary | Anagram | |
| fragmented | Anagram | |
| fragments | Anagram | |
| framed by | Insertion | |
| frameless | Remove: both ends | |
| frames | Containment | |
| framing | Containment | |
| franc | F | |
| France | F, FR | |
| francs | F | |
| frantic | Anagram | |
| frantically | Anagram | |
| freak | Anagram | |
| free | FOC | Anagram, Departure |
| free from | Expulsion | |
| free of | Expulsion | |
| freely | Anagram | |
| French | FR | |
| frequency | F | |
| frequently | FR | |
| fresh | Anagram | |
| Friday | FRI | |
| fringe of | Select: First letter | |
| fringed with | Insertion | |
| fringes | Containment | |
| fringes of | Select: First and last letters | |
| fringing | Containment | |
| frippery | Anagram | |
| frisky | Anagram | |
| from | Hidden | |
| from back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| from below | Reversal (D) | |
| from the back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| from the bottom | Reversal (D) | |
| from the east | Reversal (A) | |
| from the right | Reversal (A) | |
| from the south | Reversal (D) | |
| from time to time | Select: regular letters | |
| front of | Select: First letter | |
| fronting | Before (A) | |
| fronts | Before (A) | |
| fudge | Anagram | |
| full | Anagram | |
| funnily | Anagram | |
| funny | Anagram | |
| furlong | F | |
| furlongs | F | |
| Gabon | G | |
| gallium | GA | |
| game | RL, RU | |
| garbled | Anagram | |
| garments | Containment | |
| gatecrashed by | Containment | |
| gatecrashes | Insertion | |
| gathered | Pun | |
| gauche | Anagram | |
| gee | G | |
| General Electric | GE | |
| General Practitioner | GP | |
| genetically modified | GM | |
| George | GEO | |
| Georgia | GA, GE | |
| German | G, GER | |
| germanium | GE | |
| Germany | D, GER | |
| gets hold of | Containment | |
| gets into | Insertion | |
| gets rid of | Expulsion | |
| gets shot of | Expulsion | |
| getting ... for | Replacement | |
| getting about | Containment | |
| getting around | Containment | |
| getting hold of | Containment | |
| getting into | Insertion | |
| getting rid of | Expulsion | |
| Ghana | GH | |
| giddy | Anagram | |
| gigabyte | GB | |
| girdles | Containment | |
| given | Before (A/D) | |
| given up for | Replacement | |
| giving up | Replacement | |
| giving way to | Replacement | |
| glimpse of | Select: First letter | |
| gloves | Containment | |
| gobbled by | Insertion | |
| gobbles | Containment | |
| gobbling | Containment | |
| goes | Anagram, Departure | |
| goes back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| goes into | Insertion | |
| goes north | Reversal (D) | |
| goes off | Anagram | |
| goes round | Reversal (A/D) | |
| goes up | Reversal (D) | |
| goes west | Reversal (A) | |
| going | Anagram, Departure | |
| going about | Containment | |
| going around | Containment | |
| going back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| going for | Replacement | |
| going into | Insertion | |
| going north | Reversal (D) | |
| going off | Anagram | |
| going round | Reversal (A/D) | |
| going up | Reversal (D) | |
| going west | Reversal (A) | |
| golf | G | |
| gone | Anagram, Departure | |
| gone to seed | Anagram | |
| good | G | |
| good man | ST | |
| grabbed by | Insertion | |
| grabbing | Containment | |
| grabs | Containment | |
| graduate | BA, BSC | |
| gram | G, GM | |
| grams | G, GM | |
| Grand Prix | GP | |
| grasped by | Insertion | |
| grasping | Containment | |
| grasps | Containment | |
| gravelled | Anagram | |
| gravity | G | |
| great | GT | |
| Great Britain | GB | |
| Greece | GR | |
| Greek | GK, GR | |
| Grenada | WG | |
| grey | GR | |
| gripes | Containment | |
| griping | Containment | |
| gripped by | Insertion | |
| gripping | Containment | |
| grips | Containment | |
| grotesque | Anagram | |
| grotesquely | Anagram | |
| ground | Anagram | |
| guarded by | Insertion | |
| guarding | Containment | |
| guards | Containment | |
| Guinea | RG | |
| gulped by | Insertion | |
| gulping | Containment | |
| gulps | Containment | |
| gunners | RA | |
| gutless | Remove: middle letter(s), Select: First and last letters | |
| guts | Select: Middle letter(s), Remove: both ends | |
| gutted | Select: First and last letters, Remove: middle letter(s) | |
| gym | PE, PT | |
| hairy | Anagram | |
| Haiti | RH | |
| half (of) | Select: First or second half | |
| half concealed | Select: First or second half | |
| half-cut | Select: First or second half | |
| half-hearted(ly) | Select: One of central pair lost | |
| hammered | Anagram | |
| hampered | Remove: last letter | |
| haphazard | Anagram | |
| haphazardly | Anagram | |
| happy | Anagram | |
| harboured by | Insertion | |
| harbouring | Containment | |
| harbours | Containment | |
| hard | H | |
| harry | Anagram | |
| has | Containment | |
| has no | Expulsion | |
| hash | Anagram | |
| hasn't | Expulsion | |
| hauled up | Reversal (D) | |
| having | Containment | |
| having ... for | Replacement | |
| having ... not | Replacement | |
| having no | Expulsion | |
| having no leads | Remove: first letters | |
| Hawaii | HI | |
| head | Select: First letter | |
| head down | Shift: First letter moved down (D) | |
| head over heels | Reversal (D) | |
| head to foot | Shift: First letter to end (D) | |
| head to tail | Shift: First letter to end (A/D) | |
| headed | Remove: first letter | |
| headed by | After (A/D) | |
| heading | Before (A/D), Select: First letter | |
| headless | Remove: first letter | |
| headlong | Reversal (D) | |
| headquarters | HQ | |
| heads | Before (A/D) | |
| heard | Pun | |
| heart of | Select: Middle letter(s) | |
| heartless | Remove: middle letter(s), Select: First and last letters | |
| heartlessly | Remove: middle letter(s) | |
| hearts | H | |
| heated | Anagram | |
| heaves | Anagram | |
| heaving | Anagram | |
| hedged by | Insertion | |
| hedges | Containment | |
| hedging | Containment | |
| heel of | Select: Last letter | |
| height | HT | |
| held back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| held by | Insertion | |
| held in | Insertion | |
| held up | Reversal (D) | |
| held up by | Before (D) | |
| helium | HE | |
| hemming | Containment | |
| hems | Containment | |
| Her Majesty | HM | |
| heralded by | After (A/D) | |
| heralding | Before (A/D) | |
| heralds | Before (A/D) | |
| heroin | H | |
| hiccuping | Anagram | |
| hiccups | Anagram | |
| hidden | Departure | |
| hidden by | Insertion, Replacement | |
| hides | Containment | |
| hiding | Containment, Replacement | |
| hiding in | Insertion | |
| high | Anagram | |
| High Explosive | HE | |
| high-speed train | HST | |
| hinges | Reversal (A/D) | |
| hinging | Reversal (A/D) | |
| hint of | Select: First letter | |
| hire purchase | HP | |
| His Excellency | HE | |
| His Majesty | HM | |
| hobbled | Anagram | |
| hoisted | Reversal (D) | |
| holding | Containment | |
| holding up | After (D) | |
| holds | Containment | |
| holds up | After (D) | |
| hollow | Select: First and last letters | |
| Honduras | HN | |
| Hong Kong | HK | |
| honour | CBE, MBE, OBE, J, Q, K, A | |
| hoops | Containment | |
| horsepower | HP | |
| horseshoe | H | |
| hospital | H | |
| hospital department | ENT | |
| hosted by | Insertion | |
| hosting | Containment | |
| hosts | Containment | |
| hot | H | Anagram |
| hotel | H | |
| hour | H, HR | |
| house | HO | |
| House of Parliament | HP | |
| housed in | Insertion | |
| houses | Containment | |
| housing | Containment | |
| huddled | Anagram | |
| hugged by | Insertion | |
| hugging | Containment | |
| hugs | Containment | |
| hull of | Select: First and last letters | |
| human resources | HR | |
| hundred | C | |
| hundredweight | CWT | |
| Hungary | H | |
| hurt | Anagram | |
| husked | Remove: both ends | |
| hydrogen | H | |
| Iceland | IS | |
| Idaho | ID, IDA | |
| identification | ID | |
| identity | ID | |
| ignored | Departure | |
| ignores | Expulsion | |
| ignoring | Expulsion | |
| ignoring the odds | Select: even letters | |
| Illinois | IL, ILL | |
| implicated | Insertion | |
| implicated by | Insertion | |
| implicates | Containment | |
| implicating | Containment | |
| imprisoned in | Insertion | |
| imprisoning | Containment | |
| imprisons | Containment | |
| improvised | Anagram | |
| in | Hidden, Insertion | |
| in a pickle | Anagram | |
| in action | Anagram | |
| in audition | Pun | |
| in bedlam | Anagram | |
| in chaos | Anagram | |
| in charge | IC | |
| in conversation | Pun | |
| in front of | Before (A) | |
| in part | Hidden | |
| in performance | Anagram | |
| in recess | Reversal (A/D) | |
| in report | Pun | |
| in retrospect | Reversal (A/D) | |
| in return | Reversal (A/D) | |
| in reverse | Reversal (A/D) | |
| in some measure | Hidden | |
| in speech | Pun | |
| in the afternoon | PM | |
| in the morning | AM | |
| in trouble | Anagram | |
| in turn | Reversal (A/D) | |
| inane | Select: First and last letters | |
| inch | IN | |
| inches | IN, INS | |
| included in | Insertion | |
| includes | Containment | |
| including | INC | Containment |
| inclusive | INC | |
| incomplete | Remove: last letter | |
| incorporated | INC | |
| incorporated in | Insertion | |
| incorporates | Containment | |
| incorporating | Containment | |
| indeed | I | |
| independent | I, IND | |
| India | I, IND | |
| Indiana | IN, IND | |
| indiscriminately | Anagram | |
| indium | IN | |
| Indonesia | RI | |
| infected | Anagram | |
| inferior to | After (D) | |
| infested | Anagram | |
| infiltrated by | Containment | |
| infiltrates | Insertion | |
| infiltrating | Insertion | |
| infinite | Remove: last letter | |
| infinitely | Remove: last letter | |
| infinitive | INF | |
| information systems | IS | |
| Information Technology | IT | |
| infrared | IR | |
| inhabited by | Containment | |
| inhabiting | Insertion | |
| inhabits | Insertion | |
| inhibited by | Insertion | |
| inhibiting | Containment | |
| inhibits | Containment | |
| initial | Select: First letter | |
| initially | Select: First letter(s) | |
| initiation | Select: First letter | |
| injected with | Containment | |
| injured | Anagram | |
| inked | Anagram | |
| inky | Anagram | |
| inside | Hidden, Insertion, Remove: both ends | |
| insides | Remove: both ends | |
| inspired by | Insertion, Containment | |
| inspired with | Containment | |
| inspires | Insertion, Containment | |
| inspiring | Insertion, Containment | |
| installed in | Insertion | |
| installing | Containment | |
| installs | Containment | |
| instead of | Replacement | |
| instinct | Anagram | |
| intelligence quotient | IQ | |
| interior | Remove: both ends | |
| interminable | Remove: last letter, Remove: both ends | |
| intermittently | Select: regular letters | |
| internally | Remove: both ends | |
| internals | Remove: both ends | |
| international | I | |
| interred in | Insertion | |
| interrupted by | Containment | |
| interrupting | Insertion | |
| interrupts | Insertion | |
| intervening | Insertion | |
| introduced by | Insertion | |
| introduced to | Insertion | |
| introduces | Before (A/D), Containment | |
| introducing | Before (A/D), Containment | |
| introduction | Select: First letter | |
| inverse | Reversal (A/D) | |
| inverted | Reversal (A/D) | |
| invested with | Insertion | |
| investing | Containment | |
| invests | Containment | |
| involved | Anagram | |
| involved in | Insertion | |
| involves | Containment | |
| involving | Containment | |
| iodine | I | |
| Iowa | IA | |
| Iran | IR | |
| Ireland | IR | |
| iridium | IR | |
| Irish | IR | |
| iron | FE | |
| irrational | PI, E | |
| irregular | Anagram | |
| irregularly | Anagram | |
| island | I | |
| isn't available | Departure | |
| isn't enjoyed by | Departure | |
| isolated | Departure | |
| isolates | Expulsion | |
| isolating | Expulsion | |
| Israel | IL | |
| it | SA | |
| Italian | IT | |
| Italy | I | |
| itinerant | Anagram | |
| Ivory Coast | CI | |
| jack | AB, J | |
| jam makers | WI | |
| Jamaica | JA | |
| James | JAS | |
| jammed by | Insertion | |
| jammed with | Containment | |
| jamming | Insertion, Containment | |
| jams | Insertion, Containment | |
| January | JAN | |
| Japan | J | |
| jarred | Anagram | |
| jay | J | |
| jettisoned | Departure | |
| jettisoning | Expulsion | |
| jettisons | Expulsion | |
| jiggled | Anagram | |
| jiggles | Anagram | |
| jiggling | Anagram | |
| jogged | Anagram | |
| joined by | Before/After (A) | |
| jolly | RM | |
| Judge | J | |
| juiced | Anagram | |
| Juliet | J | |
| July | JUL | |
| jumbled | Anagram | |
| jumping | Anagram | |
| jumps | Anagram | |
| junction | T | |
| June | JUN | |
| jungly | Anagram | |
| junior | JR, JUN | |
| junks | Expulsion | |
| Justice of the Peace | JP | |
| Kansas | KS | |
| Kay | K | |
| keeling over | Reversal (D) | |
| keels over | Reversal (D) | |
| keeping | Containment | |
| keeps | Containment | |
| Kentucky | KEN, KY | |
| kept back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| kept by | Insertion | |
| kept in | Insertion | |
| key | ESC | |
| kicked out | Departure | |
| kicking out | Expulsion | |
| kicks out | Expulsion | |
| killed | Departure | |
| killing | Expulsion | |
| kills | Expulsion | |
| kilo | K | |
| kilobyte | K, KB | |
| kilobytes | K, KB | |
| kilogram | KG | |
| kilograms | KG | |
| kilometre | K | |
| kilometres | K | |
| king | K, R, CR | |
| kinky | Anagram | |
| kiss | X | |
| knight | K, KT, N | |
| Knight of the Garter | KG | |
| knock out | KO | |
| knocked back | Departure, Reversal (A/D) | |
| knocked out | Departure | |
| knocked out by | Replacement | |
| knocking back | Expulsion | |
| knocking out | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| knockout | KO | |
| knocks back | Expulsion | |
| knocks out | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| krypton | KR | |
| Kuala Lumpur | KL | |
| Labour | LAB | |
| labour | Anagram | |
| laboured | Anagram | |
| lace | Anagram | |
| laced | Anagram | |
| lacking | Departure, Expulsion | |
| lacking heart | Remove: middle letter(s), Select: First and last letters | |
| lacks | Expulsion | |
| lagging | Containment | |
| lags | Containment | |
| laid aside | Departure | |
| lake | L | |
| lane | LA | |
| Laos | LAO | |
| lapping | Containment | |
| laps | Containment | |
| large | L | |
| largely | Remove: last letter | |
| last | Select: Last letter | |
| last drop of | Select: Last letter | |
| last shred of | Select: Last letter | |
| lastly | Select: Last letter(s) | |
| latest | Select: Last letter | |
| Latin | L | |
| Latvia | LV | |
| lavishes | Expulsion | |
| lavishing | Expulsion | |
| lay about | Anagram | |
| laying aside | Expulsion | |
| lays aside | Expulsion | |
| lead | PB | Select: First letter |
| lead character in | Select: First letter | |
| leader | Select: First letter | |
| leader dropping back | Shift: First letter moved back (A) | |
| leader retreating | Shift: First letter moved back (A) | |
| leaderless | Remove: first letter | |
| leading | Before (A/D) | |
| leads | Before (A/D) | |
| leads to retreat | Shift: First pair moved pack (A) | |
| leads to reverse | Shift: First pair swapped (A/D) | |
| leaking | Departure, Expulsion | |
| leaks | Departure, Expulsion | |
| learner | L | |
| leather | Anagram | |
| leaves | Departure, Expulsion | |
| leaves out | Expulsion | |
| leaving | Departure, Expulsion | |
| leaving ... for | Replacement | |
| leaving every other piece | Select: alternate letters | |
| leaving out | Expulsion | |
| Lebanon | RL | |
| led by | After (A/D) | |
| left | L | Select: First letter |
| left by | Expulsion | |
| left extremity of | Select: First letter | |
| leg | ON | |
| length | L | |
| Lesotho | LS | |
| less | Expulsion | |
| lessened by | Expulsion | |
| let loose | Anagram | |
| let out | Departure | |
| let slip | Anagram, Departure | |
| lets out | Expulsion | |
| lets slip | Expulsion | |
| letter | EP | |
| letting out | Expulsion | |
| letting slip | Expulsion | |
| Liberal | L, LIB | |
| liberal | Anagram | |
| liberally | Anagram | |
| liberated | Departure | |
| liberates | Expulsion | |
| liberating | Expulsion | |
| Liberia | LB | |
| Libya | LAR | |
| licked | Anagram | |
| Liechtenstein | FL | |
| lies about | Reversal (A/D) | |
| lies around | Reversal (A/D) | |
| lifted | Reversal (D) | |
| lifting | Reversal (D) | |
| lifts | Reversal (D) | |
| Lima | L | |
| limit | Select: Last letter | |
| limited | LTD | |
| limited by | Insertion | |
| limiting | Containment | |
| limitless | Remove: both ends | |
| limits | Containment, Select: First and last letters | |
| line | L | |
| lined with | Containment | |
| lines | LL, RY | Insertion |
| lining | Insertion | |
| lining of | Remove: both ends | |
| lips | Containment | |
| listed | Insertion | |
| listing | Containment | |
| listless | Whimsical: Removal of first and last letters | |
| lists | Containment | |
| lists of | Select: First and last letters | |
| lit | Anagram | |
| literary | LIT | |
| literature | LIT | |
| lithium | LI | |
| Lithuania | LT | |
| littered | Anagram | |
| lively | Anagram | |
| loaded | Anagram | |
| locked by | Insertion | |
| locking | Containment | |
| locks | Containment | |
| loco | Anagram | |
| long wave | LW | |
| looking back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| looking up | Reversal (D) | |
| loose | Anagram | |
| loosely | Anagram | |
| lopped | Remove: first letter | |
| Los Angeles | LA | |
| loses | Expulsion | |
| losing | Expulsion | |
| losing head(s) | Remove: first letter(s) | |
| losing heart | Reduction: middle letter(s) | |
| lost | Anagram, Departure | |
| loud | F | |
| Louisiana | LA | |
| love | O | |
| lower case | LC | |
| luncheon voucher | LV | |
| Luxembourg | L | |
| lying about | Reversal (A/D) | |
| lying around | Reversal (A/D) | |
| Macedonia | MK | |
| mad | Anagram | |
| Madagascar | RM | |
| made invisible by | Replacement | |
| made mincemeat of | Anagram | |
| made out | Pun | |
| madly | Anagram | |
| magical | Anagram | |
| magnesium | MG | |
| maiden | M | |
| Maine | ME | |
| mainly | Remove: last letter | |
| making a comeback | Reversal (A/D) | |
| making way for | Replacement | |
| maladroit | Anagram | |
| Malawi | MW | |
| Malaysia | MAL | |
| male | M | |
| malfunctioning | Anagram | |
| malfunctions | Anagram | |
| Malta | M | |
| Man | IOM | |
| managed | Anagram | |
| Managing Director | MD | |
| manganese | MN | |
| mangled | Anagram | |
| maniac | Anagram | |
| Manitoba | MB | |
| manoeuvres | Anagram | |
| manoeuvring | Anagram | |
| mantles | Containment | |
| manufactured | Anagram | |
| manuscript | MS | |
| manuscripts | MSS | |
| March | MAR | |
| marches from/off | Select: First and last letters | |
| married | M | |
| marshalled | Anagram | |
| Maryland | MD | |
| masculine | M | |
| masked by | Insertion | |
| masking | Containment, Anagram | |
| masks | Containment, Anagram | |
| mass | M | |
| Massachusetts | MA | |
| massaged | Anagram | |
| Master of Arts | MA | |
| master of ceremonies | MC | |
| Master of Science | MSC | |
| Mauritania | RIM | |
| Mauritius | MS | |
| meandering | Anagram | |
| meanders | Anagram | |
| measure of | Hidden | |
| Medical Officer | MO | |
| medium | M, MED | |
| megabyte | MB | |
| Member of Parliament | MP | |
| men | OR | |
| mercurial | Anagram | |
| mercury | HG | |
| merry | Anagram | |
| metre | M | |
| metres | M | |
| Mexico | MEX | |
| Michigan | MI | |
| Middle East | ME | |
| middle of | Select: Middle letter(s) | |
| middle-of-the-road | MOR | |
| Mike | M | |
| mile | M | |
| miles | M | |
| Military Cross | MC | |
| Military Police | MP | |
| millimetre | MM | |
| millimetres | MM | |
| milling | Anagram | |
| million | M | |
| millions | M | |
| millisecond | MS | |
| mills | Anagram | |
| mingled | Anagram | |
| mingles | Anagram | |
| mingling | Anagram | |
| minimum of | Select: First letter | |
| Minnesota | MN | |
| minus | Expulsion | |
| minute | M | |
| minutes | M | |
| misconceived | Anagram | |
| misdirected | Anagram | |
| misguided | Anagram | |
| misguidedly | Anagram | |
| misplaced | Anagram | |
| missed out | Departure | |
| misses | Expulsion | |
| misshapen | Anagram | |
| missing | Departure, Expulsion | |
| Mississippi | MS | |
| Missouri | MO | |
| mistaken | Anagram | |
| mistakenly | Anagram | |
| mixed up | Anagram | |
| mob | Anagram | |
| mobile | Anagram | |
| model | Anagram | |
| modelled | Anagram | |
| modified | Anagram | |
| modus operandi | MO | |
| Moldova | MD | |
| molybdenum | MO | |
| Monaco | MC | |
| Monday | MON | |
| Mongolia | MGL | |
| Montana | MT | |
| month | M | |
| months | M | |
| Morocco | MA | |
| mortal | Anagram | |
| most of | Remove: last letter | |
| mostly | Remove: last letter | |
| Motorway | M | |
| moulded | Anagram | |
| mounted | Reversal (D) | |
| mounting | Reversal (D) | |
| mounts | Reversal (D) | |
| moved | Anagram | |
| moves | Anagram | |
| moving | Anagram | |
| Mozambique | MOC | |
| much of | Remove: last letter | |
| muddled | Anagram | |
| muddles | Anagram | |
| muddling | Anagram | |
| muddy | Anagram | |
| muffs | Anagram | |
| mum | SH, ST | |
| mushed | Anagram | |
| mushy | Anagram | |
| must | Anagram | |
| musty | Anagram | |
| mutinous | Anagram | |
| my | COR | |
| Myanmar | MYA | |
| nabbed by | Insertion | |
| nabbing | Containment | |
| nabs | Containment | |
| nailed by | Insertion | |
| nailing | Containment | |
| nails | Containment | |
| naked | Remove: both ends | |
| name | N | |
| namely | SC, VIZ | |
| Namibia | NAM | |
| National Front | NF | |
| National Insurance | NI | |
| National Theatre | NT | |
| National Trust | NT | |
| naughtily | Anagram | |
| naughty | Anagram | |
| navy | N | |
| near | NR | Before/After (A/D) |
| nearly | Remove: last letter | |
| Nebraska | NE, NEB | |
| needing | Expulsion | |
| needing repair | Anagram | |
| needs | Expulsion | |
| negotiated | Anagram | |
| neighbouring | Before/After (A) | |
| neon | NE | |
| Nepal | NEP | |
| Netherlands | NL | |
| Netherlands Antilles | NA | |
| nets | Containment | |
| netted by | Insertion | |
| netting | Containment | |
| Nevada | NEV, NV | |
| new | N | Anagram |
| New Brunswick | NB | |
| New Hampshire | NH | |
| New Jersey | NJ | |
| New Mexico | NM | |
| New Testament | NT | |
| New York | NY | |
| New Zealand | NZ | |
| Newfoundland | NF | |
| News channel | CNN | |
| newspaperman | ED | |
| newspaperwoman | ED | |
| next to | Before/After (A/D) | |
| Nicaragua | NIC | |
| nicked | Remove: last letter | |
| nicked by | Insertion | |
| nickel | NI | |
| nicking | Containment | |
| nicks | Containment | |
| Niger | RN | |
| Nigeria | NGR | |
| nil | O | |
| niobium | NB | |
| nip of | Select: First letter | |
| nipped by | Insertion | |
| nipping | Containment | |
| nips | Containment | |
| nitrogen | N | |
| no | Expulsion | |
| no good | NG | |
| no trumps | NT | |
| no-ball | NB | |
| No. 1 | Select: First letter | |
| nobbled by | Insertion | |
| nobbles | Containment | |
| nobbling | Containment | |
| nomadic | Anagram | |
| noon | M, N | |
| North | N | |
| North America | NA | |
| North Carolina | NC | |
| North Dakota | ND | |
| north-east | NE | |
| north-eastern | NE | |
| north-west | NW | |
| north-western | NW | |
| northbound | Reversal (D) | |
| Northern | N | |
| Northern Island | NI | |
| northward | Reversal (D) | |
| Norway | N | |
| not | Expulsion | |
| not applicable | NA | |
| not available | NA | Departure |
| not ending | Remove: last letter | |
| not enjoying | Expulsion | |
| not exactly so | Anagram | |
| not half | Select: First or second half | |
| not out | NO | |
| not quite | Remove: last letter | |
| not the first | Remove: first letter | |
| not the last | Remove: last letter | |
| notch | V | |
| note | N, NB | |
| nothing | O | |
| nothing at all | FA | |
| noun | N | |
| novel | Anagram | |
| November | N, NOV | |
| now and again | Select: regular letters | |
| now and then | Select: regular letters | |
| nowhere to be seen | Departure | |
| number | N, NO | |
| numbers | NOS | |
| nursed by | Insertion | |
| nurses | Containment | |
| nursing | Containment | |
| nuts | Anagram | |
| obliterated | Departure | |
| obliterates | Expulsion | |
| obliterating | Expulsion | |
| obscure | Anagram | |
| obscured | Departure | |
| obscured by | Replacement | |
| obscures | Expulsion | |
| obscuring | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| observation | OBS | |
| occasionally | Select: regular letters | |
| occupational therapy | OT | |
| occupied by | Containment | |
| occupies | Insertion | |
| occupying | Insertion | |
| October | OCT | |
| odd | Anagram | |
| odd bits of | Select: odd letters | |
| odd letters from | Select: odd letters | |
| odd pieces of | Select: odd letters | |
| oddball | Anagram | |
| oddly | Anagram, Select: odd letters | |
| oddly chosen | Select: odd letters | |
| odds | SP | |
| odds of | Select: odd letters | |
| odds cut | Select: even letters | |
| off | Anagram | |
| off and on | Select: regular letters | |
| off the rails | Anagram | |
| Ohio | O, OH | |
| oil company | BP | |
| Oklahoma | OK | |
| old | O | |
| old boy | OB | |
| old rail operator | BR | |
| Old Testament | OT | |
| on | LEG | Before/After (A/D), Anagram |
| on a spree | Anagram | |
| on and off | Select: regular letters | |
| on head | Reversal (D) | |
| on its head | Reversal (D) | |
| on reflection | Reversal (A/D) | |
| on the radio | Pun | |
| on the rocks | Anagram | |
| on the telephone | Pun | |
| on the up | Reversal (D) | |
| on top of | Before (D) | |
| on vacation | Select: First and last letters | |
| one | A, I | |
| one hundred | C | |
| one thousand | K, M | |
| onset of | Select: First letter | |
| Open University | OU | |
| opened by | Containment | |
| opener | Select: First letter | |
| opening for/in/of | Select: First letter, Insertion | |
| opens | Insertion | |
| operating system | OS | |
| opus | OP | |
| oral | Pun | |
| orally | Pun | |
| orchestrated | Anagram | |
| ordained | Anagram | |
| ordinary | O | |
| Ordnance Survey | OS | |
| Oregon | OR | |
| organized | Anagram | |
| origin | Select: First letter | |
| original | Select: First letter | |
| originally | Select: First letter(s) | |
| Oscar | O | |
| osmium | OS | |
| otherwise | Anagram | |
| ounce | OZ | |
| ousted | Departure | |
| ousted by | Replacement | |
| ousting | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| ousts | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| out | Anagram | |
| out of | Expulsion | |
| out of bounds | OB | Remove: both ends |
| out of order | Anagram | |
| out of sight | Departure | |
| outer wear | Select: First and last letters | |
| outing | Departure, Expulsion | |
| outraged | Anagram | |
| outside | Containment, Select: First and last letters | |
| outside broadcast | OB | |
| outsize | OS | |
| over | Before (D), Containment, Reversal (A/D) | |
| over-the-top | OTT | |
| overcome by | Replacement | |
| overcoming | Replacement | |
| overdose | OD | |
| overdraft | OD | |
| overdrawn | OD | |
| overheard | Pun | |
| overtakes | Containment | |
| overtaking | Containment | |
| overthrowing | Replacement | |
| overthrown | Reversal (A/D) | |
| overthrown by | Replacement | |
| overture | Select: First letter | |
| overturned | Reversal (A/D) | |
| overwhelmed by | Insertion | |
| overwhelming | Containment | |
| overwhelms | Containment | |
| overwritten by | Replacement | |
| Oxford University | OU | |
| oxygen | O | |
| packed with | Containment | |
| packing | Containment | |
| packs | Containment | |
| page | P | |
| pages | PP | |
| Pakistan | PK | |
| palladium | PD | |
| Panama | PA | |
| panned | Anagram | |
| papa | P | |
| Papua New Guinea | PNG | |
| Paraguay | PY | |
| Parental Guidance | PG | |
| parking | P | |
| part | PT | |
| part of | Hidden | |
| part way through | Insertion | |
| parted by | Containment | |
| parted from | Departure | |
| partially | Hidden | |
| parting | Insertion | |
| parts | Insertion | |
| passed | Departure | |
| passed over | Departure | |
| passes | Expulsion | |
| passes over | Expulsion | |
| passing | Departure, Expulsion | |
| passing over | Expulsion | |
| past | After (A/D) | |
| pasted | Anagram | |
| patrolled by | Insertion | |
| patrolling | Containment | |
| patrols | Containment | |
| pawn | P | |
| peacekeepers | UN | |
| peaked | Reversal (D) | |
| peculiarly | Anagram | |
| peculliar | Anagram | |
| pee | P | |
| peeled | Remove: both ends | |
| pen | J | |
| pence | D, P | |
| penetrated by | Containment | |
| penetrates | Insertion | |
| penetrating | Insertion | |
| penned by | Insertion | |
| penning | Containment | |
| Pennsylvania | PA | |
| penny | D, P | |
| pens | Containment | |
| pensioner | OAP | |
| per | A | |
| per | A | |
| per annum | PA | |
| per cent | PC | |
| per week | PW | |
| perambulates | Containment | |
| perambulating | Containment | |
| performing | Anagram | |
| performs | Anagram | |
| periodically | Select: regular letters | |
| perished | Anagram | |
| perishes | Anagram | |
| perishing | Anagram | |
| perplexed | Anagram | |
| personal assistant | PA | |
| personal computer | PC | |
| Peru | PE | |
| Philippines | RP | |
| phosphorus | P | |
| physical education | PE | |
| physical training | PT | |
| pianissimo | PP | |
| piano | P | |
| picked up | Pun | |
| picked up by | Insertion | |
| picking up | Containment | |
| pickled | Anagram | |
| pie | Anagram | |
| piece of | Hidden, Select: First letter | |
| pierced by | Containment | |
| pierces | Insertion | |
| piercing | Insertion | |
| pinch of | Select: First letter | |
| pinched by | Insertion | |
| pinches | Containment | |
| pinching | Containment | |
| pinned in | Insertion | |
| pinning | Containment | |
| pins | Containment | |
| pint | PT | |
| pints | PT | |
| plastered | Anagram | |
| plastic | Anagram | |
| platinum | PT | |
| play | Anagram | |
| played | Anagram | |
| playing | Anagram | |
| playing part of | Replacement | |
| plays | Anagram | |
| ploughed | Anagram | |
| plugged by | Containment | |
| plugging | Insertion | |
| plugs | Insertion | |
| plus | Before (A/D) | |
| plutonium | PU | |
| pocketed by | Insertion | |
| pocketing | Containment | |
| pockets | Containment | |
| point | PT, N, E, S, W | |
| Poland | PL | |
| pole | N, S | |
| police | Anagram | |
| Police Constable | PC | |
| policeman | DI, PC | |
| policewoman | DI, PC, WPC | |
| political correctness | PC | |
| politically correct | PC | |
| polled | Departure | |
| polling | Expulsion | |
| polls | Expulsion | |
| poor | Anagram | |
| poorly | Anagram | |
| pop | Anagram | |
| popped | Anagram | |
| popped by | Insertion | |
| popping | Containment | |
| pops | Containment | |
| portion of | Hidden | |
| Portugal | P | |
| posed | Anagram | |
| poses | Anagram | |
| posh | U | |
| posing | Anagram | |
| possessed by | Insertion | |
| possesses | Containment | |
| possessing | Containment | |
| possibly | Anagram | |
| post mortem | PM | |
| Post Office | PO | |
| Postal Order | PO | |
| postcard | PC | |
| postscript | PS | |
| postures | Anagram | |
| posturing | Anagram | |
| potassium | K | |
| pound | L, LB | |
| pounded | Anagram | |
| pounded by | Insertion | |
| pounding | Containment | |
| pounds | Containment | |
| powdered | Anagram | |
| power | P | |
| powerless | Whimsical: Removal of P | |
| precedes | Before (A/D) | |
| preceding | Before (A/D) | |
| preface to | Select: First letter | |
| preferred to | Replacement | |
| prepared | Anagram | |
| preposterous | Shift: Last letter to start (A/D) | |
| pressed by | Insertion | |
| presses | Containment | |
| pressing | Containment | |
| pressure | P | |
| priest | P | |
| primarily | Select: First letter(s) | |
| Prime Minister | PM | |
| prince | P, PR | |
| principal character in | Select: First letter | |
| principally | Select: First letter(s) | |
| principle of | Select: First letter | |
| prior to | Before (A/D) | |
| prisons | Containment | |
| Private Investigator | PI | |
| probed by | Containment | |
| probes | Insertion | |
| probing | Insertion | |
| programming language | C | |
| pronounced | Pun | |
| proportional representation | PR | |
| propped up | Reversal (D) | |
| protected by | Insertion | |
| protecting | Containment | |
| protects | Containment | |
| provoked | Anagram | |
| pruned | Remove: last letter | |
| public address | PA | |
| public relations | PR | |
| pulled by | Insertion | |
| pulled out | Departure | |
| pulling | Containment | |
| pulling out | Departure | |
| pulls | Containment | |
| pulls out | Departure | |
| punished | Anagram | |
| pursed by | Insertion | |
| purses | Containment | |
| pursing | Containment | |
| put about | Containment | |
| put another way | Anagram | |
| put aside for | Replacement | |
| put away | Departure | |
| put back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| put in | Insertion | |
| put into | Insertion | |
| put out | Anagram, Departure | |
| put out by | Replacement | |
| put round | Containment | |
| put up | Reversal (D) | |
| puts away | Expulsion | |
| puts out | Expulsion | |
| putting away | Expulsion | |
| putting out | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| puzzled | Anagram | |
| pyjamas | PJS | |
| Qatar | Q | |
| quality assurance | QA | |
| quantity of | Hidden | |
| Quebec | Q | |
| queen | Q, QU, R | |
| Queen Elizabeth | ER | |
| Queen Victoria | VR | |
| question | Q | |
| quiet | P | |
| quiet | SH, ST | |
| quirks | Anagram | |
| quirky | Anagram | |
| quits | Departure | |
| quitting | Departure | |
| races | TT | Departure |
| racing | Departure | |
| radium | RA | |
| radon | RN | |
| ragged | Anagram | |
| raised | Reversal (D) | |
| rambles | Anagram | |
| rambling | Anagram | |
| rampant | Anagram, Reversal (D) | |
| rank | Anagram | |
| rattled | Anagram | |
| ravel | Anagram | |
| raving | Anagram | |
| re-presented | Anagram | |
| read aloud | Pun | |
| read out | Pun | |
| rear | Select: Last letter | |
| rearing | Reversal (D) | |
| rearranged | Anagram | |
| rears | Reversal (D) | |
| reborn | Anagram | |
| rebuffed | Departure, Reversal | |
| rebuffing | Departure, Expulsion | |
| rebuffs | Departure, Expulsion | |
| rebuilt | Anagram | |
| recalled | Reversal (A/D) | |
| receding | Reversal (A/D) | |
| received by | Insertion | |
| receives | Containment | |
| receiving | Containment | |
| recipe | R, REC | |
| reckless | Anagram | |
| recklessly | Anagram | |
| recoiling | Reversal (A/D) | |
| recoils | Reversal (A/D) | |
| record | EP, LP | |
| recurrent | Reversal (A/D) | |
| recycled | Anagram | |
| red | Anagram | |
| redesign | Anagram | |
| redesigned | Anagram | |
| redirected | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reduced | Anagram | |
| reduced by | Expulsion | |
| reeling | Anagram | |
| reels | Anagram | |
| reflected | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reflecting | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reflects | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reflex | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reformed | Anagram | |
| refreshed | Anagram | |
| refurbished | Anagram | |
| refused to | Departure | |
| regardless of | Expulsion | |
| regressing | Reversal (A/D) | |
| regressive | Reversal (A/D) | |
| regular letters from | Select: regular letters | |
| regularly | Select: regular letters | |
| regularly ignored | Select: regular letters | |
| regulars in | Select: alternate letters | |
| regulated | Anagram | |
| rejected | Departure | |
| rejecting | Expulsion | |
| rejecting outsiders | Remove: both ends | |
| rejects | Expulsion | |
| rejigged | Anagram | |
| rekindled | Anagram | |
| rekindles | Anagram | |
| rekindling | Anagram | |
| relaxed | Anagram | |
| relaxes | Anagram | |
| relaxing | Anagram | |
| relay | Anagram | |
| released | Departure | |
| released from trap | Pun | |
| releases | Expulsion | |
| releasing | Expulsion | |
| relegated | Departure | |
| relegates | Expulsion | |
| relegating | Expulsion | |
| relieved by | Replacement | |
| relieved of | Expulsion | |
| relieves | Expulsion | |
| relieving | Replacement, Expulsion | |
| religious education | RE | |
| religious instruction | RI | |
| relinquished | Departure | |
| relinquishes | Expulsion | |
| relinquishing | Expulsion | |
| removed | Departure | |
| rendered | Anagram | |
| rendering | Expulsion | |
| renders | Expulsion | |
| renounced | Departure | |
| renounces | Expulsion | |
| renouncing | Expulsion | |
| renovated | Anagram | |
| rent | Anagram | |
| reordered | Anagram | |
| repelled | Reversal (A/D) | |
| replaced | Whimsical: Anagram | |
| replaced by | Replacement | |
| replacing | Replacement | |
| reported | Pun | |
| reportedly | Pun | |
| reposed | Whimsical: Anagram | |
| repositioned | Anagram | |
| represented | Whimsical: Anagram | |
| repressed by | Insertion | |
| represses | Containment | |
| repressing | Containment | |
| repulsed | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reserved | Whimsical: Anagram | |
| reshaped | Anagram | |
| reshuffled | Anagram | |
| resistance | R | |
| resolved | Anagram | |
| resolves | Anagram | |
| resolving | Anagram | |
| resorted | Anagram | |
| restless | Anagram | |
| restrained by | Insertion | |
| restraining | Containment | |
| restrains | Containment | |
| restricted by | Insertion | |
| restricting | Containment | |
| restricts | Containment | |
| resume | CV | |
| retained by | Insertion | |
| retaining | Containment | |
| retains | Containment | |
| retires | Reversal (A/D) | |
| retiring | Reversal (A/D) | |
| retorted | Reversal (A/D) | |
| retracted | Reversal (A/D) | |
| retreating | Reversal (A/D) | |
| retreats | Reversal (A/D) | |
| retrograde | Reversal (A/D) | |
| retrogressing | Reversal (A/D) | |
| retrogressive | Reversal (A/D) | |
| retrospective | Reversal (A/D) | |
| returning | Reversal (A/D) | |
| returns | Reversal (A/D) | |
| revamped | Anagram | |
| reverend | REV | |
| reverse | Reversal | |
| reverse of | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reversed | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reverses | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reversing | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reverted | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reverting | Reversal (A/D) | |
| reverts | Reversal (A/D) | |
| revised | Anagram | |
| revolutionary | Reversal (A/D) | |
| rhenium | RE | |
| Rhode Island | RI | |
| rhodium | RH | |
| rickety | Anagram | |
| rid of | Expulsion | |
| ridding | Expulsion | |
| riddled | Anagram | |
| rids | Expulsion | |
| right | R, RT | Select: Last letter |
| right about | Reversal (A/D) | |
| right-hand | RH | |
| rind | Select: First and last letters | |
| ringing | Containment | |
| rings | Containment | |
| riot gas | CS | |
| riotous | Anagram | |
| ripped | Anagram | |
| ripping | Anagram | |
| rips | Anagram | |
| rises | Reversal (D) | |
| rising | Reversal (D) | |
| river | R | |
| road | RD | |
| roaming | Anagram | |
| robbed of | Expulsion | |
| rocked | Anagram | |
| rocketing | Reversal (D) | |
| rockets | Reversal (D) | |
| rocking | Anagram | |
| rocking 'n' rolling | Anagram | |
| rocks | Anagram | |
| rocky | Anagram | |
| rogue | Anagram | |
| roll of | Reversal (A/D) | |
| Roller | RR | |
| rolling | Anagram, Reversal (A/D) | |
| rolls | Anagram, Reversal (A/D) | |
| Rolls Royce | RR | |
| Roman Catholic | RC | |
| Romania | RO | |
| Romeo | R | |
| rook | R | |
| room | RM | |
| rotated | Reversal (A/D) | |
| rotates | Reversal (A/D) | |
| rotating | Reversal (A/D) | |
| rotten | Anagram | |
| rough | Anagram | |
| roughly | Anagram | |
| round | O | Containment<, Reversal (A/D) |
| rounded | Reversal (A/D) | |
| rounded by | Insertion | |
| rounding | Containment, Reversal (A/D) | |
| rounds | Containment, Reversal (A/D) | |
| roused | Anagram | |
| rouses | Anagram | |
| rousing | Anagram | |
| routed | Anagram | |
| routing | Anagram | |
| Royal Academician | RA | |
| Royal Academy | RA | |
| Royal Artillery | RA | |
| Royal Engineers | RE | |
| Royal Marines | RM | |
| Royal Navy | RN | |
| rubbed out | Departure | |
| rubbing out | Expulsion | |
| rubbish | Anagram | |
| rubidium | RB | |
| rubs out | Expulsion | |
| ruffian | Anagram | |
| ruffled | Anagram | |
| rugby goal | H | |
| Rugby League | RL | |
| Rugby Union | RU | |
| rugged | Anagram | |
| ruined | Anagram | |
| rum | Anagram | |
| run | R | |
| running | Anagram, Departure | |
| runny | Anagram | |
| runs | R | Anagram, Departure |
| rush | Anagram | |
| rushed | Anagram | |
| Russia | RUS | |
| ruthenium | RU | |
| sacked | Anagram | |
| sadly | Anagram | |
| said | Pun | |
| sailor | AB | |
| saint | S, ST | |
| saints | SS | |
| sample from | Hidden | |
| sandwich | BLT | |
| sandwiched by | Insertion | |
| sandwiches | Containment | |
| sappers | RE | |
| Saturday | SAT | |
| Saudi Arabia | SA | |
| save | Expulsion | |
| save skin | Remove: both ends | |
| saving | Expulsion | |
| saving skin | Remove: both ends | |
| scales | Reversal (D) | |
| scaling | Reversal (D) | |
| scandium | SC | |
| scatty | Anagram | |
| school | SCH | Anagram |
| schooled | Anagram | |
| science | SCI | |
| science fiction | SF | |
| scored | Departure | |
| scores | Expulsion | |
| scoring | Expulsion | |
| scrambled | Anagram | |
| scrap of | Select: First letter | |
| scrapped | Departure | |
| scrapping | Expulsion | |
| scraps | Expulsion | |
| scratched | Departure | |
| scratches | Departure, Expulsion | |
| scratching | Departure, Expulsion | |
| scratching backside | Remove: last letter | |
| scratching head(s) | Remove: first letter(s) | |
| scrawled | Anagram | |
| screened | Departure | |
| screened by | Insertion | |
| screening | Containment, Expulsion | |
| screens | Containment, Expulsion | |
| scribbled | Anagram | |
| scrubbed | Departure | |
| scrubbing | Expulsion | |
| scrubs | Expulsion | |
| scuttled | Anagram | |
| sealed by | Insertion | |
| sealing | Containment | |
| seals | Containment | |
| second | S | Select: Second letter |
| second class | B | |
| second rate | B | |
| second to last | Shift: Second letter to end (A/D) | |
| seconds | S | |
| seconds our | Select: odd letters | |
| secretary | PA, SEC | |
| section of | Hidden | |
| secured by | Insertion | |
| secures | Containment | |
| securing | Containment | |
| see | C, V | |
| seized by | Insertion | |
| seizes | Containment | |
| seizing | Containment | |
| selection from | Hidden | |
| selection of | Hidden | |
| selenium | SE | |
| self | I | |
| self-catering | SC | |
| self-contained | SC | |
| sending out | Expulsion | |
| sends out | Expulsion | |
| Senegal | SN | |
| senior | SEN, SR | |
| senior service | RN | |
| sent back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| sent out | Departure | |
| sent up | Reversal (D) | |
| separated from | Departure | |
| September | SEP | |
| served up | Reversal (D) | |
| set about | Containment | |
| set aside | Departure | |
| set back | Reversal (A/D) | |
| set in | Insertion | |
| set up | Reversal (D) | |
| sets aside | Expulsion | |
| setting aside | Expulsion | |
| sex appeal | SA | |
| sex appeal | SA, IT | |
| Seychelles | SY | |
| shape of console | S | |
| shaped | Anagram | |
| shapes | Anagram | |
| shaping | Anagram | |
| shared by | Containment | |
| shares | Insertion | |
| sharing | Insertion | |
| shattered | Anagram | |
| shattering | Anagram | |
| shatters | Anagram | |
| shed | Departure | |
| shedding | Expulsion | |
| sheds | Expulsion | |
| shell | Select: First and last letters | |
| shelled | Remove: both ends | |
| sheltered by | Insertion | |
| sheltering | Containment | |
| shelters | Containment | |
| shifted | Anagram, Departure | |
| shifting | Anagram, Departure, Expulsion | |
| shifts | Anagram, Expulsion | |
| shilling | S | |
| shimmering | Anagram | |
| shimmers | Anagram | |
| ship | SS | |
| shipped by | Insertion | |
| shipping | Containment | |
| ships | Containment | |
| shivered | Anagram | |
| shivering | Anagram | |
| shivers | Anagram | |
| short | Expulsion | |
| short of | Expulsion | |
| short wave | SW | |
| shortened | Remove: last letter | |
| shot | Anagram | |
| shot of | Expulsion | |
| shoved | Anagram | |
| shoved out | Departure | |
| shoves out | Expulsion | |
| shoving out | Expulsion | |
| shown up | Reversal (D) | |
| shred of | Select: First letter | |
| shredded | Anagram | |
| shrinking | Reversal (A/D) | |
| shrinks | Reversal (A/D) | |
| shrouded by | Insertion | |
| shrouding | Containment | |
| shrouds | Containment | |
| shuffled | Anagram | |
| shunned by | Expulsion | |
| shunning | Departure | |
| shuns | Departure | |
| shunted | Departure | |
| shunting | Expulsion | |
| shunts | Expulsion | |
| shy of | Expulsion | |
| sides | Select: First and last letters | |
| sidestepping | Departure | |
| sidesteps | Departure | |
| sierra | S | |
| Sierra Leone | WAL | |
| silicon | SI | |
| silly | Anagram | |
| silver | AG | |
| Singapore | SGP | |
| sixth sense | ESP | |
| skied | Reversal (D) | |
| skin of | Select: First and last letters | |
| skinless | Remove: both ends | |
| skinned | Remove: both ends | |
| skipping | Expulsion | |
| skips | Expulsion | |
| skirted by | Insertion | |
| skirting | Containment | |
| skirts | Containment, Select: First and last letters | |
| slammed | Anagram | |
| slamming | Anagram | |
| slewed | Reversal (A/D) | |
| slewing | Reversal (A/D) | |
| slews | Reversal (A/D) | |
| slice of | Hidden, Select: First letter | |
| slipped | Anagram | |
| slipped into | Insertion | |
| slipping | Anagram | |
| slips | Anagram | |
| sloshed | Anagram | |
| Slovakia | SK | |
| Slovenia | SLO | |
| small | S | |
| small volume | CC, CL, ML | |
| smashed | Anagram | |
| smashes | Anagram | |
| smashing | Anagram | |
| smothered by | Insertion | |
| smothering | Containment | |
| smothers | Containment | |
| smouldering | Containment | |
| smoulders | Containment | |
| smuggled by | Insertion | |
| smuggles | Containment | |
| smuggling | Containment | |
| snap of | Select: First letter | |
| snared by | Insertion | |
| snares | Containment | |
| snaring | Containment | |
| snarled | Anagram | |
| snarling | Anagram | |
| snarls | Anagram | |
| snatched | Departure | |
| snubbed | Departure, Remove: last letter | |
| snubbing | Departure, Expulsion | |
| snubs | Departure, Expulsion | |
| snuggles | Containment | |
| snuggling | Containment | |
| so it's said | Pun | |
| soak | Anagram | |
| soaked | Anagram | |
| soaring | Reversal (D) | |
| society | S, SOC | |
| sock | Anagram | |
| sodium | NA | |
| soft | P | |
| soft-hearted | Whimsical: Insertion of P in middle | |
| softly | P | |
| Somalia | SO | |
| some | Hidden | |
| some of | Hidden | |
| somehow | Anagram | |
| somersaulting | Reversal (D) | |
| somersaults | Reversal (D) | |
| son | S | |
| sons | S | |
| sound of | Pun | |
| sounded | Homophone | |
| sounding | Homophone | |
| sounds | Homophone | |
| sounds like | Homophone | |
| source of | Select: First letter | |
| soused | Anagram | |
| South | S | |
| South Africa | SA, ZA | |
| South Carolina | SC | |
| South Dakota | SD | |
| south-east | SE | |
| south-eastern | SE | |
| south-west | SW | |
| south-western | SW | |
| Southern | S | |
| sown | Anagram | |
| sozzled | Anagram | |
| spades | S | |
| Spain | E | |
| spanned by | Insertion | |
| spanning | Containment | |
| spans | Containment | |
| special | S, SP | |
| spectacles | OO | |
| spell | Anagram | |
| spelled | Anagram | |
| spelling | SP | |
| spending | Expulsion | |
| spends | Expulsion | |
| spent | Departure | |
| spheres | Containment | |
| spies | CIA | |
| spilling | Departure, Expulsion | |
| spills | Departure, Expulsion | |
| spilt | Departure | |
| spinning | Anagram, Reversal (A/D) | |
| spins | Anagram, Reversal (A/D) | |
| spirited away | Departure | |
| split by | Containment | |
| splits | Departure, Insertion | |
| splitting | Departure, Insertion | |
| spoil | Anagram | |
| spoiled | Anagram | |
| spoken | Pun | |
| spongy | Anagram | |
| sporting | Anagram | |
| spot of | Select: First letter | |
| spread | Anagram | |
| spread by | Containment | |
| spreading | Anagram, Insertion | |
| spreads | Anagram, Insertion | |
| spun | Anagram, Reversal (A/D) | |
| spurned by | Departure | |
| spurning | Departure, Expulsion | |
| spurns | Departure, Expulsion | |
| spymaster | M | |
| square | S, SQ | |
| squashed | Anagram | |
| squashed by | Insertion | |
| squashes | Containment | |
| squashing | Containment | |
| squeezed by | Insertion | |
| squeezed out | Departure | |
| squeezed out by | Replacement | |
| squeezes | Containment | |
| squeezes out | Expulsion | |
| squeezing | Containment | |
| squeezing out | Expulsion, Replacement | |
| squirming | Anagram | |
| squirms | Anagram | |
| Sri Lanka | CL | |
| St Lucia | WL | |
| staggered | Anagram | |
| staggering | Anagram | |
| staggers | Anagram | |
| stalled by | Insertion | |
| stalling | Containment | |
| stalls | Containment | |
| standard | STD | |
| standing | Reversal (D) | |
| standing in for | Replacement | |
| stands | Reversal (D) | |
| stands up | Reversal (D) | |
| start | Select: First letter, Anagram | |
| start to back | Shift: First letter to end (A) | |
| start to fall | Shift: First letter moved down (D) | |
| started | Anagram | |
| starter | Select: First letter | |
| starting | Anagram | |
| starting price | SP | |
| starts | Anagram | |
| stated | Pun | |
| station | STA | |
| steaming | Anagram | |
| steamship | SS | |
| steering clear of | Expulsion | |
| steers clear of | Expulsion | |
| stern of | Select: Last letter | |
| stewed | Anagram | |
| sticking | Insertion | |
| sticks | Insertion | |
| stiff examination | PM | |
| stifled | Departure | |
| stifled by | Insertion | |
| stifles | Containment, Expulsion | |
| stifling | Containment, Expulsion | |
| stirred | Anagram | |
| stirring | Anagram | |
| stirs | Anagram | |
| stolen | Departure | |
| stone | ST | |
| stoned | Anagram | |
| stoneless | Whimsical: Removal of ST | |
| stopped by | Containment | |
| stopping | Insertion | |
| stopping aid | ABS | |
| stops | Insertion | |
| stored in | Insertion | |
| stores | Containment | |
| storing | Containment | |
| storming | Anagram | |
| storms | Anagram | |
| stowed in | Insertion | |
| stowing | Containment | |
| stows | Containment | |
| straddled by | Insertion | |
| straddles | Containment | |
| straddling | Containment | |
| strained | Anagram | |
| straining | Containment | |
| strains | Containment | |
| strangely | Anagram | |
| stray | Anagram | |
| street | ST | |
| stricken | Departure | |
| strikes | Expulsion | |
| striking | Expulsion | |
| string from | Hidden | |
| string in | Hidden | |
| stripped | Departure, Select: First and last letters | |
| stripped of | Expulsion | |
| strontium | SR | |
| struck | Departure | |
| struggles | Anagram | |
| struggling | Anagram | |
| stuck up | Reversal (D) | |
| stuck with | Containment | |
| stuffed with | Containment | |
| stuffing | Insertion | |
| stuffs | Insertion | |
| stunted | Remove: last letter | |
| styled | Anagram | |
| submitting to | Replacement | |
| substituted by | Replacement | |
| subtle | Anagram | |
| subtly | Anagram | |
| succeeded by | Replacement | |
| succeeding | Replacement | |
| succumbing to | Replacement | |
| sucked by | Insertion | |
| sucking | Containment | |
| sucks | Containment | |
| Sudan | SUD | |
| suffering | Anagram | |
| suffers | Anagram | |
| suggestion of | Select: First letter | |
| suitable for everyone | U | |
| sulphur | S | |
| sun | S | |
| Sunday | SUN | |
| sunless | Whimsical: Removal of S | |
| superior to | Before (D) | |
| superseded by | Replacement | |
| superseding | Replacement | |
| supplanted by | Replacement | |
| supplanting | Replacement | |
| supply | Anagram | |
| supported by | Before (D) | |
| supporting | After (D) | |
| supports | After (D) | |
| suppressed | Departure | |
| suppressed by | Insertion | |
| suppresses | Containment, Expulsion | |
| suppressing | Containment, Expulsion, Replacement | |
| surrendered | Departure | |
| surrendering | Expulsion | |
| surrendering to | Replacement | |
| surrenders | Expulsion | |
| surrounded by | Insertion | |
| surrounding | Containment | |
| surrounds | Containment | |
| suspect | Anagram | |
| suspicion of | Select: First letter | |
| swallowed by | Insertion | |
| swallowing | Containment | |
| swallows | Containment | |
| swapping ... for | Replacement | |
| swapping sides | Shift: First/last swapped (A) | |
| swapping tips | Shift: First/last swapped (A/D) | |
| swathed in | Insertion | |
| swathes | Containment | |
| swathing | Containment | |
| swatted | Anagram | |
| Swaziland | SD | |
| Sweden | S | |
| swimming | Anagram | |
| swims | Anagram | |
| swinging | Anagram | |
| swings | Anagram | |
| swirled | Anagram | |
| swirling | Anagram | |
| swirls | Anagram | |
| switched | Anagram | |
| Switzerland | CH | |
| swivelling | Reversal (A/D) | |
| swivels | Reversal (A/D) | |
| swung | Anagram | |
| Syria | SYR | |
| tackled by | Insertion | |
| tackles | Containment | |
| tackling | Containment | |
| tail aloft | Shift: Last letter to start (A/D) | |
| tail first | Shift: Last letter to start (A/D) | |
| tail of | Select: Last letter | |
| tailed | Remove: last letter | |
| tailing | After (A/D) | |
| tailless | Remove: last letter | |
| tails | After (A/D) | |
| Taiwan | RC | |
| take | R, REC | |
| taken aback | Reversal (A/D) | |
| taken by | Insertion | |
| taken from | Departure | |
| taken in by | Insertion | |
| taken on by | Insertion | |
| taken out | Departure | |
| taken up | Reversal (D) | |
| takes | Containment | |
| takes in | Containment | |
| takes on | Containment | |
| takes out | Expulsion | |
| taking | Containment | |
| taking ... for | Replacement | |
| taking in | Containment | |
| taking on | Containment | |
| taking out | Expulsion | |
| taking over from | Replacement | |
| taking place of | Replacement | |
| taking role of | Replacement | |
| tangled | Anagram | |
| tangles | Anagram | |
| tangling | Anagram | |
| tango | T | |
| tanned | Anagram | |
| tantalum | TA | |
| tapped by | Containment | |
| tapping | Insertion | |
| taps | Insertion | |
| tar | AB | |
| taste of | Select: First letter | |
| tax | VAT | |
| tee | T | |
| teetotal | TT | |
| teetotaller | TT | |
| Telecoms company | BT | |
| televison | TV | |
| tellurium | TE | |
| temperature | T | |
| ten | X | |
| Tennessee | TN | |
| tenth | X | |
| term of | Select: Last letter | |
| terminal to | Select: Last letter | |
| terminus of | Select: Last letter | |
| terrace | TER | |
| terribly | Anagram | |
| Territorial Army | TA | |
| Texas | TX | |
| Thailand | T | |
| thallium | TL | |
| that is | IE | |
| the King | CR | |
| The Province | NI | |
| thousand | M | |
| throttled by | Insertion | |
| throttles | Containment | |
| throttling | Containment | |
| throwing out | Expulsion | |
| thrown in | Insertion | |
| thrown into | Insertion | |
| thrown out | Departure | |
| throws out | Expulsion | |
| Thursday | THU | |
| thwarted by | Insertion | |
| thwarting | Containment | |
| thwarts | Containment | |
| tight | Anagram | |
| time | T | |
| timeless | Whimsical: Removal of T | |
| times | X | |
| tin | SN | |
| tip | Select: First letter | |
| tipped | Reversal (D),Remove first letter | |
| tipped by | Before (A/D) | |
| tipped with | Before (A/D) | |
| tipping | After (A/D), Reversal (D) | |
| tips | After (A/D), Reversal (D), Select: First and last letters | |
| titanium | TI | |
| to | Before/After (A/D) | |
| to begin with | Select: First letter(s) | |
| to some extent | Hidden | |
| together with | Before/After (A/D) | |
| Togo | TG | |
| toilet | WC | |
| told | Pun | |
| ton | C | |
| ton | T | |
| tons | T | |
| too much | OTT | |
| top grade | A | |
| top of | Select: First letter | |
| topless | Remove: first letter | |
| topped | Remove: first letter | |
| topped by | After (D) | |
| topped with | After (D) | |
| topping | Before (D) | |
| tops | Before (D) | |
| topside of | Select: First letter | |
| topsy-turvy | Reversal (D) | |
| tormented | Anagram | |
| torn out | Departure | |
| tortuous | Anagram | |
| tortured | Anagram | |
| tossed | Anagram | |
| tosses | Anagram | |
| tossing | Anagram | |
| totty | Anagram | |
| touch of | Select: First letter | |
| Tourist Trophy | TT | |
| towering | Reversal (D) | |
| towers | Reversal (D) | |
| trace of | Select: First letter | |
| trading | Replacement | |
| train of | Select: Last letter | |
| trained | Anagram | |
| transfixed by | Containment | |
| transfixes | Insertion | |
| transfixing | Insertion | |
| transformed | Anagram | |
| transforming | Anagram | |
| transforms | Anagram | |
| translated | Anagram | |
| translates into | Anagram | |
| translating into | Anagram | |
| transvestite | TV | |
| trapped in | Insertion | |
| trapping | Containment | |
| traps | Containment | |
| trashed | Anagram | |
| treated | Anagram | |
| tremors | Anagram | |
| trimmed | Anagram, Remove: last letter | |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TT | |
| tripping | Reversal (D) | |
| trips | Reversal (D) | |
| trolleyed | Anagram | |
| troubled | Anagram | |
| trousers | Containment | |
| trumped-up | Anagram | |
| truncated | Remove: last letter | |
| tucked into | Insertion | |
| Tuesday | TUE | |
| tumbled | Anagram | |
| tumbles | Anagram | |
| tumbling | Anagram | |
| tungsten | W | |
| Tunisia | TN | |
| turbulent | Anagram | |
| Turkey | TR | |
| turn | U | |
| turned | Anagram, Reversal (A/D) | |
| turned down | Departure | |
| turned out | Select: First and last letters | |
| turned over | Reversal (A/D) | |
| turning | Anagram, Reversal (A/D) | |
| turning down | Expulsion | |
| turning into | Replacement | |
| turning over | Reversal (A/D) | |
| turning to | Replacement | |
| turning up | Reversal (D) | |
| turnover in | Reversal (A/D) | |
| turnover of | Reversal (A/D) | |
| turns | Anagram, Reversal (A/D) | |
| turns down | Expulsion | |
| turns over | Reversal (A/D) | |
| turns up | Reversal (D) | |
| tweaked | Anagram | |
| twinkles | Anagram | |
| twinkling | Anagram | |
| twirls | Reversal (A/D) | |
| twisted | Anagram, Reversal (A/D) | |
| twisting | Reversal (A/D) | |
| twists | Reversal (A/D) | |
| Ukraine | UA | |
| ultimate in | Select: Last letter | |
| ultimately | Select: Last letter(s) | |
| ultraviolet | UV | |
| unanswered | Whimsical: Removal of A (or ANS) | |
| unbounded | Remove: both ends | |
| uncapped | Remove: first letter | |
| unconfined | Remove: both ends | |
| unconventional | Anagram | |
| uncouth | Anagram | |
| uncovered | Remove: both ends | |
| uncrowned | Remove: first letter | |
| undated | Whimsical: Removal of D | |
| under | After (D) | |
| underneath | After (D) | |
| underpinned by | Before (D) | |
| underpinning | After (D) | |
| underpins | After (D) | |
| undoes | Insertion | |
| undoing | Insertion | |
| undone by | Containment | |
| unearthed | Whimsical: Removal of E | |
| unemployed | Departure | |
| unending | Remove: last letter | |
| unfathomed | Whimsical: Removal of F | |
| unfinished | Remove: last letter | |
| unfocused | Whimsical: Removal of middle letter | |
| unfolded | Anagram | |
| unfolding | Anagram | |
| unfolds | Anagram | |
| unfortunately | Anagram | |
| unframed | Remove: both ends | |
| unhappily | Anagram | |
| uniform | U | |
| united | U | |
| United Arab Emirates | UAE | |
| United Kingdom | UK | |
| United Nations | UN | |
| United States | US | |
| universal | U | |
| university | U | |
| unkempt | Anagram | |
| unknown | X, Y, Z | |
| unleaded | Whimsical: Removal of first letter | |
| unleashed | Anagram, Departure | |
| unleashes | Expulsion | |
| unleashing | Expulsion | |
| unlined | Whimsical: Removal of L | |
| unlisted | Whimsical: Removal of first and last letters | |
| unloaded | Departure | |
| unloading | Expulsion | |
| unloads | Expulsion | |
| unmarked | Whimsical: Removal of M | |
| unnamed | Whimsical: Removal of N | |
| unnumbered | Whimsical: Removal of N | |
| unopened | Remove: first letter | |
| unravelled | Anagram | |
| unravelling | Anagram | |
| unravels | Anagram | |
| unremembered | Departure | |
| unserviceable | US | |
| unsettled | Anagram, Departure | |
| unsettles | Expulsion | |
| unsettling | Expulsion | |
| unsheathed | Remove: both ends | |
| unshipped | Whimsical: Removal of SS | |
| unsteadily | Anagram | |
| unsteady | Anagram | |
| untidy | Anagram | |
| untrained | Whimsical: Removal of last letter | |
| unusually | Anagram | |
| unwanted | Departure | |
| unwrapped | Remove: both ends | |
| up | Reversal (D), Anagram | |
| up the pole | Anagram | |
| upended | Reversal (D), Whimsical: Reversal of last two letters (D) | |
| upending | Reversal (D) | |
| uplifted | Reversal (D) | |
| upon | Before (D) | |
| upper class | U | |
| upright | Reversal (D) | |
| uprising | Reversal (D) | |
| upset | Anagram, Reversal (D) | |
| upside down | Reversal (D) | |
| upturn in | Reversal (D) | |
| upwardly mobile | Reversal (D) | |
| upwards | Reversal (D) | |
| uranium | U | |
| Uruguay | ROU | |
| US soldier | GI | |
| used up | Reversal (D) | |
| ushered in by | After (A/D) | |
| ushering in | Before (A/D) | |
| ushers in | Before (A/D) | |
| Utah | UT | |
| uttered | Pun | |
| vacant | Select: First and last letters | |
| vacated | Select: First and last letters | |
| vacuous | Select: First and last letters | |
| vague | Anagram | |
| vaguely | Anagram | |
| vanadium | V | |
| vanished | Departure | |
| vanishes | Departure, Expulsion | |
| vanishing | Departure, Expulsion | |
| vanquished | Departure | |
| vanquishes | Expulsion | |
| vanquishing | Expulsion | |
| variable | X, Y, Z | Anagram |
| varied | Anagram | |
| varies | Anagram | |
| varying | Anagram | |
| Vatican City | V | |
| velocity | V | |
| Venezuela | YV | |
| vented | Departure | |
| venting | Expulsion | |
| vents | Expulsion | |
| verbal | Pun | |
| verbally | Pun | |
| Vermont | VT | |
| versatile | Anagram | |
| versus | V, VS | |
| very | V | |
| very large | OS | |
| very loud | FF | |
| very quiet | PP | |
| vice versa | Reversal (A/D) | |
| vices | Containment | |
| victor | V | |
| Victoria Cross | VC | |
| Vietnam | VN | |
| vigorously | Anagram | |
| violate | Anagram | |
| violated | Anagram | |
| Virginia | VA | |
| virual reality | VR | |
| void | Select: First and last letters | |
| voided | Departure, Select: First and last letters | |
| voiding | Expulsion | |
| voids | Expulsion | |
| Volkswagen | VW | |
| volt | V | |
| volume | V | |
| volunteers | TA | |
| vote | X | |
| wacky | Anagram | |
| walkover | WO | |
| walls | Containment | |
| wanting | Departure, Expulsion | |
| wanting seconds | Select: odd letters | |
| wanton | Anagram | |
| wants | Expulsion | |
| warped | Anagram | |
| warping | Anagram | |
| warps | Anagram | |
| Washington | WA | |
| waste | Anagram | |
| wasted | Departure | |
| wasted | Anagram | |
| wastes | Expulsion | |
| wasting | Expulsion | |
| waved | Anagram | |
| wavering | Anagram | |
| waves | Anagram | |
| waving | Anagram | |
| wavy | Anagram | |
| we gather | Pun | |
| we hear | Pun | |
| wearing | Insertion | |
| wears | Insertion | |
| wedged in | Insertion | |
| wedged with | Containment | |
| wedges | Insertion, Containment | |
| week | W, WK | |
| weight | W | |
| weightless | Whimsical: Removal of W | |
| welcomed by | Insertion | |
| welcomes | Containment | |
| welcoming | Containment | |
| West | W | |
| West Indies | WI | |
| West Virginia | WV, WVA | |
| westbound | Reversal (A) | |
| Western | W | |
| Western Australia | WA | |
| Western Samoa | WS | |
| westward | Reversal (A) | |
| westwards | Reversal (A) | |
| whale | Anagram | |
| what gets ... going | Select: First letter | |
| what gets ... started | Select: First letter | |
| what winds up | Select: Last letter | |
| what's behind | Select: Last letter | |
| wheeling | Reversal (A/D) | |
| wheels | Reversal (A/D) | |
| whipped | Anagram | |
| whisked | Anagram | |
| whiskey | W | |
| whistled | Anagram | |
| wicket | W | |
| wide | W | |
| width | W | |
| wife | W | |
| wild | Anagram | |
| William | WM | |
| wimples | Containment | |
| wind | Anagram | |
| winding | Anagram, Containment | |
| winds | Anagram, Containment | |
| windy | Anagram | |
| wingless | Remove: both ends | |
| wings | Select: First and last letters | |
| wiped | Departure | |
| wiped out | Departure | |
| wipes | Expulsion | |
| wipes out | Expulsion | |
| wiping | Expulsion | |
| wiping out | Expulsion | |
| Wisconsin | WI, WIS | |
| with | W | Before/After (A/D) |
| with ... as | Replacement | |
| with ... for | Replacement | |
| with demotion of x | Shift: x moved nearer to end (D) | |
| with head dropping | Shift: First letter moved down (D) | |
| with heart void | Remove: middle letters | |
| with opener dropping down | Shift: First letter moved down (D) | |
| with parts exchanged | Shift: Cyclic (A/D) | |
| with parts swapped | Shift: Cyclic (A/D) | |
| with promotion of x | Shift: x moved nearer to start (D) | |
| withdrawing | Reversal (A/D), Departure | |
| withdrawn | Reversal (A/D), Departure | |
| withdraws | Reversal (A/D), Departure | |
| withered | Anagram | |
| withheld | Departure | |
| within | Insertion | |
| without | Expulsion | |
| without limits | Remove: both ends | |
| wobbled | Anagram | |
| wobbles | Anagram | |
| wobbling | Anagram | |
| wobbly | Anagram | |
| women | W | |
| women's | W | |
| Women's Institute | WI | |
| won't have | Expulsion | |
| wonky | Anagram | |
| word processor | WP | |
| work | OP | |
| worked | Anagram | |
| working | Anagram | |
| working out | Anagram | |
| works | Anagram | |
| worn by | Containment | |
| worried | Anagram | |
| wound by | Insertion | |
| wrapped in | Insertion | |
| wrapper | Select: First and last letters | |
| wrapping | Containment, Select: First and last letters | |
| wraps | Containment | |
| wreathed in | Insertion | |
| wrecked | Anagram | |
| wrestles | Anagram | |
| wrestling | Anagram | |
| wretched | Anagram | |
| wriggles | Anagram | |
| wriggling | Anagram | |
| writhes | Anagram | |
| writhing | Anagram | |
| writing | MS | |
| written up | Reversal (D) | |
| wrong | Anagram | |
| wrong answer | X | |
| wrong mark | X | |
| wry | Anagram | |
| Wyoming | WY | |
| x becoming leader | Shift: x moved to start (A/D) | |
| x brought forward | Shift: x moved nearer to start (A) | |
| x coming to fore | Shift: x moved to start (A/D) | |
| x coming to head | Shift: x moved to start (A/D) | |
| x demoted | Shift: x moved nearer to end (D) | |
| x promoted | Shift: x moved nearer to start (D) | |
| x put back | Shift: x moved nearer to end (A) | |
| x taking lead | Shift: x moved to start (A/D) | |
| xenon | XE | |
| yank | Anagram | |
| Yankee | Y | |
| yard | Y, YD | |
| yards | YDS | |
| year | Y, YR | |
| years | YRS | |
| Yemen | YAR | |
| yes | I | |
| yielded | Departure | |
| yielding | Expulsion | |
| yielding for | Replacement | |
| yielding to | Replacement | |
| yields | Expulsion | |
| your | YR | |
| yours | YRS | |
| Yugoslavia | YU | |
| Zambia | Z | |
| zero | O | |
| Zimbabwe | ZW | |
| zinc | ZN | |
| zip | O | |
| zirconium | ZR | |
| Zulu | Z |