SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2016 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ EE E13 Diversions THE STYLE INVITATIONAL SUNDAY CHALLENGE Shelley you jest: Poems from anagrams BY PATRICK JORDAN © 2016 CROSSYNERGY SYNDICATE LLC BY PAT MYERS ACROSS 38 Plucky quality 62 Perform high-tech 12 Squid’s squirt 37 Brainy youngster 1 Brassy person’s lack 39 They’ve never been union surgery on 14 Androgynous 39 Stimulating swigs In Week 1186 we asked you to rearrange the letters of 6 Word in the subtitle of Alex members 63 Reasoning capacity 19 Purchase that may be 40 Sling mud at someone’s name, then write a poem about the resulting Haley’s “Roots” 42 Joseph of frozen padded 41 Convert to carbon anagram. Many Losers chose a poet’s name and wrote 10 Letter that rhymes with its confection fame DOWN 21 Kevin Kline comedy 44 Pig in children’s books a parody of a poem by that writer. So, so many witty two successors 43 Vespers activity 1 Forms a blanket, in a way whose poster features the 46 Regularly, in rhymes verses this week — and so, so many of them about the 13 “Sorry, too busy” 45 Band with two cuts on 2 Partners of dreams or fears White House 48 Defiant response to an Great Orange Menace. 15 “Ten-four” sayer the “Doctor Detroit” 3 1945 demo at Alamogordo 25 Out to get accusation 4th place 16 First name in soundtrack 4 Bowlful near some cash 26 Standard & ___ 49 “Exceed Your Vision” DONALD TRUMP anagrams to DAD = MR. NUT POL silent horror 47 World capital near registers 27 Change, as a hem printer company When Donald Trump’s your dear old dad 17 Demand from a door Lake Titicaca 5 Birds that can jump seven 28 Border collie’s charges 50 Zoe who co-wrote the And you’re his favorite daughter, pounder 48 Scorch slightly feet straight up 30 Displayed irritation script for “Camille” You’re stuck; you’ve got to stump for him, 18 Showed reluctance 52 Musical character who 6 Iago or Becky Sharp 31 Spot for a jumper cable’s 51 Roxie portrayer in Although you shouldn’t oughter. 20 1957 Broadway musical is told in absentia, “Our 7 Exploitation practitioners red clamp “Chicago” You’ve been around, you know that he’s debut mothers all are junkies” 8 Hardly harsh 32 Trait of Roger Rabbit’s wife 53 Stud’s scion Too brazen for the bomb — 22 Atl. traversers, once 55 “Try that again” 9 Vessel that visited Colchis Jessica 54 Alternatives to Sonys So what’s to do but prove true blue 23 Caravan creature 57 Strands at a ski lodge, 10 Seeks favor from 33 Randy’s rink partner 55 Artistic touch? And vote for Chelsea’s mom? 24 PDQ alternative perhaps 11 Ad or post follower 35 Needing nursing 56 Stamp mill material (Danielle Nowlin, Fairfax Station, Va.) 27 Admires tenderly 58 Section of a circumference 29 “Cocoon” prop, for short 59 Makes public 3rd place 30 Clips and clasps 60 Vic whose first hit was 34 Savvy about “I Have But One Heart” HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON to 36 Misgiving 61 Contest for filmdom’s MONTHLY, AN OLD RICH LIAR 37 Chaotic jumble Akeelah Not a month can pass us by, Not without some Clinton lie. Be it of Benghazi fight Answer to last week Or the latest e-mail blight. But she’ll soon be president Since Republican dissent Foisted on us Donald Trump: Tweedledemon, Tweedledump. (Ray Gallucci, Frederick, Md.) BOB STAAKE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST 2nd place and the book “Butt Rot and Bottom Gas”: ROBERT FROST to ‘TERROR’? OFT BS New for Week 1190: I have been one acquainted with the Right, You’re workin’ on a And how they whip up stories with their spin To scare you silly, keep you up at night chain, gang With fear we’re letting nasty people in: The sort whose creeds are not what “we” believe And just look at those swarthy shades of skin – MICHAEL PHELPS, Mark Spitz, Anchor “You’d have those people here? Don’t be naive! Hocking, “Anchors Aweigh,” Frank Sinatra, We can’t trust those who love a different god, Sean Bean, Ned Stark, “Naked Cowboy,” They’ve got some dark intentions up their sleeve: Gene Autry, Kate Smith, Katie Ledecky, HOROSCOPE They’re likely sleeper cells to plot jihad!” MICHAEL PHELPS. The other pundits nod and say, “That’s right; Why do they hate us? Don’t you find that odd? DONALD TRUMP, Donald Duck, Ryan Gosling, “Catcher in the Rye,” Holden Caulfield, Henry BY JACQUELINE BIGAR They can’t help they’re not Protestant and white . .” Huggins, Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, Dr. HAPPY BIRTHDAY | Aug. 28: This year will be smooth sailing, as long as you don’t get involved with someone who I have been one acquainted with the Right. Dolittle, Francis the Talking Mule, the needs to be in control. You will initiate a very positive year financially starting in mid-September. If you are single, (Brendan Beary, Great Mills, Md.) Democrats, HILLARY CLINTON. you meet people with ease. A friendship might be the source of a special relationship. If you are attached, the two of you seem to interact with renewed interest and excitement. Cancer enjoys and respects your And the winner of the Inkin’ Memorial: The Empress was saddened to hear of the intellectual process. EDGAR A. POE to EGO PARADE death last month of Mary Ann Madden, creator of the New York Magazine Competition, the always seem to be in the midst of a involved without first Once upon a dark convention, full of fear and ARIES (March 21-April 19) good time. understanding what is happening. apprehension, 973­contest institution that ran from 1969 t0 2000 and inspired the Czar — the E’s You could feel torn between two After many strange and hateful speakers from the different perspectives. Each LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) GOP— predecessor and a luckless NYMag entrant — to engage in the sincerest form of flattery and viewpoint seems to pose at least You may want to pull back from You may discover that a loved one Came the climax, pessimistic, altogether chauvinistic, one problem. You might not be able everything that is going on. Make it seems to need more of your time With an empty, egotistic pledge to fix things by decree: start up this thing right here in 1993. Like the Invite, NYMag presented a variety to mediate the situation yourself, okay to devote a few days to and attention. Do your best to “Only one knows how to do it, and of course that one is of wordplay contests, with many recurring so it would be wise to reach out to a spending time with a loved one. All schedule some time for the two of ME!” ones. As Longtime Loser and occasional friend or loved one for relationships benefit from this type you to get together. You will relax as Quoth the ravin’ Donald T. Maddenite Sandra Hull reminded us, one some feedback. of bonding. you start sharing some memories (Jesse Frankovich, Lansing, Mich.) favorite was “The Game of Dan Greenburg,” of your friendship. named for the humorist who suggested it; TAURUS (April 20-May 20) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The Drab of Avon: honorable mentions we’ve done this contest ourselves several times, You have a lot on your mind, so Honor a need to be more CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) this week we’ll do it a bit differently. ROGER AILES to I OGLE REARS clearing your thoughts could take expressive than you have been in Defer to others, especially if you some time. You may feel pressured the past. Others will respond to have confidence in them. A loved I. I ogle rears. If I see one This week: Create a chain of no more than 15 On some hot babe, I pinch a bun, by an implicit demand or an your efforts in a big way. Be sure to one may want to show off their proper nouns — names of people (real or important conversation. You may continue a discussion with strengths, but they could get into a And if it leads to sex, I thank her fictional), products, places, etc. — including By making her a Fox News anchor. not know how to handle the matter, your friends. power struggle. one title of a work — in which each name but what you do will But if she turns away and sneers, relates somehow to the previous one, as in It’s time for her to switch careers. Sandra’s examples above. New this time: You surprise others. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) (Robert Schechter, Dix Hills, N.Y.) may bookend the list either with the same You could be excited about getting You may want to express your name, as in the first example, or with GEMINI (May 21-June 20) together with a friend. You may fatigue at all the constant II. I made quite a fair offer to Gretchen, contrasting ones, as in the second. You may feel as if you must experience some negativity, as this socializing. A matter you would Who, like all the gals here, is quite fetchin’. convince someone else of the person seems intent on having prefer not to discuss could rear its For just two or three lays The trick to this contest (and to much of the rightness of your ways. This person things go their way.