Anagrams for Crosswords: A Collection of Word Anagrams

By Dr Annavarapu Gopalakrishna

Even the manliest will suffer from ailments

Sweat imparts body odour to armpits

He has money aplenty to pay the penalty

When education is auctioned
and teachers become cheaters, naturally the student will be stunted

Does the lameness of nameless salesmen affect their maleness?

The gardener garnered the crop

The getaway car was parked near the gateway

When the designer was asked to redesign, he promptly resigned

On being swindled ones faith in others dwindles

running after lucre Will give you ulcer

Butlers are subtler

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 3, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481763998

Dr Annavarapu Gopalakrishna

Dr Annavarapu Gopalakrishna was born on 22nd June 1950 at Raipur, Chattisgarh( then Madhya Pradesh),the last of seven sons of Annavarapu sitadevi and Egneshwara Sharma He studied in St John’s high school and Institute of science Nagpur. After completing his M.B.B.S. from Medical college Nagpur, he proceeded to Mumbai(then Bombay)for further studies He did his M.Ch. in plastic surgery from seth G.S. medical college and K.E.M. hospital in 1979.he worked as a lecturer in plastic surgery in Lokmanya Tilak municipal medical college till 1982 and then proceeded to the U.K. for further training. After returning from U.K. he started practice in Hyderabad. In 1997 he joined the Deccan college of medical sciences where he is now Professor and head of the department of plastic surgery. he is a guide for PhD recognized by the NTR university of health sciences and has a number of publications in Indian and international journals. His other interests are languages ,particularly English, Hindi and Urdu. He has published a collection of his Hindi and Urdu poems-TANHAAEE in four scripts-Devnagari, Nastaliq, Roman and Telugu. Dr Gopalakrishna and his wife Dr. Shyamala, who is a Gynaecologist, live in Hyderabad. They have two daughters. Mrinalini and Vibhavari . Mrinalini, a graduate of ISB Hyderabad is married to D. Suryanarayana shastry & has two children Abhimanyu and Anagha.Vibhavari, M.A. in psychology From Andhra University who is married to Lt Commander Rohit Kattoju of the Indian navy and has a son Advai.

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Contents

Foreword

Preface

Word Anagrams

About the Author

I would like to dedicate this book to

my father in law

Mr Ch. Suryanarayana Rao,

AND

To the memory of my late elder brother

Professor A.Jaganmohan

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Mr Ch. Suryanarayana Rao,

Retired registrar of the monopolies and restrictive trade practices commission,

Union ministry of law, justice & company affairs, government of India.

A man of letters, a scholar in three languages, namely Sanskrit, Telugu and English.

He has translated Gurudev’s Gitanjali into Sanskrit and the Bard’s sonnets into Telugu apart from producing a large number of original works in all the three languages.

He started writing at an ealy age & today at 87 he still dedicates a few hours a day to writing.

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Professor A.Jaganmohan

Retired professor of Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

Who introduced me to the crossword in The Times of India

In 1974, thus igniting in me a lifelong passion for

Anagrams

Foreword

Dr. Gopalakrishna is a multi-facetted person. I don’t know whether he chose himself or was driven to one particular line that he professes now—that of a plastic surgeon. All I know of his job is that apart from attending to repairing facial and other damages caused by accidents, he adds to the perception of people of their own beauty. But that does not exhaust his creativity. In order to satisfy his creative wander-lust he produced a very good volume of poetry in Hindi, Telugu, and Urdu with Roman version too. That way no one is left out. Well, that can be condoned for that is in line with a quest of beauty.

Now he springs a surprise by bringing out a book on Anagrams. Well in case you, like me you don’t know what an anagram is, ask Google. If you don’t have a computer, look up a dictionary. If you don’t even that, let me explain to you. The New Oxford Advanced Leaner’s Dictionary says an Anagram is a word or phrase made by arranging the letters of another word or phrase in a different order. An anagram of ‘Elvis’ is ‘lives’.

So you see that it is a ‘teaser’ game for cerebral people, or those who want to increase their word power. If you play Scrabble or do crosswords this book can be of immense use. You can play in a group or even alone.

While I was writing this, I suddenly started looking at every word that I had written to see if I could make an anagram out of that. So, you leap from a dictionary to a thesaurus to anagram. It seems to be a very addictive pastime.

As in every case of a person seeking further enlightenment, I went to Google.

A whole new world opened up before me. There are lots of books on the subject and even software to let you enter the kingdom of Anagram. Not only words but also phrases can be subjected to anagram. For example take the phrase: ‘The best things in the world are free’. Its anagram will be: ‘Nail-biting refreshes the feet’. Another example is the infamous name: ‘Osama Bin Laden’ which makes the anagram: ‘Dispensed human’.

So shuffle the pages, get absorbed in a new world and thank the good doctor for that. I congratulate the author on his venture and wait to see what new territory he invades next.

Narendra Luther

Writer and former civil servant

Foreword

One of the reasons English is so widely spoken around the world is that it absorbs influences from all the languages it comes into contact with. Many of our most common words and expressions are borrowed from other languages. Words like jungle and shampoo as well as some with a more obvious lineage like juggernaut and curry originate from Indian languages. English is a very versatile language and it is most interesting (and entertaining, I might add) to see what one differently placed letter can do to the meaning of a word. As Dr Gopalakrishna demonstrates; Running after lucre will give you an ulcer and when education is auctioned, teachers become cheaters and naturally, the student becomes stunted. Anagrams are a great means of expressing ideas in a way that they stay with the readers.

Dr. Gopalakrishna’s book on anagrams is the ideal companion to those (like me!) who are cryptic crossword novices. It will help sharpen wit, while avoiding the (much experienced) frustration of early failure. And if you do enjoy a play on words and the humour it brings, this book would help you spot many a joke!

I do hope readers will find this book helpful. I certainly have used it to add spice to my speeches.