Reasons to be cheerful, Part A

For this round of Jenny Matlock's Alphabe-Thursday, I thought I would take a theme which might loosely be entitled 'Reasons to be Cheerful, Part _', after the 1979 hit single by Ian Dury and the Blockheads (Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3).

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For everyone, the reasons will be different, but I wanted to search around for some of the things which brighten up my day; things for which I am thankful.

A is for MAN AS RAG

or do I mean A SNAG RAM?

or should that be MA RAN GAS?


Hold on. This time, I've really got it...

A is for ANAGRAMS

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I am one of those people who enjoys playing with words. I don't just like anagrams, adjectives are pretty cool too - as are adverbs, antonyms, alliteration, acronyms, abbreviations, affixes and a whole bunch of other stuff which doesn't happen to begin with A.

At this point, I want to make it clear that if word puzzles are not your thing, you must not feel obliged to plough on. Feel free to go visit someone else instead of me :)

If you are still with me, I hope you find these fun.

I'll start with something easy.

1. NO CAR


Okay so far??


2. OLD MAN


3. A METRIC HIT


4. ROAST A NUT


5. THAT EEL


6. RANCH AID


Nearly there :)


7. SEAPORT HOP


8. GO RIP A LEECH



How did you do? Hope you enjoyed the fun.


By the way, the answers are down here somewhere

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Here they are:

1. acorn

2. almond

3. arithmetic

4. astronaut

5. athlete

6. arachnid

7. apostrophe

8. archipelago