Anagram Indicators

• Drunken men are more despicable (6) = MEANER, where “drunken” is the anagram indicator, “men are” provides the letters to be rearranged (the anagrist), and “more despicable” is the definition.

• The list can be sorted by Indicator, Function and Type
• The list can be filtered using the drop-downs on ‘Function’ and ‘Type’. To reset a filter, select ‘Function’ or ‘Type’ from the top of the drop-down list.
• For each indicator, its part of speech – in the wordplay, though not necessarily in the surface reading – is shown in the list (so ‘supply’ as an anagram indicator is an adverb, meaning ‘in a pliant fashion’, though in the surface reading it might function as a noun).

• For each indicator, its part of speech – in the wordplay, though not necessarily in the surface reading – is shown in the list (so ‘supply’ as an anagram indicator is an adverb, meaning ‘in a pliant fashion’, though in the surface reading it might function as a noun).
• Note that very few noun anagram indicators are listed; Ximenean thinking is that a noun alone (eg ‘fuel mixture’ for FLUE) is not sufficient and that a preposition is required (eg ‘mixture of fuel’ for FLUE, ‘team in disarray’ for MATE).

Date last modified: 09/07/26
Recent changes: (17/02/26) added created, mislaid, originally, rude, rudely, sabotaged, spoils/spoiling, wound; removed fiddling, (09/07) added dusted, huddles, reassembled; removed assembled.