Anagrams

[Pantani_lives]

To get through a few days without big races, here are a few anagrams to solve. They're all cyclists. I arranged them into three categories: active men, retired men and active women. Some are easier than others. Some are pretty funny. Try to solve them without cheating. Have fun!

Active men:
Cockpit mod
Danging Sarajevo
Depressed man
Kedgeree
Morphine evaluated
No antiquarian
Tango scrum

Retired men:
European pissing
Find adorable
Keen Sally
Octopus Piaf
Orbital gain
Parents age
Roman captain

Active Women:
Evil goldminer
Jealous blue tit
Keep pictures
Plain reptile
Reboiling hooligans

 

[RedheadDane]

Keen Sally: Sean Kelly

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Cockpit mod Tom Pidcock
Danging Sarajevo Jonas Vingegaard
Depressed man Mads Pedersen
Kedgeree Derek Gee
No antiquarian Nairo Quintana

Octopus Piaf Fausto Coppi

Evil goldminer Demi Vollering

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I can add Zona Invincible to the list of retired riders.

Orbital gain: Gino Bartali
Parents age: Peter Sagan
Roman captain: Marco Pantani

Jealous blue tit: Juliette Labous
Keep pictures: Puck Pieterse
Plain reptile: Liane Lippert
Reboiling hooligans: Elisa Longo Borghini

 

[Pantani_lives]

Zona Invincible:

Spoiler

Vincenzo Nibali

Good one!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Morphine Evaluated: Mathieu van der Poel

 

[Pantani_lives]

You're going well!

Only three remain unsolved:

Active men:
Tango scrum

Retired men:
European pissing
Find adorable

 

[Devil's Elbow]

European pissing Giuseppe Saronni
Tango scrum Magnus Cort

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Find adorable Alfredo Binda

 

[Pantani_lives]

And they're solved!

The funny thing is that although I made them myself, I found them quite hard to solve now.

 

[rallybanana]

If Mathieu van der Poel had an extra 't' in his name, his anagram would be: PMU elevation hatred

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Tour de France winners all:

Infant lounger
acrobat lend root
chromo fires
men grant corals
Amish tetragon
Dylan checks

 

[Squire]

Tour de France winners all:

Infant lounger Fignon
acrobat lend root Contador
chromo fires Froome
men grant corals Armstrong
Amish tetragon Thomas
Dylan checks Not a TDF winner in my book!

To get through a few days without big races, here are a few anagrams to solve.

Got all the active men quite easily except Tango Scrum. That one completely evaded me.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Active men:
Baton Admirer
A Como Inn Sign
Cold Ariostea
Visma Cake Hat
Rabofael Nerd Con

Retired men:
Doped, Jovial Joana Rimbaud
(2-in-1) Like Zebra, Lick Zebra
Bath Inuit Pot
Polti Chase Cardenas

Active women:
Lemur Rareness
Brennan Geneva Grad

 

[Pantani_lives]

Baton Admirer

Spoiler

Romain Bardet

Cold Ariostea

Spoiler

Isaac del Toro

Visma Cake Hat

Spoiler

Mathias Vacek

Bath Inuit Pot

Spoiler

Thibaut Pinot

Lemur Rareness

Spoiler

Marlen Reusser

Brennan Geneva Grad

Spoiler

Anna van der Breggen

 

[RedheadDane]

(2-in-1) Like Zebra, Lick Zebra

So, two people with the same letters in their names?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So, two people with the same letters in their names?

Apart from one.

 

[RedheadDane]

Apart from one.

So, one is an anagram of "like Zebra" and the other of "lick Zebra"?

(Don't like zebras...)

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So, one is an anagram of "like Zebra" and the other of "lick Zebra"?

Correct.

 

[RedheadDane]

Hmm... I keep thinking 'Eliza', and that doesn't seem right...

 

[Izzyeviel]

Meet the Zabels!

 

[tobydawq]

Okay, I have one in the active category:

Romain Sicard

 

[RedheadDane]

Romain Sicard

Romain Cardis!

Meet the Zabels!

 

[laarsland]

Not one to solve, but a headline I still pine for someone to use: Job Bungles

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Active men:
Baton Admirer
A Como Inn Sign
Cold Ariostea
Visma Cake Hat
Rabofael Nerd Con

Retired men:
Doped, Jovial Joana Rimbaud
(2-in-1) Like Zebra, Lick Zebra
Bath Inuit Pot
Polti Chase Cardenas

Active women:
Lemur Rareness
Brennan Geneva Grad

A Como Inn Sign: Gianni Moscon
Rabofael Nerd Con: Fernando Barcelo

Doped, Jovial Joana Rimbaud: Tricky due to the different spellings of his name, but it is Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
Polti Chase Cardenas: Alessandro Petacchi