Chris

I'm so sick of "____: abbr." as a clue for words that have no standard abbreviations. Yes, typically in lazy fashion, the answer will just be the first however many letters of the "true" answer, but this is not always the case and is certainly not always the case for real-life abbreviated words! How am I to decide which letters the puzzle creator arbitrarily included in the made-up abbreviation? The truth is that this is a cop-out clue to force something that isn't a word to become a word, and I'd prefer some more transparency there, or at least a cuter clue. For example "ANAG" could've been something like "someone who is always getting on your case" as in "quit being such a nag." Is it the strongest clue? No, definitely not, but it's so much more transparent in its weakness than just pretending that anyone in their right mind would think "anag" was short for anagram.