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Readers were asked to create a new definition for a popular acronym or initialism.

David Calder, New Plymouth: POTUS: Politician Offering Totally Unhinged Solutions.

Michael Smythe, Auckland: POTUS: Preposterous Oaf Targeting Unquestioned Sainthood.

Antoinette Baker, Christchurch: POTUS: Principal Oligarch Tries Undermining Statesmanship.

Carol Crutchley, Hamilton: PAYE: Pray As Your Err.

Brian Coutts, Dunedin: NATO: Nonnews After Trump Obfuscates.

Sue Dalgety, Mangaweka: NATO: Not Another Trump Obstruction.

Andrea Levarre-Waters, Auckland: NASA: Nascent American Super Army.

Ian Penrose, Coromandel Town: SFO: Sometimes Fool-proof Offending.

Kate Gore, Rotorua: GST: Government Saving Technique.

Poppy Sinclair, Karori: RSVP: Russians Swaying Voter Preferences.

David Wort, Bay of Plenty: SFO: Slippery Funders Outed.

John Edgar, Christchurch: NASA: No Aliens Seen Anywhere.

Keith Davidson, Blenheim: MAGA: Maniacal Autocrat Generating Apocalypse.

Ellie Henderson, Motueka: ASAP: Always Said As Procrastination.

Rex McGregor, Auckland: NZF: No Zany Financing.

Kaye Bennetts, Whangaparāoa: DIY: Ditched Instructions Yesterday.

This week’s winner is Tākaka’s Alan

Swafford with BREXIT: Boris Realises Excess Xenophobia Is Terminal.

For the next contest, blend two wellknown sayings to create a malaphor. For example, “a bird in the hand makes the heart grow fonder”. Entries, for the prize below, close at noon on Thursday, March 19. Submissions: wordsworth@listener.co.nz or Wordsworth, NZ Listener, Private Bag 92512, Wellesley St, Auckland 1141. Please include your address. Entries may be edited for sense or space reasons.