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Complete these rhyming couplets with anagrams

ANAGRAM QUIZ
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In each rhyme, the words marked xxxx are anagrams. The number of x's tells the number of letters in each word.

Killer
The killer came back to cover his tracks
so no one could learn the truth.
You don't have much time to gather the facts.
You need to xxxxxx, xxxxxx.
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Sneeze
Every year, about this time, my eyes itch and I sneeze.
It's xxxxxxx caused by xxxxxxx. That's why I cough and wheeze.
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Islands
Way out in the xxxxx the Chief and the crew
Go island to island in their dugout xxxxx.
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Rescue
The xxxxxx takes the seaplane out for a rescue trip,
then lands at the xxxxxx and moors it in its slip.
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Nature
The boring xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx droned on about nature's beauty,
a self-styled xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx who urged us to our duty
to keep our waters clean and pure
with words arcane and snooty.
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News
The newsman read the xxxxxxx whose contents were so vital.
The people listened, all intense, to hear his grim xxxxxxx.
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Fools
The xxxxxxxx fights bravely against the clique that rules.
She is an avid xxxxxxxx to rid us of such fools.
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Sun
I rode my xxxxx along the xxxxx to see the setting sun,
the sails on the horizon, the bathers having fun.
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All Wet
My sock is all soggy, my foot is wet, too
Since that pesty kid turned the xxxx on my xxxx.
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Prayer
Dressed in sacred xxxxxxx the muezzin mounts the stair
of the tallest xxxxxxx to call the town to prayer.
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Angler
The old xxxxxx angler has a grand dream
to catch every fish that lives in this xxxxxx.
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King
The king looks most xxxxx, as monarchs oft do,
with xxxxx rounded tummy and double chin, too,
from hoisting the xxxxx, a thousand or two.
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Movies
You xxxxxx and I produce these movies that we do.
I get all the headaches. The xxxxxx goes to you.
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