Trans-cross
A trans-cross is similar to a double-cross (which see), but the pieces of the word switch AB, CD, AC, BD. For example: seal, rely, sere, ally.
TRANS-CROSS (3-5, 6, 8, 6) (TEAS, EH, TEE, ASH)
Sing a song of sixpence, a koan rather wry:
EH of ASH arranged on a Zen master’s pie.
When he saw his pizza had four-and-twenty birds,
He had the TEE assemble, and said some angry words
(In some Tibeto-Burman tongue, or Tai, or TEAS;
They all were South-East Asian—they weren’t Japanese).
“Within this monastery,” he said, and waved his bat,
“ ‘Make me one with everything’ does not refer to that.”
=Ucaoimhu
The solution: TEAS = Mon-Khmer, EH = oodles, TEE = monkhood, ASH = merles.
The trans-cross was invented by Ucaoimhu.