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Seed:  raffle
Time:  1 hour

I entered raffle in Word Explorer and added an obvious letter t to the elf-far split. By swapping t-raffle for elf-fart, I dropped the extra t to get the valid palindrome, "elf fart raffle."

* raffle elf-far
* t raffle elf fart
* elf fart raffle

Then I just looked for ways to expand that silly phrase. Both the verb and ananym lists helped.

* Reviled elf fart raffle, deliver!
* Detailed elf fart raffle deli at ed
* Flower elf fart raffle re wolf
* Iron elf fart raffle Nori
* Peek at elf fart raffle, Tak. Eep!
* Know elf fart raffle, Wonk?
* Evil elf fart raffle. Live!
* Wes knits evil elf fart raffle. Live stinks! Ew!

Seed:  ananym
Time:  1 minute

I chose ananym as my preferred term for a word that makes a different word when reversed. On a whim I reversed ananym and saw "My nana," which caught my attention (even though my family never used the endearment 'nana' for our grandmothers). Then I decided to include an ananym in the palindrome. The finished composition came to me in a flash.

Why did I choose ananym from the nineteen terms (anagram, ananym, antigram, drow, half-palindrome, heterodrome, inversion, palinode, recurrent palindrome, retronym, reversagram, reversal, reversal pair, reversible, reversible anagram, reversion, semordnilap, sotadic palindrome, and word reversal, according to The Dictionary of Wordplay by Dave Morice) already in use? It was not random.

First, I eliminated the multi-word terms because I wanted a single word. Then I looked at the palindromic potential of each of the remaining terms. I also considered the nature of the term's usage, whether authoritative sources accepted the term, and the word's etymology. Only ananym satisfied all five criteria.

Bonus reason:  "Ban ananym" is also "banana-nym".