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The fortnightly test your anagram power #11, By David Sutton

Here is a quiz comprising twenty single-solution alphagrams of seven or eight letters. The first ten are words which a reasonably well-read person has a fair chance of knowing. The second ten are words likely to be known only to specialists or, of course, to good Scrabble players! Most of the words fall in the mid-probability range.

Hover over the relevant black box to reveal the answer. Good luck!

AAGLNRU	ANGULAR Having sharp corners > ANGULARLY.
AAIMRSU	SAMURAI (Hist.) (Japanese) a member of the military caste in feudal Japan.
AEGNPRSU	SPEARGUN A spearfishing gun.
AABDEEHR	BAREHEAD Having the head uncovered. Also BAREHEADED.
AGORRTW	RAGWORT A common coarse yellow-headed composite weed of pastures.
EGIRRSTY	REGISTRY The act of registering.
AACEETUV	EVACUATE To remove from a dangerous area.
AEEFGLSU	FUSELAGE (Fr.) the elongated body section of an aeroplane, containing the crew and passengers or cargo.
EGINNPSU	PENGUINS (Pl.) PENGUIN, a flightless, aquatic bird.
EIOPRRSS	PRIORESS A female superior of a house of any of various orders of nuns; the deputy of an abbess.
CEOPRRST	PORRECTS (3rd.) PORRECT, to stretch forth; to present.
ALORRSUY	SURROYAL One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
AHINSTUU	TAUHINUS (Pl.) TAUHINU, a New Zealand poplar tree.
AADOPSTT	DOPATTAS (Pl.) DOPATTA, a silk or muslin shawl.
CEHIOPU	COPIHUE A climbing vine.
BEEILLTU	TULLIBEE (Am. Ind.) a whitefish found in the Great Lakes of North America > TULLIBEES.
AEMOSUZ	ZAMOUSE (Arabic) a short-horned buffalo.
AEEGLRUX	EXERGUAL Relating to the EXERGUE, the space on a coin, token or medal usually on the reverse below the date.
ACDEENRZ	CREDENZA (Ital.) a long sideboard.
ABCEHLO	CHAEBOL (Korean) a large family owned business in Korea.

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