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The fortnightly test your anagram power #14, 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!

BDEILNOY	BODYLINE A style of bowling, directly at the batsman.
CDEIIOPR	PERIODIC Happening at set intervals > PERIODICALLY.
DIMNOSTU	DISMOUNT To get down from an elevated position.
EIIOPSTV	POSITIVE Assertive, affirmative > POSITIVER, POSITIVEST; POSITIVELY; (noun) something greater than zero > POSITIVES.
AADLMOR	ARMLOAD As much as may be carried in the arms.
AELMOPU	AMPOULE (Fr.) a small sealed glass container for a hypodermic dose. Also AMPULE.
ACENORRW	CAREWORN Haggard.
ACNORTTU	TURNCOAT A traitor.
DEEHMNRS	HERDSMEN (Pl.) HERDSMAN, one who looks after a herd.
AACEMNV	CAVEMAN A cave dweller > CAVEMEN.
DEEFGORY	FROGEYED Having frog eyes.
DEELNPRY	DEPRENYL A drug that combats the effects of ageing.
AEEKNSS	SKEANES (Pl.) SKEANE, a length of yarn wound in a loose coil.
ABDEEHLU	BLUEHEAD A marine fish, a kind of wrasse.
CEHLOOS	SCHOOLE (Shakesp.) a shoal.
ABEGRRUV	BURGRAVE (Hist.) the commander of a German town or castle.
EEEHMNNT	MENTHENE A colorless liquid hydrocarbon resembling oil of turpentine, obtained by dehydrating menthol.
DNNOOPRU	PUNDONOR (Spanish) a point of honor > PUNDONORES.
ABCFLOO	COBLOAF A rounded loaf > COBLOAVES.
IILOPSST	PTILOSIS (Greek) plumage or mode of feathering > PTILOSES.

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