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The fortnightly test your anagram power #16, 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!

ADEHNOPR	ORPHANED (Pt.) ORPHAN, to deprive of both parents.
ADELNSTW	WETLANDS (Pl.) WETLAND, land containing much soil moisture.
AOORRTT	ROTATOR A muscle which partially rotates or turns some part on its axis > ROTATORS or ROTATORES.
ABDELSU	BELAUDS (3rd.) BELAUD, to laud or praise greatly.
ADDEENRR	DARNEDER (Comp.) DARNED, bothersome.
AELOSUZ	ZEALOUS Filled with zeal > ZEALOUSLY.
ALMNOOP	LAMPOON (Verb) to abuse or satirize virulently or scurrilously, esp. in writing.
EFHIILNS	FISHLINE A line for catching fish.
EHIMOSTW	SHOWTIME The time when a show begins.
ABDHIRTY	BIRTHDAY The day of one's birth, or its anniversary.
AEEGMRU	REMUAGE (Fr.) the process of turning or shaking wine bottles so that the sediment collects at the cork end for removal.
AEEHMRTY	ERYTHEMA (Greek) redness of the skin.
BDEILMS	DIMBLES (Pl.) DIMBLE, a deep and shady dell.
AEERSSUV	VAREUSES (Pl.) VAREUSE, a kind of loose jacket.
EGOOPSY	POOGYES (Pl.) POOGYE, Hindu nose-flute.
EFIIKLNT	FLINKITE A brownish-green mineral, manganese arsenate.
EHIINRSZ	RHIZINES (Pl.) RHIZINE, a lichen RHIZOID.
ADPRRTUY	PURTRAYD (Obs.) portrayed. Also PURTRAID.
ACEKNNOW	ACKNOWNE (Shakesp.) confessedly cognizant.
AHILPSSY	PHYSALIS A plant of the Cape gooseberry genus > PHYSALISES.

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