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The fortnightly test your anagram power #18, 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!

AEILNOPT	ANTIPOLE The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed.
DEILORST	STOLIDER (Comp.) STOLID, impassive, unemotional.
CEEIORT	COTERIE (Fr.) a social or literary circle.
CINORSTU	RUCTIONS (Pl.) RUCTION, a noisy fight; disturbance, uproar.
AADMORT	MATADOR The bullfighter who kills the bull in a bullfight. Also MATADORE.
CEEILPS	ECLIPSE The total or partial disappearance of a heavenly body by the interposition of another between it and the spectator; (verb) to obscure.
BEEFILRS	BELFRIES (Pl.) BELFRY, the part of a church housing the bells.
BDEHOST	HOTBEDS (Pl.) HOTBED, a bed of rich soil.
EEIORSVZ	OVERSIZE To cover with size.
AIMNRUU	URANIUM An element of the chromium group.
AIMMNORT	MORTMAIN (Fr.) the perpetual ownership of property by institutions such as churches; (fig.) the often stifling influence of the past on the present and the living.
AAOSTTUY	TATOUAYS (Pl.) TATOUAY, a large armadillo of tropical S. America.
AGNNOOPT	POONTANG (US slang) sexual intercourse.
AEEIPTVX	EXAPTIVE Involving biological adaptation.
ADDHITY	HYDATID A fluid-filled cyst, especially one containing tape-worm larva.
ACCEIOPR	CECROPIA A fast-growing tropical American tree of the mulberry family.
CEEHNNOW	NOWHENCE (Arch.) from no place.
ACCHIOP	PICACHO (Spanish) an isolated peak of a hill.
AADIKLLR	KILLADAR (Hindi) the commandant of a fort or garrison.
EFFNRUU	UNRUFFE (Shakesp.) beardless.

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