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The fortnightly test your anagram power #19, 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!

AEGILRTU	LIGATURE A medical tie; (verb) to tie with a ligature.
ADEEIMNR	REMAINED (Pt.) REMAIN, to continue in the same state.
ADEEINRV	REINVADE To invade again.
EEFHORT	THEREOF Of that.
DEIORRSY	DERISORY Derisive.
ABLOORT	TOOLBAR A set of tools, as on a computer screen.
EEGNRSUY	GUERNSEY A close-fitting knitted woollen jersey.
EEIKLNOV	OVENLIKE Like an oven.
DEHILMOS	DEMOLISH To destroy.
AEEEIMNX	EXAMINEE One who is examined.
EIMOPSTY	PEYOTISM The taking of PEYOTE, esp. as part of a religious ceremony.
BEEERSTT	BESETTER One who, or that which, besets.
ADGINWY	GWYNIAD (Welsh) a fish of North Wales and Northern Europe, aka POWAN, allied to the lake whitefish. Also GWINIAD.
AENNQSTU	QUANNETS (Pl.) QUANNET, a flat file used like a plane.
EHILRTTY	TRIETHYL Having three ethyl groups.
BELMOOS	BLOOSME (Spenser) to bloom.
AACEPRV	PRECAVA (Lat.) the superior vena cava > PRECAVAE.
AACGHORU	GUACHARO (Spanish) a nocturnal bird of South America and Trinidad, aka OILBIRD > GUACHAROES or GUACHAROS.
AAEMMOST	METASOMA The posterior part of an arachnid's abdomen > METASOMATA or METASOMAS.
ABCDEMNU	DUMBCANE A poisonous tropical plant.

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