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The fortnightly test your anagram power #21, By David Sutton

Here is a quiz comprising twenty single-solution alphagrams of five letters, most of the solutions being fairly obscure words.

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

AGNNO	GONNA (Coll.) going to.
DILOV	VIOLD (Milton) VIALLED, put in a vial.
AACRS	SACRA (Pl.) SACRUM, that part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis.
EHOPU	OUPHE (Shakesp.) an oaf, a changeling.
ABRTY	RYBAT (Scots) a dressed stone at the side of a door, window etc.
AMRTY	TRYMA (Greek) a kind of nut-like fruit, such as walnut > TRYMATA.
ABKOR	BORAK (Aborig.) nonsense, banter.
CEHOP	EPOCH A division of geologic time shorter than a period.
AEHKU	KEHUA (Maori) a ghost or spirit.
AHLLU	AHULL With sails furled, and helm lashed to the lee side.
NOPUZ	PONZU (Japanese) a type of sauce made from orange juice, sake, sugar, soy sauce and red pepper.
AAHMW	MAHWA (Hindi) a kind of butter-tree with edible flowers.
AAKUW	KAWAU (Maori) the black shag.
FIKLU	KULFI An Indian dessert made by freezing milk which has been concentrated by boiling away some of the water in it, and flavoured with nuts and cardamom seeds.
AAKTZ	ZAKAT (Persian) in Islam, a tax payable on certain types of property.
DORUY	DUROY (Obs.) a coarse woollen material.
AAFGN	FANGA (Spanish) a dry measure in Spain and Spanish America.
EMPRT	MPRET (Albanian) a former title of the ruler of Albania.
GNORY	GYRON Two lines drawn from the edge of the escutcheon meeting at right angles in the fesse-point.
ACHIM	MACHI (Hinglish) as in machi chips, fish and chips.

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