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The fortnightly test your anagram power #22, By David Sutton

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

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

ADIORT	ADROIT Skilful.
AEOPRT	PROTEA A plant of a large S. African genus.
AENNOS	NOSEAN A cubic mineral, aluminum sodium silicate and sulphur.
AEGLRT	TERGAL Relating to the TERGUM, an insect's upper or dorsal surface, esp. of a body segment.
AEIMRU	UREMIA The retention of waste materials normally excreted.
AEISTV	SATIVE (Obs.) cultivated.
AIMNOT	MANITO (Am. Ind.) a name given by tribes of American Indians to a great spirit, whether good or evil, or to any object of worship > MANITOS.
ACIORT	AORTIC Relating to the AORTA, the main artery into the heart.
AANOST	SONATA (Ital.) a composition usu of three or more movements designed chiefly for a solo instrument.
BDEIOR	BORIDE A compound in which boron is the most electronegative element.
EGILOU	OUGLIE (Obs.) ugly; (verb) to make ugly.
AEIKOS	OAKIES (Pl.) OAKY, an ice-cream.
AIIMOR	MOIRAI (Pl.) MOIRA, fate.
ADEEPT	PEDATE Footed, footlike.
EINRUV	ERUVIN (Pl.) ERUV, an area, circumscribed by a symbolic line, within which certain activities forbidden to Orthodox Jews on the Sabbath are permitted.
AEEMST	MESETA (Spanish) a plateau, esp. that of central Spain.
BEEIST	BETISE (Fr.) stupidity, a stupid act.
AELOPS	ASLOPE (Arch.) on a slope.
EGLOST	GOSLET A species of dwarf goose.
AAORTT	TOTARA (Maori) a New Zealand timber tree, with reddish wood, mahogany pine.

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