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The fortnightly test your anagram power #30, 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!

CEEIPRT	RECEIPT To mark as having been paid.
DEIIMNTU	MUTINIED (Pt.) MUTINY, to revolt against constituted authority.
DEILOSST	SOLIDEST (Superl.) SOLID, having definite shape
CEEHNORT	COHERENT Sticking together; forming a whole.
DEEIIRSV	DERISIVE Expressing derision.
HINNORST	TINHORNS (Pl.) TINHORN, a contemptible person, esp one who is pretentious or flashy.
AEFMORR	FOREARM To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need.
BEILLNTU	BULLETIN An official report of public news; (verb) to make known by or describe in a bulletin.
ABDEELL	LABELED (Pt.) LABEL, to put a label on.
ACDDEITT	DICTATED (Pt.) DICTATE, to read aloud for recording.
AABLRSU	SUBALAR Situated below the wings.
ACEOPSW	COWPEAS (Pl.) COWPEA, a leguminous plant indigenous to Asia, used like French beans.
ACEEHNRV	REVANCHE (Fr.) revenge, esp a usually political policy designed to recover lost territory or status.
AADHMNOU	OMADHAUN (Irish) a fool, idiot, simpleton.
ADEHLMOY	HOLYDAME (Shakesp.) holiness, a holy place, esp in an oath.
BCEIILOP	EPIBOLIC Relating to epiboly, the process by which one set of cells spreads over and surrounds another by dividing more rapidly, as in gastrulation.
BDELORUU	DOUBLURE (Fr.) an ornamental lining on the inside of book, leather or vellum.
BENORSWY	BYWONERS (Pl.) BYWONER, the sub-tenant of a farm; an agricultural labourer.
CDEILMOY	MYCELOID Resembling mycelium, the white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed.
AACCELO	CLOACAE (Pl.) CLOACA, a sewer; the terminal part of the gut in birds.

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