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The fortnightly test your anagram power #35, 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!

EINOORS	EROSION The act of eroding.
ACDEINOP	CANOPIED (Pt.) CANOPY, to cover with a canopy.
AEGIIMN	IMAGINE To form a mental picture of.
ADEILNPS	SANDPILE A pile of sand.
AGILLOR	GORILLA A large ape.
ABDEILNY	DENIABLY (Adv.) DENIABLE, capable of being denied.
DEFLNOO	ONEFOLD Simple, single-minded.
AACEHRT	TRACHEA (Lat.) an internal tube through which air is taken for respiration.
CILPRSTU	CULPRITS (Pl.) CULPRIT, one that is guilty.
GHMOSTU	MUGSHOT A photograph esp of a police suspect's face.
AAABISS	ABASIAS (Pl.) ABASIA, inability to walk due to lack of muscular coordination.
DGIINOSX	DIGOXINS (Pl.) DIGOXIN, a drug to improve heart function.
EFGGILOS	SOLFEGGI (Pl.) SOLFEGGIO, a singing exercise using the syllable do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti.
DDIMOOS	DODOISM A stupid remark.
AACCEILN	CALCANEI (Pl.) CALCANEUS, one of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel.
AAHLMOOS	MASOOLAH (Hist.) a tall, many-oared Indian surf-boat.
CDHILOOS	DOLICHOS (Greek) a long-podded leguminous plant allied to the haricot.
DLMNOOTY	MYLODONT (Greek) an extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates.
CEEERSSU	CEREUSES (Pl.) CEREUS, a genus of plants of the Cactus family.
ABGKOOS	BOGOAKS (Pl.) BOGOAK, trunks of oak embedded in bogs and so preserved from decay.

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