Puzzles

The fortnightly test your anagram power #36, By David Sutton

Here is a quiz comprising twenty single-solution alphagrams of six 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!

ADEGOR	DOGEAR To make a fold in the corner of a page of a book.
DEEGIR	EDGIER (Comp.) EDGY, nervous.
AEGIRW	EARWIG Any dermapterous insect of the family Forficulidae, once supposed to creep into the ear (verb) to pester with demands; to eavesdrop
ABILNO	ALBINO A person or animal with abormally white skin and hair and pink irises.
CEEINS	NIECES (Pl.) NIECE, a daughter of one's brother or sister.
ACDINR	RANCID Rank in taste.
DGIINO	INDIGO A dark blue powder used as a vat dye, orig. obtained from certain plants but now mainly made synthetically.
EGLOUY	EULOGY A formal expression of high praise.
EOPRSY	OSPREY A bird of prey that feeds on fish.
AEIMSZ	MAIZES (Pl.) MAIZE, an American cereal grass.
ADIKNO	DAIKON (Japanese) a long white root vegetable similar to a radish.
AELNRZ	RANZEL A search for stolen goods.
ADERWY	WEYARD (Shakesp.) weird.
AGOPRU	GOPURA (Sanskrit) in S. India, a pyramidal tower over the gateway of a temple.
CGIINO	CONGII (Pl.) CONGIUS, an ancient unit of liquid measure.
ELOTWY	OWELTY Equality.
ELMTUW	UMWELT (Ger.) environmental factors collectively, as affecting the behaviour of an animal or individual.
IJMOOT	MOJITO+ A traditional Cuban cocktail.
ACCNOT	CATCON+ Short for catalytic converter.
ACIQSU	ACQUIS+ A particular piece or section of European Union legislation.

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