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The fortnightly test your anagram power #37, By David Sutton

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

AAORT	AORTA (Lat.) the main artery into the heart.
IJOST	JOIST A beam supporting boards of a floor or laths of a ceiling; (verb) to fit with joists.
CILOW	WILCO In signalling, an indication of compliance ('I will comply').
BCEIP	BICEP The two-headed muscle at the front of the arm.
GLMOU	MOGUL (Persian) an influential person, a magnate.
BCERY	CYBER Involving computers.
ILNUX	LINUX (Tradename) a nonproprietary computer operating system for personal computers.
AJMNU	UNJAM To free from jamming.
ARSXY	XRAYS+ (Pl.) XRAY, a code word for the letter x.
GIJNO	JINGO A chauvinistic, sabre-rattling patriot.
AIMRR	MARRI (Aborig.) a eucalyptus of W. Australia, with coloured flowers.
AAEHP	AHEAP (Obs.) in a heap; huddled together.
BIMOT	TIMBO (Guarani) a S. American sapindaceous climbing plant.
CEOSW	SOWCE To pickle; to marinade.
AHLMO	OMLAH (Arabic) a staff of officials in India.
DEKST	TSKED (Pt.) TSK, to make the interjection tsk.
AILLM	MAILL A payment.
AHMRU	UMRAH+ A lesser pilgrimage to Mecca made separately or at the same time as the hajj, and consisting of a number of devotional rituals performed within the city.
CDELY	YCLED (Pt.) CLOTHE, to cover one material with another.
AALMW	MALWA (Rutooro) a Ugandan drink brewed from millet.

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