Puzzles

The fortnightly test your anagram power #39, 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!

	ORNATER (Comp.) ORNATE, elaborate.
	MEDIATOR One who mediates.
	LOAMIER (Comp.) LOAMY, like loam, fertile soil.
	REARISEN (Pt.) REARISE, to arise again.
	PATRIOT One who loves his country.
	ORDNANCE Military stores or supplies; missiles discharged in war; artillery.
	BEWAILS (3rd.) BEWAIL, to lament.
	HUMANISE To render human.
	RAINFALL A fall of rain.
	FLOODLIT Illuminated by floodlights.
	MENSEFUL (Scots) decorous, graceful.
	REQUOYLE (Shakesp.) to recoil.
	ANYWHEN Taking place at no specific time.
	SALADANG (Malay) a kind of buffalo.
	SEMPLICE (Ital.) simply, plainly.
	GRUMPHIE (Scots) a pig.
	FIREPINK A flowering plant of the US.
	YPLIGHT (Pt.) PLIGHT, to promise or bind by a solemn pledge.
	THUSWISE In such a fashion.
	MAQUILAS (Pl.) MAQUILA, a US-owned factory in Mexico.