Puzzles

The fortnightly test your anagram power #42, 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!

	DEVIATOR One who deviates.
	ROMANCED (Pt.) ROMANCE, to woo.
	PECTORAL Related to the chest (noun) a pectoral muscle
	GUNFIRE The firing of guns.
	ORATORS (Pl.) ORATOR, one that orates.
	ANTIGUN Opposed to guns.
	WEIRDLY (Adv.) WEIRD, eerily strange.
	SUPERFIT Of a person, extremely or exceptionally fit.
	EPSILONS (Pl.) EPSILON, a letter of the Greek alphabet.
	LEAFBUD A bud from which a leaf unfolds.
	PONCEAUX (Pl.) PONCEAU, a poppy-coloured red dye.
	PACHOULI (Tamil) an Asiatic tree with a fragrant perfume oil; the resulting perfume.
	CRANKOUS Cranky.
	MOKIHIS+ (Pl.) MOKIHI, a Maori raft.
	WATCHEYE An eye in which the iris is pale or whitish.
	SOYUZES (Pl.) SOYUZ, a Soviet spacecraft.
	SANDPEEP (US) any small sandpiper.
	NEWSPEAK Deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public.
	CECITIES (Pl.) CECITY, blindness.
	CHENIXES (Pl.) CHENIX, in ancient Greece, a dry measure equivalent to rather more than a quart.