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The fortnightly test your anagram power #6, 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!

AABDEGIN	BADINAGE (Fr.) a playful repartee; banter; (verb) to banter.
ACDEGINU	GUIDANCE Advice.
ABCINOT	BOTANIC Pertaining to botany: BOTANICALLY; (noun) any drug or pesticide made from parts of a plant: BOTANICS.
ADEEGMNR	GENDARME (Fr.) a French policeman: GENDARMES or GENSDARMES.
AEEHMNST	METHANES (Pl.) METHANE, a colourless odourless flammable gas, CH4.
ACDILRY	ACRIDLY (Adv.) ACRID, sharp to the taste or smell.
EHILPSTU	SULPHITE A salt of sulphurous acid.
ADDELNNU	DUNELAND An area of dunes.
GINNOPTU	GUNPOINT The point or aim of a gun.
ABEIPSST	BAPTISES (3rd.) BAPTISE, to administer baptism to.
ACEGIMTY	MEGACITY A big city.
ADEEIKSW	WEAKSIDE Someone's weak point, the side on which they are most liable to temptation.
ABELMSU	BEMAULS (3rd.) BEMAUL, to maul or beat severely.
EEHOOPRS	OOSPHERE A female gamete ready for fertilization.
AILNPSTY	PTYALINS (Pl.) PTYALIN, a ferment in saliva that turns starch into sugar.
AHIIMRST	ISARITHM A line on a map passing through places of the same density of population.
AEIIMNSZ	SIMAZINE An organic herbicide used as a general weedkiller.
ACEGHRT	GERTCHA (Sl.) get away, get along.
ADDEIPPR	DIDAPPER A small grebe. Also DOPPER.
CDHILOOP	CHILOPOD A member of the order Chilopoda, which contains the centipedes. Also CHILOPODAN.

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