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The fortnightly test your anagram power #8, 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!

DNOORTU	OROTUND Marked by fullness and clarity of sound; pompous.
ADEENNTT	TENANTED (Pt.) TENANT, to occupy as tenant.
AEEGLMRT	TELEGRAM (Verb) to transmit by telegram.
ABDENORW	RAWBONED Having little flesh. Also RAWBONE.
EILNOPTY	LINOTYPE (Tradename) a brand of typesetting machine; (verb) to set a line of type using a linotype machine.
ADEHNRSW	SWANHERD One who tends swans.
AENOPRWY	WEAPONRY Weapons collectively.
ALMNORTY	MATRONLY Like a MATRON.
BEHIOTW	HOWBEIT Although, nevertheless.
CDEIORSS	DISCOERS (Pl.) DISCOER, one who goes to DISCOS.
CEIIRSST	ERISTICS (Pl.) ERISTIC, an expert in debate.
CHIILOT	THIOLIC Relating to THIOL, a chemical compound, aka MERCAPTAN.
AABDEORX	BROADAXE An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax. Also BROADAX.
AACDIMOS	CAMISADO (Spanish) a shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a CAMISADE or night attack: CAMISADOS or CAMISADOES.
AAELMPST	PLATEASM A pronunciation with a wide mouth-opening, as in Doric Greek.
ABCDELRU	BARLEDUC A kind of gooseberry jam.
ACDEHORW	COWHEARD (Spenser) a coward.
AEGLMOPS	MEGALOPS The larval stage of a crab: MEGALOPSES.
CDEHIOTY	THEODICY A vindication of the justice of God in establishing a world in which evil exists.
CENORSSU	CORNUSES (Pl.) CORNUS, the dogwood.

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