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The fortnightly test your anagram power #2, 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!

AEENRSTU	SAUTERNE (Fr.) a white wine made in the district of Sauterne, France.
EILNOTW	TOWLINE A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.
AILMORST	MORALIST A person who seeks to regulate the morals of others or to imbue others with a sense of morality.
INOPRTTU	PRINTOUT The printed output of a computer.
DEEIPSTT	TEPIDEST (Superl.) TEPID, moderately warm.
EEFIRRSU	SUREFIRE Certain.
AACMNOOR	MACAROON A sweet biscuit made with egg white and ground almonds or coconut.
DEEGHORW	HEDGEROW A row of bushes.
EIOPRRSS	PRIORESS A female superior of a house of any of various orders of nuns; the deputy of an abbess.
ACISSTTU	CATSUITS (Pl.) CATSUIT, a type of one-piece trouser suit.
EHIIMPST	MEPHITIS Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.
DIKNORSV	DVORNIKS (Pl.) DVORNIK, a Russian concierge or porter.
ACEOOPSU	POACEOUS Pertaining to or like grass; belonging to the grass family of plants.
ABEMORRS	EMBRASOR A person who seeks to influence jurors by corrupt means to deliver a partial verdict. Also EMBRACEOR, EMBRACER.
EEINNRUX	XENURINE Relating to a genus of armadillos in which the tail is almost without plates.
BDEILMOS	SEMIBOLD A typeface between medium and bold.
ACEELOSS	SECALOSE A complex carbohydrate.
AHLPRUY	HYPURAL Situated beneath the tail.
ACGILNUY	GUANYLIC As in guanylic acid.
ACIINPTY	ANTIPYIC A drug checking or preventing suppuration.

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