Puzzles

The fortnightly test your anagram power #40, 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!

	INERTIAL Of or relating to inertia.
	TINDERS (Pl.) TINDER, dry inflammable matter, esp that used for kindling fire from a spark.
	PETUNIA (Tupi) a S. American genus of ornamental plants closely related to tobacco.
	ANTILOG An antilogarithm.
	ANTELOPE Any one of a group of hollow-horned, hoofed, ruminant mammals closely related to goats.
	OBEDIENT Obeying or willing to obey.
	PINHOLE A small hole made by a pin.
	CORSAIR (Hist.) a privateersman of the Mediterranean, esp the Barbary coast.
	TOILWORN Worn by toil.
	INHUMAN Lacking desirable human qualities.
	WIRRAHS (Pl.) WIRRAH, a saltwater fish with bright blue spots.
	APOZEMS (Pl.) APOZEM, a decoction or infusion.
	PINKROOT A flowering plant, aka wormroot.
	CONQUIAN A card game resembling rummy.
	FARRIERY The art of shoeing horses.
	MERSALYL A sodium salt used as a diuretic.
	PAUGHTY (Scots) haughty.
	PSYLLAS (Pl.) PSYLLA, any insect of the genus Psylla.
	CERCOPID+ Any member of the family Cercopidae, spittle-bugs.
	SEVICHES (Pl.) SEVICHE, raw fish marinated in lime juice and served as a hors d'oeuvre.