Anagrams of: BUFFALOGOURD

• large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains

• a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)

• meat from an American bison

• any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo

• intimidate or overawe

• by a factor of four

• four times as great or many

• having four units or components

• A coarse or farcical gag; a joke provoking hearty laughter.

• a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city

• transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data

• remove the load from (a container or vehicle)

• be able to spare or give up

• be the cause or source of

• have the financial means to do something or buy something

• afford access to

• a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)

• pretense that your position is stronger than it really is

• the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards

• very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front

• bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured

• deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand

• frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is

• A comic singer, particularly in comic opera

• resoundingly successful and popular