Anagrams of: CLINIQUE

• small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated

• aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves

• an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

• the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

• one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy

• the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health

• a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction

• the positively charged dense center of an atom

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail

• any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord

• the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex

• the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt

• a source of help and advice and encouragement

• American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)