Anagrams of CLOSES_

• based on or being a test of reading skill using the cloze procedure

• The structure at the front end of a tapeworm which, in the adult, has suckers and hooks by which it attaches itself to a host.

• Cousin (usually as a term of address)

• Because

• the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew

• either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin

• act as the coxswain, in a boat race

• brine-cured salmon that is lightly smoked

• a bluish translucent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point; used as an oxidizer in rocket propellants

• A short strap fastened around the leg of a bird used in falconry, to which a leash may be fastened.

• A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.

• A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.

• A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.

• An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.

• A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.

• A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.

• Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.

• The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

• A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.

• (color) The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

• To fasten a strap around the leg of a hawk.

• Only, simply, merely.

• (sentence adverb) Used to reduce the force of an imperative; simply.

• Used to convey a less serious or formal tone

• Used to show humility.

• (degree) absolutely, positively

• Moments ago, recently.

• By a narrow margin; closely; nearly.

• Exactly, precisely, perfectly.