Anagrams of: COCKIER

• overly self-confident or self-assertive

• a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England

• treat with excessive indulgence

• a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

• nonsense; foolish talk

• an earthen jar (made of baked clay)

• release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric

• soil with or as with crock

• English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)

• a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

• twist (a body part) into a strained position

• Interest on money; usury; increase.

• A boorish or uncultivated Australian.

• To increase (in price); add to.

• Pertaining to an ocker.

• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

• United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

• material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

• (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable

• hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)

• a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western

• pitching dangerously to one side

• move back and forth or sideways

• cause to move back and forth

• Coca Cola is a trademarked cola

• carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal

• street names for cocaine

• become coke

• a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

• a stack of hay

• pile in ricks

• twist suddenly so as to sprain