Anagrams of: ELLOC_

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

• Cousin (usually as a term of address)

• Because

• fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder

• become gelatinous

• A male; a guy; a fellow.

• Coffee.

• Darling, sweetheart.

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

• a strand or cluster of hair

• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it

• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

• fasten with a lock

• keep engaged

• become rigid or immoveable

• hold in a locking position

• become engaged or intermeshed with one another

• hold fast (in a certain state)

• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

• pass by means through a lock in a waterway

• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

• Coca Cola is a trademarked cola

• carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal

• street names for cocaine

• become coke

• aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice

• moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves

• one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb

• spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground