Anagrams of HINT__

• a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric

• a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him

• an evil spell

• cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

• foredoom to failure

• the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected

• the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

• English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)

• position six in a countable series of things

• one part in six equal parts

• the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it

• coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende

• coat or cover with zinc

• A quick evasive turn.

• To make a quick evasive turn.

• To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn.

• In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to attempt to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful.

• To elude; to cheat.

• Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having something to hide, or seemingly crooked.

• Suspicious (of something).

• Dishonest; sketchy; shady

• Weird; nonstandard.

• Unreliable; wonky

• Snobbish; haughty