Anagrams of: NIGHTPORTER

• tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground

• an excited state of agitation

• make upset or troubled

• make a fuss; be agitated

• a specific instance of feeling hopeful

• United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

• the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

• grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

• someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

• one of the three Christian virtues

• expect and wish

• be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

• intend with some possibility of fulfilment

• the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television

• a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)

• a native or resident of Minnesota

• any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops

• burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America

• burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America

• a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

• a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln

• do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

• work lightly

• move around aimlessly

• put in a new, usually larger, pot