Anagrams of: OECIES_

• A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.

• A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).

• A work of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.

• a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)

• remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

• levy an excise tax on

• remove by cutting

• pertaining to animals or animal life or action

• take hold of; grab

• take or capture by force

• take possession of by force, as after an invasion

• take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

• seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession

• hook by a pull on the line

• affect

• capture the attention or imagination of

• Cousin (usually as a term of address)

• Because

• the chief executive department of the United States government

• 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

• the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)

• the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)

• any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics

• the actual state of affairs

• a large magnitude

• (used in combination) sized

• cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)

• sort according to size

• make to a size; bring to a suitable size