Anagrams of: ROUGEETNOIR_

• In croquet, to hit another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.

• To twist or turn something.

• offensive term for a homosexual man

• beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

• homosexual or arousing homosexual desires

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

• put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

• a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

• a passage or expression that is quoted or cited

• repeat a passage from

• name the price of

• refer to for illustration or proof

• put quote marks around

• of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)

• a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

• a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

• the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured

• the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing

• indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration

• having no measurable or otherwise determinable value

• indicating an initial point or origin

• adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

• adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun)

• require as useful, just, or proper

• consider obligatory; request and expect

• make someone do something

• have need of

• characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity

• free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound

• (of the sun) characterized by a low level of surface phenomena, such as sunspots

• a period of calm weather

• an untroubled state; free from disturbances

• the absence of sound

• a disposition free from stress or emotion

• with little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly')

• not showy or obtrusive

• in a softened tone

• (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

• become quiet or quieter

• make calm or still

• address a question to and expect an answer from

• conduct an inquiry or investigation of

• have a wish or desire to know something