Anagrams of SPELLDOWN

• a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly

• (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow

• characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

• abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

• a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together

• think moodily or anxiously about something

• originate (in)

• be an inhabitant of or reside in

• exist or be situated within

• come back to

• give qualities or abilities to

• furnish with an endowment

• a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

• to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

• act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression

• move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil

• not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time

• at a slow tempo

• (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time

• without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')

• showing a time that is earlier than the actual time

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• (of business) not active or brisk

• lose velocity; move more slowly

• become slow or slower

• cause to proceed more slowly

• Beaver pelt

• English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)

• precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

• a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground

• street names for cocaine

• fall as snow

• conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end