Anagrams of: SPONGING__

• To hit hard .

• To make (someone) sleepy or delirious, to put into a stupor .

• (usually followed by “out”) To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious.

• Striking; great.

• the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

• characterized by jokes and good humor

• 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 exposure of an impostor or a fraud

• expose or make accessible to some action or influence

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• to show, make visible or apparent

• remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body

• reveal to view as by removing a cover

• put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

• expose to light, of photographic film

• expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas

• abandon by leaving out in the open air

• (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon

• an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret

• one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians

• sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)

• sleep lightly or for a short period of time

• 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)

• something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known

• a device or control that is very useful for a particular job