Anagrams of: UNNISH__

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)

• crouch down

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• cross one's eyes as if in strabismus

• To squint.

• 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

• (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

• the noise of soft mud being walked on

• walk through mud or mire

• put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action

• 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)

• a painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis