Anagrams of YDRA_

• crested largely blue bird

• United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829)

• an edge tool used to cut and shape wood

• United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)

• English novelist and poet (1840-1928)

• having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships

• able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions

• invulnerable to fear or intimidation

• trouble that cannot be overcome by a single effort because of its many aspects or its persistent and pervasive quality

• (Greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones

• small tubular solitary freshwater hydrozoan polyp

• a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

• English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)

• A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

• (1970s, 1980s) Pizza.

• British dominion over India (1757-1947)