Anagram Advice

Anagram the clue words to find the best match to one of the numbered clues below. A question mark after a clue denotes word play or trickery is afoot. After all of the numbered clues are solved the first letters of the anagram solutions, when read from top to bottom will reveal the puzzle's Anagram Advice...



Anagram Advice: ?

Starting Clue Words: ALIENS ANOINT BARNEY BOSSES CENTER CORTES DENIAL DETEST DRAWER ELAPSE FIDGET INDENT LAMENT LISTEN LOUVER LOVELY OSCARS RESENT RUMBLE SEVERS SPINET STRAIT TEASER TRANCE UMPIRE

1. Close at hand
2. Haunt
3. Brilliant
4. Prize
5. Mr. Hemingway
6. Snoozing
7. Assayed
8. Existing in the mind
9. On the other side of
10. Country
11. Sign up
12. Lines of poetry
13. Spring holiday
14. New
15. Cut timber
16. Polluted
17. Velvety material
18. Accompany
19. Briny
20. Mean
21. Drink of the gods
22. Tennis-match occurrence
23. Monet, for one
24. Foot arch
25. Hammered down

23. artist (strait) hi soot

5. Ernest/resent

9. across/oscars

Hi Dan.

11 - enlist (LISTEN)

13 - Easter (TEASER)

21. Drink of the gods Nectar ( TRANCE )

1. nearby (Barney)
20. intend (indent)

17. velour (louver)

Hi Remi and manXman ... most excellent solves by all!

Have a wonderful day everyone

24. instep (spinet)

25. Nailed/Denial

10. Nation (anoint) - Have a great weekend Soot

Bernie

3. gifted (fidget)

4 - reward (DRAWER)

6 - asleep (ELAPSE)

You too Bernie! Good solutions by everyone

2. obsess (bosses)

16. impure (umpire) hi soot lots of snow to shovel today

Good solves! Oh the memories manXman...shoveling snow...I miss those days!

8. mental/lament

18. escort/cortes

Good solves Remi

19. saline (aliens) didn't know that Alabama had any snow

12. verses (severs)

15 - lumber (RUMBLE)

22 - volley (LOVELY)

7. tested (detest)
14. recent (center)

No great man ever lives in vain.

Good morning manXman, Normally only "Northern" Alabama gets a half inch or so of snow each year...shoveling normally not required. I should have been clearer in my post by noting I shoveled snow when I lived in Maine, New Hampshire and Montana.

Most excellent finish by everyone