Anagrams of: ACEGL

• an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

• United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)

• something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

• the net that is the goal in ice hockey

• a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice

• confine in a cage

• A glue or paste made from starch.

• Low cloud, fog or smog.

• Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.

• Bits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners (c.f marbles).

• To encumber

• To stick, like boots in mud

• a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)

• a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns

• spin, wind, or twist together

• make by braiding or interlacing

• do lacework

• draw through eyes or holes

• add alcohol to (beverages)

• An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried.

• A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce.

• the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

• proteolytic enzyme that converts angiotensin I into angiotensin II

• one of four playing cards in a deck having a single pip on its face

• a major strategic headquarters of NATO; safeguards an area extending from Norway to Turkey

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• a serve that the receiver is unable to reach

• of the highest quality

• succeed at easily

• score an ace against

• play (a hole) in one stroke

• serve an ace against (someone)

• a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale

• resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax

• A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.

• Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.

• (by extension) Abstinence from sexual relations.