Anagrams of: AEKNPPRS

• a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand

• a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel

• acting like a clown or buffoon

• a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

• dress or decorate showily or gaudily

• dress up showily

• large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal

• express in speech

• exchange thoughts; talk with

• use language

• give a speech to

• make a characteristic or natural sound

• a momentary flash of light

• Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)

• merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

• electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

• a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger

• a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction

• put in motion or move to act

• emit or produce sparks

• acting like a clown or buffoon

• a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

• dress or decorate showily or gaudily

• dress up showily

• United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)

• a slap with the flat of the hand

• give a spanking to; subject to a spanking