Anagrams of: CLAMPDOWNS

• sudden restriction on an activity

• a covering of snow (as on a mountain peak)

• a man who plows

• a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback

• low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

• a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables

• drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged

• fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

• A police officer assigned to a university campus.

• A field or plain in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking area.

• a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together

• fasten or fix with a clamp

• impose or inflict forcefully