Anagrams of: CLUTCHPEDAL

• A tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners.

• Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes).

• the act of grasping

• a tense critical situation

• a number of birds hatched at the same time

• a collection of things or persons to be handled together

• a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand

• a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism

• a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism

• take hold of; grab

• hold firmly, usually with one's hands

• affect

• mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch

• having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)

• flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes

• To place in a cache.

• extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dyeing and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails; formerly used medicinally

• East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu