Anagrams of: CRICKETER

• leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together

• a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs

• play cricket

• English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)

• a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

• twist (a body part) into a strained position

• someone who plays practical jokes on others

• the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body

• a small portable timepiece

• a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape

• a cunning or deceitful action or device

• a period of work or duty

• an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent

• a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• a prostitute's customer

• (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner

• deceive somebody

• a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

• any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

• a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)

• a stack of hay

• pile in ricks

• twist suddenly so as to sprain

• a metallic tapping sound

• any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

• a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.

• a light mattress

• make a clicking or ticking sound

• make a sound like a clock or a timer

• sew

• put a check mark on or near or next to