Anagrams of: DEMIRELIEFS

• A failure to field the ball properly.

• To field the ball clumsily or ineptly; in cricket this can result in the batsman scoring another run.

• small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit

• To file incorrectly; to file in the wrong place or the wrong way.

• an explosion that fails to occur

• a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

• fail to fire or detonate

• not convincing

• a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies

• lacking solidity or strength

• lacking substance or significance

• A fault in a mechanical feed mechanism (in the paper pick-up of a printer, for example).

• To feed incorrectly, as for example with the wrong foodstuff.