Anagrams of: DRAKES

• adult male of a wild or domestic duck

• English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

• degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

• a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil

• move through with or as if with a rake

• level or smooth with a rake

• sweep the length of

• examine hastily

• gather with a rake

• scrape gently

• A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.

• Ignorance.

• Nightfall.

• A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

• To grow or become dark, darken.

• To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.

• To make dark, darken; to obscure.

• make a request or demand for something to somebody

• direct or put; seek an answer to

• consider obligatory; request and expect

• address a question to and expect an answer from

• require as useful, just, or proper

• make a date

• require or ask for as a price or condition

• devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black

• (used of color) having a dark hue

• absence of light or illumination

• absence of moral or spiritual values

• an unilluminated area

• the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

• an unenlightened state

• brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)

• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

• secret

• showing a brooding ill humor

• lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture

• marked by difficulty of style or expression

• causing dejection

• not giving performances; closed

• a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments

• Trash; worthless merchandise.

• someone who asks a question