Anagrams of: ICERT__

• a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers

• The state of being defective.

• (chiefly South Australia) A type of processed meat sausage; devon

• To go wrong or become defective.

• a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake

• German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)

• the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)

• German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975)

• luxuriously elegant

• a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm

• enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space

• having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere

• suggesting connivance

• something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery

• goods or money obtained illegally

• something given as a token of victory

• of superior grade

• hold dear

• to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open

• regard highly; think much of

• an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

• state of violent mental agitation

• a fine crack in a glaze or other surface

• cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind

• develop a fine network of cracks