Anagrams of: LETDOWNS

• a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized

• commonly used or practiced; usual

• a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together

• give qualities or abilities to

• furnish with an endowment

• not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time

• at a slow tempo

• (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time

• without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')

• showing a time that is earlier than the actual time

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• (of business) not active or brisk

• lose velocity; move more slowly

• become slow or slower

• cause to proceed more slowly

• fill by packing tightly

• English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)

• precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

• a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground

• street names for cocaine

• fall as snow

• conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

• having an owner; often used in combination

• in the lowest position; nearest the ground

• lowest in rank or importance