Anagrams of: NEPE__

• use up, consume fully

• pay out

• a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown

• a city in north central Morocco; religious center

• Small portions of starters typical of Turkish and Greek cuisine (equivalent to Spanish tapas or Hawaiian pu pu) often served as a light meal with pita.

• President.

• a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay

• any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

• the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

• a female sovereign ruler

• the wife or widow of a king

• something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

• a competitor who holds a preeminent position

• offensive term for a homosexual man

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

• (chess) the most powerful piece

• an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males

• female cat

• promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

• become a queen

• a son of your brother or sister