Anagrams of: PLAYINGFIELD

• change into stone

• in a beseeching manner

• enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement

• consider as a god or godlike

• exalt to the position of a God

• confer dignity or honor upon

• raise the status of

• resist or confront with resistance

• elude, especially in a baffling way

• challenge

• a persistently annoying person

• any of various large flies that annoy livestock