Anagrams of: PRANKS

• a momentary flash of light

• Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918)

• merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance

• electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field

• a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger

• a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction

• put in motion or move to act

• emit or produce sparks

• acting like a clown or buffoon

• a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

• dress or decorate showily or gaudily

• dress up showily

• United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)

• a slap with the flat of the hand

• give a spanking to; subject to a spanking

• strike sharply

• break a small piece off from

• a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property

• Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806)

• a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

• a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games)

• a lot where cars are parked

• a gear position that acts as a parking brake

• place temporarily

• maneuver a vehicle into a parking space

• strike sharply

• break a small piece off from

• a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another

• relative status

• the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)

• position in a social hierarchy

• the body of members of an organization or group

• very fertile; producing profuse growth

• very offensive in smell or taste

• conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

• complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers

• growing profusely

• take or have a position relative to others

• assign a rank or rating to

• take precedence or surpass others in rank

• Snide remarks.

• A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.

• A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.

• To express oneself in a snarky fashion.

• To snort.