Anagrams of: QUICKENINGS_

• To scrunch up (one's face, etc.).

• skillful performance or ability without difficulty

• intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay

• a rate that is rapid

• the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning

• an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

• the harsh sound of a duck

• medically unqualified

• utter quacking noises

• act as a medical quack or a charlatan

• having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge

• most quickly

• cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines

• grown from cuttings planted directly in the ground

• hurried repair