Anagrams of: RESTITCHING

• act of expanding by lengthening or widening

• exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent

• make high-pitched sounds, as of birds

• joining or attaching by stitches

• an impression made from an etched plate

• an etched plate made with the use of acid

• making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them

• an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch

• an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting

• eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

• make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

• A grouch or killjoy.

• A person who aggressively sets out to ruin the Christmas holidays for others.

• prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976)