Anagrams of: RIPOSTS

• an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

• the occupation of athletes who compete for pay

• (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine

• a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances

• someone who engages in sports

• (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

• verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)

• wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner

• play boisterously

• Toast to indicate one is drinking to someone's, or to each other's, health.

• final honors degree examinations at Cambridge University

• drooping of the upper eyelid caused by muscle paralysis and weakness

• (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning

• put (something somewhere) firmly

• put before

• take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom

• a relatively long narrow piece of something

• artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

• an airfield without normal airport facilities

• a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

• thin piece of wood or metal

• a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music

• take away possessions from someone

• get undressed

• remove the surface from

• remove substances from by a percolating liquid

• lay bare

• steal goods; take as spoils

• remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely

• strip the cured leaves from

• remove the thread (of screws)

• remove a constituent from a liquid

• take off or remove

• draw the last milk (of cows)

• remove (someone's or one's own) clothes

• the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)

• gush forth in a sudden stream or jet

• move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy

• a light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally