Sometimes its useful to have a well-known word as the basis of spotting other words. People's names and place names are good for this.

This month's quiz :  What are the 7 letter anagrams of THAMES + a blank ?

There are 12 in total, 5 are in every day English, the rest are obscure.

(As its a bank holiday, to solve the 5 easy ones you will need C, I, L, N and R). (For the harder 7 you will need A, A, E, N, S, T and U)

As an aside - do you know all the 6 anagrams of READING? 

What about the 6 anagrams of STAINES  (note STAINES is not  a word) ?

Answers below :

Coming soon

Coming soon

Coming soon

Now :

THAMES easy :

MATCHES  ATHEISM  HAMLETS  ANTHEMS  HAMSTER

THAMES hard :

ATHAMES  HAMATES  MEATHES  HETMANS  SMEATHS  SHMATTE HUMATES

READING anagrams :

AREDING  DEARING  DERAIGN  EARDING  GRADINE GRAINED   +READING

STAINES anagrams :

ENTASIS NASTIES  SEITANS  SESTINA  TANSIES  TISANES