9-Letter Words Containing A

Immortal, as some prose (wordplay)

That never gets to the finish

'Never dye this, by the sound of it (9)'

Old-time executioner.

DEATHS death

Debark

Ban girl coming out with topless dress

Legal exclusion

Prohibition making some Stateside barmen testy

Bishop wearing expensive jewellery keeping away

Having two sides, perhaps

Verdict for discussion!

Open to question

Dissolute beach dude in trouble

Corrupt young woman longed to get posh

Degenerate

Rake beach ground with due energy

One indulging in depravity

Libertine, one who is morally unrestrained

""One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.""

Sullies

Debeak

One throwing a ball (wordplay)

Poet takes pipe back for new one

Coming-out party honoree

Debutant

A falling away.

Corruption of French intonation

Moral or cultural decline

Decline in sporting behaviour around the present era

Decadent

Metric measurements

Pl. decahedrons or decahedra (-dr ) A polyhedron with ten faces.

Deprive of lime, as a bone

DECAL a design made to be transferred

The Ten Commandments

Moses' tablets

Moses' armload

Metric length

393.70 inches, metric

32 feet, 9 inches

Splitting from French river, Napoleon perhaps bears north

Ornamental glass bottles.

The wine bottles have sad centre, oddly

Decorative wine bottles

Producing a downpour

Of or relating to the Decapoda or a decapod.

Latched on to jockey - it's eventful!

Ten out of ten for the all-rounder!

Summer Olympics event

Last month is dying away as one is dying away

At last the month is getting slack and dying away

Happening every tenth year

Lend a nice outfit every ten years

Capable of being decided; determinable.

""Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.""

Decigram

By tens; by means of decimals.

State of Manawatu on Tuesday!

Destroyed a large part of.

Destroyed most of

Married tithers (wordplay)

Nearly wipes out

After the first of the month one takes ten per cent from one's colleagues

Swabbing crew many, many (nonverbal)

Sailors playing cards repeatedly

Crew

Renounced (wordplay)

Harangued eccentric medical journalist

Indeed one may say it at the top of one's voice

Speech-maker got back, having switched ends

Orator

U.S. citizen-to-be

They face dummies

Dummies' other halves

Bidders in bridge.

Revealing that glider can fly

Proclaiming

Lowered in status

Lowers in rank.

Social outcasts Fr.

Making less threatening

Separate the sheets, maybe

Separate computer printouts

Behead

Painted like a warrior (wordplay)

Awarded medal(s)

Smashing do, catered for and honoured

Papers unveiled a secret do

Bestows medals.

Beautifies

Tradesman handing out medals (wordplay)

Authority on interiors.

Hiree after a move

Art coated in varnish

Paper cutouts as a decorative art

Cut-paper decoration

Less even (wordplay)

Went down and removed folds

Ironed (wordplay)

Reduction as included in orders

Reduces, as included in orders

Reduces as written in orders

Decretal

""To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.""

Devoted to a cause or ideal 99)

Consecrated - single-minded

Means of one-to-one communication

Elise, for one

Person named early in a book

Elise, for Beethoven's "Fur Elise"

Makes a commitment (to)

Sets aside for some purpose

Names in someone's honor

""One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.""

Type of Conrad's seamen.

Serious trouble, so to speak

Area of danger

Deeryard

Misappropriate the proceeds of facet deal

Embezzle

Defang

Defat

Like a retired seismologist (wordplay)

Indeed it's not 22 across

Indeed it's wrong not to have paid

Lienee, at times

One who fails to pay

He hasn't paid his bills

Defeater

Fed up with being fed with beating

Fed up with winning by wining and dining

Winning victory over

Pessimistic view fades with time maybe

Overeagerness to admit to failure

Pessimistic resignation

If date set (anagram)

Feed poorly, at first being hopeless

He's always expecting to be beaten

Overthrow; defeat.

Defecate

Defecate

One on trial

One is not to a c.c. 17 across

Plea bargaining party

Postponements.

Postponements

Defiance

In rebellious way

Defilade

Defilade

""Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words. as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words.""

DEFINE to state the meaning of

Pins, to balloons

Letting the air out

Fed up with the classics? Gee, that'll puncture you!

A real let-down!

Decline in general price level

Loss of air

Pessimists, often (wordplay)

Pins and needles (wordplay)

Air releasers

Ridding of pests, in a way

Defoamer

Defoam

Leaves-dropper (wordplay)

Type of chemical sprayed on plants

I don't mess with leaf stripper

Use Agent Orange on

One does this and leaves off

Remove leaves from a tree

Cheated (of cash)

Swindled

Cheated

One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.

Costs incurred by scuffle during trades

Costs incurred as result of wear during transactions

Defrayer

Benefactor's activity

Bearing the expenses of

Degasser

Degas

Cleared, as a drive

Erased, as videotape

DEGAUSS to demagnetize

Neutralizes a magnetic field

Deglaze

Degrader

Demeaning, humiliating

Causing humiliation

Small cucumber

Degrease

Cleaning material, for example Gunk

Engine treatment

Degrease

Make heated and dry (wordplay)

Deprive of water

Remove moisture from, make dry

""Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.""

Units equal to 0.3527 ounces

Same as Decaliter. Decaliter.

Same as Decameter. Decameter.

Delation

Delead

Deleave

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or an agent.

Took off one's plate

Assigned, as tasks

Assigned authority

Agent

Representatives or deputies

Assigns jobs to club representatives

Signers of the Declaration

LEGATOR one that {legates=v}

Moved leftward, eastern pots

Blue-and-white pottery

Rotterdam pots

Washables requiring special care

Table treats, of old

Undies

Portray precisely - teen ideal (anagram)

Show by drawing

Explain in detail

Demagog

By way of being a teacher

Rabble-rousing

Agog in half a hundred like any schoolmaster

Emotion-arousing politico

Incite-ful orator

Political agitator.

One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.

Nagging ones

Asking is difficult

Maddening disposition of the importunate

A tough marathon course will be this

""A yellowgreen, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.""

Establish escort eats whipped cream

Bound, as ground.

Mark boundaries.

Changes of policy, as in diplomacy

Policy changes

Demark

Demast

Lowering in dignity as in endgame

Humiliating, lowering in respect

Lowering in reputation as in end game

Facial appearances

Outward attitudes

Bearings

Energy low inside gloomy carriage

Unusually enamoured by one's appearance

Manner of behaving towards others

DEMENTIA a mental illness

Losses of sharpness

Symptoms of a mad, mad world.

Mad conditions

Demerara

Moore's coffee cup (wordplay)

Pour out mug inside of French coffee

One may go with a saucer

Rule of the people

Form of government.

McCoy read novel, The Common People

Their sights are set on '54

Certain party men.

US political party

Demoniac

Fiendish

Detention in port

Object and go mad about the Bank's cut in gold transactions

How one may object to fury, yet have to pay for it after some delay

Demurral

Like alcohol that's unfit for drinking

Unfit to drink.

How a turn is twisted indeed for a change

Renders unfit to drink.

Doctors date nurse foolishly

Changes the character of area in false set

NERVATE having veins

Say bad things of French granite pieces

Put down one jar after study

Blacken the name of.

Formed from a noun

""A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.""

Denudate

Denudate

Sure thing (wordplay)

Underarm spray, perhaps

Secret stuff (wordplay)

Depaint

Departee

Taking a hike

It's just no go

It's just no go for the leaves

One of a sort of leaves (wordplay)

Going on leave

Leaving for something new

Dented pan? (anagram)

One's kept earring of Parisian seen first

One needs support ot kill the insect at last

Depilate

Strips down and regularly does gentle exercise

Getting off a DC-6.

Depraver

Leading down the primrose path

Immoral act(s) - wickedness

Theological word for original sin

Moral corruption

Belittle tatty carpet kept by woman

Feel and express disapproval of

Express disapproval of

Plunder, old style.

Prey upon.

Rob and Pete dread being made to look silly

Deprival

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Purified.

Depurate

Deraign

Throwing off-track

Turn red, get sick, being off the track

One line I found in terrible danger, this action becoming possibility (wordplay)

Making mad with gardening

Derat

Inferable

Derivate

Anatomy An area of skin innervated by sensory fibers from a single spinal nerve.

Rate dodge made to seem disreputable

Lowered in rank

Detracted from French staff outside entrance

Runs down

Disparages

Desalter

Desalt

Desand

Descant

Seer acted badly to abuse sacred object

Defile, as something sacred

Harm a church

Extra capsule in a pill bottle

Do not eat substance

Dryer found in freak accidents

Preserve by drying (eg coconut)

Preserve by removing all liquids from

Preserve by removing all liquids

Assign or appoint

Choose to throw giants' pants in river

Appoint gent with ideas, at work

Sought-after - rebel aids (anagram)

Worth swiping right on

Pleasing; agreeable.

In a desirable manner.

Like ghost towns

With no one around

Made extremely sad

Ravager

Does least (anagram)

Leaves forlorn.

Forsakes

Volunteers misplace gun without retreating. One's devastated!

Was without hope (of).

Gave up hope of cooking dried peas

Lacked hope

Hopeless one.

Road speed (anagram)

Billy the Kid, for one

Speed trick Radio 1 dropped? Bravo!

Adept seer (anagram)

Extremely dangerous (situation)

Crazy speed and more speed? Reckless!

Cleaned up a microscopic specimen, for example

Desugar