9-Letter Words Containing A

Earlship

English word

Set aside for tagged cattle (wordplay)

Set aside (for)

Designated organ and corrected faults

Not at all in jest.

Advanced, engaging retreat with intent

Sincerely and seriously

One phrase (anagram)

Sound-system accessory

They cater for a private reception

Parts of headsets

Some Secret Service wear

They may be custom-made for canals

Otoliths

Human that's like a fox (wordplay)

Like all mortals

Originating from our planet

Operating theatre is most filthy

Most nourishing, as a meal

Operating theatre is most dirty

Earthly

Adjective meaning resembling

Martian address (wordplay)

Human being (sci-fi)

One of us has to lean right, perhaps

Peanuts.

Goobers

Dawn of the Space Age (wordplay)

Up-coming world phenomenon (wordplay)

Famous picture from Apollo 8

Earthset

Puffball-like fungus

Two spinning bodies had fungus

Fungus with a spacy name

Hard water bubbling to the surface

Falling object's direction

Direction of a sunbeam.

Farming for defence (wordplay)

Rampart made of soil

Agriculture for defence

Angler's bait, perhaps

Soil-dwelling creature

Night crawler, for example

Listened without the speaker's knowledge

Listened in with attention like a judge

Eavesdropped

EASEFUL {restful=adj}

Kind of bike

Rights to use of others' lands.

Wayleaves, at law

Footballer on the way to Stirling

Moving toward the orient

Going from L.A. to Baltimore, for example

A steward's direction (wordplay)

To the Orient

To the sunrise

Hairdresser's shop

Calm - relaxed - nonchalant

Happy-go-lucky midshipman goes on leave

Listen in (on)

Act like an icicle (wordplay)

Rain on the roof?

Ecclesia

Goon upset some members of church assembly

One barely working (wordplay)

Lili St. Cyr, for one

She grins and bares it

""Any of numerous tropical American plants of the genus Echeveria, having thick, succulent leaves often clustered in a showy rosette.""

Echogram

Parroter's form of speech.

Habit of repeating others' words.

Repetition of another's words

Speech

City light is about a cause of fits

Misplace a treatment for antenatal condition

Lights in city and capital erected as a condition

""Coma and convulsions before, during, or shortly after childbirth, characterized by edema, hypertension, and proteinuria.""

Green nuts (wordplay)

Ecraseur

Transports of delight

Rapturous states

Raptures

Ecstatic

Ecthyma

What supposedly emanates from a medium

Medium's output

Supposed material exuded by medium

Ectosarc

Ectozoan

Edacity

EDEMA an excessive accumulation of serous fluid

Toothless mammals.

Never a canine among them. Does one need to state this (wordplay)

Leader's an idiot - real stupid!

Leader of opinion (wordplay)

Journalistic leader, perhaps

Educable

Informing in form

- - Rita, film

Teaching

McMahon's schooling (wordplay)

Letters perhaps auctioned off

A tonic due (anagram)

What Dotheboys' Hall was not.

Like much PBS programming

Relating to teaching

Ones with class (wordplay)

Teachers and mentors, for example

Teachers and professors

Producing the desired result

Sufficient to produce a result

Producing an intended result

Whirlybird in the kitchen (wordplay)

Meringue maker's tool

Scrambler's aid

Intellectual

Cerebral

Veggies baked with parmesan

Spur factories to produce purple fruits

They're called aubergines in England

Insect found in say, border plant

A rose, say, worker planted in row

Inelegant model is one wild rose!

Eglatere

One who says "irate" (wordplay)

Incessant self-Googler, perhaps

Vanity case (wordplay)

Egomania

Natives of Cairo, say

Africans say pay isn't bad

Pet saying distressed locals in Memphis (wordplay)

""To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.""

Like some jet fighter seats

Like CDs and DVDs

Shed light (on)

Say more, please

Fancy getting English leftist to speak!

Elastase

Neoprene, for example

Material obtainable from ores - metal

Always securing final order for material

Click beetles

Elaterin

""A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen. mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.""

Likely to attract votes

Fit to pick first, as those standing should be

Having a chance of getting in with gorgeous date being taken out

Sort of roll, A-E, etc (wordplay)

College of voters (wordplay)

College of presidents (wordplay)

""A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection. Confection.""

Elegance

Do this with Grace

Gracefully and tastefully

Gentle lay, rendered with style

1988's winning word: Mournful

Mournful Alice with a leg broken

Drunk Gaelic ale - becoming mournful

On the table (wordplay)

Basic Tears for Fears album (wordplay)

Basic and potent

The planes (anagram)

They're long in the tooth (wordplay)

What do mahouts ride (wordplay)

Elevated

Like a good sermon

Promoting genial vet after work

Lifting the spirits

Height - a live note (anagram)

Piece of RICE (wordplay)

Face lift (wordplay)

They can give you a lift

Lifts, in London

Businesspeople take them down

How heat might knock one out (wordplay)

Exclude cream-covered Mina (wordplay)

Do away with, remove

Dangle toe (anagram)

Do a gentle flip, when stretched

Lengthened dress for elegant do

Musk scandals? (or draws out)

Stretches for poor Noel and rich Bill

Gone stale possibly, so pulls out

Edit a clue, perhaps, to make it clear

Explain cryptic clue one time

Throw light on a problem, make clear

""To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing. as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.""

Eluviate

Eluviate

Came off a diet for modelling thus!

I arrived up here with such a thin boy

I came up over such a very thin boy

Wastes time, a case for improvement

Grows thin, as mice eat in a frenzy

Thins

Issuing from a source

Proceeding from a source.

Fellow's worrying about coming out

Chad, for one

Issue half of them before a race

A flowing forth

Tending to radiate something

Spreading abroad

Flowing forth.

Things that give off fragrances, for example

They use preservatives

A grave occupation (wordplay)

Preserving a dead body

Means of corpse preservation

Embank

Prohibited, in a way

Banned officially

Commercial blockers (wordplay)

Restrictions imposed on commerce.

Legal prohibitions on commerce

Boarding every other term - quite mad!

Venturing to put the compiler up? Mad!

Boarding, as a ship

Turn red, maybe

Induce squirming in, perhaps

Cause to blush, maybe

Embar

An embassy.

D.C. row houses (wordplay)

Homes away from home (wordplay)

Buildings in a Washington, D.C., 'row'

Beset with attackers

Beset by difficulties

Struggling doctor stops mad ladette

Puts under siege

Fortifies me returning on wrong tablets

Fortifies, as a military camp

A bay.

Emblazer

On fire

Celebrates or proclaims

Decorates brilliantly

One guilty of embracery.

Embracer

Nobbling race outsider could be right by me

Getting up in arms (wordplay)

Activity at a joyful reunion

The way to have one in arms

Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.

To confuse; to entangle.

Opening amber fluid OK

Opening in a wall for firing through

Opening to fire nasty Amber beyond doubt

""Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.""

Emeerate

Subject to alteration

Fade out, like Marryat's uncomplicated seaman

Rectifiable

Made corrections to

Rectified.

Improves by revision

Corrects a text.

Corrects text

They've left me staring in bewilderment

People leaving, streaming out

Ones moving far from home

Left the country, perhaps

Sought greener pastures, perhaps

Went abroad to live

Uses an exit visa, perhaps

Leaves regimes at loggerheads!

Goes on leave for good

Ability to give off radiant energy

Optics unit

Caught up in the moment, maybe

Rational converse (wordplay)

Too menial to get worked up!

Stuffed Spanish pastries

Stuffed pastries of Latin America

Pastries de Chile

Empanel

Understandings of others' situations

Kindred feelings

Be understanding of

Identify mentally with another person

Have fellow-feeling for

Identify with another's thoughts

Identify (with)

Create an emotional bond

Tail of an airplane

Aircraft's tail assembly

Give extra importance to

Impasse he cultivated, causing stress

Worried MP? Ease his stress

Underline, say

Put in italics

Call attention to

Smoker's lung condition

Distension of the lung

Lung condition causes bad ESP mayhem

Pragmatic way to price mail (wordplay)

Mail price (anagram)

Based on observation or experience

Emplace

Emplane

Empyema

Empyrean

Trying to equal.

Glutamine (anagram)

Imitating

Act of attempting to match or surpass

Effort to equal others

Wannabe's focus

Suitable for modeling

Desirous of equaling someone else

Taking after emu, returning alive; excellent!

Mirroring software programs

Programs that let computers run software written for other systems

Copiers

Law that has been passed

Action on Capitol Hill

Process of passing a law

Metalworkers, at times

Surfacers of a sort

Makers of cloisonne.

Type of ornamentation

High gloss finish

Adorning with a brightly colored surface

Artist of smooth surfaces.

Artist initially erased celebrity register

With a shiny topcoat

Used japan

Screamed head off about tag and put a coat on

Charming.

Echo called about our being in love!

Our mean Ed (anagram)

In love with - named rou (anagram)

Pitching tents

For Paul, scene to summarize

Summarize

Encash

Prepared by means of heat; burned in.

Plural of encephalon .

Like some gangs

Kept in shackles

Spelled, perhaps, and sing in need

Charming Delerium song (wordplay)

Under a spell and thence transformed

At last the singer is bewitching

Stock character in some fantasy novels

Magician from Nabokov, then Crane, perhaps with...

Enchaser

Enchase

Whole food (wordplay)

Hot Mexican dish

Special deal with china dish

Seized and held.

One who publicly praises or flatters another

One who offers praise, waving team's icon

Snaps come out and go round

Bring about spasm once tormented

Corrupt cop names head of smuggling ring

Give hope to (someone)

Give support to, stimulate hope

Argue once mistakenly and inspire

Endamage

Endamage

Endameba

Endameba

Variant of entamoeba .

Puts on the line

Places at risk

Puts in peril

Endbrain

Winning finish gets attention in golf

Delightful finale holds attention

Winning over the listener in the finish

Takes a crack at

Exerts effort.

Industrious efforts

Try to finish always as you might say

How trying this is!

Do one's best around Eve Cook (wordplay)

Endleaf

Inner layers: Bot

Endocast

Inside of a cell

Plod names unruly cell occupant

Endosarc

Wind up with nothing to lift from inside bone

Orchestra spotted by Doyle (wordplay)

Parts of a book.

They're inside the covers

Terminal treelike branchings of motor nerve cells

Destroyed north pedestal is reduced to flat structures

Not that bad

Like minor hardships

Like adversity, one hopes

In an endurable manner.

Last to be first in this test (wordplay)

Last to demonstrate this (wordplay)

Crude Anne (anagram)

On the ropes

Sapped of zip

Deprived of vigour

Saps of vigor.

Brings lethargy upon

Saps of strength

Shot at, as a line of troops

Rakes with fire

Rakes with gunfire

Arrangements, as of opposed mirrors, giving the effect of long vistas

Enflame

Enframe

Wreathe with flowers.

Transferred to a new plant

Added to a plant

Engrail

Inveterate, if erroneous, need to store corn

Engramme