9-Letter Words Containing A

Reparation (for a wrong)

Reparation agreed, paid around November

Satisfaction of a sort

Atrazine

Our coat is incredibly appalling

Terrible actor in trouble with debts

Very bad tragic actor promises to pay

Atrophia

Wasted away as a left back at Hyde, say

Decayed from disuse

Aphrodite became emaciated

Article with prizes for degenerates

A pit horse works with withers

Falls into decline

Atropine

Atropism

Attacher

Fixing a non-drinker's craving

(M/W)elding

A teetotaller in pain, and stuck with it

Offensive ones (wordplay)

People in a rush

They're 1 across, not 8 down

Fighting animal volunteers upset leader

At the cat back there His Majesty is offensive

It's so offensive to get at this in a zigzag way

Offense player in lacrosse

Lacrosse player on the offensive side of the field

ATTACK to {assault=v}

Loss of civil rights.

Loss of all civil rights, in law

Get the German punishment for treason

Successful people

Achievers

Getting to be all there

Reaching, as a climax

Having got all there

'Tisn't in the date that you get to Edward

In the date there's judged to be some pollution

A teetotaller? It can't be the editor that's been convicted of that!

Attemper

There was a trial at getting enticed

Took a shot at

Tried at being tried

Escort coming in at 10 (Danish time)

Cupbearer, for one

One who waits upon

Who's there (wordplay)

Those at meetings

They're there

They made it to the event

Ladies in waiting

Those present at proposals

Being present at (function/event)

Present at a funeral without a drink

Be at a teetotal funeral

Standing order (wordplay)

Notice a pressure in the ear (wordplay)

Mental concentration or awareness( 9)

Showing courtesy to another, or alert

At camp under canvas I have to be alert

As alert as the dutiful Pinafore crew

Reduce (a signal)

Had a late meal to make one thin

To have eaten so late may make you thin

Sat around the examiners as they swear to it

Certifiers

Witnesses

... for a teacher (wordplay)

Sounds like a trying bit of a trial

Declaring that something is the case

Notaries public, for example

Atticism

Atticist

Duet? Sit at different positions

Points of view.

Edits taut review of Points of View

Trial members (wordplay)

Case workers (wordplay)

Bar tenders (wordplay)

Attorn

Employed a magnet (wordplay)

Engaged the attention

Exerted a gravitational pull

Magnet or pheromone

Drawing card, essentially

Magnet, vis-a-vis iron

... for a eulogist (wordplay)

Ascribe (to a cause)

Virtue by payment

How wearing down here!

A wearing away

Wearing down, turning it into art

Purple and gold mixture of beer and gin

Deep purple colour

Fruit popular in French inn

Aubretia

Aubrieta

Had lots to sell (wordplay)

Had a lot to offer (wordplay)

Like a lot, perhaps

Our Altaic version of the author

Of, by or typical of an author

Pertaining to a writer

Rash or insolent

Daring USA duo involved with CIA

Bold and daring

Play groups (wordplay)

House sitters (wordplay)

Interviews those in the theatre

Part of a hearing test, maybe

The measurement of hearing.

Band that plays music (wordplay)

Sound evidence (wordplay)

Garage band's production, once

AUDIT to examine accounts

Screen shots (wordplay)

Reads for a part

Tryouts for performers.

Auditive

Eg, concert halls

They are found in schools

School meeting places

Added value to

Added to, increased

Grew, increased

""One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.""

AUGMENT to {increase=v}

August

Aunthood

Auntly

Aureole

Pl. auriculas or auriculae (-l ) A central European primrose (Primula auricula) having large yellow flowers grouped in umbels. Also called bear's ear .

Cur Laura and I stupidly told privately

French composer's universal god of the ear

Auricula

Wild oxen extinct since 1627

Ausform

A foreigner.

A constituent of some forms of steel

Tate in use, perhaps, for one who likes Jane

Planned a Yule rest with no frills

In a harsh or severe way

Simply gives us tea when out - depend on it!

Most severe state sure to be troublesome

Extremely severe

British program of belt-tightening

Condition in post-war British economy.

Severeness of manner

Austral

Autacoid

AUTARCH an absolute ruler

Autarky

Autecism

AUTEUR the creator of a film

Real thin with a cute bust!

Genuine, not a copy

Real thin with a cute bust

Arthouses neglected creative person

Writer shares out bubbly

Writer shares out novel development

A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist (wordplay)

Author

I share out (anagram)

Writer is going east to say it's okay

Sanction or establish officially

Hoyle, for one

Write on sex with variable confidence

Writer's got it - 'unknown power'

John Irving's peepers (wordplay)

Give the go-ahead to

Give the green LIGHT to

Autistic

Travelling South, a ban on roads like this

Motor coaches

They're often escorted by police

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

Autocoid

Absolute government by one person

Dictatorship, e.g

One-man rule.

They reign without rein

Rulers with unlimited power

They're absolutely at the top.

Tossed out this sort of clue about sport

Motor racing over rough terrain

Slalom race on parking lot course

Autodyne

Having all stages of a life cycle occurring on the same host.

Golden garment on back of film needs training to relieve stress

Helicopters of yore

Helicopters' kin

A tissue or organ grafted into a new position in or on the body of the same individual.

Sign of the self (wordplay)

Car dealer's chart (wordplay)

Hound's quarry (wordplay)

Some aircraft with propellers

Autolyse

Autolyse

Self destruction of cells

""Of, pertaining to, or causing autolysis.""

Autolyze

Autolyze

Model company (wordplay)

Ford, for one

Mercedes or Volvo

Handled by machinery

Like today's tellers

Like vending machines

Couple in a one-car family (wordplay)

Builds a robot for

Makes machine-run

Will it shoot itself (wordplay)

Occurring as a matter of course

Type of gun or car

Man of sorts.

Does this amount to a robot (wordplay)

Man of many parts, perhaps

Like a nervous system

Occurring involuntarily

Acting independently.

Unthinking state (figurative)

High-level stand-in chauffeur (wordplay)

Robot flier (wordplay)

Finally examined gold deposit that's misplaced

A piteous drunk, having died, examined thus (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations

An A of A&E

An expressway in France and French-speaking countries.

AUTOSOME a type of chromosome

Autosome

Of or pertaining to autotelism.

""An organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

Autotype

Autunite

Should say type of verb

Providing additional support

Functioning in a supporting capacity

""An organism, such as a strain of bacteria, that has lost the ability to synthesize certain substances required for its growth and metabolism as the result of mutational changes.""

Avadavat

Hides face say and able to be at hand

"At liberty," as in "Variety"

On offer in the transfer market

""AVAILE to find benefit, also AVAIL""

It's down-white dangerous (wordplay)

A descent that's very flaky (wordplay)

Alpine snowdrop (wordplay)

Not having blood vessels

Aventail

Typically maintain lady must be disheartened after maturity

Fairly.

Getting mean (wordplay)

Finding the means (wordplay)

What a mean thing to be doing!

Averment

Opposite of predilections

You want no part of them

Objects of repugnance

Avianize

Modifies, as a virus, using chick embryos

Bird keepers

Aviation

Greeds

Avifauna

Of the birds of a region.

Avifauna

Avigator

Not virulent.

Avocado

That's the job - or maybe a calling

Hobby; avian coot (anagram)

A life's work leads to hobby

Unlike death and taxes (wordplay)

A useless fit can be prevented

Like careless mistakes

AVOID to {evade=v}

The shunning (of something)

Dodger's goal

Dodger's aim

Avoucher

Keeping out of hospital, stifling cry of pain, giving assurance

Avulsion

Friendly, as an older relative, say

Friendly, like some relatives

Friendly in a non-threatening way

Alarm clocks, for example

Sleep's end

Rousing a boy in one part of house

Arousal from sleep

Conferrable

Knowledge (of a fact)

Self following (wordplay)

Self ending (wordplay)

So as to cause wonder

Wondering at a vehicle we collided with

Lost for words as we crashed lorry

Ace you and I hit is impressed

Awful

Quality of being horrid

Flew unperturbed when fool went around in a terrible state

Enormity

More inept

Less comfortable as a Mon-Sun prison officer

With very little grace

In a clumsy manner

Betraying clumsiness

Taken for granted

Pertaining to self-evident truths

Of universally received principles

Carriage's underpinnings.

Axoplasm

Brazilian plant that has winged fruits

Tea in some Amazonian rituals

Psychotropic drug said to induce spiritual experiences

Title for Khomeini

An Iranian Shi'ite religious leader

Senior Iranian cleric

Ayurveda

A liquid mixture of two or more substances that retains the same composition in the vapor state as in the liquid state when distilled or partially evaporated under a certain pressure.

Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.

Azotemia

Azotise

Azotize

Azoturia

Baaskaap

Babbitt

Babbling

Babirusa

Russian peasant wear

Russian headscarves

Babyhood

Baccarat

Cold tea consumed by trite reveller

Wild and drunken celebration

Drunken party

Female priest can chat and be funny

When she's drunk, might she get the cab back to sing a single note (wordplay)

Bacchant

Single-minded people (wordplay)

Male roles for the composer (wordplay)

Ones not tied down

Of or pertaining to little rods; rodshaped.

Backache

Rock sounds

Like most MPs, needing support with seat

(Of MP) not holding office

Bet against the replacements not in the cabinet

Some acrobatic feats

Calisthenics

Perhaps a molar re tib

Molar (wordplay)

One attacks the reputation of another

Attacks absent friends, say

Disparages player defending snacks

Slanders

BLOCK to {obstruct=v}

It's behind a hoop

Where Wilt Chamberlain shines.

Support company leaders in panel

Main supports.

Certain columns.

Spines

Backcast

Backchat

Support ministers creating a scene

Maintain ministers should set the scene

Painted fabric scenery

COURT to {woo=v}

CROSS to intersect