9-Letter Words Starting with A

South African vultures

Orchestrated premature finish (wordplay)

Game called off to music (wordplay)

Given up a wild record bid (wordplay)

Deserter

Deserter.

Meat packing plants

Animal slaughterhouses

Slaughter-houses

Abbotcy

Edward VIII in 1936

He's giving up

King Edward VIII, for example

Muscles packed to take a punch!

Muscle pack (wordplay)

Like some six-packs

Carrying off (of a person)

Taking badly (wordplay)

Alien encounter, some claim

Courts get rough with bad kidnappers

Abelmosk

Ground hot and barren? Horrible!

Detestable/tenants' motto (wordplay)

Bad breath or not, initially offensive

Abhorrer

Detesting

Loathing

Not biogenic; not produced by living organisms

Hopeless state of protest when leader's been replaced

Ablation

The act of washing

Usain Bolt ordered washing

Usain Bolt, after injury, showers

One who surrenders

Renouncer over Angora bet

Claim renouncer

Abnormal

Aboideau

Aboideau

Aboiteau

Aboiteau

Like poll taxes

Got rid of

Put an end to

Abraham Lincoln, notably

Lincoln, notably

A throwback by literary cameraman chopping wood - one wielding axe

Does away with

Gets rid of

Does away with Basil's hoe design

End of the act (wordplay)

A way to be doing with this (wordplay)

Action of terminating (a practice)

Hate to be a man, I suspect

Tottering in boat, Mae can't stand

Regard with disgust

Earliest inhabitant of, say, Australia

Native of Australia

Inhabitant of country before colonists

Abortion

Perhaps a spring in abundance

Rich one leaping

That's what a leap year won't be a-doing

Skin scrapes

Playground injuries

Wearing a metal jacket, one gets no back injuries

A great bod sadly repudiated

Did away with

Revoked formally

Abolishes.

Rescinds

Repeals

""A sudden, violent separation""

Went without saying

Tried to avoid arrest, say

Ran away to avoid legal process

Person on the run

Band score rewritten for The Fugitive

Fugitive running Bond's race

Absolute

Ultimates and perfections.

Things held to be always true

Some are moral

They provide pardons, for instance, covering me, initially, then you

Tar perhaps filling in this clearing

Holding blameless

Clearing.

""One that {absorbs=v}, also ABSORBATE, ABSORBENT, ABSORBER""

Bob ran set (anagram)

Spongy clue for boars (wordplay)

Like paper towels

Absorber

Like a great book, perhaps

What 15 across sounds it's doing

Sucking up to this with a lot of interest

Abutilon

Accentor

Acceptor

The act of becoming monarch

Pretender's dream.

Getting to the office

Hat or handbag, say

John Oates, to Daryl Hall (wordplay)

Trapping criminal associate (wordplay)

Pulitzer Prizes, Oscars, etc.

Expressions of praise

Expressions of great praise

Escort to affirm (wordplay)

Play second fiddle to, in a way

Travel along with

Harmonious

Consonant.

Yes-men with absurd cares about a line

Corresponding with Jennings (wordplay)

As reported or stated by

Allotting or granting

Push my buttons!

Musical folder (wordplay)

Welk's instrument

Approaching and speaking to.

Policeman's activity, at times

Making a bold approach

Totted up to a hundred, for all that

Considered to be a hundred totted up

All added up to a century

Provides with furnishings

US equips air conditioning - cold son grabs remote

Outfitted and equipped

Dressed or equipped as a warrior

Equipped, in England

Provides with gear, in Gloucester

Furnishes

Collecting corps' soldiers during battle

Process of growth

Increase of carbon in explosive reaction

Gets used (to)

This gets used

Habituates

Acetoxyl

Achromat

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Sharp with asperity

Claudius prepared to eat duck and tart

U.C.L.A. duo is sarcastic

Aconitum

Sound system (wordplay)

Stucco is a puzzle to science

Conductor's concern

Well-balanced, perhaps

Taking a tumble (wordplay)

Well-balanced (wordplay)

Acrodont

Acrolect

Acrolein

Wooden statues with stone extremities

ACRONYM a word formed from initials

Like certain flowers in a batch - dead, gone over

(Of leaves and flowers) developing upwards from the base or point of attachment

Like the arrangement of some flowers in a batch with others

One who hates heights

Athens landmark arise (nonverbal)

Where the Parthenon was built.

Literally, "highest city"

ACROSOME a thin sac at the head of the sperm

Acrosome

Initial readings (wordplay)

NEWS for the four directions, and others

Certain word puzzles

Acrotism

Actinoid

Turn-on (wordplay)

Chemical catalyst

Catalyst

Process of making operate

Actuator

""A synthetic purine nucleoside analog, C 8 H 10 N 5 O 3 , derived from guanine and used in the treatment of herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and varicella zoster virus infections.""

ACYLATE to introduce acyl into

Panda is to evolve in Darwinian processes

Monkey on one's back ("Henry V")

I did act on (anagram)

Maybe this is inhabited

New members of the family.

Extra rooms, for example

Extra publishings, by the sound of them

The act of adducing or bringing forward.

Inner thigh muscles

Certain thigh muscles

Glandular upset ailed an old Democrat

Glandular trouble almost laid one out

Like glandular tissue at back of nose

Adenoma

The 'A' of ATP

The A in ATP

Abnormally united tissues

Firm attachments

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

Idiot pays criminal for property of 6 23

Fatty nature

Do a jig in new building next door

A daughter doing woodwork? Touching

A daughter getting married next door

Closed court at the end of a session

More than recessed

Postponed until another day

Adjustor

Madison Avenue undertaking (wordplay)

Guilty plea, say

Commercial assignment (wordplay)

Adnation

Adjective meaning resembling

Able to be taken up

Fit for taking home from the animal shelter

Commercial work on board is such as may be undertaken

Humane Society successes

Social worker's concern.

Votes to accept commercial alternatives

Commercial speech (wordplay)

Love a fair helping of bother (wordplay)

Allowance of fuss and of love (wordplay)

In a worshipping manner

With much love.

One way to gaze

Touch of color, perhaps

Decoration for naval personnel in a spot

Mend a torn dress with decoration

Most skilful at concealing steroid misuse

Substance taken up in a lab

A type of tree covered in fruit? It's only on the surface

Like charcoal filter

Capable of deflecting moisture

Capable of producing a film about bears? Don't!

Some emissions reducers

Adsorb

Very high regard

Sycophant's specialty

High praise for an adult I love to tease

Prays from them, by the sound of it

Obsequious group

Big fans

Excessively flattering

When almost grown-up, a politician is flattering

Sycophantic

Minor goal (wordplay)

A step above the minors (wordplay)

Supposedly mature years

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Pled in support

Stood up for Dublin supporter from the start

Recommended

Recommends Scottish silks, perhaps

Goes to bat (for)

Promoters of Scottish silks

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Advowson

Giant flightless bird once found in Madagascar

Aequorin

Oxygen-supplying procedures

Doing stunts with airplanes

Of stunt flying

One in novel boat race having high jinks

The use of atmospheric drag rather than onboard thrusters to reduce the velocity of a satellite or spacecraft.

Heathrow, for one

Bumper edition of The Waves (wordplay)

By the sound of it, a plain place

Aeroduct

Aerodyne

For a couple of eagles, backing up lubricates wings

Aerogram

Meteorites (E, not H)

Stony bodies from outer space.

Stony meteorites

Stony meteorites

Density determining instrument

Gas-density gauge

Gizmo that measures gas properties

Balloonists or airmen

They go up and down

Balloon pilots, for example

Upper-atmosphere studier

""The study of the upper atmosphere, especially of regions of ionized gas.""

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

Dirigibles, balloons, etc.

Balloons

The science or philosophy of causation

Feeling of fondness

Feeling of strong liking

Admiration of affectation from the army

Providing a fine crossing

Having enough money to bear the expense

24 down is what you might have been this, as you might say

Afforest

A fine figurehead ends oddly insulted

Offended by disrespect.

Offended one FBI operative about political group

Baptisms of fire, at the start USA's in round

Poison produced by food moulds; oxtail fan (anagram)

Raised above (wordplay)

Being the one previously mentioned

The one previously mentioned

Bursting, flow with great warm feeling

Light once the actual source has gone

Light in the sky post sunset

Last to be following the majority

Right at the back, yet wanting the lion's share

Perhaps I am never in time like this

On following no following amend, perhaps

Am finished before it starts (wordplay)

Book's epilogue

Concluding section in a book

Concluding part of book

Agalloch

Agalwood

Communist China, by U. N. vote of 44-7

The one who 'started it'

Beginner of a quarrel.

Agiotage

State of unrest

Rabble-rouser's activity

Attack of the fidgets.

That's sure to get one gone

A gait rots the stirrers

Sort of a gait for trouble, they are

Agitprop

Aglycone

Agnation

They just don't know

They don't know if God exists or not

Religious doubters

What 14 down is

Going in, as poorly and fretting

Very painful, really hurtful

Argumentative.

Kind of reappraisal

Painful

Of farm management

Pertaining to crop production

Like farming

Not concerned with the past

Havens for planes.

Orly, Le Bourget, etc.

Landing fields

""Capable of being transported and deployed, usually by helicopter, to a combat zone or from one site to another within a theater of operations: an airmobile infantry regiment.""

Airpower

Airproof

Safe to fly

How rarity may be fit to fly

Ready to take off

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

Long-finned tunas

Fish bar so fancied up with lace

White-meat sources

Ornithological collar (wordplay)

Pacino's burden (wordplay)

Big bird's a hit, of course!

Albicore

Affected with albinism.

Albumose

One addicted to drink

Like some beverages

Person addicted to drink

Aldolase

Depending on chance

Draft pick venues (wordplay)

Round buildings (wordplay)

See a lush reeling round old pubs

Aleurone

Algaroba

A tree, the common mesquite

Algorism

Decision tree, for one

*Programmer's procedure

Netflix uses one to recommend you movies

Poor diplomat, say

Family outcast, perhaps

One causing estrangement

Severance package payments (wordplay)

Tender towards one's exes (wordplay)

Means of maintainance for former mates

Alkaloid

Plural or third person singular

All is ok (as suffering blood condition)

Of or pertaining to alkalosis.

Alkoxide

""Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.""

""A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid. allantoic acid and amniotic acid.""

""Pl. allantoides ( l n-t -d z ) A membranous sac that develops from the posterior part of the alimentary canal in the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles. It is important in the formation of the umbilical cord and placenta in mammals. Also called allantoid .""