9-Letter Words Starting with A

Burrowing mammals

African anteaters

Ant eaters

Abampere

Deserter

Deserter.

Meat packing plants

Animal slaughterhouses

Slaughter-houses

Edward VIII in 1936

He's giving up

King Edward VIII, for example

Courts get rough with bad kidnappers

Departure from the norm

Welsh mouth to Breton river? There's freakishness for you!

Lincoln rector originally managed church going in the wrong direction

Wandering or straying state

It's just not normal

Deviance by nearby car is the subject of worry

Aberrant

Aberrate

Abhenry

Ground hot and barren? Horrible!

Detestable/tenants' motto (wordplay)

Bad breath or not, initially offensive

Abhorrer

Detesting

Loathing

One who surrenders

Renouncer over Angora bet

Claim renouncer

Abnormal

Abraham Lincoln, notably

Lincoln, notably

A throwback by literary cameraman chopping wood - one wielding axe

Earliest inhabitant of, say, Australia

Native of Australia

Inhabitant of country before colonists

Abortion

Abrachia

Capable of being abraded (worn away by friction)

Abradant

Skin scrapes

Playground injuries

Wearing a metal jacket, one gets no back injuries

No-nos for cleaning glass stovetops

Emery, et al.

They create a lot of friction

Create bad upset, having released repressed emotions

Workers on a digest

They'll make short work of things

They shorten game in topless bars

Contracting a sort of loan

Curtailing one type of loan

Reducing a sort of loan

A great bod sadly repudiated

Did away with

Revoked formally

Abolishes.

Rescinds

Repeals

Abrupt

""A sudden, violent separation""

Person on the run

Band score rewritten for The Fugitive

Fugitive running Bond's race

Absenter

Absolute

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

""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

Seat in bar maybe not his (wordplay)

No little 21 across for one

Who's abandoned seat in bar (wordplay)

Absterge

Absterge

Takes works of Picasso, say

Removes works by Pollock, say

Summaries of books.

Abstrict

Harder to penetrate

Most foolish brutes, sad, torn apart

Most ludicrous

Belief that we live in an essentially meaningless world

Beckett, for one

Like a Something Different puzzle

Beckett's revising suits Bard

It's ridiculous vandalising a dirty bus

A dirty bus crashed, stupid thing

What nonsense to make the bar tidy with us!

ACARI acarus

ACARI acarus

(Medicine / Pharmacology) any drug or formulation for killing acarids

Acaridan

Accentor

Yes-men, maybe (wordplay)

Recipients

Acceptor

""Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. Accessory.""

Hat or handbag, say

John Oates, to Daryl Hall (wordplay)

Trapping criminal associate (wordplay)

A hawk

Hawk shows caprice flying - the thing must be caught

Applauder

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

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

Certifies, as colleges

Certifies

Growing together

Collecting corps' soldiers during battle

Process of growth

Increase of carbon in explosive reaction

Gradually built up

""ACCRUE to accumulate, also ACCREW""

Lacking the basic structure of life

Like viruses having a rest, lying back inside maple

Made bitter perfect, judged imbibing beer's head

Put out account with wrong rebate to daughter

Made sour

Makes sour.

Annoys someone

Makes bitter

Pl. acervuli (-l ) A tiny cushionlike or blisterlike structure produced by certain fungi on a plant host and consisting of a mass of hyphae-bearing asexually produced spores.

When they're high, they perform well

They have made the grade

People who get things done

Achromat

""A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.""

Aciduria

Acierate

Turns into steel

Acquirer

Developing, as a skill

One letting go

Acridine

Extreme bitter taste

That's enough to make your eye smart

English word

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

Acrylate

Turn-on (wordplay)

Chemical catalyst

Catalyst

Bill locks ladies in green room, perhaps

Bill locks performers in theatre maybe

Glamorous Oscar Night parties (wordplay)

So to be working with figures is risky

Of life-expectancy calculation

Relating to statistical calculation

Risk assessors sign, after a drastic cut

They calculate insurance risks

Insurance company employees

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.""

Ready to be posted, say

Said to be what was on the envelope

So the envelope must be spoken to

Letter-opener (wordplay)

Letter opener (wordplay)

A letter opener (wordplay)

One on a podium, perhaps

Speech-maker

Business machine.

Points of contact (wordplay)

Speaks to, a crowd perhaps

Places where people can be found

Inner thigh muscles

Certain thigh muscles

Observant quality present in fluid dance

You'd be stuck with that

Sticking ability

Adherend

Followers less certain than Reed's

Tears by poor head's supporters

Supporters of neatherds

Closed court at the end of a session

More than recessed

Postponed until another day

They alter commercials - right the Queen should appear in them

Adjustor

This made a certain share

Will Father get back to me with a certain way to share this out (wordplay)

Can A get made certain to apportion this (wordplay)

Deserving respect and approval

Excellent as Barrie's butler

Deserving of esteem

Liam Brady played like this

Main office (wordplay)

The main men (wordplay)

Headquarters of the British navy.

Bouncers, at times

Extraneous ingredient

Say nice things about new tux, creating bit of a stir (wordplay)

Ingredient.

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

Adscript

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

Adularia

Prays from them, by the sound of it

Obsequious group

Big fans

Excessively flattering

When almost grown-up, a politician is flattering

Sycophantic

Who later rued straying (wordplay)

Durer tale (anagram)

One's business affairs (wordplay)

Foreshadow a silent tear, perhaps

Indicate a silent speed (wordplay)

Outline from an unintelligent judge

Advancer

Commercial gamble (wordplay)

Per this perhaps it's exciting

New account on Madison Avenue (wordplay)

Kind of clause

Of a class of words.

Type of phrase

Antagonist or opponent

Satan (with "the").

One's not 4U

I write jingles

Harmfully notice poetry lay hollow

In a way, against advertising jingles

State of misfortune or affliction

Something to rise above

(State of) misfortune

Attentive, heedful

The Reverend Father returns to his temporary quarters

Referring to incidentally

The Reverend Father is back for a little tea with gin

Throw out pitches (wordplay)

Promote (a product)

Push kin (wordplay)

{advertise=v}

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Giant flightless bird once found in Madagascar

Aequorin

Oxygen-supplying procedures

One living the high life (wordplay)

Turn up (wordplay)

Man on the flying trapeze

Aerify

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

Affecter

Afferent

Affirmer

Saying yes to

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

Affrayer

Affray

""A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

Affright

A fine figurehead ends oddly insulted

Offended by disrespect.

Offended one FBI operative about political group

Raised above (wordplay)

Being the one previously mentioned

The one previously mentioned

Road to recovery

Need for recovering patients

Support to customer following a purchase

Unlooked-for ending

Surprise blow following affair thought ended.

Ship area behind the bridge house

Later, adorn part of ship

Dress following of stern queen in area behind bridge

Bursting, flow with great warm feeling

Light once the actual source has gone

Light in the sky post sunset

Medium access (wordplay)

Post-death existence

Heaven or hell., for example

When to study physics?

When to study physics (wordplay)

Consequences (of an event)

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)

'That's of late, it seems (5,4)'

Future

Later, it's not before you draw this up

At a later time

*... war dance ...

Book's epilogue

Concluding section in a book

Concluding part of book

Agentry

Blue or white garden flowers.

Small blue or white flowers.

Garden flowers

Aggrade

Exasperate or exacerbate

Annoy, and make things worse

Make (problem) worse

Collective total - a great egg (anagram)

Greg is stone-faced, in sum (wordplay)

Get garage to fix heap (wordplay)

Aggress