9-Letter Words Starting with A

Weapons in Welsh town, be gone!

Carney's cannons (wordplay)

Large guns for use on land

Like some cheese

Made by traditional methods

In a naive way

In a crude way

In an unsophisticated manner

Aruspex

""Ladleshaped; applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.""

Arythmia

Ascaris

More than half of adulthood (wordplay)

Mountain climbers, for example

Ones on the way up

Establish (the facts)

'Find out to assure me, perhaps (9)'

Find assure out (wordplay)

Ascocarp

ASCORBATE

One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.] Illust. of Ascus.]

Attributing (to) - giving credit (to)

Crediting (to)

Putting it down to one as it's in writing

Ashlar

Ashler

Spear on a fork (wordplay)

It has tips for good dining.

Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable

What NutraSweet is a brand of

After a dispute, subdue with sweetener

It's sweet to take me to a Greek city

ASPARTATE

Made rough by way of an Edward

Asperate

Asperser

Asperse

It's slander, like the old Iranian said

It's cast in a derogatory manner

This may be cast like one in one

Aspersor

Partisans of those with high ambitions

Ambitious people

Hopefuls, wannabees

Aspirata

Containing the sound of "h."

Pronounced the letter "h"

Unlike the H in H-hour

They're pronouncedly like sea crooks

They're pronouncedly like criminals

Pronounces an initial H

Medical device removing fluid

Suction pump.

Suction pump

Pack on the attack

One making violent attack (on another person)

Attacker.

Constructor, of a sort

Person piecing something together

Code-converting computer program

Ones going along

They agree

Seems they're agreeable the way the fool rushes in

Yea sayers

Those who concur

Asserter

Sticking up for (oneself)

Claiming to sting and sear this

Claiming it's made of sea string

How silly to start to make such a claim!

Senator is about to make a statement

Claim first son has trouble in store

A lock up? I have to be forceful

Bold and confident

Far from reticent.

Trees in a sort of people making a claim

Taxing individuals (wordplay)

Local tax authorities

Often-reviled tax professionals

Assigner

Assignor

They help as nuns

Helpful ones

Assistor

Ones engaged in separation

They classify

Selectors

Classifying.

Confidence (in abilities)

Uses car with an awful confidence

Freedom from doubt.

Without a doubt

Without a doubt.

With confidence

Rising

Record-book marks, maybe

"M*A*S*H" stars (wordplay)

Stars of "M*A*S*H" (wordplay)

Star clusters

Classic Atari game

Small planets orbiting the sun

Space Invaders alternative

With a leg on either side of (something)

Riding, in a way

On the fence.

Beads for starlets (wordplay)

Convex moldings.

Small circular mouldings, on round columns,say

Hark Satan (anagram)

Hark, Santa is in Russian wool

Fur - city on Volga

Astrict

Astringe

Astringe

Star-shaped glial cell

Spot for celestial navigation

Stadium for almost 68,000

Park that opened in April 1965

A sort able to produce old instrument

Sextant's predecessor

Predecessor of the sextant.

Dixon line (wordplay)

How stars can make a fortune, perhaps

A house study (wordplay)

A nut roast served for one on rocket

One making use of space (wordplay)

One making good use of space (wordplay)

Celestial sphere (wordplay)

Roman toys (anagram)

Tory moans (anagram)

Imbalance between two sides

Feature of much modern architecture

Difference between two sides

Of or relating to a drug or other agent that has a tranquilizing effect.

Ataraxia

Ataraxic

Ataraxy

A secretary, vocal, unaffected by time

Without regard for time

Timeless ruins at Palermo

Atheroma

English word

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer.

Atomiser

Scent spreaders

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

Offensive ones (wordplay)

People in a rush

They're 1 across, not 8 down

Loss of civil rights.

Loss of all civil rights, in law

Get the German punishment for treason

Successful people

Achievers

Attemper

They made it to the event

Ladies in waiting

Those present at proposals

Sat around the examiners as they swear to it

Certifiers

Witnesses

Notaries public, for example

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

Our Altaic version of the author

Of, by or typical of an author

Pertaining to a writer

Part of a hearing test, maybe

Eg, concert halls

They are found in schools

School meeting places

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

AUGMENT to {increase=v}

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.

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

AUTARCH an absolute ruler

Autarky

AUTEUR the creator of a film

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

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

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

Model company (wordplay)

Ford, for one

Mercedes or Volvo

An expressway in France and French-speaking countries.

""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.""

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.""

Not having blood vessels

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

Bird keepers

Avigator

Not virulent.

Avoucher

Friendly, as an older relative, say

Friendly, like some relatives

Friendly in a non-threatening way

Alarm clocks, for example

Conferrable

Knowledge (of a fact)

Self following (wordplay)

Self ending (wordplay)

Wondering at a vehicle we collided with

Lost for words as we crashed lorry

Ace you and I hit is impressed

More inept

Less comfortable as a Mon-Sun prison officer

With very little grace

In a clumsy manner

Betraying clumsiness

Carriage's underpinnings.

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.

Azoturia