9-Letter Words Starting with A

One assigned (to a job)

Chosen one (wordplay)

Pick, of sorts

Divide into shares

Distribute pro rata

Give it out that Father is up a bit

Sanction

Sanction.

State of being deductive.

Kiwis

Subject of certain tests.

Strangely it updates natural abilities

Special talents

Aptness

Aquanaut

Dolphin fans (wordplay)

Goya's "Los Caprichos" set, for example

Some prints

Water carriers

Acts due for renewal to cover question of water transporters

Conduits

""Fit for cultivation, as by plowing.""

Mineral similar to calcite.

Calcium carbonate

Medieval crossbows

Arbalist

Arbelest

Trading that exploits cost differences

Market dealer's activity

Simultaneous purchase and sale of assets

Without specific motive

Like a fiat

Based on random choice

Be a middle man (wordplay)

Be a referee

Use a certain route in a dispute

Where one can't see the wood, they say!

Place for ashes in the garden (wordplay)

A gathering of elders (wordplay)

Alder men (wordplay)

Limb trimmers

Tree experts

Arbutus

Arcature

Archaist

Standard - cheap tyre (anagram)

Teachers' pay rotten? Not seen as ideal!

Jaguar follows supreme original model

Wren, for one

I. M. Pei, for one

Building designer from the Arctic

One looking after records

Keeper of public records

One holding many records

""The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.""

In the form of a bow.

Arethusa

Frondizi's country (with "the").

S. American region.

Native of Bahia Blanca.

Valuable silver ore

Argentum

A formal procedure when sculptor's brought in rock

Sedimentary rock that does not split easily

Toronto seafarers (wordplay)

Golden Fleece seekers

Jason's group

Plural of argumentum .

Discussions or quarrels

Some are heated

Exchanges knitted garment with us

Buddhism One who has attained enlightenment.

Aridity

Weapons of war.

Secy. Wilson's concern.

In the star Mother has men of war

Armature

Frameworks used with modeling clay.

Frameworks in clay modeling

Wire-wound dynamo parts.

Signature moment (wordplay)

I cite arms deal before truce occurs

It's a crime breaking ceasefire

Aroint

Sweet-smelling things

Fragrant plants

Spices

Impart fragrance to

Aroynt

English word

People hauled in

They're charged

Rioters that wake in the slammer

Stoppers for 6s (wordplay)

They make collars

Cops, at times

Unusual police function

Nicking a ring when the others go inside

Lovely job of a police officer

Seizers.

A striver, I fancy (wordplay)

Ambitious and self-seeking person

Ambitious self-seeker

Appropriated without right.

Helped oneself to

Appropriated without warrant

Claims without right

Takes upon one's self.

Assumes presumptuously.

Missile base or plant

Starch-yielding plant

Take a bow to such starch underground

Certain salts or esters.

Poisonous compounds

Arsenite

Lighting specialists (wordplay)

Illegal heaters (wordplay)

Ones with incendiary ideas

Relics, to Brits

Best cafe trattoria boxing up handmade products

Aromatic plant related to wormwood

Genus of herbaceous perennial plants

Bitter tasting plant

Highways

Small blood vessel

Very small blood vessel

Blood vessel connected to a capillary

Inflammation irritates badly

Doctor treats iris mostly for inflammation

With inflamed joints

Suffering from stiff joints

In need of joint relief

Inflammation of joints

Disease of joints

Common elderly affliction

Centipede, e.g

Animal with a segmented body

Crab or spider

Pl. arthroses (-s z) An articulation or a joint between bones.

Articulation.

After 'Jerusalem' maybe choir take break

Plant with a heart (wordplay)

Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps

Article

Pertaining to the joints

Pertaining to joints

Relating to a joint

Ruins things (wordplay)

Objects made by humans

Products of primitive man.

Mechanic in the armed forces

A terrific oily mechanic

A terrific construction worker

Clever tricks

The tricks of painting, if they're so cold

Strategems

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

""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

Smelly gum resin from the Orient.

Get-upping (wordplay)

Rising man penetrating a series of clues

Where the Star was in

Tending upward (var.)

Get up over the ant on the up and up

Rising; predominant

Establish (the facts)

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

Find assure out (wordplay)

Like the lifestyle of many a monk

Rigorously abstinent

Austere.

ASCORBATE

Ashplant

Is it in any way absurd (wordplay)

Foolishness as of donkey

As it has no limit, no end of folly

What NutraSweet is a brand of

After a dispute, subdue with sweetener

It's sweet to take me to a Greek city

ASPARTATE

ASPECT to look at

Made rough by way of an Edward

Asperate

Snake stopped on the surface of the road

Like many driveways

It stopped the serpent when the road was covered.

""Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous.""

""Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.""

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

Goon at work

Attacker using wild Alsatians

Hit man, for example

Pickled in a violent way (wordplay)

A pickled sound is 19 down

Came to blows with a seasoned sound

One making violent attack (on another person)

Attacker.

Ones going along

They agree

Seems they're agreeable the way the fool rushes in

Yes man's daily activity

Yes, it's a sniffy-sounding matter

Saying yes

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

""Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.""

In France, note how revolutionary they were

Malamud novel (with "The")

Golf club apprentice (wordplay)

Help worker to find a mate (wordplay)

They help as nuns

Helpful ones

Acting as right hand

Helpful to the fool if I cause him pain

The silly one I give pain to with help

Assistor

Hang out (with)

Not yet a principal

Rub shoulders of teammate

Assonant

Ones engaged in separation

They classify

Selectors

Classifying.

""A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied.""

Rising

Astatine

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

Asthenia

Asthenic

Astheny

Of a respiratory disease

German cathedral city

That's enough to make short of 27 down

Astigmia

Astony

Amazed by odd aunts round about the east

Shocked when a good man's 'arrassed

Amazed at the date, by the sound of it

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

Line near a hyperbola

Almost a sign to note near tangent

Line that a curve infinitely approaches

Of a sentence in which conjunctions are omitted

I came, I saw, I conquered, for example

Atamasco

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

Ataraxia

Ataraxic

Ataraxy

Resembling remote ancestors

Reverting to something ancient

Involving reversion to an earlier type

A secretary, vocal, unaffected by time

Without regard for time

Timeless ruins at Palermo

Rejecting higher authority (wordplay)

Eschewing a higher calling (wordplay)

Not believing the man is in Greek mode

Atheling

Club menu the AA had changed (wordplay)

Inclusive book on wheels (wordplay)

Articles on a menu arranged by club

Reading rooms

Atheroma

Sports - cheat list (anagram)

His cattle wandering off track, perhaps

Lithe acts (anagram)

English word

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

Atomiser

Atomise

Less than molecular

Composed of simple elements

A cat is twitching, completely broken down (wordplay)

Scent spreaders

Atomize

ATONAL lacking tonality

ATONAL lacking tonality

Quality of Bartok's music

Feature of the 1925 opera "Wozzeck"

Lack of a key center, in music

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)