2-Letter Words Ending in N

""The act of bending, or curving.""

Tab's function

Study where we're told Cannes is during spell in recess

Annoyance at getting 12 down

With it, excavation on land brings anger

Righteous anger.

Stumbling into Iberian drunkenness

Drunkenness

Fuddle.

Fighter on foot with small-arms

Young stationer joined up as a soldier

Foot soldier

Soldiers led by a child (wordplay)

Some soldiers

Unreasoning love or attraction

Obsessive love

Crush

Attack by many parasites

Swarm of relaxed, fit Etonians

Fine sloppy depot for threat to health (wordplay)

It means 'forming a pattern', dope!

How the Red Arrows fly low-down

Ready to play, or a phone service

A feeling of intense anger.

The act of innerving or stimulating.

Vaccination

Shot

Sly suggestion

What coaches provide

Arousal to creativity

Sudden brilliant idea

Initiation, prompting

Initiation

Part of the scholastic problem.

Current political issue.

Process of combining

Exchange of ideas

Bury + deed

Reciprocal influence

STRAIN to exert to the utmost

Exposure to, eg, X-rays

Process of being exposed to, eg, nuclear rays

Illumination

April 15 listing

""ITINERATE To wander without a settled habitation; to travel from place or on a circuit, particularly for the purpose of preaching, lecturing, etc.""

Boasting.

LACINIATE LACINIAE lacinia

Shedding tears; same as lachrymation.lachrymation.

The albumin contained in milk and obtained from whey.

""LAICIZE to free from clerical control, also LAICISE""

Having antenn\'91 terminating in a group of flat lamell\'91; said of certain coleopterous insects.

Expression of sorrow

Sobbing Tory leader in weak state

Expression of sorrow.

Magician's skill

Magician's line of work

A kind of trickery.

Enacting of laws

Passing of bills

Group of laws

Believer in free will

*Political party of Gary Johnson

Employee at the Ron Paul Archive (wordplay)

Tiny person (from 'Gulliver's Travels')

A minor character of Swift

Swift little creature

""LIONIZE to treat as a celebrity, also LIONISE""

The winding up (of a company)

Conversion (of assets) into cash

Process of converting into cash

Separation by percolation

One skilled in military supply

Expert in military transport and supply.

The application of oil or grease

Garage job.

""The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.""

Crafty and involved plot

Crafty scheme

Plot to achieve speed of sound at start of race

""Any of various stony corals of the order Madreporaria, which includes the reef builders of tropical seas.""

""A. A song for two or three unaccompanied voices, developed in Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.""

""Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.""

Guy talk or curse (wordplay)

Curse man's way of speaking

A man's enunciation

Bad behaviour in stag party, in part

Wrongdoing from the anti-feminist league (wordplay)

Failure (of equipment)

Fail to work

Break down

A wrong position.

Manganic.

Making free with endless music playing in a large building

Freedom given to win more trophies is one club's aim

Football team given assignment as release from slavery

MARGINATE Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.

Working with teeth initially meshed, one side of cog breaking a channel

One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist.

A dose of a vitamin greatly exceeding the amount required to maintain health.

""The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.""

""The act, process, or art, of measuring.""

Tramp, for one

Trading vessel

Trading vessel.

Sing amidst mythical sea creatures in ships

French sea shanty the crew put together in ships sailing the trade routes

MERCURATE

""Fiction that deals, often playfully and self-referentially, with the writing of fiction or its conventions.""

METHANE a flammable gas

""METHYLATE An alcoholate of methyl alcohol in which the hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by a metal, after the analogy of a hydrate; as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa. as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa.""

Conversion to a particular measurement system

Modernisation of measures from imperial units

""Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.""

Compass unit

Erroneous citation.

CREATION something that is created

LOCATION the position in a particular place

""The act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance.""

Word with prefix multi-

Word with prefix multi-

Noun (-tion)

Cleopatra - or Susie (wordplay)

Seamstress

Talks about one's job, perhaps

Discussion aimed at compromise

Process of reaching agreement

A neuropter.

NEURULAE neurula

MUSICIAN one who performs or composes music

Not in the party (wordplay)

Free from party affiliation

No French adherent is impartial

Intentional confusion

The act of objurgating; reproof.

""The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse. as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse.""

Remark; sighting to determine position

Result of a patient look

Keeping watch...

""The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.""

OFFICIATE To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.

Program for freshmen

What a freshman needs

Relative position

Beginning (six letters)

Process of creation

True source.

One of the Orthoptera.

Cycle - 5 down (anagram)

Movement to and fro

Rhythmic swinging to and fro

Showing off, so attention is diverted

Gaudy display

Pretentious display

""A man who spends considerable time in outdoor pursuits, such as hunting and fishing.""

CAUTION to {warn=v}

EXPLAIN to make clear and understandable

What blood undergoes in the lungs

Ozonation.

Rapid irregular heartbeat

Irregular heartbeat

Fluttering.

Birth

PASSIVATE PASSIVE a verb form

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

""The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

Gradual filtration

PERENNATE

Ace in the hole (wordplay)

It's useful to those in a tearing hurry

Holes picked in closing remarks about French leader

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Act of mimicry

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

A blue phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of cyanobacteria.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany any of a group of substances produced by plants that inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi that infect them [from phyto- + Greek alexein to ward off]

Candid in flyer (wordplay)

Easy to understand

Blunt and candid

PLASMIN an {enzyme=n}

See stonefly .

She's got the beat

Member of the force

Officer with scattered money from a shark (wordplay)

Country where flowers are fertilized (wordplay)

Flower fertilisation

What bees help to accomplish by flying from flower to flower

""The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic

FRESHMAN a first-year student

INVASION the act of {invading=v}

""A. tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss. as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.""

Iron parapet (anagram)

Specially made up medicine

Preliminary measure

In favour of the medical provision of abortion

Masterwork (wordplay)

Enforcing conformity to a standard

(adj.) having a predilection for French bread

Enforcing conformity regardless of individuality; scent uproar (anagram)

The act of procuring; procurement.

'Bum', 'fart', 'poo' in an act of irreverence

Ordinary worker (Marxism)

Relating to the workers

Frisky pair, later on common

Spread of ideas, for example

Spread of ideas, e.g

Breeding; transmission

The act of counting in duration; prolongation.

""The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body. as, the prostration of the body.""

PROTONATE PROTON a subatomic particle

Favouring attempt to cut short hostilities going on and on

Cause of expert calling

Apt title for this puzzle

Spin doctor calling for incitement

""The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.""

""A germinating, or budding.""

English class topic

Marks in writing

One concern of a proofreader

The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.

One followed by 15 zeroes

One followed by 15 zeros

Ginormous figure

""-saws , -sawing , -sawed , -sawed , -sawn (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) (tr) to saw (timber) into quarters along two diameters of a log at right angles to each other""

Dating material

Cairo-born criminal ringing commercial dating agency

Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria.

Rascal or rogue

Plain carols (anagram) - rogue

A disgrace to criticise onion

Reduction in density (of a gas)

The opposite of compression

Two lots of soldiers going to party, with loss of concentration

Shallow, voluble, volatile person

Synonym for 7 Down

""ACCESSION A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy. as, a king's accession to a confederacy.""

Item on a spy's checklist (wordplay)

Literacy campaign (wordplay)

Interpret objective as getting in again

Accomplishment.

""The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.""

Harvest part to divide again

A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.

The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

Land-use project

Retrieval, recovery

""Remembrance; recollection; also, a record.""

""EDUCATION The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.""

Important religious movement.

Improvement in how sappers are deployed (wordplay)

Amendment, improvement

""HYDRATION The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.""

Noun (-tion)

Further spiralling of prices

Restatement

Repetition

Repugnance; resistance; reluctance.

""MEDIATION The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.""

Migration back to the place from which one came.

""OPERATION The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.""

""OXIDATION The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.""

""PARTITION The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom. as, the partition of a kingdom.""

Copying CIA, Interpol will go wrong

Copy; repetition

The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.

Refusal of approval

""RADIATION The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.""

Booking (in restaurant)

Dinner arrangement (wordplay)

Booking (in a restaurant)

Leaving of a job

Notice attitude of compliance

Acceptance of the inevitable

Breathing

Talk in one's sleep (wordplay)

1660 to 1685, in England

Repair top of oven part following break

Repayment in kind

An eye for an eye.

Vengeance

Slowness in progress

Slowing; lag

""Action returned, or action backward.""

Adjustment of a currency relative to others

Impressive or persuasive orator

Master of telling phrases.

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

Cheers about one charged following provincial university's punishment

""SACCULATE SACCULE a small sac, also SACCULUS""

One helping with wild salon sprees

Small drinks for each young man's agent

Staff member

Riotously merry

Riotously merry.

Orgiastic

Oktoberfest entree

German entree

Of or relating to the order Saurischia.

Apartheid, say, upset Saint George

Saint George's unexpected detachment

A keeping apart

""(used with a sing. verb) The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.""

Subjected to venomous attacks (wordplay)

The act of solfaing.

Any of a group of peptides produced by the liver upon stimulation by growth hormone that act directly on many cell types to stimulate growth.

One of Hulme's conjectures (wordplay)

Wall Street motivation

Son's embezzlement's a matter of conjecture

""SPICULATE Covered with, or having, spicules.""

A woman who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

Female athlete or player

Female athlete

""The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b. Illust. of Bacillus, b.""

Worrisome economic period

Bad economic situation

Challenge for economists

Process of arousal or goading

Model welcomes tip for tantric arousal

Nerve impulse cause

Condition of an agreement

Condition to an agreement

Condition attached to an agreement

""STYLIZE to make conventional, also STYLISE""

""The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied.""

""The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.""

Bulimia's not unusually a diversion of sexual energy

An incomplete or partial dislocation.

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.