2-Letter Words Ending in D

Power-station area

Offbeat (wordplay)

Cut short, as rhythm

Unusually stressed church council welcomes chapter and head (slightly later)

Sold to several publications

Like a lot of crosswords? Cryptic, yes - addict tackles any number

In formal wear

Like some bridegrooms

Put on the air

Delete changes about actors shown on TV

Squashed down

Slid together.

""A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.""

Ticktack

Ticktock

TRACHEATE Breathing by means of trache\'91; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.

Engaged, as in dope smuggling

Conducted, as business

Carried on business.

Negotiated

TRANSDUCE

Transect

Having three colors.

Like the pre in predict.

Not stressed

Stress-free

ACCEPTED accept

ACHIEVED achieve

Immune, as is natural

Modest just the same

Sincere, genuine

Liable to float away

Not married? Let loose!

A hunt acted badly on its own

Novelty act had tune for single

Nuts and crackers (wordplay)

Like some accounts maybe, one-sided

Mad it's lopsided

BLEACHED bleach

BLENCHED blench

BRANCHED branch

Unbreech

CALCINED calcine

CANCELED cancel

Like hardwood floors

(Of floor) not softly covered

Sworn in (wordplay)

Not touched by a blue pencil (wordplay)

Replete with four-letter words, perhaps

CENSURED censure

Mysterious, crude hunch didn't come from house of worship

CILIATED having cilia

Released from a grip.

Became more open-handed

Unclinch

CODIFIED codify

Uncoffin

COMBINED a skiing competition combining two events

CONFINED confine

CONFUSED confuse

Condemn US complex with posh entrance that's not been taken down

CONVOYED convoy

CORSETED corset

CREDITED credit

CRIPPLED cripple

CRUMPLED crumple

CULTURED culture

DECEIVED deceive

Like some majors and wars

Not publicly announced or acknowledged

Like smuggled goods, still coming in (wordplay)

Certainly didn't emote

Performed with subtlety

Hardly emoted

Hidden, so far

Purposeless

DOCTORED doctor

No little, by the sound of it

Ignorant of a French coin? Ted's empty-headed!

Not taught

ENCLOSED enclose

ENFORCED enforce

ENRICHED enrich

EXCELLED excel

Out of the blue

Not foreseen

A foreign Jew on the radio? That's surprising!

Cryptic confused us with lack of definition

INDICTED indict

Free of bugs

Not able to sell alcohol

Not permitted to sell alcoholic liquor

Not leased to a tenant

Isn't engaged in describing Life on Mars

Sums up Life on Mars isn't working

PRODUCED produce

Unpucker

Lost to history

Natural should, once trained

Lacking education

Natural heat's origin in one's cloud formation

SCREENED screen

Not prepared to spray prince with dust

Impromptu

Not taken

SHACKLED shackle

Unstitch

UPPERCASE

Vacation

Having gotten a shot

Immune, likely

Inoculated

Was irresolute, being abandoned and sick at heart

Unwell after brief holiday, an old rocker hesitated

""Full of vacuoles, or small air cavities; as, vacuolated cells. as, vacuolated cells.""

One who is harmed or killed by another: a victim of a mugging.

VICTIMISE

""VICTIMIZE To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.""

Victual

A number shown to be justified

Shown to be innocent

Five shown to be justified

Vivisect

Granted

VULCANISE

Treated rubber.

Wainscot

Chanced drilling for oil.

Gave it the gas

Like some college courses

Speeded up

Emphasized

Accession

Escorted

Brought together into a group or crowd

""ADJUDICATE To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.""

Disposed.

Proclaimed a religious woman third-rate, ab'orred on the radio

Expected; opposite of unanticipated and unexpected.unanticipated and unexpected.

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

Became more valuable

Was grateful for

Employed to learn a trade

Clearly stated to be jointed

Put into words

Said to be segmented

Found out

Used a stethoscope

Backcross

Backdrop

Backlight

Tried to distance oneself from a gaffe, say

Backslap

Backstab

Backstop

Backtrack

Barricado

Beachcomb

Becudgel

""BICHROMATE A salt containing two parts of chromic acid to one of the other ingredients; as, potassium bichromate; called also dichromate. as, potassium bichromate; called also dichromate.""

NUCLEATED nucleate

Banned, in a way

Ostracized

Blackbird

Blackjack

Put on a certain roster.

Banned from consideration

Put in an unwanted category.

Exerted pressure through threats

French possessive

Extorted from

Paved over, and what each half of the answers to the starred clues can be

Bodycheck

Small crustacean

Sown over a wide area

Plundered the booty, perhaps (or, played like Tom Brady?)

BUCKSKIN the skin of a male deer

Projecting a smile (wordplay)

Like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel

Beaverlike

Waylaid

CACHINNATE

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

Escaping detection

Hidden

Oily and exaggerated husband held forth

A politician in church preached, becoming oily

CANNABIN a resin extracted from cannabis

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Floating naiad corpse richly arrayed

Wearing ornamental coverings, as circus horses

CAPITALISE

""CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Gave in

Surrendered

""CARAMELISE to to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

Like sugar that's been heated until it turns brown

Carbonado

Carburet

Drew a grotesque picture of

Carillon

A swimmer dived in and performed certain crafty manoeuvres

Did a gymnastic maneuver

Having turrets and battlements

Having battlements

Like fortification Bill set up with girl and boy

CATABOLIZE

Put into boxes in iced storage possibly

Placed in a category.

Meowed

Sailboat device.

CENTRALISE

""Drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.""

""CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

Presided over

Servant combining charm with bed? I am!

Source of mints, at times

Making bed with charm, am I? Possibly

CHANNELIZE

Character

Grilled on a rack that leaves black stripes

Chauffeur

Checkmark

Chemisorb

Did some social work (wordplay)

Made small talk

Shot the breeze

CHLORALOSE

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Numskull.

Numbskull

Ignoramus

Of or belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.

Dolt or rockfish

Black-bellied plover.

Not so smart with a little laughter (wordplay)

Chugalug

CINEMATIZE

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

Clapboard

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Past tense or past participle

Mentally alert

Alert; logical

Perceptive

Mean and prepared to fight

Stingy

Cocaptain

COCKNEY a resident of London's East End

Cocounsel

Codevelop

Cohostess

Unaffected by emotion

Like the cruel meteorologist

Lacking compassion

COMMENTATE To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.

COMMODE a {cabinet=n}

Companion

Remunerated

Confused tabby's followed around

Not simple

Comic lad playing with pet becoming confused

Endangered through recklessness

Split the difference.

Made concessions when jeopardised by scandal

Concenter

CONCERTIZE

CONCILIATE To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.

CONCRETIZE

Like an oily mitt

Seized (as a penalty)

Seized

""CONGLOBATE Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate""