2-Letter Words Ending in K

Holder for screw-cutting tool

Hand tool for cutting external threads

Machine-shop frame

Ardent recycler, say

One who's extremely green (wordplay)

Green giant (wordplay)

Piece of lobster or shrimp (wordplay)

Part of a lobster's anatomy

Stem bearing optical organ - steal key (anagram)

Enid's response (wordplay)

Suggestions to improve performance

Completed surveys, for example

A type of gun

A flowering plant

Katy Perry song for July 4th (wordplay)

Stoking boiler for Rocket (wordplay)

Get up and go to job in banger

Minute spot

Insignificant dot

Insignificant bit

Front of a ship

Ship part

Piece of hair (tugged in respect)

It was touched in servility

Touch it to be servile

The milk secreted immediately after childbirth

Part of a ship's hold in the bows

The first rank

Design cut with a saw

Ornamental three-dimensional pattern

Ornamental design done with saw

South Carolina mascot

South Carolina athlete

Ready to stand up to trained fighter

Historical or dialect word for javelin or crowbar

""A large antelope, also GEMSBOK""

Gee! I have to return this

*Repay in kind

Return (something)

Evening bird, perhaps

Rose-breasted bird

Kind of finch

A marine fish

Temporary place for a bowler

Kind of girl

Night club service.

Headgear devised by an English general

Psychologist Ellis

Hold first 5 in pack

Top player in rugby pack getting a grip

Principal to bar wrestling technique

Principal joins service for lobotomy

Soccer shot

Thinking

Like that kid at Camp Grenada (wordplay)

I shock me (anagram)

Nostalgic setter's one into wine

Cause of a student protest (wordplay)

Page of math problems, say

Inform this not done, perhaps

Glare in sky caused by light reflected from distant frozen water

Bright appearance in sky caused by reflection from distant frozen water

Plop's kin

With a thud.

With a thud

Bridal gown fringe

Wedding-dress trim

Tatting, for example

A lark, in Scotland

Something made of lead

Calling response (wordplay)

All of an author's writings, for example

All of an author's writings, e.g

Poetry in a heap of fruit (wordplay)

A sort of Irish haiku (wordplay)

Port and soft drink with twist as chaser

Curl worn by 17th century courtiers

Like a teen with a crush, perhaps

Pining for one's sweetheart

Nauseatingly infatuated (wordplay)

Stray animal without an owner's brand

James Garner TV western

One who ignores the party line

One million dollars

Fabric woven together at regular intervals

Say what you don't mean

Say the wrong thing

Utter a spoonerism or malapropism

Reporter in search of stories

Energetic reporter

Paper peddler.

Language of 1984 (Orwell)

Lingo in an Orwell book

Report summit in meaningless language

A flowering shrub

One bound for college (wordplay)

Jotter's accessory (wordplay)

Stenographer's necessity

Lace or wrought iron gates, for example

Art technique employing holes or gaps

Embroidery or latticework, for example

Sudden onset (of war, disease, etc)

Sudden occurrence (of disease)

Sudden occurrence (of war, disease, etc)

Win a debate

Be too reserved (wordplay)

Sell too many tickets

Sell more seats than are available

Do too well

Burn, perhaps

Leave for a long time in the oven to burn head off crust for chef

To adorn extravagantly

Fail to see; ignore

Fail to notice what 1 down will do

Shining hotel, with "The"

Excessively meek

To milk to excess

Assign too high a rating to

Too {sick=adj}

To soak too much

To talk to excess

Open question: Tax too much (wordplay)

Rode down naked? O, all right!

Caught up with and went past

Caught up with

Too {weak=adj}

Do too much

Give too many tasks to

Use to excess

Handout that typically brings a smile

Well-earned handout

American wage packet

Fighting opponent (wordplay)

War protester of the '60s

'60s war protester

Pipe to a waterwheel

Sluice

A fabric design

Verify before proceeding

Boarding pass designation, or hint to either word in each starred entry

To frank beforehand

An implement used in reaping

To attack again

Newer (university)

Type of university

Ruddy good fellow, university type

Plant also known as lady's-thumb

Spooner's hut, foul for bird

Wading bird with bright coloured legs

African antelope with a whistling call

African antelope with inward curving horns

Male in the drink about to join vessel - do this again

Dissident Soviet citizen

Dissident Soviet citizen (alternative spelling)

Former Soviet dissident; E. F. Ruskin (anagram)

After a break, players struggling for the ball again made a hit

Duck with a circular marking

Kind of pheasant.

Bird with a distinctive circular marking

Toe the line (wordplay)

Building for making cord

Assignments done in class

*At-your-desk assignment

Men's section of Turkish house.

The bird (female and liberal) to avoid

Large colourful water-bird

Bird in detention put in to copy a mammal (wordplay)

""To cover with a thin varnish, also SHELLAC""

Sleuth in the deerstalker hat

Detective's moniker

Mycroft Holmes's brother

""A waterproof boot, also SHOEPAC""

... to be loyal (wordplay)

Robin, for example

Close associate in team given boot

Path for pedestrians

Cafe location, sometimes

Item on the East Side or West Side

A sloping surface against which the end of an arch rests

Small antelope of southern Africa

Way has been wild, fine for antelope

African antelope.

Small African antelope

A subordinate clerk

Industry from the side

Organised co-operation, group endeavour.

Togetherness in action

Schussboomer's turn

Meet Karl (anagram) - turn in skiing

Skier's turn

Required school purchase, maybe

Typical, as a case

Student's resource

Line of washing maybe

Washing line (wordplay)

Unwanted washing-line (wordplay)

Work paid for by the hour or day

{tubing=n}

An article made from wire

Monday through Friday

Monday through Friday, for many

Job-hours total

Class work (wordplay)

Was 1984 such a publication (wordplay)

Annual that might be okay or otherwise!

Baby's biscuit

Dry, crisp bread

Literally, "twice-baked"

Ship area behind the bridge house

Later, adorn part of ship

Dress following of stern queen in area behind bridge

Angler's catch in the Atlantic

Money earned by singer Fiona (wordplay)

Brandy distilled from hard cider

Distilled cider, a type of brandy

Wondering at a vehicle we collided with

Lost for words as we crashed lorry

Ace you and I hit is impressed

Complaint given audible support gets cut

Protein-rich entree

Kind of tomato

Standard set by a substitute (wordplay)

Standard score from judges (wordplay)

Don't let Harmon play (wordplay)

Medical obstruction (wordplay)

Hit on ice

Could be physical obstruction

Dangerously rash and injurious

Very quick kiss on holiday

This speed is recklessly dangerous

Nomad's street in Phoenix (wordplay)

Hump dais (wordplay)

Nomad's street in Phoenix?

Inferior inexpensive card

Seller of inferior goods

Seller of shoddy goods

Bill payer's need

It needs balancing

It must be carefully balanced

*Symbol for 'O.K.'

*Symbol for "O.K."

Approval indicator

""Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.""

Blade Runner film genre

Science fiction subgenre

Altered Carbon genre

Birds make unusual move to solid ground (wordplay)

Get off

Step off

Rasta's braid

Farming for defence (wordplay)

Rampart made of soil

Agriculture for defence

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) a framework supporting something under construction

Use cattle cake, perhaps, as raw material

Plant with seeds used for flavouring

Spice plant

Stylish European goes to marsh for its seeds

Story by Eugene (wordplay)

Story by Eugene?

It's done outside a lab

Gap in vegetation

Blaze-stopping clear spot

Strip cut from forest yielding free bark I distributed

""A brick made of fire clay, used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys.""

CHECK to {inspect=v}

""SHANK to hit sharply to the right, as a golf ball""

Minor Earth tremor

Tremor preceding an earthquake

""To predict, pa t FORESPAKE, FORESPOKE, pa p FORESPOKEN""

Art hanger's profession (wordplay)

Structure, skeleton

Structural skeleton

Part of a lamp, perhaps

Part of a desk lamp

Flexible type of desk lamp

Ne'er G for one dollar (wordplay)

Ne'er G, perhaps, for the buck instates

9 across is never G, perhaps

See chlorosis .

Pure conjecture

There's little reason for using this in solution

Have a go at what the men do with speculation

Tourist's sightseeing aid

Tourist's need.

Source of information for tourists

Affirms horse on the outside had the bag

Strong bag slung over the shoulder

Hiker's burden.

A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine

Unhappy in cardiac way (wordplay)

Sad, as a jilted lover

More than blue

Godiva's locale

E's ROH for a ride

The way the rider has returned (wordplay)

Plant having pink flowers

Vacuuming and dusting

Domestic chores in workhouse

Important field of employment.

Medieval fireplace feature

Corner near the yule-log

No clearance after Nigel blasted corner

Like wire transfers

Connect, as chain parts

Bury forward has to fit in with the rest

Couple together in old exam jam

Engage, as crossword solutions do

WORK to toil in mind or body

Cooler idea (wordplay)

Warden's worry

Thin Lizzy's great escape

Stem protrusion

Slender stem that supports plant's flat green structure

Petiole

Property seller's arrangement

Property seller's temp arrangement

Farm animals exist to breed

One source of rural income.

(Domestic) animals in general

""Any of several small, darkly colored butterflies of the family Riodinidae, occurring mainly in tropical regions and having iridescent lines or spots on the wings.""

Mark and the rest operate this craft!

Walk, Metro out of order. Rails perhaps

Welding and soldering et al.

Reason to 'interrupt this program'

Reason to "interrupt this program"

DRANK drink

To drink to excess.

DRUNK intoxicated

Put too much into inventory

Buy more than you can sell

If you do this it's too much of a good thing

Suffer from analysis paralysis, say

Subject to excessive analysis

Cards taken in excess of the contract in Bridge

Obvious strain, this beyond the contract (wordplay)

Perhaps re pap for a penguin

Bound not to be hard re pap, perhaps

Maybe Sun to support publication

Daily assignment (wordplay)

Dealing with documentation

Clerk's concern.

One way to earn.

Method of operation in some factories.

Tut! That's fantastic English epic work

Steal stream similar silver sham

Cheap (alloy); sham

Steal the stream with an alloy

Field goal attempt

Gridiron tactic using a tee

That may lead to conversion, to boot

SHRANK shrink

Treat (a garment) before use so it keeps its size

Like treated jeans

Sanforized

Printer's sign.

To put pressure on Labour - how is that the job of the media (wordplay)

Course for dogs or cycling (wordplay)

Course of events (wordplay)

White dog the White City, perhaps

Order-flouting protester

Nonconformist rubbish prison announced

Dissenter with trash can caught out

(Astronautics) a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft

Slope along the Truckee, say

Land along the Mississippi, for example

Where artists like to paint.

Oil-rig worker needs to be tough

Oil rig worker, of course

Rowdy sort

The Ancient Mariner

The woman will sponsor old sailor

""Work composed of shells, or adorned with them.""

Rowed-to ruin (wordplay)

It may mean junk ends up as junk!

Event in "The Tempest."

Boot shiner (wordplay)

One who gives you a shine

Person whose work shines

Distract (from big issue)

Distract (from an issue)

Follow team's first draw away

Go out when you've gone out (wordplay)

One way to travel at night (wordplay)

Travel at night, perhaps

A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

Stroll around the station (wordplay)

An out-of-this-world stroll (wordplay)

Modern outdoor sport.

Preparatory labour (in the garden?)

Preparation for excavation (wordplay)

Preliminary data gathering, perhaps

Something made of steel.

'Lust for Life' (wordplay)

Lust for Life (wordplay)

Mason's task

Printer's guide.

It sets the tone

Summary of typefaces, etc., of a newspaper.

English word

English word

The backward slant of the leading edge of an airfoil.

Astroturf, for one

Relative of a colophon.

Registered sign of a manufacturer

Formally promised (to do something)

Didn't take enough, so contracted

Promised to deal with nasty Kent odour

""A recording on an optical disk, especially of a movie, that can be played on a television. See Usage Note at compact disk .""

*Antelope stem a flood

Drink ready for American antelope

*Antelope: stem a flood

Grade in swimming class (wordplay)

Feature of expensive paper

Paper manufacturer's identification

""A form of vessel, often with steam power, having sharp ends and a very convex upper deck, much used on the Great Lakes, esp. for carrying grain.""

""A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.""

Trees providing shelter

Protective hedge

Breezeblock, when split, may give shelter

A crew sick at sea? That's a joke!

Snide remark, perhaps

Funny straight man split

Ladies of the old West

Adult females

Van Halen song that resonates (wordplay)

WHERE'S THE WAVE (wordplay)

7-6 dessert wine (wordplay)

Broker's Swiss shares selection?

Mountain climber's staff

Mountain traveller's long spiked staff

Sit back lazily and in France toil on interlaced articles

Used for a slide in a bar (wordplay)

Construction effect, often

Cousin of a log jam.

*Fortification about four feet high

Fortification

What a cosmetic surgeon may do to offer a sort of defence