2-Letter Words Ending in D

Contacted, somewhat quaintly

Got on the horn

Called one in to help Ted out

Traveled, a la 'Star Trek'

Traveled, a la "Star Trek"

Moved with Scotty's help

Squashed down

Slid together.

Teleview

""Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils.""

Having four times the haploid number of chromosomes in the cell nucleus: a tetraploid species.

Forest.

TIMBREL a percussion instrument

Excited by Dublin Institute review covering most of the turnover from The Dead

Excited by a little redevelopment in revolutionary institute

Tickled

Trammel

Worked at the U.N., perhaps

Put another way, I left train hammered

Got across another way

TRIBULATE

Having three colors.

It may be blowin' in the wind

Wind-driven plant.

Rolling plant in Westerns

""An American perennial herb (Chelone glabra) having white flowers shaped like the head of a turtle. Called also snakehead, shell flower, and balmony. Chelone glabra) having white flowers shaped like the head of a turtle. Called also snakehead, shell flower, and balmony.""

RAPID a fast-moving part of a river

Baby monitor (wordplay)

Baby shower (wordplay)

Inside look (wordplay)

Umbrella

ANALYZED analyze

Free of criticism

Nuts and crackers (wordplay)

Like some accounts maybe, one-sided

Mad it's lopsided

BLEACHED bleach

BLENCHED blench

CALCINED calcine

CANCELED cancel

CILIATED having cilia

Released from a grip.

Became more open-handed

Unclinch

CRIPPLED cripple

CRUMPLED crumple

CULTURED culture

Like some majors and wars

Not publicly announced or acknowledged

Like smuggled goods, still coming in (wordplay)

Not ruled enough, perhaps, for emphasis

Stressed junior was untruthful about one point

Emphasized

Realm of hoods

Don DeLillo's nether regions

Milieu of racketeers.

Dolefully idle (wordplay)

Out of work

Like many an artist

ENCLOSED enclose

ENLARGED enlarge

Peerless in Portsmouth

Lulu queued all night (getting 80% off), being without a match

Without precedent, appealed after a French test

Peerless.

EXCELLED excel

Like a dud bomb

Like virgin territory

Like much of the Mariana Trench

Not mapped

FILTERED filter

Sinful single nurses call for attention

Not pre-announced

Like a dark horse

Not previously announced

Not having received the sacrament.

Not at all exaggerated

Not participating

Unkennel

LAMENTED lament

Flat out from uneven deal

Like matzoh

Lacking in education

Not educated

Lacking education

Unlevel

Not able to sell alcohol

Not permitted to sell alcoholic liquor

Unlimber

Anita, set free (wordplay)

Set free

Not pestered or harassed

Unpolish

Pristine

Unravel

Never attained

Not accomplished.

Still in there pitching

Not finally settled

Not settled

Like some stupid crossword you'll never do again (wordplay)

Leave under rocks, so hidden

Secret

Rocky ravine dull? It's without equal

Surpassing all others

Supreme; peerless

SALARIED salary

Natural should, once trained

Lacking education

Natural heat's origin in one's cloud formation

Not taken

SHACKLED shackle

Unsolder

Sad Len taunted, lacking flair

Hardly ready for prime time

Without gifts

Seldom visited.

Not bothered about double turn

Calm, tranquil

Not anxious

UTILIZED utilize

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.""

Damaged museum slide replaced

Wrecked and put in case on top of desk

Destroyed by devils and a radicalised ...

Willfully destroyed

Trashed

Brought out into the open.

One's got the air of being fresh

Aired

Put into words

Spoke

VERNALIZE

VESTIBULE The porch or entrance into a house; a hall or antechamber next the entrance; a lobby; a porch; a hall.

Victual

Vilipend

Imagined 'Alliance of Evil' aids US

Imagined

Vitriol

VULCANISE

Treated rubber.

VULGARISE

""VULGARIZE To make vulgar, or common.""

A flood of water; an inundation.

Nectar-eating avian

Spinning Larry (wordplay)

Helicopter (informal)

Flying craft without wings

""WHOLESALE Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail. retail.""

Chanced drilling for oil.

Windlass

Windmill

Protective device of a kind.

Auto's front glass

Protection from strong air currents

Wireless

Site of underground adventures

A. gets lice there in novel form

World of l Across

""The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber. Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.""

ABSOLUTIZE

Gave it the gas

Like some college courses

Speeded up

Brought together into a group or crowd

Energy in X, devalued

No longer pure

Made impure

AEROSOLIZE

ALKALINIZE

ALLEGORISE

""ALLEGORIZE To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. as, to allegorize the history of a people.""

Began the same way

Produced 'Love's Labours Lost', say, fully performed many times

Allograft

United, as corporations or labor unions

Old-time area (anagram) - made better

Made better

Improved a red meat stew by putting oil back in

Utterly destroyed

Destroyed completely

Wiped out

Clearly stated to be jointed

Put into words

Said to be segmented

Integrated.

Incorporated

Used a stethoscope

""AUTOMOBILE a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.""

Backlight

Tried to distance oneself from a gaffe, say

Backslap

Ballyrag

Provided with a supported coping

Sally, keep up the fight!

Fight with Oscar winner Sally (wordplay)

'Sally, keep up the fight!'

Becudgel

Bedrivel

Beglamour

Beset by enemy forces (or by troubles!)

In a difficult situation - under siege

Under siege

Situated or occurring below the surface of the ground: belowground telephone cables.

Strewed

""BESTIALIZE To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.""

Billboard

NUCLEATED nucleate

POLARIZED polarize

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

Unable to see curtain being packed up

Like players in pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey

Made plans

Blueshift

BOLSHEVIZE

As astonished mind did, admitting working party worked unnecessarily

(Literature) edited for 'decency'

Removed text considered improper

""BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

Bullwhip

Bullyrag

BURGLARIZE

Like some chickens before roasting

Detained with conversation

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

Escaping detection

Hidden

CANTILLATE To chant; to recite with musical tones.

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

Carillon

Did a gymnastic maneuver

Having turrets and battlements

Having battlements

Like fortification Bill set up with girl and boy

CATABOLIZE

Meowed

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.""

CHANNELIZE

Grilled on a rack that leaves black stripes

CHLORALOSE

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

Of or belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.

Dolt or rockfish

Black-bellied plover.

Not so smart with a little laughter (wordplay)

Chugalug

Clapboard

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Past tense or past participle

Mentally alert

Alert; logical

Perceptive

Mean and prepared to fight

Stingy

Cocounsel

Codevelop

Unaffected by emotion

Like the cruel meteorologist

Lacking compassion

Confused tabby's followed around

Not simple

Comic lad playing with pet becoming confused

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.

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

Rested for recovery

Copublish

Having battlements.

CRYSTALIZE

Crystallike; transparent like crystal.

Curveball

""CYCLOSTYLE A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.""

Argued about one on fire becoming weakened

CALCIFIED calcify

Slowed down

Spain alerted to change after last month and slowed down

""DECIMALIZE To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. as, to decimalize the currency.""

COLONIZED colonize

COLORIZED colorize

""DEFLAGRATE To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.""