2-Letter Words Ending in N

Shut completely, perhaps a business

Near to getting depressed? Gets wind up!

Secretive and depressed, stop operating

Alliance to adopt fossil fuel, perhaps

The alliance of carbonisation, perhaps

Group of allies

See vitamin B .

Irish cabbage, potato dish

Pass priest eating Northern Irish food

Cabbage mashed with potatoes

Making a meal of Lolita con (wordplay)

Fast food (wordplay)

Putting in sequence

Student pass many picked up

Fisk attendee, for example

Student makes Colorado member confront Scotsman

Violent meeting of objects

Course drivers should avoid

Course to avoid

""A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.""

Secret or illegal conspiracy to deceive

Secret cooperation

Secret deception

Banal piece by essayist? It's a gem

Dull red stone; lone cairn (anagram)

July birthstone

Lively French social dance

Deb's ball

C eighteen dance

NCO old, yet turned over a new leaf

Vast empty city with no place to settle

Gigantic.

Massive

Physicist's accelerator

Particle-accelerating machine

Apparatus accelerating particles

""A substance, such as an antibody, capable of dissolving or destroying cells.""

Croatian dog (wordplay)

A mad Latin (anagram)

Dog (from Croatia?)

Leo's lawn invader (wordplay)

Your lawn guy (wordplay)

Leo's lawn invader?

ALATION the state of having wings

Latched on to jockey - it's eventful!

Ten out of ten for the all-rounder!

Summer Olympics event

One followed by 33 zeros

1 followed by 33 zeros.

A real let-down!

Decline in general price level

Loss of air

Reduction in total value (of a resource)

Ozone layer issue

Reduction in quantity

Drug for fingernail treatment

Ailing, I'd start to take new drug

Approve of European cutting out a drug

Bridge suit holding

Two cards of a suit in a hand

Blonde out (anagram) - two cards

Metal found in mud deposit round Russian river

An alderman.

English word

The act of flowing out; effusion.

English word

Height - a live note (anagram)

Piece of RICE (wordplay)

Face lift (wordplay)

Speech in clue too complicated

The talking cure? That's a nice way of saying it!

The skill of clear and expressive speech

Act of attempting to match or surpass

Effort to equal others

Wannabe's focus

Clue in brief (wordplay)

Show how to make it less heavy, perhaps

Impart knowledge to

Removing hair, arrange into a pile

Hair removal finds Greek character overcome by joy

Religious, consumed by joy, shedding that which is superficial (wordplay)

Of an ancient system of geometry

Dutch uncle without a notion of geometry

Type of geometry

Geometry type

That's figuratively the hidden clue I had over the boy

Change of life (wordplay)

Niche-finding process

Darwin's great theory

""The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.""

Report rapid increase

Violent release of energy

Brisance causer

Removal, as from school

Action of forcing out

Dismissal

Arab peasants

FELLATIO oral stimulation of the penis

Kindred soul

Brothers.

""The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.""

The chief protein component of bacterial flagella.

If not a lot (anagram)

Company share issue may be not a lot if worked out

The offering of a company's shares for the first time

Leaves like this

Partridge old dictator left at home

How in France one might buy this bird with nothing and get nothing back

Word before, "Start you engines"

Polite, kind or upper-class fellow

(Upper-class) fellow

Well-bred softies (wordplay)

Third word of many speeches

Males with good manners

Arctic bird of prey

Late gent's (anagram) - shapes, patterns, organised units

Cantankerous old woman.

Fiend which is cat, we hear

Old, unpleasant woman

Member of a medieval trade association

GUILDS guild

Fly, garcon (anagram)

Arctic bird of prey

NWT's official bird

English word

Formed or shaped with a hand-held blowpipe: handblown goblets.

A stooped one (wordplay)

Clown in RU team, second to be dismissed

Commedia dell'arte buffoon

English word

English word

Enormously demanding (task)

Strong as Poirot (wordplay)

Requiring very great effort

Pompous, informally

Snooty, informally

Hoity-toity

Horror novel by John Coyne

Nemesis for Spiderman

Bugbear or bugaboo

Sudden inward collapse

A bursting inward

A bursting inwards.

Drive and change oil in sump

It drives mischief-maker and soul in play

Current slump needs correcting: Number 10 is fronting push

Incorporation

Admittance

Cause of increase in damage (wordplay)

Increase in prices

Threat to post-war economy.

Playing Nixon file for voice modulation

A change in the tone, pitch of the voice

In the wire there's one on the pitch variation

CLAN a group of families

Sit in a loo perhaps hopefully in this

Word before tank or booth

Remote and lonely state

A liquid measure of 18 gallons

Like drink? Somehow this should keep you going

Sounds as if one murdered 'er relations with a cask

Dairy process

Play at this in the dairy with a lion around

Sounds as if one might lack this to a tin of milk

Expert in ornamental fabrics (wordplay)

No genius he

Bozo or dodo

A polymer of glucose and mannitol that is the main form of food storage of brown algae.

Might P raise this (wordplay)

Praise

Non-expert, say

Non-clergy type

No reply as affecting ordinary guy

'Top Ten List' reader

Star seen late at night

Stupid Pet Tricks talk show host

Some college athletes

College athletes.

Students with outstanding character (wordplay)

Moby Dick, for example

Moby Dick, e.g

Massive thing lit a haven development

Book keeper (wordplay)

Quieter in a school, maybe

Book overseer (wordplay)

Balancing small party quota

Delineation; a line or lines.

""The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.""

Guy covered with foie gras (wordplay)

Member of a City Company

Predecessor of a chauffeur.

Stable fellows (wordplay)

Are they irritable when dressed alike (wordplay)

Stable chaps, but apparently irritable ones

Beetle with a lengthy narrow body

""Any of several substances found in luminescent organisms (such as the firefly, Photinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light. It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence. See also firefly luciferinPhotinus pyralis) which, when oxidized, produces an almost heatless light. It was first isolated from fireflies, and is the source of the firefly luminescence. See also firefly luciferin""

Awful mumbler - a northern feller

Paul Bunyan's calling.

Paul Bunyan, for example

They deal in deal

Organic phosphate insecticide

Warm-blooded, say

Like bats, cats and rats

Like a sucker Mother gets it driven back

I'm all done cooking piece of meat

Cut of meat Irish house put into fruit

Ornament of mine, a doll specially made

Meat cut from prize animal

Award hung on a chain or ribbon

Hormone that induces sleepiness

Pineal hormone secreted in the evening

Hormone in male not developed

→ Mellotron® nt MEREOLOGY (Philosophy / Logic) the formal study of the logical properties of the relation of part and whole [via French from Greek meros part + -logy ]

English word

Spiced mead

Intermediary no extremist (wordplay)

Not an extremist Wholesaler (wordplay)

The Go-Between (wordplay)

Wheelers and dealers, often

There's no end of them

They're not extremely businesslike

""The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.""

Of or pertaining to mollusks.

; Variant of molluscan .

Word with prefix multi-

Cantaloupe, for one

Cantaloupe or honeydew perhaps

Monk's mule (anagram) - eg honeydew

""A single-chain, iron-containing protein found in muscle fibers, structurally similar to a single subunit of hemoglobin and having a higher affinity for oxygen than hemoglobin of the blood.""

See cherry plum .

One followed by 30 zeros

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Obstruction, blockage

Stopping up

1 followed by 27 zeros

Thousand raised to the ninth power

Billion cubed

The large process at the proximal end of the ulna which projects behind the articulation with the humerus and forms the bony prominence of the elbow.

Balm--of--Gilead, for one

Balsam fir or pine extract

Product from tropical trees.

Sense of smell

Act or function of smelling

The albumin of egg white.

Too blooming inflated

Past full bloom

Like many stump speeches

CLEAN to rid of stain

Overfly

Bearing excessive load

That's too much to have to bear

Under too great a load

Pursue studies unnecessarily.

Egg drop (wordplay)

Part of the menstrual cycle

Turn left amid cheers for release

""A semisynthetic penicillin effective against penicillin-resistant infections, especially those of staphylococci.""

Shoulder-borne litter for one person

Box carried on poles

Scheme to kidnap adult one of five in litter

""PALMATE resembling an open hand, also PALMATED""

'Feeling' in a laptop programme

Stock comic character

Man's sixth age

On to a plan about Columbine's father

One of Jilly Cooper's amendments (wordplay)

One keeping a beat (wordplay)

One who keeps a beat (wordplay)

Chap on the beat is an American cop

Parking upset Montreal traffic police

Beat keepers

One who is afficted with pellagra.

Small enclosure on rough Alpine land surface that's denuded

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Greek vestment to help out with tear-jerker

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

Flat dweller (wordplay)

Jimmy Carter, say, as a fellow on the level

Western ranger

Nickname of Auburn's eleven

Conestoga wagon users.

Blackfoot or Arapaho tribes, for example

Scheme laid down by heretic, a sort of worm

Geologic process of erosion

""One, such as a horticulturist, who collects or grows plants.""

PLANTS plant

Fold.

Plutonic.

Member of the Garda, say

Male cop in bust (wordplay)

One keeping the beat (wordplay)

Force units (wordplay)

Officers of the law

Guard them all by force

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

Any of various mainly toxic antibiotics derived from strains of the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa and used to treat various infections with gram-negative bacteria.

Aware of 8 down (wordplay)

Golden church in flatlands of China

Fine white ceramic

Guide who rides a coach horse.

Rider of near-side coach horse

After one beast goes rider when there is no coachman

A prelude or introduction.

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

""A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.""

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

""A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; called also pyroxyle. pyroxyle.""

Obstreperous feline (wordplay)

A wildcat rising (wordplay)

What a revolting, beastly king!

A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.

REFLATE to inflate again

See Reflection. Reflection.

""A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession.""

State of having had enough to eat

This has one full of peel in rot

Excessive fullness due to overeating

Like a snake or lizard, eg

Loathsome agent returning to fix it

Contemptible and not to be trusted

Feeling of disgust

Feeling of intense distaste or disgust

Driving off US peril with no resolution

Louvre's in mess with horror

Sudden and unpleasant violent reaction

Disgust

A Japanese corporate businessman.

SALARY to be paid periodically for non-manual labour

Ballerina's forte

Dancing movement

That's bound to increase 12 across, it seems

English word

Army to the rescue (wordplay)

Deliverance (from sin)

Rescuing army (wordplay)

SCHLIERE a small streak in an igneous rock

Medieval university teacher

Church looms over an Abelard

Educator in the Middle Ages

SCHOOLE a {sandbank=n}

An insoluble protein that permeates the chitin in the cuticle of arthropods and becomes hardened and darkened by a natural tanning process.

One alone is in it

Cousin Les disturbed privacy

What Thoreau lived in at Walden Pond

One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix. Illustration in Appendix.

Assortment of players (wordplay)

Choice that was natural for Darwin

Chews this, by the sound of it

Town meeting officer.

New England town official

Recruiters' job (wordplay)

New England town officers

Town officials in New England

Perhaps punctually the half of two dots

Mark of a long sentence, perhaps

Wink without batting an eye (wordplay)

Main slang (anagram)

Military communications expert

Conspicuous chap, possibly a flasher

Communicators are remarkable people

Railroad employees

Semaphore pros

A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay.

Idiot! It's easy to point!

Incorrectly spelt? I'm no dope!

Effortless weight (wordplay)

Note sling, for one

Stolen gin (anagram)

Record's hundred and one (wordplay)

SOLVATE to convert into a type of ion

Another name for the jackstraw in the game of jackstraws

That's Tablet Number One, in a skin. Get it out without disturbance

Jackstraw

""A pouch, as for tobacco.""

""One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.""

SPOILS spoil

Groom, for example

Ostler, groom etc

'Blast, mane needs grooming!' is what he often thinks

Chaps looking after beasts in detestable menagerie

Country workers in firm facing threat, not half

Country workers seen as steady and reliable chaps (wordplay)

Having died in the womb

Officer ordering vessel to change course

Army officer below captain

Officer below captain

The act of taking or carrying away; removal.

Superlie

Long-winded debate.

TV phenomenon.

Woman in part hooked in prolonged discussion

Sailor-boy wearing waterproof

Sailor chap wearing waterproof

Headgear Jack has me wearing

English word

TILLER to put forth stems from a root

Perhaps halt intro for an athletic event

Kona Coast event

Long-distance competition

Exceedingly slim

Howling or wailing

Distraught discharge

Wolf music