2-Letter Words Ending in N

Military protector

Royal protector

Reserve soldier

Soldiers armed with guns on manoeuvres

State military volunteers

Beefeaters, e.g

Member of a medieval trade association

GUILDS guild

Dry, dusty W African desert wind

Dry north-east wind from the desert in West Africa

Dry dusty wind from the Sahara blowing towards the West African coast

English word

Oh wrong me! (anagram)

From one's own garden

Best kind of vegetables

Holiday just for two (wordplay)

Time in Hawaii, maybe

First holiday after marriage

Mongoose: one and one munch snakes

Parasitic wasp

Mongoose chewing coati's tail with one munch

Sincerest flattery (wordplay)

The sincerest of flattery

Copy of an authentic article

Deep absorption (in a subject)

Involvement in memoirs is tricky

Dip? You might need such a heater

Substance stimulating antibody production

Substance that stimulates production of an antibody

Pressing suit with the devil

Dental problem

Fill with zeal

Excite

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

""A water-soluble broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 18 H 36 O 11 N 4 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces kanamyceticus.""

Perhaps 10 winks stirred old chap

Niece or aunt

Grandmother, for example

Sisters and aunts, for example

Sisters and aunts, e.g

Old double-reed musical instrument

'twas blown as gloom lifted from hearts ere noon

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.

'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)

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

Awful mumbler - a northern feller

Paul Bunyan's calling.

Paul Bunyan, for example

They deal in deal

""Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.""

Type of vacuum tube

Generator from England held up by hospital officer

Married woman accepts grand new short wave generator

Organic phosphate insecticide

Warm-blooded, say

Like bats, cats and rats

Like a sucker Mother gets it driven back

Islander's cocktail (wordplay)

Guy Bowler-Brown's drink (wordplay)

New York island cocktail (wordplay)

Well-dressed dummy (wordplay)

A real poser (wordplay)

Plastic model (wordplay)

Resembling marble

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

Dispute resolution method

No time to study arbitration

Occupation for an optimist.

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

Thinking process

""A green crystalline organic compound, C 20 H 8 Br 2 HgNa 2 O 6 , that forms a red aqueous solution, used as a germicide and antiseptic.""

On foreign sea skipper discharges one organic compound

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

Birds flying south

Periodic passage of animals

Periodic movement of groups of animals

Fast Colonial fighter (wordplay)

Fast Colonial fighter?

Pygmy militia member (wordplay)

Certain ICBM's

Gung-ho group of Revolution

Lexington and Concord fighters

BUTTON to fasten with a small disk

Misdrive

Head wrong

Rule badly

Rule corruptly

To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate.

Distorted spin has me confused

Ugly in form

Unnaturally formed

Wrong, in a way

Not well-articulated

Misthrow

Any of a group of antibiotics produced by the soil actinomycete Streptomyces caespitosus that inhibit DNA synthesis and are used against bacteria and cancerous tumor cells.

""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 .

MORPHO a tropical butterfly

"Six Feet Under" occupation

'Six Feet Under' occupation

Six Feet Under occupation

Freedom fighters in holy city shortly to take up pilgrimage, you say (wordplay)

Buzz recalled about judge, one faced with Edinburgh freedom fighters

Word with prefix multi-

Cantaloupe, for one

Cantaloupe or honeydew perhaps

Monk's mule (anagram) - eg honeydew

A toxin produced by a fungus.

""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 .

Marine worm

Murphy Brown for example

Murphy Brown for example

Murphy Brown was one

Connie Chung and Lesley Stahl

Female in crew, so man-o'-war goes crazy

Rebecca Romero, for example

She's involved in Samoan row

Females getting into row

People rowing creating chaos in a newsroom

Organised newsroom split by a group having a row

Official who hears complaints

*Official who hears complaints

Public-advocate official

Consumer advocates

The albumin of egg white.

Kin of a pearl diver (wordplay)

The Walrus and the Carpenter, by choice.

Mollusk chasers

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

English word

PANTRY a small storage room

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

Step on men, strangely, to get to the flower

Small orange fruit

Ebony family fruit

Fruit of the ebony family

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

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

PLANTS plant

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

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.

Roman citizen's first name

Roman first name.

Occurring before the Renaissance, for example

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.

Late '50s Liverpool group, with "The"

Old Beatles number written after Queen proposal to drop intro

Cancellation (of a debt)

Pardon granted for sins or crimes

Miser moves to holy city for forgiveness

Lick again, for example

He gets a lot of parts

Fix-it guy

Oft-idle Maytag employee

Fixer-uppers (wordplay)

Misters fix-it

Fixers concerning two chaps

Does he deliver the circulars (wordplay)

One who delivers goods

Daily deliverer of milk, papers, etc

Certain inspectors

Football A safety.

""SAFETY to protect against failure, breakage or accident""

A Japanese corporate businessman.

SALARY to be paid periodically for non-manual labour

That's no passer-by. Good for him!

Helper of parable

Saviour sees Martina as 'troubled'

Medieval university teacher

Church looms over an Abelard

Educator in the Middle Ages

SCHOOLE a {sandbank=n}

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)

English word

""SHANTY a small, crudely built dwelling""

Main slang (anagram)

Military communications expert

Conspicuous chap, possibly a flasher

Communicators are remarkable people

Railroad employees

Semaphore pros

Idiot! It's easy to point!

Incorrectly spelt? I'm no dope!

Effortless weight (wordplay)

""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

Wheelwright's representative (wordplay)

Official voice of the cyclist (wordplay)

Representative at press conference

Representatives of groups.

Some spin doctors

Party leaders.

Rower perhaps left in ship by crew

He is active

He engages in physical games

Guys who fish or hunt, say

Club members, maybe

Hunters and anglers.

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)

Top politico? Says he!

Politician says piece

Lincoln, for one

'They're from the USA, says they (9)'

Famous politicians of the USA (wordplay)

Abraham Lincoln, for one of them

Cowboy on board (wordplay)

Is the cowboy at the helm (wordplay)

One at ship's helm

Cowboys at the wheel (wordplay)

How cowboys work with tillers (wordplay)

Cowboys on board (wordplay)

Samson or Hercules

Sam's on to be one of them

Mr. Universe, for example

Brawny circus performers

Some circus performers

Dictators

Small particle of chromium oxide in rising cloud

Attorney's last words

Concluding remarks

Adding process

Railway employee working on and off

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

Cyrano de Bergerac, for one

Athos, for one

For the fence one ends like Crosaire

The Three Musketeers

They might be fencing, in a manner of speaking, at last

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline [from sympath ( etic ) + -in ]

Drug that inhibits effect of oestrogen

English word

TILLER to put forth stems from a root

Lumberjack.

TIMBER to furnish with wood

Crafty guy (wordplay)

Skilled hand - and master, perhaps

Shopkeeper and master criminal

Crafty dudes (wordplay)

Smartened (anagram)

Exchanges soldiers for skilled workers

Mister Ban for one of the clan

Omaha or Ottawa member

Cooked ribs meant for clan member

The natives make the best miner

Vandals, for example

Clan members

Jury-panel member

They have box seats

Jury candidates

Jury candidates.

Minor evil, perhaps, of Lucas's box

Prefix meaning ?worm (wordplay)

Vivid red (with an orange tinge?)

Member of a meeting of church members

Parish councillor offering terms with navy rum

My servant has been retrained as a church official

That's the last way to test people for church work after 'e's after five

""A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.""

WASHER to fit with a washer of small valve

Cleaning lady

Variant of washerwoman .

A wheelman.

WHEELS wheel

English word

Traditional female healers

""A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.""

A woman who performs manual or industrial labor for wages.

Sir Francis Chichester, perhaps

Vanderbilt or Lipton

Member of sailing crew

Sailors

Splattered on my coat is a muscle protein

Scotch maid to share esteem (wordplay)

One may be lost in it

Maid out helping gains approval

Warning poster has proposal about Ulster

Cautious counsel

Tina in mood that's awkward gets a reprimand

Local lady legislator

Abbr. Ald. A member of the municipal legislative body in a town or city in many jurisdictions.

The act of walking.

Charge for fire-arms

An A of A&E

Charge for firearms

A semisynthetic penicillin which can be considered as the common benzylpenicillin containing an amino group at the alpha benzyl position.

Limb removal

In the morning put it back in a leg that's cut

Removal of member from a redcap university rubbish club not right

Old-fashioned and then some

Possibly anoint main sectarian denying moral law

'His true Penelope was Flaubert, / He fished by - isles' (Ezra Pound)

Not accepting moral law, yet opposed to revolutionary Minoan

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so

Present-day production trend.

Feature of modern industry.

Use of electronic devices.

Support Bacon (wordplay)

Game belonging to the past? Nonsense!

Rump, ham or game (wordplay)

+Tangerinelike Philippine fruit

""A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells that affects the activity of many calcium-sensitive enzymes, including those involved in muscular contraction.""

One preparing for confirmation.

Christian Union chaps outside a college making new convert (wordplay)

Neophyte

Little Bighorn fighter

Mounted soldier

Horse soldier

Soldiers on horseback

All the world wondered at 600 of them

Old troops on horseback

President's musical 21 mostly tinned

Committee honcho, sometimes

President has haircut up in prison

Certain committee leaders

Committee heads.

Advocate eats good northern mushroom

Small edible mushroom often found in a fairy-ring

Readily stained with chromium salts: chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla.

Committee leadership sharer

CHAIRMEN chairman

CHAMPION to defend or support

Process of burning

Act of burning

It's often spontaneous

An officer's percentage (wordplay)

A cut above other ranks (wordplay)

A cut above the other ranks (wordplay)

""The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.""

French parallel (wordplay)

Assessment of differences

Act of examining resemblances

Way finder with an atom of sympathy

Feeling the needle a tiny bit

Common love and desire invoke pity