2-Letter Words Ending in A

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

Bare all in dancing? Not me!

She's winning on points!

She may be winning on points!

To which 'plant' can allude, possibly

Eurasian plant of the marigold genus

Pot marigold

eg Harebell or Scottish bluebell

Genus of bellflowers

Bell flower

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

Type of pasta sauce

A sauce for pasta

Bacony pasta dish

A major type of cancer

Carrion Virginia mixed for flesh-eaters

Wolves etc mostly fair when tackling men

Order soldiers to stop endless festivity

Mostly relaxed, artist captures popular tree

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

Band once fronted by Cerys Matthews

State of rigidity and stupor

State of muscular rigidity and stupor

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

Plant ashes in these places (wordplay)

Flower for the (say) sinner and the song

Showy flower from the Canary Islands.

Any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.

Cognomen

Digests of a sort

Short summaries

Reference works from which man copied wrongly

""Pl. condylomas or condylomata (-m -t ) A wartlike growth on the skin or mucous membrane, usually in the area of the anus or the external genital organs.""

Businesses producing iron coats

Spies entrap working-class associations

Groups require actions or else

A small creeping herb (Dichondra micrantha) commercially cultivated as a substitute for lawn grass.

""Difficulty in speaking, usually evidenced by hoarseness.""

Plural of encephalon .

Whole food (wordplay)

Hot Mexican dish

Special deal with china dish

Variant of entamoeba .

""Pl. entamoebas also endamoebas or entamoebae also endamoebae (-b ) Any of several parasitic amoebas of the genus Entamoeba, especially E. histolytica, causing dysentery and ulceration of the colon and liver.""

Skin eruption accompanying a fever

Skin rash accompanying a fever

Exodontics.

""The sex organs, especially the external sex organs, called the external genitalia; the genitals.external genitalia; the genitals.""

Clap for American turn and not South American bird

The burning in the "Seinfeld" episode "The Burning"

""Pl. granulomas or granulomata (-m -t ) A mass of inflamed granulation tissue, usually associated with ulcerated infections.""

Damaging parts of accusations

Blues player, maybe

Benjamin Franklin invented one

Small wind instrument

Speakers' receptions (wordplay)

Guest speaker fees, say

Payments to speakers, say

Garden flower - garden hay (anagram)

Shrub - garden hay (anagram)

Handy gear (anagram) - shrub

""Pl. hypanthia (-th - ) The ringlike, cup-shaped, or tubular structure of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne, as in the flowers of the rose or cherry.""

Abnormally deep or rapid breathing.

Condition marked by overexcitability

English word

One with a Roman upset at a fiance, say

Woman in love

Cleopatra, to Antony

Congreve's 2 Juliana

Woman in disguise.

Woman undercover

Officially informing (someone)

Something caught in the air

Viral disease that is highly contagious

Plural of involucrum .

Region of one country claimed by another

English word

Tropical flowering tree

Tropical tree with fern-like leaves

Purple-blooming bignonia

Young adult novels (wordplay)

Children's books

The Brontes' Glass Town Confederacy stories, for example

Lacunar

This is On the Beach - long song about dictator

""A votive candle set into a small, decorative paper bag weighted with sand and placed in a row with others along a walkway, driveway, or rooftop as a holiday decoration. Also called regionally farolito .""

Dance similar to fandango

Spanish dance similar to the fandango

Spanish dance

Flowering shrub of western U. S.

Californian species of bearberry

Chaparral shrub

Illegal drug (alt. spelling)

Alternative spelling for the hemp plant

""A strong-smelling Asian plant (Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).""

Large animals of a region

Work sheets (wordplay)

Flowers for secretaries (wordplay)

Reminders, of sorts

See midgut .

Big stretch (wordplay)

Note modulating all nine periods

Really long time

Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," for example

Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape,' for example

Old bird with no drink in singular performance

Obsession with one thing

Obsession with a single subject

Overconcentration on one theme.

One billionth (10 -9 ) of a tesla.

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

Salamis as served at Roman spectacle (wordplay)

Salamis as offered at Roman circus (wordplay)

Naval occasion, said by Ovid to be a good place to meet girls

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae [New Latin, from Greek nemos a grove + philein to love]""

Liking for new things

Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

""Pl. nephridia (- - ) A tubular excretory organ in many invertebrates, such as mollusks and earthworms.""

Aspirin target, maybe

Pain in the neck, perhaps

Broken rule again leads to complaint

The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

Benign tumour, typically at the end of a severed nerve

Casual inaction restricts a plant

Action in a struggle with tobacco

Inaction is bad for a plant

Longing for something past

A seductive liar: George W. Ball

Love for the past

Massive glass houses (wordplay)

Shark tanks, maybe

Water worlds (wordplay)

English word

Pl. paraments or paramenta (-m n t ) An ecclesiastical vestment or hanging.

Small Asian tree with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant lilac flowers

Map projection (wordplay)

Crimea, for one

Florida, for one.

Same as Penult. Penult.

Pl. peritonea also peritonaea (-tn- ) The serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity and folds inward to enclose the viscera.

Apparition

The Beatles and Justin Bieber, once

Wonders if scrap heap contains new sign

They're extraordinary

N as in lung problem (wordplay)

Aureomycin chases it.

Inflammation of the lung

Tree with showy flowers

Showy, scarlet flower

Showy tree

English word

Ranch in "Bonanza"

Tall pine tree of North America

The Cartwrights' spread

""Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.""

Prenomen

Three-book Newton work

""The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

Votes put to country generally 9)

Whistler earned potential votes

Submissions to popular vote

Turn-of-the-century health resorts

Hospitals for recuperation

Supply AA with rations in clinics

Long-term care facilities

Hospitals for recuperation

Places for mending

Institutions providing rest for invalids

Organising a loan isn't a bloomer

Fragrant Mediterranean shrub related to camomile

Perhaps I can still sparkle

I can still change hint

A tiny bit

Term of address to a Portuguese girl

Lisbon miss

Pl. sententiae (-sh - ) An adage or aphorism.

Miss Italy (wordplay)

Miss cue on air - sorry!

Young lady from Rome (wordplay)

Foreheads

""Pl. sporangia (-j - ) A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, as in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns. Also called spore case .""

Second bungee-jumping artist from the lower orders

Bear genus could be broken down into these groups

Turbo-charged old Chevy (wordplay)

Fabulous deli delicacy (wordplay)

Great old Chevy (wordplay)

""A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. as, th' army, for the army.""

Big, hairy spider

Hairy creepy-crawly

Spider is natural at spinning

""Pl. treponemata (-m -t ) or treponemas Any of a group of spirochetes of the genus Treponema, including those that cause syphilis, pinta, and yaws.""

""Pl. triclinia (- - ) A couch facing three sides of a rectangular table, used by the ancient Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans for reclining at meals.""

""Overactivity or irritability of the vagus nerve, adversely affecting function of the blood vessels, stomach, and muscles.""

The membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel.

""A spongy tissue with large air spaces found between the cells of the stems and leaves of aquatic plants, providing buoyancy and allowing the circulation of gases.""

A woman who is a devotee or fan.

Sex

Abnormal suppression or absence of menstruation.

Breaks in grammatical sequence

A haul Acton possibly offers of syntactic non sequiturs

Analemma

Stephen King book, richest in rewrite

English word

Number of folks (wordplay)

Sensational loss (wordplay)

It's a real knockout!

Paramecium, rotifer, etc.

""Pl. antependia (-d - ) A decorative hanging for the front of an altar, lectern, or pulpit.""

""Pl. antheridia (- - ) A sperm-producing organ occurring in seedless plants, fungi, and algae.""

""ANEMIA a disorder of the blood, also ANAEMIA""

ASTHMA a chronic respiratory disorder

NAUSEA an inclination to vomit

""Pl. archegonia (-n - ) A multicellular, often flask-shaped, egg-producing organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.""

A dart aimed at the bull

Dart thrust into el toro

""Pl. barramunda or barramundas also barramundi or barramundis Any of several Australian food fishes, such as the lungfish. Also called ceratodus .""

Eye-pupil dilater

Another name for deadly nightshade

Drug made from deadly nightshade

Light workout - land a brace!

Kind of 1 across (correctly 1 acrosses)

Menorahs, for example

English word

Facial fur (wordplay)

Pearly-gray fur

Feature cool on a rodent

Glory-of-the-snow

Pl. chromonemata (-m -t ) The spirally coiled central filament of a chromatid along which the chromomeres are aligned.

Summer-theater circuit

Additive in some bug repellents

Insect repellent sprayed into cellar

Plural of coelenteron .

Harmony in a musical instrument

Cousin of the accordion.

Accordion's cousin.

Thanksgiving Day centerpiece

Emblem of abundance.

Souvenir of Almathea, a gift from Zeus

A recording for rectification (wordplay)

Errors to be corrected (in book)

List of fixed mistakes

English word

Pl. definienda (-d ) A word or expression that is being defined.

Alcoholism - so dim a pain (anagram)

Problem for A.A.

Sot's cravings

An abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements.

Pl. enchiridions or enchiridia (- - ) A handbook; a manual.

Plural of endocardium .

Plural of endometrium .

""Pl. endothecia (-s - , -sh - ) The inner tissue of an anther or a moss capsule.""

""Pl. endothelia (-l - ) A thin layer of flat epithelial cells that lines serous cavities, lymph vessels, and blood vessels.""

Young 6 said to be ending life

Painless method of killing

Young Burmese at home

Plant bearing dense clusters of flowers

Rose with clusters of flowers

Rose with flower clusters

Herb with white flowers that emit hot flammable vapour in hot weather

Pl. gametangia (-j - ) An organ or a cell in which gametes are produced.

Spanish city storing bad fruit

Passion flower in Spanish city is diseased

Passion fruit not well received by Andalusian city

""Pl. hemangiomas also hemangiomata (-m -t ) A benign skin lesion consisting of dense, usually elevated masses of dilated blood vessels.""

Pl. hormogonia (-n - ) A part of a filament of a cyanobacterium that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament.

MANIA an excessive or unreasonable desire; a craze

Pathology The state of being hypertonic.

""The layer of water in a thermally stratified lake that lies below the thermocline, is noncirculating, and remains perpetually cold.""

Books printed before 1500.

Books printed before 1500

Some very early impressions

Periods between reigns

Pre-coronation periods

Leaderless periods

""A small, two-wheeled carriage drawn by one or two persons.""

Tokyo two-wheeler

Eastern taxi variable

Oriental carriage.

""Pl. latifundia (-d - ) A great landed estate, especially of the ancient Romans.""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania : infects humans and animals and causes diseases ranging from skin lesions to potentially fatal organ damage [New Latin, named after Sir W.B. Leishman (1865-1926), Scottish bacteriologist]""

An abnormally low number of white blood cells in the circulating blood.

Bother in big house having a plant with narcotic properties

Reader's notes, at times

Reader's notes

Notes written beside text

""Pl. mediastina (-n ) The region in mammals between the pleural sacs, containing the heart and all of the thoracic viscera except the lungs.""

Melanoma

""Pl. meningiomas or meningiomata (-m -t ) A slow-growing tumor of the meninges, occurring most often in adults.""

English word

""Pl. monochasia (-z - , -zh - , -zh ) A cyme having a single flower on each axis.""

Abnormal muscular weakness or fatigue.

Propensity for exaggerating

* Obsession with lying

The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.

English word

""A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.""

""Pl. ostensoria (-sôr - , -s r -) also ostensories Roman Catholic Church See monstrance .""

Distortion of memory

Illusion of remembering events experienced for the first time.

""The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

Prepared with a certain Italian cheese

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

A plural of penicillium .

Pl. pentahedrons or pentahedra (-dr ) A solid having five plane faces.

Pl. pericrania (-n - ) The external periosteum that covers the outer surface of the skull.

""Pl. perineuria (-n r - , -ny r -) The sheath of connective tissue enclosing a bundle of nerve fibers.""

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

Leaves for the holidays (wordplay)

Plant isn't opiate, sadly

Plant petition as ordered

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

""Pl. praenomens or praenomina (-n m -n , -n m -) A first or given name.""

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

Thorny plant with small fruit clusters

Thorny evergreen shrub related to the hawthorn

Thorny evergreen shrub with white flowers and bright red or yellow berries

Presidential terms.

Pl. retinacula (-l ) Biology A band or bandlike structure that holds an organ or a part in place.

Your food inspector (wordplay)

A cause of food poisoning

Bacteria associated with food poisoning

A genus of American perrenial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant.

Period of revelry

Exotic Australian festival

Ancient Roman December festival

Mark on tongue seen before a fever

Injure tongue with a complaint

Disease is to disfigure Roman Adonis, initially

That which can be sensed

A highly potent form of marijuana obtained from unpollinated female plants.

English word

""Pl. staminodes also staminodia (-n d - ) A sterile stamen, sometimes resembling a petal, as in the canna.""

Pl. succedanea (-n - ) A substitute.