2-Letter Words Ending in K

Tamper with an odometer (4,4)

One method of price control

Return to a lower level

Defamatory falsehood published for political effect

Toe the line (wordplay)

Building for making cord

""A place where salt is produced, also SALTERN""

Assignments done in class

*At-your-desk assignment

Fruit and fish on quay (or second fish)

Small fish and fruit

Fruit salad to begin with, then fish

Imitation stone (wordplay)

Plant fake diamond, possibly (wordplay)

Startle ram inside damaging plant

Sleuth in the deerstalker hat

Detective's moniker

Mycroft Holmes's brother

""A waterproof boot, also SHOEPAC""

Company picnic conversation, perhaps

Happy hour patter, perhaps

Water cooler chitchat, perhaps

The manufacture of cheap clothing

A type of football player

Winter storm pileup

Winter sight in Me.

Blizzard by-product

An accumulation of packed snow

A tropical tree

Not a hardcover book

Book vulnerable defender

Collection of vocal pieces

Glee club handout

Volume containing lyrics, hymns, etc

Small antelope of southern Africa

Way has been wild, fine for antelope

African antelope.

Small African antelope

An embankment along a river

Don't crow so much - turn it off!

Don't crow so much - shut it off!

Don't crow any more - just shut it off

Boss to order record of pedigree

Record of horses' pedigrees

Breeding reading

Ornamental leather

A subdivision of a block

Unpleasant chores

Monkee hosting quiz awarded point for 'Job worth doing' (wordplay)

Industry from the side

Organised co-operation, group endeavour.

Togetherness in action

Required school purchase, maybe

Typical, as a case

Student's resource

Time's a-wastin'!

Hurry it up!

Noises made to pass the time (wordplay)

Work paid for by the hour or day

A part of a gun

Native American ax

Cat and bird severed by a chopper

Light native axe

What makes a village (wordplay)

Village inhabitants

An igneous rock

{tubing=n}

Airport breeze indicator

Indicator of air movement at airport

Blow hit cone

An article made from wire

Snipe-like bird

Snipe's kin

Bird of sandpiper family

European songbird

Small European and North African songbird

Songbird

Place of retirement or seclusion

Wainscoting, for example

Things come crawling out of it

Spooner's smashing balls on the table, requiring a bar of soap

Lord Chancellor's office cooks law up

Symbol of Lord Chancellor's office

Chancellor's seat in the House of Lords

Needlework

Thesaurus, for example

Dictionary or thesaurus

What you might be using to help solve this

Volume of student exercises

Compilation of student exercises

Student volume with exercises

{workers=n}

Monday through Friday

Monday through Friday, for many

Job-hours total

Mowing, edging, etc.

Suburbanite's obligation

Mowing the lawn, trimming the bushes, etc.

Class work (wordplay)

Was 1984 such a publication (wordplay)

Annual that might be okay or otherwise!

Fuel additive in tank, I conk out

Like some gasolines

High-octane

SHOCK to outrage feelings

BLOCK to {obstruct=v}

Right sort of hat for one who rules the roost

""The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse. Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.""

Expensive Monopoly property

Its houses cost $200 each

Site of many arcades

Medical obstruction (wordplay)

Hit on ice

Could be physical obstruction

Buffer (wordplay)

Oxford shiner

Pump polisher

Between back walls, stack and line up masonry

Is S weeping for this? P ain't with it

Painter's technique

Encounter with Gorky discovered the technique of an artist

English word

Bill payer's need

It needs balancing

It must be carefully balanced

In the plural, they're oriental cutlery

You can't eat with one

Cuts off credit to Chinese food raiser

The source of springtime (wordplay)

The wind of springtime (wordplay)

That goes for springtime

Creation of automobile bodies

English word

Plant with ears

Fall field sight.

Field of Dreams plant

A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

""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.""

Pedestrian's lane.

Corner-to-corner lines

Pedestrian's lane

Ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns.

Rasta's braid

Farming for defence (wordplay)

Rampart made of soil

Agriculture for defence

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

""Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.""

Use cattle cake, perhaps, as raw material

Story by Eugene (wordplay)

Story by Eugene?

It's done outside a lab

Type of firearm.

Old-fashioned firearm

Old-fashioned gun.

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

Window patterns

Tiffany lampshade, e.g

Tiffany lampshade, for example

Murano artistry

Slacker at Fort Knox (wordplay)

... for a loafer (wordplay)

Loaf on the job

Part of a lamp, perhaps

Part of a desk lamp

Flexible type of desk lamp

Third degree, in a way

Automobile feature

Decorative grating

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

How a drink ruined its production

Do-it-yourself production.

Manual creation

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

Buddy s tarsal joint (wordplay)

Plant with sHOwy flowers

Floral symbol of "ambition."

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

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

Farm animals exist to breed

One source of rural income.

(Domestic) animals in general

Record of Wimbledon action (wordplay)

Restaurant souvenir, maybe

Record of a World Cup game (wordplay)

Weapon child found in county town

Old-fashioned type of gun

Musket device

Mark and the rest operate this craft!

Walk, Metro out of order. Rails perhaps

Welding and soldering et al.

Peak in S. W. New Hampshire, 3,186 ft

SHRINK to contract or draw back

An automobile having a roof that drops off sharply to the top of the rear compartment.

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)

Discomfort with provocative dance reported as an act of touching up (wordplay)

Dad employed to collect Ford's model car's treated surfaces

Daily assignment (wordplay)

Dealing with documentation

Clerk's concern.

Kind of quilt

Quilter's hodgepodge

Made up of many different elements

English word

One way to earn.

Method of operation in some factories.

Tut! That's fantastic English epic work

American Gothic implement

Tool for moving hay

Farmer's tool.

A ladybird? Nonsense!

Flower crower? Piffle!

Pop goes the rooster? 23 down!

English word

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

Sunday text

Decorative articles made with overlaid porcupine quills by certain Native Americans.

Kind of hog

Cager in Fayetteville

OR (wordplay)

(Astronautics) a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft

Cause of a detour, maybe

Highway police procedure.

Jam is for The Cars at the bar

Return to gold standard and mint, say

Source of parsnip liquor, perhaps

Vegetables for the grafter

Oil-rig worker needs to be tough

Oil rig worker, of course

Rowdy sort

Album, for clippings say

Volume for cuttings, photographs etc.

Album with clippings

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

Boot shiner (wordplay)

One who gives you a shine

Person whose work shines

English word

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

""(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a type of intrazonal soil of arid regions with a greyish surface crust: contains large quantities of soluble salts [Russian, literally: salt marsh]""

Preparatory labour (in the garden?)

Preparation for excavation (wordplay)

Preliminary data gathering, perhaps

South African symbol

A jumper for the South African side

South African animal

Something made of steel.

English word

'Lust for Life' (wordplay)

Lust for Life (wordplay)

Mason's task

Tot's reading material

Type of happy ending

Collection of children's tales

Printer's guide.

It sets the tone

Summary of typefaces, etc., of a newspaper.

English word

A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back. Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.

Return the ball

Shortened the line after reversion

Instance of reversion to ancestral type

Hors d'oeuvre holder

It may be mint-flavored

Hors d'oeuvre stabber

NFL dead-ball ruling

(Engineering / Metallurgy) a maker's mark stamped on pewter objects

Not fellow countrymen

Community members.

Citizenry.

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 .""

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

The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.

Ladies of the old West

Adult females

Instrument played with a mallet

Simple percussion instrument

Percussion instrument

North American marmot

Rodent in a tongue twister

As reported, wouldn't keep a rodent

Wrestler's ploy

Wrestling hold

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

Horses in back-to-back races

Thoroughbreds stood around in bar

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

That tooth will have to come out!

Metal parts or fixtures made bright by polishing.

Vehicle for Endora (wordplay)

Vehicle for Endora?

Halloween carrier (wordplay)

Turnaround pass play, or two phone parts

Football play

Gridiron position

""Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.""

An asinine performance (wordplay)

Academic magnum opus nothing but a chore

Laborious part of a task

Melee for singer Osmond (wordplay)

Free-for-all (wordplay)

Free-for-all for Osmond (wordplay)

English word

People of good breeding

Foundation or preparation

Preparation requiring land and labour

Preliminary effort

Condition of stultifying conformity

Rapper M.C.'s tress (wordplay)

... wrestling move (wordplay)

Bit of arm-twisting (wordplay)

A race that considers itself superior to all others and fitted to rule the others; -- referred to especially in NAZI racial theories.

Recess in D.C. (wordplay)

Train, in a way

English word

A member of a kolkhoz.

Komondor

Beethoven's Ninth, for example

Pinnacle of fine art

Artist's crowning achievement

Karma - we twerk with old bird!

State bird of Wyoming

Montana's state bird is one

Elsie's favorite Cher film (wordplay)

Quarterback Warren's pickup (wordplay)

Description of LEM is crazy

English word

Buffoon almost climbed slope

Friend of a fourflusher.

Feature of old-time medicine show.

Embroidery, for example

Topic for the woman's page.

*Embroidery, say

NETWORK to form a structure like a net

Try reading this!

One at a woman's side (wordplay)

Steal a novel (wordplay)

English word

Production script of a play

Stage manager's script

Direct programme that's read on stage but not to the audience

Volume of students (wordplay)

Student's text

Teaching aid

Student's chore.

Taking notes, studying, etc

Taking notes, studying, etc.

Ornamental designs

Ornamentation.

*Art class supply

Artist's vade mecum

Artist's pad

A fuming column (wordplay)

Steam locomotive feature

Ship's funnel

Volume of original documents for study

Some wall finishes

NETWORK to form a structure like a net

English word

High-performing Wall Street investment

Nail to hold cloth stretched on a frame.

Fastener to stretch cloth

Nail used for fastening cloth

Work made of timbers.