2-Letter Words Ending in E

Word with prefix pre-

(Overhang of) steep cliff

Overhanging cliff or rock face

High vertical cliff

CREASE to make a wrinkle in

To define beforehand.

Part of a sentence.

Imply or connote

Part of the sentence given to a subject

Foreshadow publicity for Eastern number

Consider beforehand

Foreshadow

""To freeze beforehand, pa t PREFROZE, pa p PREFROZEN""

""Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. as, a pregnable fort.""

Disadvantage recorded with pride

Influence (someone's) opinion in advance

Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and . . . .'

Group of clergymen

Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow.

Before the normal time

Born too soon

Born before full term

One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.

Advise use of (medicine)

What the 6 down may do before the writer

Recommended a course in physics

Receiver now at ease, they say

Recipient at a fete

Oscar winner, for example

STRIKE to {hit=v}

In grammar, the past tense

Tripe eater dropping a faulty 3

Expressing past time.

VIABLE capable of living

I merit VIP treatment! Simple!

Early - simple - crude

Early in development

Designating a type of close-fitting beltless dress

As a rule it has the main sound

Rule the head of the school declared

Fundamental truth - moral rule

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

Dispossess the people of power? Current duty is to enter revolt

Causing privation; depriving.

Sell state businesses

Better than equal rights.

It's an honor

Right gear boxing low in exercise

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Exploratory

Criminal or civil study, in law

Established way of working

Reproduce new way to get things done

Form a group, you might say

Do it, Biblical-style

Produce young ape 20 trained

""Any one of a class of proteins that are converted, in the normal course of cellular metabolism, into one or more active enzymes; also called zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.""

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

""Any of a class of simple proteins soluble in alcohol and usually having a high proline and glutamine content, found in the grains of cereal crops such as wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice.""

To deliver a Prologue.

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Tending to advance

Part of speech given to church, say

They say Anglicans are articulate

Make the sound of (a word)

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

To prorogue.

Ban writer earning money (wordplay)

Like Joseph Pulitzer (wordplay)

Does he write for a living? Outlaw him!

Work in court, perhaps

Subject to trial.

Bring criminal action against

Convert badly-made polyester

Convert polyester shifts

Make converts.

Driver brought before judge is lying

Face down platforms in private

Prone to lying

Soluble protein.

PROTON a subatomic particle

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

""A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochinealred color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.""

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

English word

Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath

PUBLIC people as a whole

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

Send forth sprouts

Multiply like this and it may drag you till you are dead

Swarm

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Adjective meaning resembling

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Having or indicating purpose or design.

""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""

The carrying out (of something)

Carrying out (of policy)

In this of it's carrying out

Bodily Functions

Adjective meaning resembling

Time, time, time, time (wordplay)

Greatly increase court power, within law

Times by four

Increase many times

Multiply by five

Increase fivefold

APPROVE to regard favourably

To baptize again or a second time.

Recover (something taken)

Take over (wordplay)

Have it so there's a catch in it again

Open to ideas or change

Get round physical training in open

Quick to take in ideas.

To compile anew.

Form anew

Check accuracy of general opinion about Communist

To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange.

Delve back into

To inspire anew.

Run again.

Issue with a new look, maybe

Update the look of, as a product

Change the wrapping

Able to be rectified

That can be recovered or remedied

Not necessarily ruined

The trip back.

Like good loans

Like a loan

Like debts

Extra heat provided by salesman keen mostly to get central heating installed

Changed pace here, securing lead in gruelling supplementary heat

Additional qualifying round in certain sports, eg fencing, rowing

An enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of a complementary RNA molecule from an RNA template.

Make an exact copy

Tie parcel badly and have to do it again

Make a copy of

Type of writing.

Presentation of news about wine years

News about left's decline

Upset a porter - be a baddie

Discount accepted for a bad egg

Censure concerning testamentary evidence

Make a copy of (something)

Finding that sound again

Shrink coming round for copy

Deny the truth of (something)

Deny I featured in awfully rude tape

Issue a denial over duff I put away

Provoking hatred, pure evil's let loose

Pure evil's awfully disgusting

Pulverise metamorphosis that is ugly

Well thought of

Queen's revolving set fitted upright

Held in esteem.

Drug formerly used against high blood pressure

Horizontal member in a long tent

Part of a roof.

Top strut of tent

Aircraft transaction simple, they say

Glider of a sort

Sound transaction straightforward for aircraft

""Soft, thoroughly decomposed rock rich in clay and remaining in its original place.""

Charlie Parker's 'horn' (wordplay)

It gives music

Single-reed instrument

A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.

Noun (-age)

Daily reading, for some

It may be quoted in church

Sacred writings as of Christians

Art, figuratively speaking (wordplay)

The sort of art that may give one relief

Art in three dimensions

Flagged discussion (wordplay)

Army signalling (wordplay)

Flagging conversation (wordplay)

Not too tight (wordplay)

Unlike bosom buddies

Not totally fused

Meerschaum. See Meerschaum. Meerschaum.

Dead end here, perhaps...

Where you may find dead end (wordplay)

Helps cure (anagram)

The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.

SHAPE to fashion into a form

Sounds like a woolly jacket for 17 across for the night

Enclosure for farm animals or duck, almost Dickensian inside

Transported by ship.

A. A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

Proper wicked hash pipes!

Very trim - and proud of it, we hear!

Ready to sail; also, neat and clean

Prove knight maybe is a fine specimen

Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say

Example of excellence

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

Mistress, in slang

Disrespected mistress, in slang

The other woman, in somewhat objectifying slang

Dating app for adulterers (wordplay)

Facelift after cut and blow (wordplay)

Passing critical remark

""A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.""

Resembling hypnosis

Winter view

Christmas scene? Sons wrapping present, piece of clothing

Marker for style of TV serial (wordplay)

Teaspoons made of steatite (wordplay)

Soft form of rock

Bottom of a flatiron

Iron's base

Here or there

At an unspecified location

In an unspecified location

Nineteen-year-old, perhaps

Second-class citizen (wordplay)

Second-year student in USA

SPALLE the shoulder

Like surplus resources

""A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste. Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste.""

Spoon-shaped

Was spitting at you of late? That's a bit thick

Expectorated before you get dead and thickened

Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken.

Pat Eccles recovers sight

Select cap randomly from display

Visually striking performance

Gamble on investments

A gambler will do it to accumulate

Deliberate risk on the markets

Like notes ready to be blown (wordplay)

Kind of income

Like money, there for using - hang staying in the black!

Adjective meaning resembling

SPILL to overflow from a container

Adjective meaning resembling

Having spinules; minutely spiny.

""A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emeraldgreen color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite. Hiddenite.""

Likely to decay.

A substance used to kill spores.

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

""Made, paid, or delivered immediately: a spot sale.""

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

Specify as a condition or requirement

Specify, as in a contract

Specify as an essential part

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Unlike a juggernaut

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)

Beyond the foothills

Just below the treeline

Below the treeline

SAMPLE to test a specimen of

Ultra-efficient but could be bettered

*Supplant

English word

Exceptionally good.

Adjective for sandpaper with very high grit numbers

Overnice

A group of closely linked genes occupying a large chromosomal segment and frequently functioning as a genetic unit.

Setter of the highest quality (wordplay)

What never lets go (wordplay)

Result of trying to invent a gun sight

English word

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) a former name for metamale

Winning flex for Mr. Universe (wordplay)

Place above something else.

Place above something else

English word

English word

English word

Take the place of, override

Take the place of, supplant

Succeed to the position of.

2004 documentary film title (with "Me")

McDonald's verb

Increase, as one's order

Follow as an unexpected result

Occur as an interruption

Occur unexpectedly.

Criminal uses Viper as guide

Oversee, superintend

Oversee people.

English word

English word

English word

Of a wound, to discharge liquid

If it does this there's something the matter there

Ooze pus

Graceful and slender

Graceful, shy elk with lip trembling

Put the accent on the weak beat

Play in jazz style.

Accent the off-beats

SYNOPSIZE

Stringed instrument feature

'Dog gets bit' - final news item

Epilogue in story reportedly by King (wordplay)

One of aircraft's flying surfaces

End of a flyer tells a clear story

Articulated story without embellishment as part of craft

Call out (wordplay)

This may make someone callus, perhaps

Goddess of gabbing (wordplay)

Hubble, for one

*Hubble, for one

Help for a star witness (wordplay)

The final stage of mitosis or meiosis during which the chromosomes of daughter cells are grouped in new nuclei.

Assign stars to (Arizona)

One of two global zones.

Sober, Paddy had a meal

Put off rate increase

Time to get bigger stall

Procrastinate when it's time to get up

Avoid giving decision to gain time

Stall for time

Gathered up treasure, including ring, in stall

Responsive to enticing

Casual worker on counter can be seduced

""A sulphur hydrocarbon, C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives. C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives.""

Acrobat's walkway, maybe

Line up at the circus

Clint tracks a serial killer

"Man of the Year" for one (wordplay)

Man of the Year for one (wordplay)

Joe Klein essay (wordplay)

Picture of built-up area

Perhaps oily street scene trader initially has Superman accessory

""A toxic solid compound, C 10 H 10 Cl 8 , used as an insecticide.""

Happen it's a printer's error!

If partner is not straight, come out!

Happen to find terrapins at sea

Cause to swap places

Rants over the position for a change

7 down (anagram)

A treponema.

A lover of cheese.

Depraved or wicked behaviour

In France you put ride off - for depravity!

Inherent villainy

Bold or italic, for example

Bold or italic, e.g

Create striking sentences (wordplay)

Use keyboard, well worn, to conceal unknown seat

Use keys for 40, not for seat in church liturgy

Prepared a business letter

PURE to {refine=v}

CRUMPLE to {wrinkle=v}

What a capital type of a top place!

Paper's cue for circulation in capital

Capital (letters)

Video game stuck in development hell

Product announced but never produced or canceled

Application advertised but never released