2-Letter Words Ending in N

...that would be telling!

That would be telling!

Story of arrival in state

Marine worm

""The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.""

Sleep number (wordplay)

Habit picked up by retired people

The late shift

Taint iron chemically by treatment with acid

Passivity

Act of nourishing

Threpsologist's field

Ingredients I turn into food

Notice job is to be relocated - protest!

Statement of protest

Don't like the thing with one on the end

""The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world. as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.""

Blocking of applause with both second and first entries

1 followed by 27 zeros

Thousand raised to the ninth power

Billion cubed

Sense of smell

Act or function of smelling

Game with many buzzer beaters (wordplay)

I open aorta - burst without a major...!

Carmen, say, galvanised into action

Swinger at the zoo

Literally, "man of the forest"

Simian of Indonesia

Outbid

Word with prefix out-

Outdrive

Beaten in a horse race

Journeyed beyond, round Uranus first, then Earth - spinning and hollow

Inclined to say exactly what one thinks

That's quite blunt

Frank has wrong number around radius

Outthrow

Polished off three pizzas, say

Taken too much as a matter of course

Vere! An X means you've taken too much

Took too much, perhaps, and got passed

Openly, a boy has come up from behind

Public knowledge covering area passed

Clear water becomes stale

Prepare too much for apparent downpour

Get stale when open, requiring water

Egg drop (wordplay)

Part of the menstrual cycle

Turn left amid cheers for release

Rusty beastification (wordplay)

Electron loss, to chemists

Loss of electrons during a reaction

Kin of a pearl diver (wordplay)

The Walrus and the Carpenter, by choice.

Mollusk chasers

""The act of treating with ozone; also, the act of converting into, or producing, ozone; ozonization.""

""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

English word

PANTRY a small storage room

Insecticide containing phosphorus and sulphur

In the house in Ireland in pieces

Bit it to start with with a border

Office cubicle divider

Paper used to line a book's inside cover

Affix securely

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

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

Hell or ruin

There's no tripe I'd ruin like this

Reckless ode I print producing ruin

""An anticonvulsant drug, C 15 H 12 N 2 O 2 , used most commonly in the treatment of epilepsy. Also called diphenylhydantoin .""

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

Geologic process of erosion

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

PLANTS plant

Fold.

Plutonic.

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

Guide who rides a coach horse.

Rider of near-side coach horse

After one beast goes rider when there is no coachman

The preying of one animal on another

Plundering pirate on day-shift

Sounds like praying that isn't prayer

An idea arrived at beforehand.

RETURN to go back

Citizen of Transvaal's capital.

A state without essentials of life

Hardship from lack of essentials

Absence of essentials

Period of trial.

Testing time pain with robot misbehaving

Test elastic bra and top on one running

Birth control hormone

Hormone treatment for top singer

Stop finger becoming malformed with absence of female hormone

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

Faulty foot posture

PRORATE to divide proportionately

""Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae.""

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Animalcule

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

""A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; called also Pyrethrum camphor. Pyrethrum camphor.""

""A yellow powdered crystalline compound, C 15 H 10 O 7 , synthesized or occurring as a glycoside in the rind and bark of numerous plants, and used medicinally to treat abnormal capillary fragility.""

Passage, from a book say

Too quaint novel reference

'Too quaint' possibly identifies this

Recurring every day, commonplace

Daily, recurring every day

Ordinary; daily

Waves off (wordplay)

What a Geiger counter measures

Diffusion of heat.

Social function of The House (wordplay)

Greeting one after 26 (wordplay)

Welcome to the party!

Building the Berlin Wall (wordplay)

Left-winger may take such editing

Editing communist move

Lesson this (wordplay)

The way to get less on (wordplay)

This could lead to lesson, perhaps

Second printing, old style.

Meal or snack

Rice often cooked for a meal

Thought to take out large meal

REFLATE to inflate again

Refusal - treatment as worthless

Refusal, renunciation

What the addresses of the Smiths received

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

Lick again, for example

What a tearing performance!

Interpretation (of for example song)

Perhaps the tearing of a performance

PATTERN to copy a design

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

Cutting away, are removing a part

A cutting or paring off.

Restrive

Keeping hold (of something)

Enter into arrangements for custody

Memory or lien

Make taut again

Make more taut

In a new draft

Not in its original form, as an article

Amended religious lesson, dry in newer version

Are you one people? That'll spoil it all

Complete destruction or collapse

One race after sport's collapse

A racist's upset new sexton

Church officer

Church official

Football A safety.

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

Ballerina's forte

Dancing movement

That's bound to increase 12 across, it seems

Army to the rescue (wordplay)

Deliverance (from sin)

Rescuing army (wordplay)

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

Helper of parable

Saviour sees Martina as 'troubled'

City northwest of Regina

City of the Canadian plains

University city in Canada

Surfeited condition

Overfullness

Surfeit.

A potent neurotoxin produced by certain dinoflagellates that accumulates in shellfish feeding on these organisms and consequently causes food poisoning in humans who eat the shellfish.

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

Shield displaying rabbit's tail - church has one, possibly

Discharge - is on Crete (anagram)

Product of glandular activity

Bodily liquid from a gland

Of a religious faction

Partisan reacts in a panic

Cartesian (anagram)

Charm of the French, in part

Deceptive activity of the French in part

Don Juan activity

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

Sonnet is a wow!

A figurative bombshell.

Feeling a sonnet is terrible

Fight-or-flight neurotransmitter

Ironstone employed as a neurotransmitter

Good mood cause

Cutting edge feature (wordplay)

At last an allowance of teeth

One saw with this that's all on edge

E-mag (wordplay)

Cardinal seen holding a match, say

Number observed to hold race, perhaps

English word

""SHANTY a small, crudely built dwelling""

English breed of cattle.

Deity enters tonsured cow

Durham cattle breed

Sightsee

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)

It was critical for Ultra Nate

It might be sticky

It's a job to get one into a suit

SOLVATE to convert into a type of ion

Drawing by lots

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)

Upright bar or beam

Vertical support post

Chain's not unhooked from post

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)

Having died in the womb

Pan's little chum in cropped fungus

Malodorous mushroom

8 gives way to ancient scribe's equipment

Marking with streaks

Markedly like a zebra

Arrangement of parallel bands

Samson or Hercules

Sam's on to be one of them

Mr. Universe, for example

Brawny circus performers

Some circus performers

Dictators

Officer ordering vessel to change course

Army officer below captain

Officer below captain

The act of taking or carrying away; removal.

""A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.""

Attorney's last words

Concluding remarks

Adding process

English word

Railway employee working on and off

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

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

Schemer's play opening in strange antic

Mourinho is a special one

I can act it out for schemer

Long-winded debate.

TV phenomenon.

Woman in part hooked in prolonged discussion

Drug that inhibits effect of oestrogen

Expletive in sailor country (wordplay)

Gosh darn it!

Mild imprecation, rustic style.

Sailor-boy wearing waterproof

Sailor chap wearing waterproof

Headgear Jack has me wearing

Mark on a Dear John letter, perhaps

Visible sign of grief.

Sign of a crying jag

""An agent, such as a virus, a drug, or radiation, that causes malformation of an embryo or fetus.""

Immediately getting mobile phone? True!

Immediately used phone? True!

Then that's it

Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments. Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

""(Electronics) Electronics a gas-filled tube that has three electrodes and can be switched between an `off' state and an `on' state. It has been superseded, except for application involving high-power switching, by the thyristor [originally a trademark, from Greek thura door, valve + -tron ]""

English word

TILLER to put forth stems from a root

Lumberjack.

TIMBER to furnish with wood

Chemistry lab procedure

A little bird gets its allowance drop by drop

The food a little bird is given in the lab

A landing worth six points!

Result of a Hail Mary, perhaps

Score at the airport (wordplay)

Crafty guy (wordplay)

Skilled hand - and master, perhaps

Shopkeeper and master criminal

Crafty dudes (wordplay)

Smartened (anagram)

Exchanges soldiers for skilled workers

Saying grace before dinner, e.g

Usage of a Dior tint's transforming!

Saying grace before dinner, for example

A danger it constituted for one on stage

Actor from Turkey, old chap

Actor takes time reading a play

See retinoic acid .

Perhaps halt intro for an athletic event

Kona Coast event

Long-distance competition

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

Try to pay attention, Ronald, to the sound of this figure

Law enforcement staff (wordplay)

Maybe chunter on about cudgel

Policeman's weapon

""A polypeptide antibiotic, produced by the soil microorganism Bacillus brevis, that is a major constituent of tyrothricin.""

Exceedingly slim

Howling or wailing

Distraught discharge

Wolf music

Centaur in trouble? That's doubtful!

Nicer aunt sadly in a dither (wordplay)

Not at all sure or decided

Emerson, for one

Frank Lloyd Wright, for one

Believer who rejects the Trinity

Not trampled under, don't move!

Virgin, in a way

Like virgin snow

Type of law (wordplay)

Not on the books, perhaps

Traditional but not official.

Natural waste disposal process

Dumping of waste into a ruin is wrong

Making water sport up, then one on land

Estimation of worth

Estimation

Assessment

Tipsy aviator in for change

Basic process of genetics

Departure from the norm

English word

Cotton fabric with soft pile

Material for children's clothes

Supply 11, importing check fabric

""The arrangement of the leaves within the leaf bud, as regards their folding, coiling, rolling, etc.; prefoliation.""

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

At last, an allowance of the shakes

Sixth born gets allowance for movement

Quick back and forward movement

A fiddling assault, perhaps

It can be moving

Reason for a ticket

Act of spoiling or impairment

Debasement

Steps towards a cure, perhaps

Long-distance fundraising event

Fundraiser with many steps

Having been smoothed, as a stone in a riverbed

Discontinued; shunning social contact

More than just reserved

Wingers under Sir Alf Ramsey

Sir Francis Chichester, perhaps

Vanderbilt or Lipton

Member of sailing crew

Sailors

Acid in boat (anagram)

Edward VIII's action of 1936

Regal resignation

Deviation from normality

Delusion or illusion

A wandering from the norm.

Renunciation

Sailor, say, in the country giving up

Bet again? No chance for denial

Disclaimer - there's no beating a developer!

Rating right-wing attitude as a psychological process