2-Letter Words Containing X

Symmetrical arrangement of 20 ac objects

Aspect of 150 degrees between two heavenly bodies

French who number a hundred at university, number ten in Palliser book

Quixote

Not at all practical

Visionary in vain

Unrealistic and impractical

Extravagant chivalry in action

Reexpel

Ship overseas again

Sell something abroad again

Send goods back overseas

Refix

Bent back

The French referee at first got cross with journalist and responded to stimulus

Good ones help when playing video games

Knee jerks, for example

Involuntary reactions to stimuli

In a reflexed manner

Reflux

Backflows

Massage or bubble bath

Thing that makes you go "Ahh"

Tension-easing medication

Heat treatments, for example

They make hair easier to straighten

Hair straighteners

In a hammock, say

Enjoying a hammock.

On a vacation

Relaxin

Doing a studio job

Retax

Rewax

Messed around with English in ten poems

Wield axe round repetitively rhymed lines

Rouleau

A stone; dry Saxon (anagram)

Dry Saxon (anagram)

Candidate for a cameo

Impudent person putting slug on dressing

Growing among rocks

Brass band members

Band instruments.

Tuba relatives

Saxony

Bass horns.

Screen idol's trait

Erotically attractive quality

Hot quality

Study for a Masters (wordplay)

Forte of Johnson and Masters

Field for Alfred Kinsey

Sextain

Instruments still around in a ship!

Quadrant's relatives

Instruments for navigators

Ancient Roman units of liquid measure

Number in "Lucia"

Mae West's final film

Mae West's swan song

Sextile

Increase from 5 to 30, say

Multiply by six

Increase many times

To six times as much

In a sexual manner

A chemical compound

Silvex

Money in a classic song title

Sing a Song of one

Old British coin

Cheap - worthless - worth a tanner once

Twice as much as a cheap opera (wordplay)

Nail size

Sweet times (wordplay)

Sweet and tons

Two make thirty-two

Diamond (anniversary)

Diamond wedding is one such

That's the diamond one

Highly contagious viral disease

Its last U.S. case was in 1949

Health scourge now deemed eradicated

Vines with bright-green leaves.

Popular potted plants

Ornamental shrubs

Blow out chest for nosey type perhaps

Ornamental tobacco holder

Bijou for a Beau Brummell.

Body of violin or acoustic guitar

Gramophone component needs solid case

Violin part

Spadix

Man-lions of mythology

Mythical creatures with lions' bodies

Inscrutable ones

Porcupine grass

Leg one female shows in hanky-panky in the grass

Storax

Styrax

Somewhat axial

Subfix

Secondary listing

An oxide containing little oxygen

A subdivision of a taxon

Underlying themes

Hidden themes in books about U-boats (wordplay)

Pertaining to a suffix

Appended

Word add-ons

They're added to ends of words

Additions to word stems

A recurrent pattern of stress in speech

A type of sterile organism

Levy on high incomes

Plan ups extra revenue

Penalty for the ultrarich

Like luxury cars and expensive jewelry, often

Additional economic burdens.

Additional levies

Spinks's way to lose weight?

Turkish bath, say

Spinks's way to lose weight (wordplay)

A disease of swine

Sets of grammatical rules

Grammarian's topics

Sentence structures

Syrinx

Catalogue to the French pictures

Motionless model groups

Scenes with still and silent figures

1040 items.

Word on Washington, D.C. license plates

Adult taking time in cab on duty

Revenue from levies

Hotel waiters (wordplay)

Checkers, Austin FX4s, etc. (pl.)

*Their work is picking up

Onerously

Paths to hangars

They lead to terminals

Airport routes

Field of biology

Biological classification system

Science of classification

W-2 receiver (2 words)

Refund receiver, perhaps

Extra pay (anagram)

Teabox

'Aertel, say (8)'

TV news/info system

Defunct printed news service on the box

E-Mailing predecessor

A type of {oxide=n}

Required school purchase, maybe

Typical, as a case

Student's resource

Materials from cowboy hats (wordplay)

Silk and spandex, for two

Big North Carolina industry

Without a text

A specialist in the study of the Scriptures

Relating to roughness or smoothness, say

Relating to feel or appearance

Pertaining to the feel of a fabric

Having a particular surface

Like some vegetable protein

Like stucco

Characters of woven fabrics.

Video game designer's mappings

Traits you can feel

What chest x-rays show

Body parts getting cut, in short supply

Hospital men in Texas remodelled chests

Hormone forming the active principle of a neck gland

Butter-and-eggs

Plant with snapdragon-like flowers

Scot maintaining Adolf maltreated plant

Tonneau

Bacterial blood poisoning

Formal word for blood-poisoning

Blood poisoning

Pertaining to {toxaemia=n}

Toxemia

Arsenic, but not old lace

Arsenic, for example

Poisonous substance

Strength of poison

Degree or strength of a poison

E.P.A. concern

Make still with horror or astonishment

Shock into immobility

Pierce with a sharp point

Kind of cable in TV production

Type of electrical cable

Compound with three oxygen atoms

Compound containing O3

Trioxid

Pillars, spirit and water found in Texas

Dressed to the nines, perhaps

They're often white in warm weather

Black tie wear

Grooms' wear.

Ulexite

Unbox

To tax less than the usual amount

Rather mundane

Mundane

Lacking specific skills

Unfix

Not flexed

Having one axis

Unisex

Unsex

Not sexual

Having great fondness for one's wife

Having a great fondness for one's wife

Excessively fond of one's wife

Vernix

Points on the top of the head

Corners in geometry

Corners, in geometry

Source of grief or annoyance

State of being annoyed or worried

Act of troubling or annoying someone

Pertaining to a {vexillum=n}

""The web or vane of a feather, also VEXIL""

In a vexing manner

High-tech communication

Data-retrieval system that may use a TV set

Like a hot woman

Foxy

Volvox

They may go down the drain

They'll suck in ships

Whirlwinds

A berry

Waxbill

Quality of fake fruit (wordplay)

A tropical plant

Waxweed

Waxwing

Those prone to meltdowns (wordplay)

Some lifelike statues

Figures, eg in Warwick Castle

Waxworm

Xanthan

A chemical salt

A soluble yellow colouring

A white crystalline compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen

Crystalline compound that caffeine is derived from

Xanthin

A yellow skin tumour

A chemical compound

Yellowish

Yellow

Cross-fertilization

The production of offspring totally different from the parent

Out-of-place rock fragment

Certain rock fragment

Times cryptic hotline solves 'Foreign rock?'

A dry land sere

Xiphoid

""A chemical compound, also XYLIDIN""

Xylidin

Xylitol

Hard and woody fruit eg coconut

Hard woody fruit such as the coconut

The preparation of wood for microscopic examination

Aboideau

Aboiteau

Acetoxyl

Extraneous ingredient

Say nice things about new tux, creating bit of a stir (wordplay)

Ingredient.

AFFIX to {attach=v}

Noun (-ment)

Poison produced by food moulds; oxtail fan (anagram)

Author of stepquote (first name)

A great Greek ruler (wordplay)

Any of three Russian emperors

Alkoxide

""A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc. (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.""

Anatoxin

Anorexia

Anorexic

Anorexy

Anoxemia

English word

Antefix

AUXIN a growth promoting substance

Like a venom neutralizer

Counteracting poison.

Does Auntie Tock get sick of such a cure (wordplay)

Shot in the arm, perhaps

Neutralizer of a sort

Substance that neutralises poison

An eleven 'e draws with (wordplay)

One with sixteen wheels carrying international concerns

In a tense way

With an uneasy feeling

With apprehension

Kiwis

Vote dividing European Union in a journey that's without intimacy in partnership

Asphyxia

Asphyxy

Ataraxia

Ataraxic

Ataraxy

Should say type of verb

Providing additional support

Functioning in a supporting capacity

""An organism, such as a strain of bacteria, that has lost the ability to synthesize certain substances required for its growth and metabolism as the result of mutational changes.""

Taken for granted

Pertaining to self-evident truths

Of universally received principles

Carriage's underpinnings.

Axoplasm

Hat carriers

Cylindrical cardboard containers apropos for this puzzle (wordplay)

Banjax

Beeswax

AXIALLY pertaining to an axial

Biotoxin

Bisexual

Bollix

Bollox

Portable sources of music

Powerful, portable radios

Portable stereos

Boxboard

Boxfish

Boxhaul