2-Letter Words Ending in A

Monarch in 20 finds stalk with spores

At AGM, it's sadly evidence of shame

Holes in one's hands

Christ's marks of crucifixion

""A thrust with a rapier, also STOCCADO""

A perennial herb

Stomodeum

A monetary unit of Bulgaria

Infant feeding pot with a European coin

Hundredth of a Bulgarian lev

The body of a tapeworm

Nerve-cell frameworks

Tissues in layers with inbuilt order

Organic frameworks

Metal oxide recreated is not art

Zoological taxonomic ranks immediately above 'superclass'

Foolishly play with Bush, defining certain categories of life

Bean soup (anagram)

Order in the court (wordplay)

"Under penalty" (Latin)

Expansion of town into countryside

Where the grass is greener (wordplay)

Make a living there out of town

1986 Pet Shop Boys single

""A geometrical figure used as a symbol or ornament, also SWASTIKA""

Symbol of Nazi Germany

Inglourious Basterds symbol

Ancient symbol adopted by Nazi Germany

Sympodium

Meetings of the minds (wordplay)

Collections of opinions on a subject.

Meetings on specific subjects

Syncytium

""Combined action, also SYNERGY""

A syntactic element

Small South American anteater

""A stringed instrument, also TAMBURA, TAMBUR""

Stirrup hood of a Mexican saddle

Tegmentum

Tegumen

Clear up blood extractor doctor dropped in surgical instruments

Tumour; amaretto (anagram)

Lizards' lodgings, perhaps

Turtles' homes, perhaps

Turtles' abodes, perhaps

Spherical magnet

""Molasses, also THERIAC""

A chemical compound

A chemical compound

A tall herb

A small alcove in a Japanese house

It'll rot a poorly cooked pancake!

Maize cake (Spanish)

Bowl material (wordplay)

Bacterial blood poisoning

Formal word for blood-poisoning

Blood poisoning

A disease of the eye

Certain four-sided figures

Geometrical shapes, pair Zeta reproduced

Quadrilaterals with a pair of parallel sides

Disordered mental states

Severe injuries

Scarring events

Intestinal parasite

Parasitic worm

Three-year terms

Potentially lucrative track bet

You can bet on it

Three-way bet

I, for one, pressed into backing art galleries ...

Trihedron

""An ancient writing tablet, also TRIPTYCH""

A disease of citrus trees

A pulley-like structure through which a tendon passes

Daughter of a Russian tsar

Member of oppressive regime thrashed a servant

Title held by the Russian emperor's daughter

""The wife of a czar, also CZARINA, CZARITSA, CZARITZA, TSARINA, TSARINA""

""The daughter of a czar, also CZAREVNA, TSAREVNA""

""The wife of a czar, also CZARINA, CZARITSA, CZARITZA, TSARINA, TSARITZA""

Strike preludes, often

Preludes to war, often

Final threats

Let a smile be your ... (song)

Sun block (wordplay)

Handy personal cover (wordplay)

On the ocean floor, say

Below the surface (wordplay)

Like a coral reef

Unguentum

Uredinium

""An abnormal condition of the blood, also UREMIA, URAEMIA""

Uropygium

Variant of cowpox

Cowpox

Farewell to Inca ruin in foreign port

Guy Lombardo favorite.

City of eastern Spain

Velamen

Mob movie's story line, maybe

Feud at event developed around daughter

Family blood feud

""A poisonous mixture of alkaloids, also VERATRIN""

Blooming speed well for one like her

Matador's move

Herbaceous plant, girl's name

Spinal column component

Spinal column bone

Anatomical column component

""A small bladder, also VESICLE""

Useless traces give it as 'reduced'

Cat's whisker

Cat's whisker.

Queen's station (wordplay)

Such a regal carriage!

Evelyn Anthony's terminus (wordplay)

Interactive videotex service over a TV cable

Information system using telephone link and a monitor

A European grape

A female {virtuoso=n}

""A burrowing rodent, also VIZCACHA""

Animals that bring forth living young

""A burrowing rodent, also VISCACHA""

""A supernatural force in Sioux beliefs, also WAKANDA""

""A flowering shrub, also WEIGELA""

Ornamental vine variable

Climber once knew the song

Vine called tree on Broadway.

Flower I water is ruined

A flower, I swear it

Showy ornamental vine

A yellow skin tumour

Highest rank in sumo

Highest sumo rank

A chemical compound

Spanish fish and shellfish stew

Term for light opera of Spain

Spanish operatic genre

Snow ridge on arctic plains variable

Snow ridge on arctic plains Var.

Cubic stone (wordplay)

Compound used in abrasives

Oxide of a tetragonal mineral

""A jellylike mass of bacteria, also ZOOGLEA""

Donkey show problem (wordplay)

Animal fanatic's condition

Zygoma

Pl. acetabula (-l ) Anatomy The cup-shaped cavity at the base of the hipbone into which the ball-shaped head of the femur fits.

""The failure of a ring of muscle fibers, such as a sphincter of the esophagus, to relax.""

Adenoma

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). (Nepeta Glechoma).

A tree, the common mesquite

Blindness

""Pl. ambulacra (-l k r , -l kr ) One of the five radial areas on the undersurface of the starfish and similar echinoderms, from which the tube feet are protruded and withdrawn.""

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

Lack of muscle tone.

Lack of pain NOT a country! (nonverbal)

State of "feeling no pain"

In Ala., easing of pain

""Loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor.""

Small Pacific fish used for bait

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

Dead Roman, perhaps, or mythical Greek

Princess attached to rock stars in group

The Chained Lady

Pl. angiomas or angiomata (-m -t ) A tumor composed chiefly of lymph and blood vessels.

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

Writings of dubious authorship

Secret things books left out

Writings not considered genuine

""Pl. apothecia (-s - , -sh - ) A disk-shaped or cup-shaped ascocarp of some lichens and the fungi Ascomycetes.""

Showy flower, also known as columbine

One member - one in water - is Columbine

Plant also known as Granny's Bonnet

* Song about goldfish (nearly)

Monkey puzzle tree (or Chile pine)

Evergreen song about golden vehicle

Plural of argumentum .

Aromatic plant related to wormwood

Genus of herbaceous perennial plants

Bitter tasting plant

Smelly gum resin from the Orient.

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

Eg, concert halls

They are found in schools

School meeting places

Brazilian plant that has winged fruits

Tea in some Amazonian rituals

Psychotropic drug said to induce spiritual experiences

Battle overhead (wordplay)

Battle dress (wordplay)

Knitted hat (for bank robbers?)

Lake like a ... they say like a guitar

Triangular-bodied instrument

Mandolin's cousin

Bare all in dancing? Not me!

She's winning on points!

She may be winning on points!

Plymouth muscle car

Predatory fish found in tropical seas

'68 Plymouth with optional Mod Top roof

Genus of parasitic worms

English word

English word

Type of aria

Care if tea spilled here (wordplay)

The only waiting here is at the counter!

Eatery where there's no waiting!

To which 'plant' can allude, possibly

Eurasian plant of the marigold genus

Pot marigold

A queen protected by duchess and coterie

Secret advisers

Intriguing group around the old lady artist, grabbing improperly

eg Harebell or Scottish bluebell

Genus of bellflowers

Bell flower

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

Star-fruit tree

Star fruit

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.

""The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer ahead to another unit, for example, the use of him to refer to John in the sentence Near him, John saw a snake.""

Band once fronted by Cerys Matthews

State of rigidity and stupor

State of muscular rigidity and stupor

""(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol a burning sensation along the course of a peripheral nerve together with local changes in the appearance of the skin [from New Latin, from Greek kausos fever + -algia ]""

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

Parts of brains

Lower posterior parts of the brain

Occupiers of the skull's posterior fossa

""One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.""

Luscious fruit of tropical America.

Chiasma

Variant of cherimoya .

The disorder a child may wreak!

An alga responsible for turning stagnant water an opaque green

""Poisoning caused by ingesting fish contaminated with ciguatoxin, characterized by gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms.""

Plant ashes in these places (wordplay)

Flower for the (say) sinner and the song

Showy flower from the Canary Islands.

Ancient water clock

Dry places, not right for this to work

Dry places damaged this timekeeper

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.

Coelom

Cognomen

Scholarly get-togethers

Conferences, meetings for discussion

Seminars, meetings for discussion

""An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.""

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

Pl -lae [-ˌliː] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the technical name for pollen basket

Prawns and lobster perhaps act as cure

A class made up of hard cases (wordplay)

Shrimp, lobsters, etc.

Pl. cuadrillas The group of assistants to the matador in a bullfight.

Programme of activities? Of course!

Courses of study.

Pictures representing a continuous scene

Pictorial landscape encircling a viewer

Curved wall used as a stage background

Pl. decahedrons or decahedra (-dr ) A polyhedron with ten faces.

Administer a horrid enema to be purged of this (wordplay)

Motions not welcomed from her radio broadcast at one

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

Diploma

Play for real (wordplay)

Program that rings true

'Based on a true story' movie

An ill habit or state of the constitution; formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.

Remedy sipped, say, for indigestion

Sipped, say, stew causing stomach upset

Stomach upset - spied a spy (anagram)

Disease and Illness

Disorder marked by difficulty in expressing thoughts in words

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

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

Jockey displays a growth abnormality

""Any of numerous tropical American plants of the genus Echeveria, having thick, succulent leaves often clustered in a showy rosette.""

Parroter's form of speech.

Habit of repeating others' words.

Repetition of another's words

City light is about a cause of fits

Misplace a treatment for antenatal condition

Lights in city and capital erected as a condition

Ecthyma

Smoker's lung condition

Distension of the lung

Lung condition causes bad ESP mayhem

Empyema

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.""

Parts of sacs around hearts

Skin cells

Lamb contains marrow and the last pieces of cell tissue

Mysterious items - ciao trees (anagram)

Dark matter (wordplay)

Words not ideal for crossword puzzles

Bush perhaps began in excessive optimism

Great feeling about key plant

Plant for bishop in high spirits

Skin eruption accompanying a fever

Skin rash accompanying a fever

Exodontics.

Fibroma

""Pl -ture [-ˈtʊəreɪ] (Music, other) Music embellishment, esp ornamentation added by the performer [Italian: a blossoming]""

Early spring bloom

Shrub with showy bell-shaped flowers

A frosty hi to the flowering shrub

See yaws .

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

""Pl. glochids also glochidia (-k d - ) One of the minute barbed hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as the prickly pear.""

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

""A light open-necked cotton shirt, often with large pockets and pleats down the front, that is typically worn outside the pants.""

Simian soldier (wordplay)

Che Guevara, for one

To lure a girl is highly irregular!

Blues player, maybe

Benjamin Franklin invented one

Small wind instrument