2-Letter Words Ending in K

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

""A dish consisting of marinated cubes of lamb or beef grilled or roasted on a spit, often with slices of eggplant, onion, and tomato; shish kebab.""

The Ancient Mariner

The woman will sponsor old sailor

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

Rowed-to ruin (wordplay)

It may mean junk ends up as junk!

Event in "The Tempest."

Boot shiner (wordplay)

One who gives you a shine

Person whose work shines

Distract (from big issue)

Distract (from an issue)

Follow team's first draw away

Staff going on strike? It's Ludicrous!

Sennett proceedings (wordplay)

Humour based on clumsiness

Go out when you've gone out (wordplay)

One way to travel at night (wordplay)

Travel at night, perhaps

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]""

Stroll around the station (wordplay)

An out-of-this-world stroll (wordplay)

Modern outdoor sport.

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.

""Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sunstruck soldiers. as, sunstruck soldiers.""

English word

English word

The backward slant of the leading edge of an airfoil.

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

US word for a drawing-pin

Bulletin board fastener

Bulletin board sticker

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.

Astroturf, for one

Relative of a colophon.

Registered sign of a manufacturer

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 .""

*Antelope stem a flood

Drink ready for American antelope

*Antelope: stem a flood

Grade in swimming class (wordplay)

Feature of expensive paper

Paper manufacturer's identification

""A form of vessel, often with steam power, having sharp ends and a very convex upper deck, much used on the Great Lakes, esp. for carrying grain.""

""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.

Trees providing shelter

Protective hedge

Breezeblock, when split, may give shelter

A crew sick at sea? That's a joke!

Snide remark, perhaps

Funny straight man split

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

A three-foot pole?

Extended rule (wordplay)

Measure of the Met's credit (wordplay)

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

""HIJACK to steal in transit, also HIGHJACK""

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)

Pancake ingredient, perhaps

Dale Evans's horse

Bar label on type of dairy product

Turnaround pass play, or two phone parts

Football play

Inflammable material (wordplay)

Light fabric (wordplay)

It's often lit in near-darkness

Duck perched on a sail?

Duck perched on a sail (wordplay)

North American diving duck

Gridiron position

Ace performer.

Humdinger

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

Bird on Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs

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)

Speechless with amazement

Amazed as mum refused to work

Astounded by stupid son on lorry

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) a chair with a fiddle-shaped back

English word

English word

People of good breeding

Young lamb bit bird

Large sandpiper with a slightly upturned bill

Foundation or preparation

Preparation requiring land and labour

Preliminary effort

Condition of stultifying conformity

Juniper.

24 across with two showy strips

Small butterfly

Small butterfly.

Rapper M.C.'s tress (wordplay)

... wrestling move (wordplay)

Bit of arm-twisting (wordplay)

Sorrow thus seen in hater (wordplay)

Try the northern-style holiday - agony!

Anguish after a romantic split

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

One on an Israeli cooperative

A member of a kolkhoz.

Komondor

Young of the quahog.

Kind of clam

Young quahog

Strong feller (wordplay)

Paul Bunyan's payment (wordplay)

Feller left Brown with nothing!

Beethoven's Ninth, for example

Pinnacle of fine art

Artist's crowning achievement

Red-headed striker (wordplay)

How to light up a game with criticism

Agree to fix being very thin

Karma - we twerk with old bird!

State bird of Wyoming

Montana's state bird is one

English word

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.

""Having, using, or produced with multiple recording tracks: a multitrack tape recorder.""

Embroidery, for example

Topic for the woman's page.

*Embroidery, say

Policeman's weapon

Billy club

Police club jouster's mannerism discussed

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

Monetary unit of Germany.

Foreign monetary unit.

Ready for Hitler to smash riches, note

View along the highway (italicized)

Stare at a Swiss mishap?

Stare at a Swiss mishap (wordplay)

One being counter-productive (wordplay)

Cash register operator

Store employee

Volume of students (wordplay)

Student's text

Teaching aid

Student's chore.

Taking notes, studying, etc

Taking notes, studying, etc.

Ornamental designs

Ornamentation.

Conformist's tee shot (wordplay)

What a stringy leg of mutton!

Knot used to shorten a rope temporarily

Primate needing two seconds (wordplay)

Head gorilla, with distinctive coloring

Adult male gorilla

*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

Awed by leading man's pickup?

Hollywood pickup (wordplay)

Awed by leading man's pickup (wordplay)

Some wall finishes

NETWORK to form a structure like a net

English word

English word

English word

High-performing Wall Street investment

English word

""A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem. Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliable stem.""

*Sinuous mountain road

Up and down (rail) ride

Return to the original winding track

English word

Nail to hold cloth stretched on a frame.

Fastener to stretch cloth

Nail used for fastening cloth

Work made of timbers.

Oval stud on furniture

Sweater for reptiles (wordplay)

Type of jumper (between crew- and polo-)

Sweater for the cold-blooded (wordplay)

""SLICK to tidy up, polish""

TRICK to {deceive=v}

Articles of woven twigs

Basketry

Basket

A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle.

Soviet Communist Party bureaucrat

Bureaucrat, Russian style

Member of a Communist bureaucracy

A training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them.

""The movable piece which closes the breech of a breechloading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.""

Pride of the kitchen, perhaps

Kitchen feature

Mustard go-with in the kitchen, maybe

Portable light holder

Jack Be Nimble obstacle

Jam-packed timer filled with wine notes

Crammed to capacity

Filled to capacity

High-tech whiz

Woodworking maneuver

Woodworking technique

Chamfered at the top; said of a hole.

Wonderful (person or thing)

Excellent (person or thing)

Very skillful Colloq.

See title (wordplay)

... for a herpetologist (wordplay)

Type of terrapin

Straight talk

Equivocal language - dupes a bloke (anagram)

Evasive language

Belief in incompatible ideas (Orwell)

Acceptance of opposite opinions (Orwell)

Relative of "disinformation"

Of or relating to the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces in a unified theory.

""The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.""

English word

Tasks done by rep (wordplay)

Komondor

English word

Criss-crossed arrangement

Grid construction

Trellis makeup

Endangered large sea turtle

Largest living turtle

Third-year Marine

Gyrene (3rd)

Veteran Marine, in slang

Word with prefix out-

""A portion of a musical composition that permits a performer to make a display of technique, especially in the rapid execution of scales and arpeggios, and that has little thematic or structural importance to the whole: The concerto contained brilliant passagework for the soloist.""

Decorative interior mouldings

Montana, for one

Signalman of sorts

Montana for one

One suit, perhaps, is to be saluted

One suit for all the ship's officers

Ship part, reserved for officers

Diplomacy minus ideology

Practical approach to diplomacy

Practical governmental principle

The 'ball' in badminton

Weaverbird (wordplay)

Object struck in badminton

""In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.""

The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena). Nuphar advena).

Longing to take part (wordplay)

Obsessed with the theater

Longing to act when lorry hounds coaches

TV presenter Fred Dibnah's day job

Tall chimney repairer

Worker on tall chimneys etc

Fish taking seconds to amuse, returned

Small spiny fish

Loot's bound to excite British swimmer

English word

Latticework.

""A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.""

Vane shaped like a bird

Kind of vane

Fickle one: sl.

KICKBACK a strong reaction

Restraint on a restraint

See electroconvulsive therapy .

Stuffed say, in order to eat old tripe

Rhubarb wolfed down? I approve!

Bolted, say, ordinary passable rubbish

High-level argot

Vapid verbiage

Meaningless language

Indian tobacco mixture

Help for the lame, perhaps

Prop for a promenade

Insect that's well-camouflaged on a tree

Reverse the charge (wordplay)

Riposte to an offensive

How the customers strike back

Humorist's investment (wordplay)

Hilarious cattle (wordplay)

Humorist's investment?

Rants in front of HGV, amazed

Very surprised, shocked

Completely taken aback