2-Letter Words Ending in N

""A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; called also pyroxyle. pyroxyle.""

A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.

Late '50s Liverpool group, with "The"

Old Beatles number written after Queen proposal to drop intro

""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.

Obstreperous feline (wordplay)

A wildcat rising (wordplay)

What a revolting, beastly king!

Revision (of a text)

Social function of The House (wordplay)

Greeting one after 26 (wordplay)

Welcome to the party!

Collapse of holiday - no one turned up!

Slack time for trade

Obama's challenge

A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.

The act of recurring; return.

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.

About the manner to design for the better

Make over

Meal or snack

Rice often cooked for a meal

Thought to take out large meal

REFLATE to inflate again

See Reflection. Reflection.

""FRESHEN to improve the condition of, also FRESH""

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.""

Cancellation (of a debt)

Pardon granted for sins or crimes

Miser moves to holy city for forgiveness

Lick again, for example

What a tearing performance!

Interpretation (of for example song)

Perhaps the tearing of a performance

He gets a lot of parts

Fix-it guy

Oft-idle Maytag employee

Fixer-uppers (wordplay)

Misters fix-it

Fixers concerning two chaps

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

Feeling of disgust

Feeling of intense distaste or disgust

Driving off US peril with no resolution

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

Getting back to about this account of it

One river's turbulent ebb

You get a return about this account

Louvre's in mess with horror

Sudden and unpleasant violent reaction

Disgust

In a new draft

Not in its original form, as an article

Amended religious lesson, dry in newer version

Retina pigment

Photosensitive pigment in the retina also called visual purple

""A synthetic antiviral ribonucleoside, C 8 H 12 N 4 O 5 , that inhibits the replication of DNA and RNA, used to treat respiratory syncytial virus.""

When perhaps to be uncouth

(Of wood or stone) not smoothly cut

Clue for when without refinement

Does he deliver the circulars (wordplay)

One who delivers goods

Daily deliverer of milk, papers, etc

Certain inspectors

Are you one people? That'll spoil it all

Complete destruction or collapse

One race after sport's collapse

Sweet stuff made in a lab

It's cold tea at home with sweetener

With tea-bag first put in sweetener

A racist's upset new sexton

Church officer

Church official

Football A safety.

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

A Japanese corporate businessman.

SALARY to be paid periodically for non-manual labour

Ballerina's forte

Dancing movement

That's bound to increase 12 across, it seems

English word

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'

Pl. sannyasis or sannyasins Hinduism A wandering mendicant and ascetic.

A white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of saponin.

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.

See Epidermis. Epidermis.

SCHLIERE a small streak in an igneous rock

Schnecke

Medieval university teacher

Church looms over an Abelard

Educator in the Middle Ages

SCHOOLE a {sandbank=n}

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

English word

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

Anti-Union choice

Withdrawal of Nessie - Scotch half drunk

The leaving of a federation

One alone is in it

Cousin Les disturbed privacy

What Thoreau lived in at Walden Pond

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

One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix. Illustration in Appendix.

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

Perhaps punctually the half of two dots

Mark of a long sentence, perhaps

Wink without batting an eye (wordplay)

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

Ship's crew's rehearsal

Cold drink taken - and so to bed

Hawked son about in kind of extortion

English word

""SHANTY a small, crudely built dwelling""

Variant of sherif .

Fish's relative (wordplay)

Type of suiting.

Shiny suit fabric

Goats and antelopes (wordplay)

College paper (wordplay)

Ram's relatives (wordplay)

English breed of cattle.

Deity enters tonsured cow

Durham cattle breed

Sightsee

Main slang (anagram)

Military communications expert

Conspicuous chap, possibly a flasher

Communicators are remarkable people

Railroad employees

Semaphore pros

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

Rattler's relatives (wordplay)

Small-scale stuff

Expensive leather from reptiles

SOLVATE to convert into a type of ion

Drawing by lots

It's set on the far right

Minestrone eater's utensil

Use this to consume consomme or chowder

Old gold coin

Monarch - old coin

Historical mystery novel by C.J. Sansom

Genus to which the tuatara, a New Zealand lizard-like reptile belongs

Another name for the jackstraw in the game of jackstraws

That's Tablet Number One, in a skin. Get it out without disturbance

Jackstraw

""A pouch, as for tobacco.""

""One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.""

SPOILS spoil

Wheelwright's representative (wordplay)

Official voice of the cyclist (wordplay)

Representative at press conference

Representatives of groups.

Some spin doctors

Party leaders.

""Any of numerous parasitic protozoans of the class Sporozoa, most of which reproduce sexually and asexually in alternate generations by means of spores. They are frequently transmitted by bloodsucking insects to different hosts, where they cause many serious diseases, such as malaria and coccidiosis.""

A parasitic one-celled animal

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

Junior minister abused working party

Bacon used rashly by minister

Expectant father in boat with daughter beside broken canoe

The act of taking or carrying away; removal.

Small particle of chromium oxide in rising cloud

REGION an area or district; a tract of country

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

""Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop. as, a suffragan bishop.""

""The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.""

Attorney's last words

Concluding remarks

Adding process

Lotion used by star on television

Protection at the beach

Liberal censures new protection

Superlie

English word

Little doubt (wordplay)

Little reason for doubt

Dash off with cousins to collect gumshoe

Thick cotton fabric with a heavy nap

Soft feathers from noble white bird

Fabric used in baby clothes

Railway employee working on and off

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

Cyrano de Bergerac, for one

Athos, for one

For the fence one ends like Crosaire

The Three Musketeers

They might be fencing, in a manner of speaking, at last

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

The nucleus of a fertilized egg

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

Not recognised

Centaur in trouble? That's doubtful!

Nicer aunt sadly in a dither (wordplay)

Not at all sure or decided

Indifference over a continental business

New York body's worry is apathy

Indifference shown for one French enterprise

One has not been lying over this

Having been lying low

Sounds as if it's been lying below the little path

Bounce dampener, in tennis

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.

""-swells , -swelling , -swelled , -swelled , -swollen Rare to swell up or cause to swell up""

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

Jury-panel member

They have box seats

Jury candidates

Jury candidates.

Minor evil, perhaps, of Lucas's box

Prefix meaning ?worm (wordplay)

Vivid red (with an orange tinge?)

""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

""Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals.""

One with ostentatious bad taste

Philistine versus empty-headed European

An inelegant upstart.

Steps towards a cure, perhaps

Long-distance fundraising event

Fundraiser with many steps

Permanently-installed bathroom sink

Laundry accessory.

Shallow sink