2-Letter Words Starting with A

Lane with curves (wordplay)

French friar (wordplay)

Cleric (in France)

Sal's last name (wordplay)

Bill attachment (wordplay)

Competent as, say, sailor

Phantom thread, part 3

What the club gets without playing

Humble sailor sea-sick (wordplay)

Knock down a peg

Lower one's self.

Decrease in strength

Reduce, as taxes

Lessen, as a storm

Can the tree be in the beer (wordplay)

Might the tree be in the beer (wordplay)

Poplar popular in puzzles

Might aid be needed to endure (wordplay)

Put up with a bass (fish)

Bear to live in the past (wordplay)

Palace, for one.

Apartment, for one

Humble dwelling (wordplay)

In the preceding paragraph perhaps

Over your head (wordplay)

In the preceding paragraph, perhaps

Verbally attack an opponent (wordplay)

It's offensive

Subject to verbal assault and insults

Casa material, perhaps

Material found in an ABODE (wordplay)

Feat of clay (wordplay)

Walk in the park, say

Walk in the park say

Wander aimlessly without a bit of rush!

Draw away, as a limb

Draw away, as from the body

Renounce or repudiate

Give up one's rights

(Solemnly) give up

Remove by melting, say

Remove by evaporation

Aircraft able to land on ice

All fired up (wordplay)

Fired up (wordplay)

Fiery, sailor? Take it easy (wordplay)

They say it's a plait to wear down

Use sandpaper on, say

Wear away (by friction)

Listeria bacterium, for one

Member of upper class

Entity needing oxygen

A mineral

Nourishing, old style

Edible, old-style

Nourishing

Winding pathway, of yore

One-celled creatures (var.)

Real low life (wordplay)

Single-celled critters (Var.)

Not too rocky, say

Good to grow (wordplay)

Can nearly work this land (wordplay)

Strawberry tree, in poesy

Tree with scarlet berry: Poet

Trailing plant with pink or white blossoms: Poet.

Music? Oh dreadful sounds!

Morning love poem

Piece of music appropriate to the dawn

Gastropod for solo sailor (wordplay)

Edible mollusc - on a bale (anagram)

Sailor has sole as seafood

""Away from the axis, also ABAXIAL""

Abolla

Shorten (a text)

Make shorter, book say

Adapt for audio format, perhaps

Separate by cutting off

Loose scabs, ie, fall off

Separate, as a flower from a plant

Want (of something)

Cause of more fondness (wordplay)

Seen cab (anagram)

Clear (of blame)

Sailor's love sick? Pardon!

Lob vase (anagram)

Full of enthusiasm

Like sparkling wine

Effervescing

Profanity-laced, say

Rude writer's under a vehicle!

Harshly insulting, as language

Appropriate for the stage

Suitable for the stage

Fit for the stage

Ready for summing.

Designed to be appended

Available for summing up

Possible to sum up.

Easy to talk to? A fine story!

Quite a ffriendly mmyth (wordplay)

Very loud seaman in the drink? Gracious!

Dice throw called snake eyes

The lowest possible throw at dice

Lowest throw at dice; bad luck.

May I have cordial (wordplay)

Can I be so nice as this (wordplay)

Can I be friendly (wordplay)

Examples of the simple life (wordplay)

Low life (wordplay)

Shape shifters (wordplay)

Adopt Middle Eastern customs, perhaps

Credit work, say, to a writer

Attribute (something to a cause)

Give credit (to)

Inn serves vegetable one Pole discarded

Vegetable not favoured in foreign inn

Inn in France

Bail due (anagram)

Bail due to be fixed in hearing

Quarterback's call

A unit of electric current

Subject to reduction

Subject to remedying, as a nuisance

Stoppable

Renounce (a throne)

Abandon royal dignity

Quit, a la Edward

State of limbo

State of temporary cessation

State of suspension

Act of enduring without yielding

Patient waiting

Conformity

The table, via the case

The case of a table about four

Case for Caesar

A papal envoy

Renounce (something of value)

Renounce (something desirable)

Give up, as rights

Are a little fruitless in a boat I have

Steal show outside, returning fruitless

Coming to no result

Vie with Arabs? Could be rough!

Emery paper or steel wool, say

Rubbing the wrong way (wordplay)

Formally cancel (an agreement)

Annul - to a barge (anagram)

Cancel or repeal, say a law

A busy worker sent in for one away

Missing voter (wordplay)

Truant, for one.

Sailors in the drink (wordplay)

Bits of kebabs in their drink (wordplay)

Strong liquour in the basin (wordplay)

Positive kind of zero? On the contrary!

Complete and unrestricted, say power

Free from limits, power perhaps

To cleanse by wiping

Hard to understand, perhaps profound

Hard to understand, recondite

Difficult to comprehend

Able to be abused

Put out account with wrong rebate

Create novel about graduate in distress

Make bitter

Eliciting an "aww," maybe

Cute and cuddly (wordplay)

Eliciting an 'aww,' maybe

Maintaining a normal body temperature

Not feverish

Capable of being flustered.

Willing to revolt

Winging it (wordplay)

Gone with the wind (wordplay)

Like parachutists, at times

Large tuna; able orca (anagram)

A fish that gets canned (wordplay)

Al Gore has cab back up for good swimmer

""A large tuna fish, also ALBACORE""

A water-soluble protein

Capable of being allied

Jobs once in California

Atmosphere, as at a restaurant

Theme restaurant's offering

Atmosphere (of a place)

Aura (of a place)

Environment or surroundings

Walk (technical)

Mum's back, but cut short overdue walk

Go for a stroll, but with a meal out

Is he A.1. during the flight (wordplay)

Fit for praising, as a sermon (wordplay)

Willing to answer questions

Do I give current service? How nice!

How pleasant to be in current use!

Can I be of current use (wordplay)

Easily entertained

Septic tank worker (wordplay)

Bacterium that doesn't need oxygen

Organism growing without free oxygen

""To form many branches, also ARBORISE""

A dwarf tree

Ace grub with ale? Could be contentious!

Open to question

Up for debate

Construct some brass emblems (wordplay)

What they have to do for a 13 across

Labs seem uncomplicated to construct

Forgivable, like venial sins

Like venal sins

Expiable

Albert Cook holds me back swaying

Shaking like a leaf

Shaking a thrice about a thousand

Worthy of confession

Capable of being renounced

Departure from the norm

Welsh mouth to Breton river? There's freakishness for you!

Lincoln rector originally managed church going in the wrong direction

Hate to be a man, I suspect

Tottering in boat, Mae can't stand

Regard with disgust

Earliest inhabitant of, say, Australia

Native of Australia

Inhabitant of country before colonists

Capable of being abraded (worn away by friction)

Some Cartesian coordinates

Non-ordinate coordinates

'x' co-ordinates make BASIC essay wrong, not 'y'

A bread roll twist perhaps is plenty

Plenty, but it isn't a cake-walk!

Lots of baking at the ball (wordplay)

""ACCRUE to accumulate, also ACCREW""

One who hates heights

Of flexible nature.

American with bald pate oddly plastic

Good at fitting in to new circumstances

Deserving respect and approval

Excellent as Barrie's butler

Deserving of esteem

Adjective meaning resembling

Able to be taken up

Fit for taking home from the animal shelter

Commercial work on board is such as may be undertaken

Substance taken up in a lab

A type of tree covered in fruit? It's only on the surface

Foreshadow a silent tear, perhaps

Indicate a silent speed (wordplay)

Outline from an unintelligent judge

To be recommended

Worthy of recommendation

Expedient to be recommended

The use of atmospheric drag rather than onboard thrusters to reduce the velocity of a satellite or spacecraft.

AFFIX to {attach=v}

Nice to be able to say yes

Gee, that makes it 13 down and arable!

In harmony; pleasant

""Capable of being transported and deployed, usually by helicopter, to a combat zone or from one site to another within a theater of operations: an airmobile infantry regiment.""

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

Its antonym is in the Declaration

No citizen can transfer what he owns

Capable of being transferred.

Like some funds

Not improper.

Not banned

Aboveboard

Unlike the past

Subject to modification

Subject to change

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph

Road mender (wordplay)

Transport patiently awaited (wordplay)

What drives you to get better (wordplay)

Lie in wait for (someone)

Breaking: Cuba's made surprise attack

Concealed military force.

Variant of amoebocyte .

Like our Constitution

May be corrected

Not set in stone, as a constitution

Hornblende

Fibula-foot connector

It's between the shin and the foot

Fibula neighbor

Sanction

Sanction.

Ballet position - sea barque (anagram)

A square be a ballet movement (wordplay)

Intertwined ornamental design

ARABIC derived from gum arabic

A sugar used as a culture medium in bacteriology

A sugar used as a culture medium for certain bacteria

Trading that exploits cost differences

Market dealer's activity

Simultaneous purchase and sale of assets

Be a middle man (wordplay)

Be a referee

Use a certain route in a dispute

ASCORBATE

Like some obligations

Like some mortgages

A sort able to produce old instrument

Sextant's predecessor

Predecessor of the sextant.

... for a eulogist (wordplay)

Ascribe (to a cause)

Virtue by payment

Purple and gold mixture of beer and gin

Deep purple colour

Fruit popular in French inn

AUDIT to examine accounts

Hides face say and able to be at hand

"At liberty," as in "Variety"

On offer in the transfer market

Unlike death and taxes (wordplay)

A useless fit can be prevented

Like careless mistakes

Conferrable

Make an acronym of, perhaps

Shorten (a word)

Bribe a vet with a new contract

Revulsion to constituents of Anchor beer

There's nothing at all like it

Here carbon emission produces disgust

Offensive description of a snowman

Like a snowman.

Causing moral revulsion

ABSOLUTE self-existent

ABSOLUTE self-existent

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance See transmittance ACIDOMETER (Chemistry) a type of hydrometer for measuring the relative density of an acid solution, esp the acid in a battery Also called acidimeter ACTINOZOAN & adj (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another word for anthozoan AEROSPHERE (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Archaic the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth""

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

Not bad welcome (wordplay)

Good enough but not great

Of (marginally) satisfactory quality

Having a ramp, say

Open to be got at

Easy to talk to; approachable

Able to be accomplished

If you get it, it must be so

'It can be done - somehow I have' (Cable)

Capable of being acquired.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

Like certain evidence

Like some evidence

(As evidence in court) valid

ADSORB to gather on the surface in a condensed layer

AFFECT to act upon

A story about company that may be ratified

Warm around volcanic rim, so may be asserted

Model T, to Henry (wordplay)

Within one's ability to pay

Not too dear a passage in a story

One afraid of open spaces

One who suffers a fear of crossing open spaces

I hate going out since chat with lout who's on benefits

AMERCE to fine or punish

""A cell, such as a leukocyte, having amoeboid form or motion.""

That may be analyzed.

Having to report (to)

Article rebel was wrong to blame

Accountable.

""Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable. as, the cause is appealable.""

Open to placation

Fit old man's back caught in elastic

Relevant, appropriate

Relevant program on TV about Blair regularly skipped

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

A ben scaled could be construed as this

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

Attributable (to)

Cruise in a fur, open to attack

Open to attack

Given as seaworthy - but not secure against pirates

Collection (of things or people)

Rally about silver collection

French for "blending"

Can take stock of pack animals with dark fur

Transferable

Capable of being fastened

Like Mr. Potato Head parts

Like some goals

Not so far as a star.

Within reach

Jaguar, for one

Road-test need

Welcome graduation gift.

Capable of being abolished.

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

Like a good math teacher (wordplay)

Obliged (to answer?)

Required to justify oneself

ADDRESS to speak to

Faintly representing; typical.

One who hates or fears cats.

White.

Capable of being allocated.

Work on library cards

*Put in order, as files

Mixed feelings (E, not Y)

That love-hate feeling.

Girl in a mood shows uncertainty

""A white or greenish mineral, (Li,Na)Al(PO 4 )(F,OH), that is an important source of lithium.""

""Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.""

A metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase.

Worthy of being applauded.

Large enough to be noticed

Enough to be taken into account

Paper round gets Puck into Telegraph? That's significant

English word

Of or pertaining to arbitration; relating to or having the authority to arbitrate.

""That can be articulated: vague, barely articulable thoughts.""

""That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.""

""Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked.""

Like some nouns

AUTOMATA {robots=n}

ABSTRACT to draw away

ACCREDIT to accept as true

Capable of being agglutinated.

Easy to meet or deal with

Easy to talk with

Easy to talk to