2-Letter Words Starting with A

Fisherman's creed?

Fisherman's creed (wordplay)

Peculiarly English word

Convert Giovanni into John, for example

Make English, in form

Make Jorge George, for example

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

Of belief in spirits, demons, etc.

Believing that the universe has a soul

Believing that objects have souls

Anatomy The consolidation of bones or their parts to form a single unit.

All told, in a manner of speaking

Let all, no, by the sound of it

Declared publicly

Newsreader can run one broadcast

Person with a booming voice, often

Radio/TV introducer

Declares that girl's put on weight

Declares girl's put on some weight

Makes known

Can anyone shift pest (wordplay)

Bug party for Oriental pest

Pebble in one's shoe, e.g

Lacking appetite

Anoretic

Anorexic

Antalgic

Deep frozen (wordplay)

In pole position (wordplay)

Where to pick up a penguin (wordplay)

Went first in order to enact deed

Goes before in time

Does not follow

Serves as prologue to

Part of church; anchorite (anagram)

Part of a church

Area in church; icon heart anag.

Any of various water-soluble pigments that impart to flowers and other plant parts colors ranging from violet and blue to most shades of red.

Anthrax

Human error in pact with rhino

Like much prejudice called out by One People's Project

One jerk and partner, in a zany fashion

Antic

Grotesque streak in fold of rock

Arch of stratified rock.

Lark calling beneath arched fold of rock

CLING to adhere to

CODON a triplet of basic DNA components

CRACK to {fracture=v}

Against lawbreaking

Like some immunological agents

Triggering, in immunology

I can get in trouble for being stimulating

Fuel additive in tank, I conk out

Like some gasolines

High-octane

MACHO one who exhibits machismo

""One of several antibiotic substances produced by several species of Streptomyces, active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A1 (C28H40N2O9) and antimycin A3 (C26H36N2O9). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi.Streptomyces, active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A1 (C28H40N2O9) and antimycin A3 (C26H36N2O9). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi.""

In opposition to one another

Antipyic

SHOCK to outrage feelings

STICK to support with slender pieces of wood

Like a venom neutralizer

Counteracting poison.

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

""ULCER to affect with a type of lesion, also ULCERATE""

ANTONYM a word opposite in meaning to another

A wretched cold

Having an "I don't care" attitude

In a way, call up without any interest

Radio epic broadcast irregularly

Not regular

Irregular

Resembling aphanite; having a very finegrained structure.

Aphasiac

APICULATE

""Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; said of a lens.""

Writings of dubious authorship

Secret things books left out

Writings not considered genuine

Same as Apodeictic. Apodeictic.

APOMICT an organism produced by reproduction

Pauline perhaps relating to preachers

Relating to the Pope

Unholy topic also concerning Pope

Apothece

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

A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

Strong desire

How upsetting for Grany Smith!

One not to upset (wordplay)

Place trap to upset this!

Money earned by singer Fiona (wordplay)

Brandy distilled from hard cider

Distilled cider, a type of brandy

Washing machine or toaster, say

Machine (for use in the home)

Gift for a housewife.

I go for it!

Job-seeking insect?

Job-seeking insect (wordplay)

Lakeside attractions

Pool exhibitions

Water carriers

Acts due for renewal to cover question of water transporters

Conduits

ARABIC derived from gum arabic

Spiders and ticks

Spiders, for example

Web users

Of spiders and such

Daddy longlegs, e.g

Daddy longlegs, for example

* Song about goldfish (nearly)

Monkey puzzle tree (or Chile pine)

Evergreen song about golden vehicle

Arbuscle

A circular unit's housing 100 idyllic peasants

Arcading

Arcature

Inverse trig function

Archaise

Archaise

Obsolete words

Archaist

Archaize

Archaize

Nag Rachel (anagram)

Might a R alter L in Heaven (wordplay)

Chilled port for Michael (wordplay)

Befitting a prince.

Sovereign prince's domain

River out of churchyard meandering into Austria, perhaps

Franz Ferdinand, et al.

Some of the Habsburgs

Cheery man can be greatest foe

Cheery man may be chief opponent

Number 1 on a hate list

Bow-and-arrow sets

Bowmen's equipment sets

Standard - cheap tyre (anagram)

Teachers' pay rotten? Not seen as ideal!

Jaguar follows supreme original model

Villain, like Lex Luthor (2 words)

Prince of Darkness

Mephisto himself.

Wren, for one

I. M. Pei, for one

Building designer from the Arctic

Archive

One looking after records

Keeper of public records

One holding many records

""The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.""

""A reptile of the subclass Archosauria, which includes the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and the modern crocodilians.""

In the form of a bow.

Ardency

English word

Armagnac

Places for theorizers (wordplay)

Favorite resting places.

Places to take a load off

Signature moment (wordplay)

I cite arms deal before truce occurs

It's a crime breaking ceasefire

Armonica

Sweet-smelling things

Fragrant plants

Spices

A grocer with an outrageous conceit

Too much pride in exotic orange car

An "offspring of riches," to Twain

Clean air's unlikely to be poisonous

Like some poisoning

In charge in club, liable to prove poisonous

Relics, to Brits

Best cafe trattoria boxing up handmade products

With inflamed joints

Suffering from stiff joints

In need of joint relief

After 'Jerusalem' maybe choir take break

Plant with a heart (wordplay)

Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps

Article

Pertaining to the joints

Pertaining to joints

Relating to a joint

Ruins things (wordplay)

Objects made by humans

Products of primitive man.

Mechanic in the armed forces

A terrific oily mechanic

A terrific construction worker

Clever tricks

The tricks of painting, if they're so cold

Strategems

Aruspex

Ascaris

Get-upping (wordplay)

Rising man penetrating a series of clues

Where the Star was in

Tending upward (var.)

Get up over the ant on the up and up

Rising; predominant

More than half of adulthood (wordplay)

Mountain climbers, for example

Ones on the way up

Is counsel at last up to it (wordplay)

Up with a dying counsel!

Is counsel finishing up (wordplay)

The Easter Rising (wordplay)

Canonises, being on the way up

Island of St. Helena.

""Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.""

Establish (the facts)

'Find out to assure me, perhaps (9)'

Find assure out (wordplay)

Like the lifestyle of many a monk

Rigorously abstinent

Austere.

Ascidian

""A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.""

Ascocarp

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

ASCORBATE

One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.] Illust. of Ascus.]

Attributing (to) - giving credit (to)

Crediting (to)

Putting it down to one as it's in writing

ASPECT to look at

""Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous.""

Hang out (with)

Not yet a principal

Rub shoulders of teammate

Resemblance of sound (in nearby words)

Can season (anagram)

Resemblance of sound

Confidence (in abilities)

Uses car with an awful confidence

Freedom from doubt.

Asthenic

Of a respiratory disease

German cathedral city

That's enough to make short of 27 down

Astrict

Star-shaped glial cell

Of a sentence in which conjunctions are omitted

Atamasco

Of or relating to a drug or other agent that has a tranquilizing effect.

Ataraxic

Resembling remote ancestors

Reverting to something ancient

Involving reversion to an earlier type

Rejecting higher authority (wordplay)

Eschewing a higher calling (wordplay)

Not believing the man is in Greek mode

Sports - cheat list (anagram)

His cattle wandering off track, perhaps

Lithe acts (anagram)

English word

Less than molecular

Composed of simple elements

A cat is twitching, completely broken down (wordplay)

Our coat is incredibly appalling

Terrible actor in trouble with debts

Very bad tragic actor promises to pay

Attacher

Fixing a non-drinker's craving

(M/W)elding

A teetotaller in pain, and stuck with it

Offensive ones (wordplay)

People in a rush

They're 1 across, not 8 down

Fighting animal volunteers upset leader

At the cat back there His Majesty is offensive

It's so offensive to get at this in a zigzag way

Offense player in lacrosse

Lacrosse player on the offensive side of the field

ATTACK to {assault=v}

Atticism

Atticist

Employed a magnet (wordplay)

Engaged the attention

Exerted a gravitational pull

Magnet or pheromone

Drawing card, essentially

Magnet, vis-a-vis iron

Had lots to sell (wordplay)

Had a lot to offer (wordplay)

Like a lot, perhaps

Our Altaic version of the author

Of, by or typical of an author

Pertaining to a writer

Rash or insolent

Daring USA duo involved with CIA

Bold and daring

Play groups (wordplay)

House sitters (wordplay)

Interviews those in the theatre

Pl. auriculas or auriculae (-l ) A central European primrose (Primula auricula) having large yellow flowers grouped in umbels. Also called bear's ear .

Cur Laura and I stupidly told privately

French composer's universal god of the ear

Auricula

Wild oxen extinct since 1627

Autacoid

AUTARCH an absolute ruler

Autecism

Real thin with a cute bust!

Genuine, not a copy

Real thin with a cute bust

Autistic

They're often escorted by police

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

Autocoid

Absolute government by one person

Dictatorship, e.g

One-man rule.

They reign without rein

Rulers with unlimited power

They're absolutely at the top.

Tossed out this sort of clue about sport

Motor racing over rough terrain

Slalom race on parking lot course

Having all stages of a life cycle occurring on the same host.

Golden garment on back of film needs training to relieve stress

""Of, pertaining to, or causing autolysis.""

Will it shoot itself (wordplay)

Occurring as a matter of course

Type of gun or car

Like a nervous system

Occurring involuntarily

Acting independently.

Of or pertaining to autotelism.

It's down-white dangerous (wordplay)

A descent that's very flaky (wordplay)

Alpine snowdrop (wordplay)

Not having blood vessels

Avocado

That's the job - or maybe a calling

Hobby; avian coot (anagram)

A life's work leads to hobby

The shunning (of something)

Dodger's goal

Dodger's aim

Avoucher

Keeping out of hospital, stifling cry of pain, giving assurance

Friendly, as an older relative, say

Friendly, like some relatives

Friendly in a non-threatening way

Wondering at a vehicle we collided with

Lost for words as we crashed lorry

Ace you and I hit is impressed

Taken for granted

Pertaining to self-evident truths

Of universally received principles

Brazilian plant that has winged fruits

Tea in some Amazonian rituals

Psychotropic drug said to induce spiritual experiences

Not caused by bacteria.

Abandoning royal dignity

Relinquishing power

Giving up

Acid in boat (anagram)

Edward VIII's action of 1936

Regal resignation

Throne relinquishers

Abducens

Ufologist's subjects

An A of A&E

Snatchings

ABDUCTOR a person who abducts

Aberrance

Abeyancy

Revulsion to constituents of Anchor beer

There's nothing at all like it

Here carbon emission produces disgust

Abjection

Wretched quality

Abreact