2-Letter Words Starting with A

One with heart, perhaps (wordplay)

One in Vegas, maybe (wordplay)

Big heart, say (wordplay)

Beg for an ice pack (wordplay)

Result of overtraining, maybe

Pay for a workout (wordplay)

Top bill? I object!

Place if you've peaked (wordplay)

It's all downhill from here (wordplay)

Tough spots (wordplay)

Embarrassing spots (wordplay)

Red in the face (wordplay)

Maybe it's all a plot (wordplay)

Plot for one in pain (wordplay)

Land purchase, perhaps

National fruit of Jamaica

West African fruit

Tropical fruit related to the lychee

Not quite right (wordplay)

Eighty-five degrees, say

Not right (wordplay)

Worn under the alb

Priest's vestment

Priest's neckcloth

A quiet one, but fast!

Speedily, to the Bard

Quickly becomes a leading polo expert

Draw away, as a limb

Draw away, as from the body

Say yes (to)

Agree (to request)

Sign up for...? Give in!

It's re, perhaps, this for your support

Build up a set of workers, say

Grow or accumulate, say interest

Point a finger at, say

Charge (of crime)

Take a turn in Clue, maybe

Small, dry fruit

Fruit of the buttercup.

One-seeded fruit

Isolated mathematical point

Geometrical point of curve.

Not extinct (of volcano)

Act 4, fifth scene? It's all the go!

On the move

Having a sharp point

Sharp at the end.

Having a sharp point

Cue dad (anagram)

The way to make less of red (wordplay)

Cite (as evidence)

Suggestion (invited or otherwise)

One dead in place of tips (wordplay)

Publicity wrong for counsel

The mayor of a Spanish town

Recess (in room)

Breakfast place (wordplay)

Dinette set's spot, perhaps

Headdress like a cowl.

Cold in a lake? Fine!

Punish by a fine.

Set an arbitrary punishment

Elbow: Anat

Thin medieval dagger.

Article fifty-one specifies the weapon

Medieval dagger.

Cochise, for one

Geronimo, for one

Geronimo, for one.

For one item

A bishop perhaps for every one

A bit for everyone (wordplay)

Game sanctuary (wordplay)

Teen hangout in the mall, perhaps

Quartermaster's hangout (wordplay)

An acre (anagram)

Like federal tax laws (wordplay)

Mysterious - an acre (anagram)

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)

Brown world (wordplay)

Ace held made trick in Oxford, say

Halls of learning

Like mites and ticks

Apathy, despair

I'm on my way out after a small amount of torpor

A small amount one takes to end it all in a depressed state

Care etc. (anagram)

Unite a number on the island

Form by coalescence

Having needlelike leaves.

Shaped like a needle.

Needle-shaped.

Shaped like a pine needle.

One woman sharp as a needle

Fabulous flower, but spiky

Art film (wordplay)

Salt expert, the sugar daddy (wordplay)

Cellulose, for one

Super Glue dissolver

One with bent note's solvent

Solvent found in tea, once

One to initially smell execrable is sour

Vinegarish

Vinegary.

Have ice (anagram)

Reach (a goal)

Attain a sales goal

""A yellowish red dye, also ANATTA, ANATTO, ANNATTA, ANNATTO, ROUCOU""

Having seeds, as grapes.

Containing berries

Lace toy (anagram)

Church candle lighter

Priest's attendant

Was it once a poison (wordplay)

A trick - Italian drug is poison!

Poison - it's found in an ice cream!

Get Bill some paper

Get airman to join vocal ensemble

Take possession of

Area (of land)

Extent of a lot

Developer's asset

Appropriate for the stage

Suitable for the stage

Fit for the stage

Move to action

Cause to operate

Set in motion

To introduce acyl into

Very absorbed in waltz, say? Go on!

Five in a ball? Go on!

A ball about five? Go on!

A notice

Jailer, in Southwest

Commander of a Spanish fortress.

Spanish jailer in C.I.A. deal

Spanish town mayor

Mayor, in Spain

Mayor (Spanish)

""The commander of Spanish fortress, also ALCAIDE""

Dice throw called snake eyes

The lowest possible throw at dice

Lowest throw at dice; bad luck.

Lowest dice throw Var.

Lowest throw at dice.

Lowest throw, at dice.

In English

Deletion of last syllable

Loss of a word's ending

Omission of part of a word

""A Russian unit of length, also ARSHEEN, ARSHIN, ARSHINE""

Put in the library, say

Vicar - he destroyed records!

Vicar - he falsified records!

Inverse trigonometric function

Inverse trig function

An inverse trig function

Curved like a bow.

Curved like a bow

Bow-shaped

Perhaps the journo penned this!

Maybe a bit less topping (wordplay)

Definite one, maybe

Credit work, say, to a writer

Attribute (something to a cause)

Give credit (to)

Perhaps questioning, by the look of it

Sidelong, look say

Sideways (of glance)

Case in court (wordplay)

Tea chat (anagram)

Case for one posted to an embassy

Ear part that sounds like a prophet

External part of the year.

Projecting part of the ear

Omen; epic USA (anagram)

A sign of excitement after 6 (wordplay)

Gold mace perhaps an omen

Agreed, perhaps, that it's meant to mean

Yen for yen, perhaps

Caviare free? That's materialism!

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

Type of jellyfish

Zoological word meaning having no tail

Without a tail

Without a tail.

""Stemless, also ACAULOSE, ACAULOUS""

""Stemless, also ACAULINE, ACAULOUS""

One admitted to a college, for example

A steel tap (wordplay)

Praising mention or award.

A praising mention

Cor! A cute flipping dress!

Equip, Brit-style

Accountant gets bizarre dress

A c-clergyman, right (wordplay)

Hide copper in a decrepit car? Spot on!

Without error, a chapter on clergyman

Put out account with wrong rebate

Create novel about graduate in distress

Make bitter

Heaped

Acicula

Change into steel

Convert into steel.

Manufacture steel.

Crystalline compound

Bill runs before I sup what's found in coaltar

A thin sac at the head of the sperm

A type of resin

Actinia

Einsteinium, for one

Indicate dicey radioactive element

Uranium, neptunium, or plutonium

Put in play

Set off, trip

Cat I, a vet, managed to get going

""To activate, also ACTIVIZE""

Sharply pointed (botany)

Having a sting.

Prickly.

Measure of film sharpness

Unwillingness to yield

Inflexibility

Hooked

Recommend like counsellor (wordplay)

Recommend a solicitor (wordplay)

Urge one to be a barman (wordplay)

Engage a fin with a face

F get engaged in a caf

Betroth with face I fan

""A type of chemical compound, also AGLYCON""

A view of the earth from an aircraft

Room at the top (wordplay)

Shows some speed ? flying through it!

Musical tempo above ground (wordplay)

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""

Pertaining to a family of seabirds

Fish pond treatment

Doing away with seaweed, a nostalgic idea in part (8) 5,3

NATO, for one

Confederation of nations

Everyone in church covering a marriage

Assign or give to, say a duty

Distribute (eg, duties)

Assign (to a purpose)

Pill case (anagram)

Berry whose oil is used in catsup

Jerk chicken ingredient

Jobs once in California

Atmosphere, as at a restaurant

Theme restaurant's offering

Atmosphere (of a place)

Aura (of a place)

Environment or surroundings

Do I give current service? How nice!

How pleasant to be in current use!

Can I be of current use (wordplay)

The lava of a lamprey

""A white mineral, also ANALCITE""

""A white mineral, also ANALCIME""

Ancilla

Neat code (anagram)

Date once (anagram)

Speaker's intro, perhaps

Declare girl's a lightweight (wordplay)

Make known girl wait, say

Do the play-by-play, say

Go ahead of

Come earlier than

Go in advance

Here, there, or everywhere (wordplay)

Apathetic reply to a mover's query

Nowhere in particular

Relating to a product of a gland

A spore-producing organ of fungi

Billy Rose production

Swimming and diving pageant

Billy Rose offering

A dwarf tree

Small covered passage

Series of decorative arches.

""To use idioms, also ARCHAIZE""

""To use idioms, also ARCHAISE""

Franz Ferdinand, for one

Waggish nobleman (wordplay)

Prince Henry follows car, shaking fist

Are you crafty if frozen (wordplay)

If I react strangely it may be a trick!

Crafty trick - if I react (anagram)

Public house (wordplay)

Theater group (wordplay)

Assembly gathered to watch, say, a play

Antique car show event, perhaps

Parade of a sort

Procession of cars

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

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)

""All cnidarians (jellyfishes) collectively, compare ACALEPH, ACALEPHAN, ACALEPHE""

(Medicine / Pharmacology) any drug or formulation for killing acarids

Fit for acceptance.

That's to do with grammar, for a change, and not by chance, by the sound of it

The sound of the mishaps may get to grammar for a change like this

Get used to (Amer.)

Cool indoor conditions (wordplay)

Harden against PAin, etc.

Gradually built up

""ACCRUE to accumulate, also ACCREW""

Solvent used in lacquers

Chemical came with a diet specially formulated

Musty-smelling crystalline solid (chemistry), emaciated (anagram)

Receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

It's a gas!

A collection o' thin ones? Great gas!

Kind of torch

Make slightly sour.

Make slightly sour

That's enough to make you sour - and make you dead in the end

Agree bill and become silent

Accept without protest

Agree or accept without protest

One who hates heights

Make a reality of

""Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.""

Hard to give up

(Of drug) habit-forming

Habit-forming

""Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.""

Observant quality present in fluid dance

You'd be stuck with that

Sticking ability

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

The good in "good riddance"

Modifier of a noun

'Dead' or 'alive'

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

Tending to affect; affecting.

Well, that gets one off

Well, it's got off this

A guard contracts sickness in profusion

""A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

Road to recovery

Need for recovering patients

Support to customer following a purchase

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

To change by alchemy; to transmute.

English word

Like some funds

Per diem, perhaps

Kid's payoff (wordplay)

Share in ball, now dance all topless!

Argue with the girl to try to change her

Dispute heatedly ( 9 )

Argue with Catherine for a change

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 .

City at the head of Cook Inlet

Alaskan Air Force base.

Place for ships to stop

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

Express in English finding flying angels around here in France

Convert Giovanni into John, for example

Make English, in form

Make Jorge George, for example

Can anyone shift pest (wordplay)

Bug party for Oriental pest

Pebble in one's shoe, e.g

Grotesque streak in fold of rock

Arch of stratified rock.

Lark calling beneath arched fold of rock

Against lawbreaking

APICULATE

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

Washing machine or toaster, say

Machine (for use in the home)

Gift for a housewife.

ARABIC derived from gum arabic

Inverse trig function

Standard - cheap tyre (anagram)

Teachers' pay rotten? Not seen as ideal!

Jaguar follows supreme original model

English word

Signature moment (wordplay)

I cite arms deal before truce occurs

It's a crime breaking ceasefire

A grocer with an outrageous conceit

Too much pride in exotic orange car

An "offspring of riches," to Twain

After 'Jerusalem' maybe choir take break

Plant with a heart (wordplay)

Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps

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

ASCORBATE

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

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.

Star-shaped glial cell

English word

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

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

It's down-white dangerous (wordplay)

A descent that's very flaky (wordplay)

Alpine snowdrop (wordplay)

The shunning (of something)

Dodger's goal

Dodger's aim

Revulsion to constituents of Anchor beer

There's nothing at all like it

Here carbon emission produces disgust

""(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""