2-Letter Words Starting with A

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

What to do with an acute etc (wordplay)

Worried about acne? Cut out stress

Emphasise smart goddess with brogue

Not bad welcome (wordplay)

Good enough but not great

Of (marginally) satisfactory quality

Occasion to give a speech

Granting admission to Powell's world

The world of Powell

Having a ramp, say

Open to be got at

Easy to talk to; approachable

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

(In) conformity (with)

Treating cancer a doc gets agreement

Agreement of opinion

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

The case for the prosecution (wordplay)

Prosecution's case (wordplay)

Case which needs objective prosecuting

Able to be accomplished

If you get it, it must be so

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

Stony meteorite

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

ACOELOMATE

Capable of being acquired.

""A readily polymerized amide, C 3 H 5 NO, derived from acrylic acid and used in synthetic fibers and sewage treatment. It is a carcinogen and is present in some foods, especially starches and cereals that are cooked at high temperatures.""

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

Decide (between claims or in games)

Decide officially on a dispute

Hear and decide (a case).

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

""A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.""

AFFECT to act upon

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Additional short sketch.

Loyalty, say, found in Nato maybe

Loyalty, say, within marriage

Loyalty, say, found in union

Art for the masses (wordplay)

Communion table screen

Painting placed prominently in church

AMERCE to fine or punish

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

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.

Microscopic organism

Microscopic creature

Being very small but old-womanish about bad French copper

Mutant canine tuna, say

Declare girl in acute trouble

Announce (arch.)

""A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.""

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

Breeding and care of bees

One might be keeping this, by the sound of it

Bringing up workers in a religious environment

End of the world

The White Horseman exhibited a new one

Prophetic Biblical revelation

Item on a personnel chief's checklist

Item on a personnel director's list

Reason for a face lift

To perceive; to comprehend.

Nonsense, to fruit-lovers (wordplay)

Served with pork? Nonsense!

A likely story!

Fit old man's back caught in elastic

Relevant, appropriate

Relevant program on TV about Blair regularly skipped

Increase (in value)

(Of asset) rise in value

Be fully aware of.

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

Frame for door or window

Beam resting on tops of columns.

Frame Alistair, vacuously taking tab at party

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

A ben scaled could be construed as this

Canes get twisted up at the ball

Coming into prominence

Upper hand

Ascendancy.

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

Attributable (to)

The act of ascribing.

When drunk, can siestas help (wordplay)

One may give this by hand

Help a relative, protected by position

Capable of being fastened

Like Mr. Potato Head parts

Factor in grading, perhaps

Gate - enact Dante (anagram)

Guests at Blair's ball (wordplay)

Easy on the ol' windows to the soul

Pleasing to the eye

In good taste

AURICULAE

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

Rearing and care of birds.

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

ACCESSORISE

Make sure you match

Hawkish marine, left motherless after accident, has another depression

Adapt to a new environment

Get one used to new conditions

Get used to weather

""To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

Do something obliging (wordplay)

Provide lodging for (someone)

Provide shelter for

Like a good math teacher (wordplay)

Obliged (to answer?)

Required to justify oneself

Assimilate a different way of life, perhaps

Socialize

""A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; called also antifebrine. antifebrine.""

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Admit (the truth of something)

Admit the truth of (something)

Recognise current learning

Desiring possessions

Grasping

Covetous

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

Bright orange-red dye

Shiatsu

Complementary medicine using needles

Therapy which needs needles

Method of treatment with needles

Youth has trouble with classes, I'd say

Time of your life (wordplay)

Concede ales drunk in teenage years!

""AFFRICATE 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.""

Curtail urge to work in growing business

The practice of farming

Field for early U. S. settlers

Capable of being allocated.

Mixed feelings (E, not Y)

That love-hate feeling.

Girl in a mood shows uncertainty

The act or state of going before in time; precedence.

""Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.""

Spiral outflow could be neatly conic

A fair-weather system ends with one

High-pressure weather system

SCIENCE knowledge obtained by observation and experiment

SUICIDE to kill oneself intentionally

Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical.

Large enough to be noticed

Enough to be taken into account

Paper round gets Puck into Telegraph? That's significant

""The cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water.""

""Plants hydroponics. ; aquicultural ,""

See choir ceased performing

See core ideas changing about Church

Important church area

""Pl. arthroscopies Examination of the interior of a joint, such as the knee, using a type of endoscope that is inserted into the joint through a small incision.""

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

""Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. as, the associative faculty.""

""The capacity, as of a pheromone, to attract.""

ABSTRACT to draw away

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

ACCREDIT to accept as true

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional.

Chemical expert sits on the deadly liquid

English word

Person one knows slightly

Someone one knows slightly

It was auld to Burns

Current inactivity gets the nod

Tacit approval

Consent

""Any of various filamentous or rod-shaped, often pathogenic microorganisms of the order Actinomycetales that are found in soil and resemble bacteria and fungi.""

Adjudicating.

A naturally occurring chemical formed during the oxidation of epinephrine.

""The medical study and treatment of physiological and psychological disorders associated with atmospheric or space flight. Also called aerospace medicine , aviation medicine .""

AESTHETIC

Warm-hearted - loving

Tender attachment to Buddy heading off

Disease destroyed loving

English word

English word

CREATIVE having the ability to create

Positron in relation to an electron, say

Eg, a positron

Positron, for example

VIOLENCE a violent action

Conscious perception with full awareness.

Showing gratitude

Thankful for backing Evita with epic rap melody

In someone's debt for treasure around island - it's a sign

Easy to meet or deal with

Easy to talk with

Easy to talk to

Accessory (linked to a particular activity)

Net can be fitted in a quietly perfect accessory

Accessory developing rut in a quiet act of mortification

""The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver. as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.""

ARCHEGONIA

House-craft (wordplay)

Art of designing buildings etc

Style of a building

Of or pertaining to articulation.

Verify gold teeth? I can't when false

Confirm as genuine

Show to be genuine

Able to provide room

Of or pertaining to acculturation (definition 3).

English word

A neurotransmitter released by the transmitting dendron at autononmous synapses and at neuromuscular junctions. It is a quaternary amine with an obligatory negative counterion. The nominal formula for the hydroxide form is C7H17NO3. Structural formula (CH3)3N(+)CH2CH2.O.CO.CH3.OH(-).C7H17NO3. Structural formula (CH3)3N(+)CH2CH2.O.CO.CH3.OH(-).

""A colorless liquid compound (H2C:CH.CN); used as raw material for acrylic fibers, and as a solvent.H2C:CH.CN); used as raw material for acrylic fibers, and as a solvent.""

CELLULITE small lumpy deposits of body fat esp. on women's thighs and buttocks. Not used as a technical term.

CIGARETTE A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

ANTICIPATE To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

Going back in time (wordplay)

Back in time

One way to go round

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

""CORROSIVE Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson. as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.""

PESTICIDE

Tree farming - rub our article (anagram)

Cultivation of trees

Head of large monastery

Chairman tried to convert Greek ecclesiastic

Abbot is a terribly rich fellow and terribly tired

Possible to determine

Identifiable

CD's ancestor

Input for a recorder

Capable of being accomplished; practicable.

Good against convulsions.

""REFLECTIVE Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. as, a reflective mirror.""

ALUMINOSILICATE

Monopolistic

FORECLOSURE The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

SPECULATIVE Given to speculation; contemplative.

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.