2-Letter Words Starting with A

Performance piece (wordplay)

Play House, for example (wordplay)

Do a cameo, maybe

Course for Angus, say (wordplay)

Berkshire racecourse - coast (anagram)

Place for one of a northern race

Take away (by force)

Take aboard a spaceship, maybe

Violate the Hague Convention, say

Grovelling, apology say

Lacking all pride, say apology

Extreme, poverty say

Brogue, for one

Brogue, for one.

It's a sign of stress!

Say "OK" to

Believe one wouldn't say no to this

Take on (responsibility)

Grab by the shirt, say

Buttonhole in a corner, perhaps

Approach and threaten (someone)

Free (from charge)

Reverse the charges (wordplay)

Leaders of army coup go free

Is one inhabited (wordplay)

Inhabit one, perhaps

A pothunter (wordplay)

Bring together, as the fingers

To transport by the flow of a fluid

Touch (feelings); pretend (to feel)

Pretend to influence

Impact, have a bearing on

Ride in an elevator, maybe

Might this get up your nose (wordplay)

Up with smell!

View of strand (wordplay)

Look - a ghost about to vanish!

Like being kissed, some say, in view

Wading bird - octave (anagram)

Shorebird - octave (anagram)

Slender-beaked shore bird

Talk out of one's troubles, in psychoanalysis.

Story of Dracula, say

Story that might be current (wordplay)

Record of receipts and expenditure

Ill-fated, old-style

Detestable

Hex'd

Most in need of liniment

Most in need of ice

Sore to the max

An acquisition

Stuntman wrestling a cobra - it's tense!

Latex-clad swinger (wordplay)

Circus performer (wordplay)

The sharpest French accent (wordplay)

Most sharp, making rip in broken seat

Most violent American copper on trial

'Assistant, professor say (7)'

Something attached but not essential

Person subordinate to another

Cause suffering to

Cause pain to

Line adopted by FIFA fixed court trouble

Very old, but getting nice tan maybe

Can I get to ten, as of old (wordplay)

Nice tan (anagram)

An organism produced by reproduction

IFruit tree (nonverbal)

Rip coat (anagram)

Fruit from a tropic (wordplay)

Limited the use of: Scot

Draw this at a pamphlet (wordplay)

What opposites do, they say

Have magnetic power

Drawing back

Quietly remove painting, perhaps

Hard to grasp, maybe

Knock off some modern art (wordplay)

To set free by constriction

Bumper-to-bumper occurrence (wordplay)

Eg, car crash

The discovery of penicillin, e.g

Red cacti (anagram)

Give official sanction to (a diplomat)

CID trace (anagram)

An {accuser=n}

Acerb

Of milk, sour or turning sour

A light transmitting lens

Make familiar (with)

Make (someone) familiar (with)

Introduce a strange noise

Acrid

An animal having rootless teeth

Subversive part of play I view endlessly

Issue-oriented person

Busy worker for cause

Drawing inward

Lying near or next (to)

Lying next (to)

Next (to something)

Feudal serf attached to the soil

Written after.

A type of jet engine

Airbus A330 or 380, say

Exhibit skill with kite perhaps

Airbus A330 or A380, say

""The hypothetical solvent sought by alchemists, also ALKAHEST""

Religious worker holds arduous job

Solitary worker holds menial job

Miscreant surrounds house of hermit

Opposed to cults [adj] / an organisation opposed to cults

Water bearer (wordplay)

Artificial bridge-channel carrying water

Roman water conduit

Specialist in antiquities

Collector of antiquities

Man-made object (maybe found in dig)

Man-made object

A man-made object

Man-made object (US?spelling)

Tool, for one

Object made by humans (US spelling)

One affecting elegant expression

Elegant writer

Detroit lobby leader (wordplay)

Henry Ford, for example (wordplay)

Detroit lobby leader?

Accepting; receiving.

Harmonious

Consonant.

Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

St Michael (anagram)

Faust, for one

One with a gold standard (wordplay)

Disorderly sort (wordplay)

Revolutionary in rash act (wordplay)

No government would please him!

How upsetting for Grany Smith!

One not to upset (wordplay)

Place trap to upset this!

I go for it!

Job-seeking insect?

Job-seeking insect (wordplay)

Wren, for one

I. M. Pei, for one

Building designer from the Arctic

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.""

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

Speeder-up in processing something.

Agent for hastening the progress

Bookkeeper, maybe chartered

Someone doing a balancing act (wordplay)

Relation without a tan in summer

Noun (-ment)

Not yet achieved adultery (wordplay)

Youth benefit stops rising

Minor trouble with the French cologne

Court-imposed penalty

Fine semi-US binder

Punishment with a discretionary fine

Of great age; very old.

Noted cast I reassembled for storyteller

Raconteur.

Storyteller

Going before (in time/order)

Hannah, in "Hannah and Her Sisters"

Preceding in time

Forward-looking insect?

Forward-looking insect (wordplay)

Expecting awful panic stations, sending out SOS

RACIST an advocate of {racism=n}

""A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.""

Trigonometry function

45 degrees, for 1

A fellow admitting misdemeanour finally can't somehow function

Upperclass man (wordplay)

Effendi, for one

One of the upper crust

Love sent by email (wordplay)

Love sent by e-mail (wordplay)

File with an email

Pheromone, notably

Treatise on origins of apparently toxic insect pheromone

Law blaming the car (wordplay)

DIY learner in car committed the deed

Do-it-yourself learner

The act of avouching; positive declaration.

Abstract

""Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.""

Consort pianist (wordplay)

Person who plays music for a soloist

Musician who cannot perform on his own

Feat in armour

Thing that is accomplished

Something accomplished by effort

Consenting (to something) without protest

Submissive

Right away, obtains a bit of money, as one falling into line

""The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.""

Promotion in rank

Result of a bye

Commercial/truck/concrete

Result following on

Persisting change

Secondary consequence

BOYCOTT to refuse to have dealings with

Mussolini's enemy

Fighter against state dictatorship.

Treelike

Squeeze box player

Player is into arranging following agreement

One's instrumental in making peace with Israeli supporter though not at frist

Scheme first ignored in bill for delivery

An accessory item of equipment or dress. Often used in the plural.

Article of equipment

Bill gathers another metre, making dress

Items of dress/equipment required for an activity

""ANECDOTAL Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation. as, anecdotal conversation.""

A public statement

Press release, for example

Press release, e.g

""Designed for or used for defense against attack by aircraft; as, anti-aircraft cannon.as, anti-aircraft cannon.""

International sect controlled by a dogmatic type, one supervising workers

Person associated with (-ist)

AVICULTURE Rearing and care of birds.

Producing miscarriage.

Supporting musical line

Dancing cancan with tempo I'm backing

Backing account, criticise one in remark

Needle-worker found in practice

Therapist involved in sharp practice (wordplay)

Needle therapist

E.g. a farmer

Farming expert

Farmer

Substance that prevents blood clotting

Blood-thinning agent

What stops clotting

COMMUNIST An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

DESICCANT Drying; desiccative.

MECHANIST A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

""AQUACULTURE 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.""

Past master (wordplay)

His work is in ruins (wordplay)

His career is in ruins (wordplay)

The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.

Hazarding a guess: doctor who puts stomach muscles in pulleys (wordplay)

Something achieved

Successful achievement

A cold kind of praise about quiet exploit

Thanks to Government we lack men with new dimension unfortunately

Inflected form of AERODYNAMIC Inflected form of AERODYNE a heavier than air aircraft

""CAPITALIST One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.""

CONVULSANT

Converted Christian man to revolutionary, perhaps

Athenian held by opponent of government, such as 17

It can appear odd to Christian man, being a Republican

""One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill. e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.""

One studying composition of stars, etc

Psychiatrist so confused scientific type

Galaxy finally and stars his topic for working out

Confession; thanks

Account for information found on workers' square? Thanks!

This expression of appreciation has been given the nod

One in the business of cultivating soil

Rural guilt I cast off as a farmer

Farm expert

COLONIALIST a believer in or advocate of colonialism{3}.

Opponent of using live animals in research