2-Letter Words Starting with A

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

Of or pertaining to androgens; having physiological effects like that of an androgen.

Androgyne

Andromeda

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.

Noted cast I reassembled for storyteller

Raconteur.

Storyteller

Aneuploid

ANEUPLOID

Made English clean digs I refurbished

Adapted a foreign word to English usage

Anhedonia

Ray's hidden explosive chemical compounds

Anhydrite

Make criticism of unreliable vermin data

Take note of trailer housing man I fancy

Comment on an individual and very angry Green

ANIMALIZE To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

In a lively manner

In a lively fashion

With spirit

Annelidan

ANNUALIZE

ANODIC pertaining to an {anode=n}

Going before (in time/order)

Hannah, in "Hannah and Her Sisters"

Preceding in time

Antecede

Preceding in time

""Pl. antependia (-d - ) A decorative hanging for the front of an altar, lectern, or pulpit.""

Antevert

""Pl. antheridia (- - ) A sperm-producing organ occurring in seedless plants, fungi, and algae.""

Kind of ape

Enos or Able.

If it looks like a man and walks like a man, what is it (wordplay)

Weapons in the medical arsenal.

B cells' production

Protein substances

Anticodon

Antidote

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

Old-fashioned and then some

Word with prefix anti-

Antipodal

22 against potty principal

Coming from other side of the world

Relating to Australia/New Zealand

Old-fashioned

Awfully quaint, a Fifties youth is seen as behind the times

Passe.

Steady winds

Prevailing westerly winds of middle latitudes

Apartheid

Apoapsis

1. unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

Said sorry for serving old sago pie

Expressed regret for what one has done

Expressed regret

Began damage control, perhaps

Ended a spat, in a way

Expressed regrets

Clad

Add on time for members

Find deep pagans needing projections

Things going on a long time after a very quiet death

Appendant

Additional sections of a book.

Supplements that might cause grumbling (wordplay)

Supplementary materials

Appendix

Receptive audience

Going like the clappers (wordplay)

Giving a hand around the house (wordplay)

Clapping etc

Detains suspects

Understands, perhaps wrongly, the object is to get inside

Was nearly as good as

Came near

Drew near

APPROBATE Approved.

Skidded on film of water

Engraved on copper using resin and nitric acid

ARABICIZE

Arachnoid

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

Settled a dispute

Roguish cleric (wordplay)

Cleric ruined chance with Dora

Ecclesiastic next below a bishop

Vampire Aristocrats, in Dungeons & Dragons

Aridness

Toothless, burrowing animals.

Plated mammals

Burrowing mammals.

AROMATIZE To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

Ones given the shaft (wordplay)

Indian museum display

Old Native American carvings

Arrowwood

Spiders and crabs.

Troops hard to move - they've no backbone

Arytenoid

Odoriferous gum resins.

Gum resin used medically

Foul-smelling but safe aid to a curry

Bitter medicine

A ben scaled could be construed as this

Canes get twisted up at the ball

Coming into prominence

Upper hand

Dominating influence (A, not E)

Candy canes (anagram)

Distributing candy canes with upper hand

Ancestors

Forebears

Ascendancy.

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.

Ascendent

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

Asclepiad

Huge house plant

Iris adapts, being adaptable plant

Plant rallied Ada's spirit

ASSERTED assert

Oasis acted badly in a group, perhaps

Kind of press

Got together, tossing coats aside

Top grade examining body set to right

Star-shaped, as crystals

Needing explanation, perhaps

Marked danger branding a horse

Marked symbolically

Of small celestial bodies

Concerning certain space rocks

Of small planets like Ceres

Knocked out a dishonest criminal

Amazed - and so is the organisation

Left slack-jawed

Adman's adjective

An observation about tenor: 'stunning'

Striking dumb with astonishment

Astrodome

Asyndeton

Attainder

Attemper

Factor in grading, perhaps

Gate - enact Dante (anagram)

Guests at Blair's ball (wordplay)

Take care of picnic pests (wordplay)

Checkroom employees, for example

Members of the wedding.

Ted ate tuna salad, becoming thin

Reduced in strength

Made thin/thinner

That's ascribed to a TD about a matter of tax

Thought to be by Alfred Tennyson initially, but going in to be tested

Insolent acts

The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

(Physics / General Physics) caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency an audiogenic epileptic fit

Audiogram

Adjective (-ic)

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

The measurement of hearing.

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

Media for drivers

Driver's entertainment, sometimes

Dinosaurs next to the iPod

Tried out for a part

Read (for)

Tried out

Auditory

AUDITOR one who {audits=v}

Sitting-room with a view (wordplay)

Room for performances

The principal's classroom

Auslander

Throw her out, said official

Licensed originator is a man

Revised share-out I'd sanctioned

""Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Law blaming the car (wordplay)

DIY learner in car committed the deed

Do-it-yourself learner

Motorway in Italy

Major Italian highway

Italian highway

Italian superhighways.

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Avidness

Avoidance

The stark daw we made very difficult

Act of desertion

Process of giving up completely

State of desertion

Short-term (wordplay)

Just like the BBC

Shortened

Abdication

Abdominal

Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

Unusual way to see crossword clues arranged

Rudimentary

On the surface

GROUCHY

The magic word!

Magic word - gibberish!

Spelling word (wordplay)

Process of shortening (a text)

Curtailment

Section of Battersea Bridge men tackled as contracted work

Abridgment

ABSOLUTIZE

Highly illogical situations

An RA, perhaps

Member of a teaching establishment

Member of the RA

Adherence to formal rules (in art or literature)

Speeding up (music)

Gradually increasing in speed (mus.)

Gradually increasing in speed, in music

Gave it the gas

Like some college courses

Speeded up

Emphasized

Accession

Sharps or flats in certain measures

Do something obliging (wordplay)

Provide lodging for (someone)

Provide shelter for

Escorted

Accordance

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; followed by with or to. with or to.

Bungee jumping is fun

Thus

Accredit

Brought together into a group or crowd

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

Acetanilid

Achondrite

Of or pertaining to achondrite.

Acidimeter

A hydrometer used to determine the specific gravity of acid solutions.

Acidophile

ACIDOPHILE

ACIDULATE To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.

ACIDULATE To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.

Admit (the truth of something)

Admit the truth of (something)

Recognise current learning

Acridness

Acrylamide

Eg, films made from books

Rewritten compositions.

Certain plays.

The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

ADDRESS to speak to

ADENOMA a tumor of glandular origin

Adeptness

Adiposity

Adjacency

""In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively. as, a word used adjectively.""

Termination of a meeting

Court suspension

Recess

""ADJUDICATE To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.""

Settles

He has decisive qualities

Settler of disagreement

Arbitrator

Adjunction

Solemn appeals

Claim settlements

Modifications

Adjutancy

ADMEASURE To measure.

Madison Avenue V.I.P.'s (wordplay)

Mass communication figures (wordplay)

Directs short note to members of the government

Pacific islands that draw in butterflies

Islands near New Guinea.

Islands N. of Bismarck Archipelago.

Admiration

Admittance

Admonisher

Reprimanding

Warnings

Youth has trouble with classes, I'd say

Time of your life (wordplay)

Concede ales drunk in teenage years!

Young people rambling see Scotland

We're young people, so let's dance madly

Young people

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

ADOPTION the act of {adopting=v}

One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

A girl, British one aflame with yen to show appeal to her man (wordplay)

Adrenaline

Adsorption

Adulterant

Energy in X, devalued

No longer pure

Made impure

Debases or dilutes

Uses water maybe to dilute a trusted ale naughtily

Doctors

One who adulterates or corrupts.

Adultness

A silly sailor making sketch

Overshadowing a stupid sailor

Faint sketch; outline

Act of overshadowing

Shadow a non-speaking part

Faintly representing; typical.

Promotion in rank

Result of a bye

Commercial/truck/concrete

""ADVANTAGE Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.""

Of or pertaining to adventitia.

Adventitia