2-Letter Words Starting with A

One who surrenders

Renouncer over Angora bet

Claim renouncer

Abraham Lincoln, notably

Lincoln, notably

A throwback by literary cameraman chopping wood - one wielding axe

Person on the run

Band score rewritten for The Fugitive

Fugitive running Bond's race

Absolute

Seat in bar maybe not his (wordplay)

No little 21 across for one

Who's abandoned seat in bar (wordplay)

Harder to penetrate

A hawk

Hawk shows caprice flying - the thing must be caught

Applauder

Lacking the basic structure of life

Like viruses having a rest, lying back inside maple

""A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.""

One letting go

One on a podium, perhaps

Speech-maker

Business machine.

Who later rued straying (wordplay)

Durer tale (anagram)

One's business affairs (wordplay)

Density determining instrument

Gas-density gauge

Gizmo that measures gas properties

Upper-atmosphere studier

Communist China, by U. N. vote of 44-7

The one who 'started it'

Beginner of a quarrel.

Statue material, perhaps

Altar base (anagram)

Figurine material, perhaps

Author of stepquote (first name)

A great Greek ruler (wordplay)

Any of three Russian emperors

Poor diplomat, say

Family outcast, perhaps

One causing estrangement

A giver of alms.

Changeover time in the cockpit

Parachutist's device

It measures height above sea level

Device used to increase sound

Device to boost sound levels

Part of a plane detector.

ANCIENT an aged man

ANIMAL a living organism with voluntary motion and sensation

Newsreader can run one broadcast

Person with a booming voice, often

Radio/TV introducer

Part of church; anchorite (anagram)

Part of a church

Area in church; icon heart anag.

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

An early form of fuel (wordplay)

Cook prepares it right away, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

Eats before dinner (wordplay)

Clams on the half shell, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

One who applauds.

Vintage-vehicle valuation expert

Art expert, at times

Extoller of a news agency's virtues (wordplay)

Mechanic in the armed forces

A terrific oily mechanic

A terrific construction worker

One making violent attack (on another person)

Attacker.

Constructor, of a sort

Person piecing something together

Code-converting computer program

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer.

Loss of civil rights.

Loss of all civil rights, in law

Get the German punishment for treason

""One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.""

AUGMENT to {increase=v}

A foreigner.

Model company (wordplay)

Ford, for one

Mercedes or Volvo

More inept

Less comfortable as a Mon-Sun prison officer

Abstract

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

One who admonishes.

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

""One who, or that which, alleviaties.""

Current-generating car part

Dodge Charger charger

Auto part introduced by Chrysler in 1960

Later, he got drunk (completely)

Entirely in the natural state (wordplay)

Great hotel renovated completely

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c\'best. c\'best.""

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

""Zoology A small antenna or similar organ, especially one of the first pair of small antennae on the head of a crustacean.""

Powerful drug-treatment class

Like chemotherapy drugs

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

LITTER to scatter rubbish about

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

Water-skier's next of kin

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

Same as arbitrageur.arbitrageur.

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

Expert on moving house (wordplay)

Charter for 11 (wordplay)

House examiner (wordplay)

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

Electronic signal weakener

Electric signal diminisher

Device reducing signal strength

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

Big Three employee

Creator of short sentences (wordplay)

Part of an auto.

Driver's foot pedal

Cycling race, clear to pedal

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

One who adulterates or corrupts.

Part of a jet engine increasing thrust

Pollution-control device

Jet power booster

""One who aggrandizes, or makes great.""

""An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.""

""One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.""

One who ameliorates.

Small room leading to a larger room

Lobby one college with sign of caution

Small entrance room

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

Antitrust

One who values

Exploiter of market differences

Exploiter of stock market differences

Trader offers designer's latest little piece with passion in a very old city

""Any of various rod-shaped, nonpathogenic, nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the genus Azotobacter, found in soil and water.""

""ACCLIMATIZE 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.""

One who accomplishes.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Large oval stadium with tiers

Hollywood Bowl, for example

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.

Mobile balance checker (wordplay)

Device measuring changes in speed

Velocity change sensor

German dog in fine French spa, barking

Antiforeign

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

""FILIBUSTER A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.""

TUBERCULAR Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

Writer of their own life story

""A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.compensator or balancing coil.""