2-Letter Words Starting with A

Some Cartesian coordinates

Non-ordinate coordinates

'x' co-ordinates make BASIC essay wrong, not 'y'

Distances from the y-axis on a graph

X-coordinates, in math

BASIC compiled two directions as co-ordinate values

Sailor at sea, some say, descending by rope

Seaman yachting, say, or coming down rope

Sailor navigating yacht, say, or coming down rope

Making (oneself) scarce

Submitted in the bag but not for the present, perhaps

Liqueurs made with wormwood

A bishop's vice, these short potent drinks

Wormwoods

Tar perhaps filling in this clearing

Holding blameless

Clearing.

Like a great book, perhaps

What 15 across sounds it's doing

Sucking up to this with a lot of interest

Didn't vote, perhaps

Refrained from voting

Sailor getting damaged kept dry

Seat in bar maybe not his (wordplay)

No little 21 across for one

Who's abandoned seat in bar (wordplay)

Refraining from drinking alcohol

Showing self-restraint

Can - missing round - be sober

Abstrict

Belief that we live in an essentially meaningless world

Beckett, for one

Like a Something Different puzzle

Beckett's revising suits Bard

It's ridiculous vandalising a dirty bus

A dirty bus crashed, stupid thing

What nonsense to make the bar tidy with us!

Being {built=v}

In a harshly insulting way, say

Boatman displaces everyone, starting obliquely and cruelly

Abutilon

Academia

College professors, for example

Professors and such

Important section on college websites

Schools whence ideas came (wordplay)

Places of study

I made case out for specialised schools

Adherence to formal rules in art or literature

Madame is upset about constant adherence to formal rules

ACARI acarus

ACARI acarus

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

Acaridan

A hundred cent gin with emphasis

With stress in a manner of speaking, perhaps

The way you might be talking if gin made it stronger

That says one will

Being no refuse here, it seems

Save for the sound

Fit for acceptance.

Retrieving (computer data)

The act of becoming monarch

Pretender's dream.

Getting to the office

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

They happen, they say

They happen on the race track

Spills, falls, trips, etc.

A hawk

Hawk shows caprice flying - the thing must be caught

Gave a hand

Famous Latin academic has a breakdown

Publicly praised

Applauder

Get used to (Amer.)

Cool indoor conditions (wordplay)

Harden against PAin, etc.

Upward slope

Accountant before NYC, for one, admits Long Island five has its own slant

Corresponding with Jennings (wordplay)

As reported or stated by

Allotting or granting

Push my buttons!

Musical folder (wordplay)

Welk's instrument

Approaching and speaking to.

Policeman's activity, at times

Making a bold approach

Certifies, as colleges

Certifies

Growing together

Collecting corps' soldiers during battle

Process of growth

Increase of carbon in explosive reaction

Gradually built up

Solvent used in lacquers

Chemical came with a diet specially formulated

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

Acetamid

Soured star bound to accept condition

In a mess, if iced tea turned into vinegar

Acetify

""The failure of a ring of muscle fibers, such as a sphincter of the esophagus, to relax.""

When they're high, they perform well

They have made the grade

People who get things done

Bringing to a successful outcome

Gaining with effort

Getting a larcenous Conservative for leader ...

Achillea

Aciculum

Acidemia

Frequent trip takers

They have a habit of tripping

Drug users as cover for chief of police (wordplay)

Turned lemonade sour

Made into something turning litmus red

Soured

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

Misconstrued sci-fi idea sours

Turns sour

Acidity

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Make slightly sour.

Make slightly sour

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

Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

Sharp with asperity

Claudius prepared to eat duck and tart

U.C.L.A. duo is sarcastic

Aciduria

Acierate

Turns into steel

Aconitum

Sound system (wordplay)

Stucco is a puzzle to science

Conductor's concern

Bill, charming little son, keeps up to date

This makes one know what's so nice and old-fashioned in the sac

Lets one know how attractively old-fashioned this is in the sac

Agree bill and become silent

Accept without protest

Agree or accept without protest

Acquirer

Developing, as a skill

Clear indeed, a pound maybe sought by 17

Outcome of the Lizzie Borden trial

Verdict of Not Guilty

Found not guilty and discharged

All let off so a hundred went off

Having been let off, a hundred left

One letting go

Acridine

Extreme bitter taste

That's enough to make your eye smart

English word

Well-balanced, perhaps

Taking a tumble (wordplay)

Well-balanced (wordplay)

Acrolein

Wooden statues with stone extremities

ACRONYM a word formed from initials

Athens landmark arise (nonverbal)

Where the Parthenon was built.

Literally, "highest city"

Initial readings (wordplay)

NEWS for the four directions, and others

Certain word puzzles

Acrotism

Actinian

Series of radioactive elements

Elements playin' a part on fateful day

Uranium and plutonium, for example

Actinism

Actinium

Actinoid

Made operative

Switched on

Fourth part of play a youth set in motion

Sets in motion.

Stimulates

Vitalizes.

Turn-on (wordplay)

Chemical catalyst

Catalyst

Activism

Ones seeking change

They've got issues

Black Lives Matter demonstrators, for example

Activize

Activize

It's not a dream

Beingness or existence

State of real existence

Make a reality of

So to be working with figures is risky

Of life-expectancy calculation

Relating to statistical calculation

Risk assessors sign, after a drastic cut

They calculate insurance risks

Insurance company employees

Motivating

Process of making operate

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

""A synthetic purine nucleoside analog, C 8 H 10 N 5 O 3 , derived from guanine and used in the treatment of herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and varicella zoster virus infections.""

Acylate

ACYLATE to introduce acyl into

Adamsite

Panda is to evolve in Darwinian processes

Pusher's activity

Monkey on one's back ("Henry V")

I did act on (anagram)

Maybe this is inhabited

Hard to give up

(Of drug) habit-forming

Habit-forming

New members of the family.

Extra rooms, for example

Extra publishings, by the sound of them

Coloring agents, for example

Substances blended with motor oil

Antiknocks, for example

Adduct

The act of adducing or bringing forward.

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

Glandular upset ailed an old Democrat

Glandular trouble almost laid one out

Like glandular tissue at back of nose

The 'A' of ATP

The A in ATP

Abnormally united tissues

Firm attachments

Epoxy and others.

Sides have reconciled; they form bonds

Glue and rubber cement

Adhibit

Maintaining the heat, key help to intercept agents from the south

Relating to process in which there is no transference of heat

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

Idiot pays criminal for property of 6 23

Fatty nature

The good in "good riddance"

Modifier of a noun

'Dead' or 'alive'

Do a jig in new building next door

A daughter doing woodwork? Touching

A daughter getting married next door

Adjudge

Fine-tuning

Tending to adjust.

Deserving respect and approval

Excellent as Barrie's butler

Deserving of esteem

Liam Brady played like this

Main office (wordplay)

The main men (wordplay)

Headquarters of the British navy.

Madison Avenue undertaking (wordplay)

Guilty plea, say

Commercial assignment (wordplay)

Allowing a girl to enter a sleazy place

Notice the formal letter allowing entry

Tending to concede.

Bouncers, at times

Kind of department at a hospital

Accepting the truth of

Agreement to the truth of entrance

Extraneous ingredient

Say nice things about new tux, creating bit of a stir (wordplay)

Ingredient.

Adnation

Adjective meaning resembling

Humane Society successes

Social worker's concern.

Votes to accept commercial alternatives

Commercial speech (wordplay)

Love a fair helping of bother (wordplay)

Allowance of fuss and of love (wordplay)

In a worshipping manner

With much love.

One way to gaze

Most skilful at concealing steroid misuse

Adscript

Adsorb

Adularia

Dug around a Latin - praise be!

Worshipful

Lauding

Very high regard

Sycophant's specialty

High praise for an adult I love to tease

Adjective meaning resembling

Lending is increasing

Moving forward like army

Moving forward, as troops

Advect

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Accidental.

Kind of clause

Of a class of words.

Type of phrase

State of misfortune or affliction

Something to rise above

(State of) misfortune

Referring to incidentally

The Reverend Father is back for a little tea with gin

Throw out pitches (wordplay)

Promote (a product)

Push kin (wordplay)

{advertise=v}

To be recommended

Worthy of recommendation

Expedient to be recommended

Adverb

After careful consideration

Days lived surprisingly sensibly

After careful deliberation

Adynamia

Giant flightless bird once found in Madagascar

Aequorin

Oxygen-supplying procedures

One living the high life (wordplay)

Turn up (wordplay)

Man on the flying trapeze

Aerify

Doing stunts with airplanes

Of stunt flying

One in novel boat race having high jinks

For a couple of eagles, backing up lubricates wings

Meteorites (E, not H)

Stony bodies from outer space.

Stony meteorites

Stony meteorites

""The study of the upper atmosphere, especially of regions of ionized gas.""

Concerned with beauty

Organizing principle of beauty

Of pleasing appearance

Four in a car sleep when it's warm

I've a taste for change and will spend the summer in bed

The science or philosophy of causation

Touching the emotions

Putting it on

Having an impact on the emotions

Feeling of fondness

Feeling of strong liking

Admiration of affectation from the army

Tending to affect; affecting.

Promised to go into a union

Betrothed

Engaged

Affiance

Written declaration made under oath

Written declaration on oath

Matter for a notary public

Attach (to an organisation)

Team up with FIFA et al: one fouled

In trouble if I left AA as associate

Affirmer

Saying yes to

AFFIX to {attach=v}

Noun (-ment)

Sick, day after botched facelift

Caused pain to

Diseased; suffering

Providing a fine crossing

Having enough money to bear the expense

24 down is what you might have been this, as you might say

Affray

""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.""

Affright

Baptisms of fire, at the start USA's in round

Poison produced by food moulds; oxtail fan (anagram)

Raised above (wordplay)

Being the one previously mentioned

The one previously mentioned

Medium access (wordplay)

Post-death existence

Heaven or hell., for example

'That's of late, it seems (5,4)'

Future

Agatize

Agenesia