2-Letter Words Starting with A

I go for it!

Job-seeking insect?

Job-seeking insect (wordplay)

Applique

Fabric decorations

Evaluation - papal airs (anagram)

Opinion of pair as lap dancing

Artist is in shock from assessment

Yeses from bosses

Thumbs-ups

Favourable opinions

Motorboat's tow, perhaps

Water skis alternative

Skim on layer of water

Watercolour is all a queer mishmash

Painting technique

Watercolor

Showy flower, also known as columbine

One member - one in water - is Columbine

Plant also known as Granny's Bonnet

""Fit for cultivation, as by plowing.""

Medieval crossbows

Arbalist

Arbelest

Arbuscle

Nag Rachel (anagram)

Might a R alter L in Heaven (wordplay)

Chilled port for Michael (wordplay)

Befitting a prince.

""The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.""

In the form of a bow.

With great effort

English word

A formal procedure when sculptor's brought in rock

Sedimentary rock that does not split easily

Arillode

2014 World Cup mascot Fuleco, for one

Animal to maybe roam round a herb

Carrier of plates (wordplay)

""ARMIGER one who carries the armor of a knight, also ARMIGERO""

Armorial

""ARMOR to dress with defensive covering, also ARMOUR""

Clean air's unlikely to be poisonous

Like some poisoning

In charge in club, liable to prove poisonous

Highways

Small blood vessel

Very small blood vessel

Blood vessel connected to a capillary

Article

Pertaining to the joints

Pertaining to joints

Relating to a joint

Weapons in Welsh town, be gone!

Carney's cannons (wordplay)

Large guns for use on land

Like some cheese

Made by traditional methods

In a naive way

In a crude way

In an unsophisticated manner

Like the lifestyle of many a monk

Rigorously abstinent

Austere.

""A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.""

Vote dividing European Union in a journey that's without intimacy in partnership

With a feeling of guilt

By way of being sheepish

No pride in it this way

Ashlar

Ashler

Ashplant

Idiotically fighting, I slay nine

In a stupid way

Like a moron

ASPECT to look at

Snake stopped on the surface of the road

Like many driveways

It stopped the serpent when the road was covered.

""Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous.""

""Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.""

Do L shapes make lilies (wordplay)

Lily family members

Lily flowers

Goon at work

Attacker using wild Alsatians

Hit man, for example

Pack on the attack

Sick donkey (wordplay)

Silly to get sick as you're on a yacht

Like being on the sea if it's storming

Pickled in a violent way (wordplay)

A pickled sound is 19 down

Came to blows with a seasoned sound

One making violent attack (on another person)

Attacker.

Gathered together in one place

Gathered to make male's beds

Came together or put together

Constructor, of a sort

Person piecing something together

Code-converting computer program

Gathers together in a group

See lambs going round in flocks together

Meets bewildered males with Bess

Assoil

Like some obligations

Like some mortgages

By way of assumption.

Without a doubt

Without a doubt.

With confidence

With a leg on either side of (something)

Riding, in a way

On the fence.

Beads for starlets (wordplay)

Convex moldings.

Small circular mouldings, on round columns,say

A sort able to produce old instrument

Sextant's predecessor

Predecessor of the sextant.

Dixon line (wordplay)

How stars can make a fortune, perhaps

A house study (wordplay)

A secretary, vocal, unaffected by time

Without regard for time

Timeless ruins at Palermo

Atheling

Sports - cheat list (anagram)

His cattle wandering off track, perhaps

Lithe acts (anagram)

ATONAL lacking tonality

ATONAL lacking tonality

Quality of Bartok's music

Feature of the 1925 opera "Wozzeck"

Lack of a key center, in music

Our Altaic version of the author

Of, by or typical of an author

Pertaining to a writer

The measurement of hearing.

AUDIT to examine accounts

Auntly

Aureole

Pl. auriculas or auriculae (-l ) A central European primrose (Primula auricula) having large yellow flowers grouped in umbels. Also called bear's ear .

Cur Laura and I stupidly told privately

French composer's universal god of the ear

Auricula

A foreigner.

Planned a Yule rest with no frills

In a harsh or severe way

Simply gives us tea when out - depend on it!

Austral

A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist (wordplay)

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

Autolyse

Autolyse

Self destruction of cells

""Of, pertaining to, or causing autolysis.""

Autolyze

Autolyze

Unthinking state (figurative)

High-level stand-in chauffeur (wordplay)

Robot flier (wordplay)

AUTOSOME a type of chromosome

Of or pertaining to autotelism.

Should say type of verb

Providing additional support

Functioning in a supporting capacity

Hides face say and able to be at hand

"At liberty," as in "Variety"

On offer in the transfer market

""AVAILE to find benefit, also AVAIL""

It's down-white dangerous (wordplay)

A descent that's very flaky (wordplay)

Alpine snowdrop (wordplay)

Not having blood vessels

Aventail

Typically maintain lady must be disheartened after maturity

Fairly.

Of the birds of a region.

Not virulent.

Unlike death and taxes (wordplay)

A useless fit can be prevented

Like careless mistakes

AVOID to {evade=v}

Avulsion

Friendly, as an older relative, say

Friendly, like some relatives

Friendly in a non-threatening way

Conferrable

So as to cause wonder

Awful

Quality of being horrid

Flew unperturbed when fool went around in a terrible state

Enormity

With very little grace

In a clumsy manner

Betraying clumsiness

Carriage's underpinnings.

Axoplasm

Title for Khomeini

An Iranian Shi'ite religious leader

Senior Iranian cleric

Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.

Striped hyenas that feed chiefly on insects

Not caused by bacteria.

In an unnatural way

ABLATIVE a grammatical case

In an unusual manner.

Friend embraces British woman in opera in unusual manner

Abolisher

Formally ending (a practice)

Action demanded by W. L. Garrison

Wiping out

Annulments

Offensive description of a snowman

Like a snowman.

Causing moral revulsion

In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

Bad oil? Bargain first

Present from the earliest times

Present from the start

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

Harshly offering a women's support for eccentric Elvis on Fourth of July

Sure wobbly as belly out!

I wholly agree!

Okay by me!

Perfect in quality or nature; complete.

Obtain soul renewed with this (wordplay)

Release sailor - there you have it!

A second-rate answer requires indulgence

Doctrine of unlimited power

Total power lost, I am taking bus, sadly

Moral theory that doesn't allow for shades of gray

A distraught sob by musician who dislikes Fifty Shades of Grey (wordplay)

ABSOLUTE self-existent

ABSOLUTE self-existent

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

Read this bodybuilding brochure

Last buyers getting treated in an unusual way

In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.

Article falsely acclaimed as scholarly

Well-read player from Hamilton (wordplay)

Bill gets a medical qualification from college

ACARICIDE

Speeder-up in processing something.

Agent for hastening the progress

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

Without accent.

Not bad welcome (wordplay)

Good enough but not great

Of (marginally) satisfactory quality

In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

Having a ramp, say

Open to be got at

Easy to talk to; approachable

How urgently needed equipment should be stored, as bicycles must be fixed

Perhaps M is taken toothy to the end

Fortuitous bit of scoring (wordplay)

Flat, say, without planning

ACCIDENT a mishap

Acclaimer

Welcoming with shouts of joy

Giving praise to

ACCLIMATE To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

Acclimate

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

Finish off associate in crime soundly

Coach limps off to manage

Twisted coach limps for effect

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

Some maniac curate lying? Precisely!

It's precisely a copy you heard Ray let anyhow

Lacy shifts worn by one in church without any slips

In a hateful manner

In an accusing manner.

Without a chief

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

Deep cavity on the side of the hipbone that receives the head of the thighbone

The hollow that receives the head of the thigh bone

""A white crystalline compound, C 6 H 5 NH(COCH 3 ), formerly used in medicine to relieve pain and reduce fever. It has been replaced by safer agents because of its toxicity.""

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

Acetylate

Acetylene

""ACETYLENE A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.""

Achalasia

Able to be accomplished

If you get it, it must be so

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

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Organisms thriving in sulphuric pools or animal stomachs

Made slightly acidic

Acidulate

ACOELOMATE

Serving to aid hearing.

Sounding accusal to premier in Istanbul, hopeless

Auditory

Capable of being acquired.

Acquittal

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

Pertaining to a kind of puzzle

""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.""

The process of doing or performing something: the act of thinking.

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

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

In an actionable manner.

Void of action.

""Changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.as, saw his worst fears actualized.""

Actualize

Acyclovir

Acylation

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Not on the floor model, say

Getting on top of things more (wordplay)

For an extra charge

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

Unadept at thinking.

Empty-headed.

Muddle-minded

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Done well enough to earn a C, maybe

In satisfactory manner

Is it satisfactory place is empty to an acceptable extent (wordplay)

In an adherent manner.

Stickable

In an adhesive manner.

Can lady jet off in a conterminous manner (wordplay)

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds