2-Letter Words Starting with A

Ace grub with ale? Could be contentious!

Open to question

Up for debate

Having seed coverings.

Having coverings, as seeds.

Having covered seeds Bot.

A type of {aril=n}

Armilla

Aglow

Construct some brass emblems (wordplay)

What they have to do for a 13 across

Labs seem uncomplicated to construct

Forgivable, like venial sins

Like venal sins

Expiable

Albert Cook holds me back swaying

Shaking like a leaf

Shaking a thrice about a thousand

Like an aunt

Aureola

""To break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYSE""

{avellan=adj}

Worthy of confession

Hub-hub (wordplay)

Wheel's attachment on a horse-drawn cart

Bar Alex felling large plant

Capable of being renounced

Capable of being abraded (worn away by friction)

""All cnidarians (jellyfishes) collectively, compare ACALEPH, ACALEPHAN, ACALEPHE""

Get used to (Amer.)

Cool indoor conditions (wordplay)

Harden against PAin, etc.

""ACCRUE to accumulate, also ACCREW""

Receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

It's a gas!

A collection o' thin ones? Great gas!

Kind of torch

Make slightly sour.

Make slightly sour

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

Make a reality of

Of flexible nature.

American with bald pate oddly plastic

Good at fitting in to new circumstances

Deserving respect and approval

Excellent as Barrie's butler

Deserving of esteem

Adjective meaning resembling

Able to be taken up

Fit for taking home from the animal shelter

Commercial work on board is such as may be undertaken

Adjective meaning resembling

To be recommended

Worthy of recommendation

Expedient to be recommended

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

Attach (to an organisation)

Team up with FIFA et al: one fouled

In trouble if I left AA as associate

AFFIX to {attach=v}

Well, that gets one off

Well, it's got off this

A guard contracts sickness in profusion

Medium access (wordplay)

Post-death existence

Heaven or hell., for example

Nice to be able to say yes

Gee, that makes it 13 down and arable!

In harmony; pleasant

""Capable of being transported and deployed, usually by helicopter, to a combat zone or from one site to another within a theater of operations: an airmobile infantry regiment.""

To change by alchemy; to transmute.

English word

Its antonym is in the Declaration

No citizen can transfer what he owns

Capable of being transferred.

Able but unwilling to read

Disinclined to read

German folk dance

A German in Paris.

Baroque-era dance

Make less severe, say suffering

Leave it out after Al displays temper

Take the edge off

Like some funds

""An amorphous, translucent, variously colored mineral, essentially hydrous aluminum silicate.""

""Any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t.For example, the p sounds of pin and spin</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>p</it>; and the <it>t</it> sounds of <it>toe</it> <it>stop</it> and <it>catnip</it> are <ex>allophones</ex> of <it>t</it></as>.""

Grant painter graphite, perhaps

Distinct form of an element

One of two or more existing forms of an element

Not improper.

Not banned

Aboveboard

Per diem, perhaps

Kid's payoff (wordplay)

Share in ball, now dance all topless!

Variety of garnet

Deep red garnet

Purplish-red Indian garnet.

""A deep violet-red garnet, FeAl 2 Si 3 O 12 , found in metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone.""

Poor accommodation (wordplay)

Old folks' home (once)

Home to the down-and-out

Close to the hypotenuse, say (wordplay)

Age-old sin (anagram)

Close to a hypotenuse (wordplay)

Unlike the past

Subject to modification

Subject to change

Argue with the girl to try to change her

Dispute heatedly ( 9 )

Argue with Catherine for a change

Every other letter an A? Awkward!

How to shake up Etna (wordplay)

Perhaps change it to ante for a stand-in

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

""Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.""

Road mender (wordplay)

Transport patiently awaited (wordplay)

What drives you to get better (wordplay)

Like our Constitution

May be corrected

Not set in stone, as a constitution

Hornblende

A rotating magnetic amplifier with specialized windings that allow small changes in power input to produce large changes in power output.

An attenuator decreases it

Maximum extent of signal or vibration

On a radio, the A in AM

Amygdala

Draw a comparison, in a way

Reason in a way

Spicy sausage

A spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin

A minor ore of lead

Express in English finding flying angels around here in France

Convert Giovanni into John, for example

Make English, in form

Make Jorge George, for example

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

Fibula-foot connector

It's between the shin and the foot

Fibula neighbor

Convert to a yearly rate

A small antenna; applied to the smaller pair of antenn\'91 or feelers of Crustacea.

Grotesque streak in fold of rock

Arch of stratified rock.

Lark calling beneath arched fold of rock

Favoring common folk

Like sun visors

APICULATE

Apologia

Say sorry, mea culpa

Make a sorry speech (wordplay)

Express regret (for action)

Say you're sorry

Eat humble pie

Tell me you're sorry

This kind of court hears appeals

Like a review panel

Sort of court

Washing machine or toaster, say

Machine (for use in the home)

Gift for a housewife.

Motorboat's tow, perhaps

Water skis alternative

Skim on layer of water

Watercolour is all a queer mishmash

Painting technique

Watercolor

English word

A formal procedure when sculptor's brought in rock

Sedimentary rock that does not split easily

Small blood vessel

Very small blood vessel

Blood vessel connected to a capillary

Like some obligations

Like some mortgages

With a leg on either side of (something)

Riding, in a way

On the fence.

A sort able to produce old instrument

Sextant's predecessor

Predecessor of the sextant.

AUDIT to examine accounts

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

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

Hides face say and able to be at hand

"At liberty," as in "Variety"

On offer in the transfer market

It's down-white dangerous (wordplay)

A descent that's very flaky (wordplay)

Alpine snowdrop (wordplay)

Unlike death and taxes (wordplay)

A useless fit can be prevented

Like careless mistakes

Conferrable

Offensive description of a snowman

Like a snowman.

Causing moral revulsion

ABSOLUTE self-existent

ABSOLUTE self-existent

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

Not bad welcome (wordplay)

Good enough but not great

Of (marginally) satisfactory quality

Having a ramp, say

Open to be got at

Easy to talk to; approachable

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

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.

ACOELOMATE

Capable of being acquired.

""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.""

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

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

Like certain evidence

Like some evidence

(As evidence in court) valid

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

ADSORB to gather on the surface in a condensed layer

Cut a deal? Utter chicanery!

Water down, perhaps

Grown up with age, note, can be corrupt

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

AFFECT to act upon

A story about company that may be ratified

Warm around volcanic rim, so may be asserted

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Model T, to Henry (wordplay)

Within one's ability to pay

Not too dear a passage in a story

""ALKALINE containing an alkali, also ALKALIN""

Loyalty, say, found in Nato maybe

Loyalty, say, within marriage

Loyalty, say, found in union

ALLEGE to assert without proof

Show by storytelling

Everyone repeat! (wordplay)

Say tongue twisters, maybe

Say a tongue twister, maybe

Not in deep water, say

By the sea

Waterfront

Art for the masses (wordplay)

Communion table screen

Painting placed prominently in church

Combine into one

Merge into a single body

Join forces to butcher Malaga meat

Make better meal, or I eat junk!

Make an unpleasant situation better

Make improvements to

AMERCE to fine or punish

English word

That may be analyzed.

Gold place in which land is mined for mineral

Like Grenada, but not Granada

Like the Bahamas, Barbados and Belize

English-speaking

Microscopic organism

Microscopic creature

Being very small but old-womanish about bad French copper

Adjective meaning resembling

Hammer a nail in the bust

Hit an alien ordered to exterminate

Dynamite, say

""Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, which can carry the malaria parasite and transmit the disease to humans.""

Having to report (to)

Article rebel was wrong to blame

Accountable.

Misogynous

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

Breeding and care of bees

One might be keeping this, by the sound of it

Bringing up workers in a religious environment

End of the world

The White Horseman exhibited a new one

Prophetic Biblical revelation

Office of the Pope.

Nothing delayed support for a job implying leadership of a Propaganda committee

""Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable. as, the cause is appealable.""

Open to placation

Nonsense, to fruit-lovers (wordplay)

Served with pork? Nonsense!

A likely story!

Fit old man's back caught in elastic

Relevant, appropriate

Relevant program on TV about Blair regularly skipped

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

A ben scaled could be construed as this

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

Attributable (to)

Asphaltic.

Cruise in a fur, open to attack

Open to attack

Given as seaworthy - but not secure against pirates

Making an assault.

Collection (of things or people)

Rally about silver collection

French for "blending"

Can take stock of pack animals with dark fur

Transferable

Absorb and digest (food)

Take in a smile as it develops

Become part of the prevailing culture

Capable of being fastened

Like Mr. Potato Head parts

Like some goals

Not so far as a star.

Within reach

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

AURICULAE

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

""AUTOLYSE to break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYZE""

""AUTOLYZE to break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYSE""

Jaguar, for one

Road-test need

Welcome graduation gift.

Rearing and care of birds.

Capable of being abolished.

Adapt to a new environment

Get one used to new conditions

Get used to weather

""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.""

Like a good math teacher (wordplay)

Obliged (to answer?)

Required to justify oneself

Assimilate a different way of life, perhaps

Socialize

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

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

Admit (the truth of something)

Admit the truth of (something)

Recognise current learning

Bright orange-red dye

ADDRESS to speak to

Youth has trouble with classes, I'd say

Time of your life (wordplay)

Concede ales drunk in teenage years!

Form a rounded mass

Form into one cluster

Cluster

""To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.""

Curtail urge to work in growing business

The practice of farming

Field for early U. S. settlers

A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet.

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.

White.

A steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex that regulates the salt and water balance in the body.

Twelve-syllable line of verse

Aid external examination of precious stone

A green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone

Capable of being allocated.

Work on library cards

*Put in order, as files

Not the first choice

Available as another possibility

Option to convert indigene