2-Letter Words Starting with A

""Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.""

Made "talent" from "latent," e.g

Got into a mix-up with letters

This mad manager produces the answer

Analemma

Aiding the memory

Kind of lens used by moviemakers

Anarchism

It may help someone see a giant's terribly dull

Lens corrects against back of prism at ...

Photographic lens which corrects coma and spherical aberration

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Stephen King book, richest in rewrite

Of bodily structure

Of a branch of biology.

Involving the body

Article's broken down and analysed

Anatomise

Experts on bodies converting to Satanism

ANATOMIZE Styptic. <mark>

Anatomize

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

Andromeda

""ANEMIC suffering from anemia, also ANAEMIC""

An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Measuring wind speed

""ANEURYSM dilatation of an artery, also ANEURISM""

Angiogram

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

Angleworm

Anglicism

Make criticism of unreliable vermin data

Take note of trailer housing man I fancy

Comment on an individual and very angry Green

Paramecium, rotifer, etc.

Microscopic organism

Microscopic creature

Being very small but old-womanish about bad French copper

Animalier

Animalism

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

Animalize

Adjective meaning resembling

In a lively manner

In a lively fashion

With spirit

The Flintstones and "The Simpsons"

Disney-studio output

Mickey Mouse films

They undo 'I do's'

They undo "I do's"

More than one quashing - mental nuns wrestling

Consecration ceremony

Ritual naming

Consecration of a healing cream (wordplay)

Man in toga's set about opposition

Crude sign to a man provoking conflict

Moan at sign that's whipped up hostility

Designating a period in U.S. history.

Before the war.

Of the period before 1861.

During one's lifetime

Before passing

Like some injuries discovered in forensic science

Anthurium

""ANEMIA a disorder of the blood, also ANAEMIA""

ASTHMA a chronic respiratory disorder

Not for the summit (wordplay)

It goes pfft!

For God, for country, and for Yale.

DROMIC pertaining to a race-course

Same as Antemetic. Antemetic.

FAMILY a group of persons related by blood or marriage

Misogynous

MARKET to offer for sale

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

Old-fashioned and then some

Of or pertaining to antimony.

Word with prefix anti-

Antimony

Antimycin

Possibly anoint main sectarian denying moral law

'His true Penelope was Flaubert, / He fished by - isles' (Ezra Pound)

Not accepting moral law, yet opposed to revolutionary Minoan

Legal paradoxes

RACISM a doctrine of racial superiority

Opposed to change

Blood plasmas

Immunity providers

Blast of steam ruins medicinal substances

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

Antonymy

What I could be with you (wordplay)

Like War and Peace, without name Tolstoy initially put in

As War and Peace, unsigned, without Tolstoy's initial

Apt. places for tenants (wordplay)

Real estate sign.

Places to stay

Apoenzyme

Its precise to say it's not worth the paper it's written on

Saw dad in strange hat, trim having bit of gold in it

A widely favoured hot article by general manager occasions pithy remark

""Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.""

""The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.""

Blue-green beryl

Birthstone for many Pisces

Gemstone a queen pinned to a soldier

Where they might bring back the birch (wordplay)

Flowers that do well among trees and shrubs (wordplay)

Plots of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown

""Pl. argumenta (-t ) Logic An argument, demonstration, or appeal to reason.""

Activity for summer (wordplay)

Field of operations (wordplay)

R without an apostrophe (wordplay)

Toothless, burrowing animals.

Plated mammals

Burrowing mammals.

Armature

Bearing arms.

Armistice

ARMORIAL a book of coats-of-arms

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

Makes fragrant

Stoppage.

Stoppage

Varying heartbeat

Lacking rhythm or regularity of rhythm: "a slight arrhythmic imperfection when the car idles" (Garrison Keillor).

Arrowworm

Artemisia

Austerity of a strict hermit

Discipline of mind and body.

Diogenes belief

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

Aspartame

Asphaltum

Collection (of things or people)

Rally about silver collection

French for "blending"

"Westminster Standards" framers

They come together to put together

Westminster Standards framers

Diets for the party members with seats

Pep rallies

Doctor ambles; she is avoiding hospital gatherings

Gathering son wears same silly flash jewellery

Estimate that can be taxing!

Masses sent abroad for appraisal

Certain tax determinant

Reporter's stint

Task in which worker keeps messing about

Broken-down gents is man's task

Absorb and digest (food)

Take in a smile as it develops

Become part of the prevailing culture

""Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.""

Smashing on mattress, showing variety!

Classification of chocolates (wordplay)

No smart set would make such a selection

Assumpsit

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

Asthmatic

Not right insight (wordplay)

Suffering distortions of vision

Having double-vision

Astrodome

""The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.""

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

They're approachable (wordplay)

Lines that approach curves (but never touch them)

Type of curve, in math.

Athenaeum

Pl. atheromas or atheromata (-m -t ) A deposit or degenerative accumulation of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall of an artery.

Atmometer

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

With regards to nuclear energy

How a nation with nukes is armed

Atonalism

Reparations for wrong.

Reparations for wrongs

Some religious experiences

Love sent by email (wordplay)

Love sent by e-mail (wordplay)

File with an email

The achievement (of a goal)

A b-blemish limiting men's achievement

Act of achieving something

Attemper

Good Twitter handle for a seductress (wordplay)

""The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord.""

Harmonisation needs much attention without having people turn back

Audiogram

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

The measurement of hearing.

Sitting-room with a view (wordplay)

Room for performances

The principal's classroom

Augmenter

Adding to summer (wordplay)

Enlarging.

Increasing

Augmentor

Ausform

Autoecism

Autogamy

Characterized by autogamy; selffertilized.

Such a response is not wanted from setter's in-car mobile menu

Automaker

Some cars

Automate

Present-day production trend.

Feature of modern industry.

Use of electronic devices.

Action which does not involve conscious intention

AUTOMATISE AUTOMATE to convert to automatic control

Prepare to mass-produce, say

*Mindless workers (letters 3-8)

Folk who lead a routine monotonous life

Cuckoos in clocks, for example

Jaguar, for one

Road-test need

Welcome graduation gift.

Why they eyed the showroom (wordplay)

Why they eyed the showroom?

Relating to motor vehicles

Independent political groups.

""Government independent self-rule free from outside influence. Freedom , Politics""

Having self-government.

Independent

Independent.

Autotomy

Cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

""The spontaneous casting off of a limb or other body part, such as the tail of certain lizards or the claw of a lobster, especially when the organism is injured or under attack.""

AUTUMNAL pertaining to {autumn=n}

Greek egg-citrus soup

Sauce in Greek cuisine

Citrus-tinged Greek soup

The act of avouching; positive declaration.

AXIOMATIZE

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

Act of desertion

Process of giving up completely

State of desertion

Abdominal

It's odd what a morality ban can produce

Aberrant feature

Deviance

The action of putting an end to (a practice)

Loathing.

Curse hum during a big road race

Action that is vile

Feeling of hatred or disgust

Abominator

Process of shortening (a text)

Curtailment

Section of Battersea Bridge men tackled as contracted work

Abridgment

It leaves one classless (wordplay)

(Practice of) staying away from work

Practice of staying away from work

Absolutism

An RA, perhaps

Member of a teaching establishment

Member of the RA

Adherence to formal rules (in art or literature)

Enthusiastic praise

Public praise

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

""The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.""

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.""

Do something obliging (wordplay)

Provide lodging for (someone)

Provide shelter for

Escorted

Plays along with

Goes along with current organisations

Goes with.

Consort pianist (wordplay)

Person who plays music for a soloist

Musician who cannot perform on his own

Fellow criminals from cosmic place, disorderly

Abettors

Accruement

Brought together into a group or crowd

Hoards

Bet; large battery cell

Battery - type of bet

Electric cell; bet

Accustom

Acetabulum

Feat in armour

Thing that is accomplished

Something accomplished by effort

Being without color

To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Acidimeter

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

Acoelomate

""The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.""

Like some divorces

Angry and bitter

Producing bad feelings

""A chronic disease of adults marked by enlargement of the bones of the extremities, face, and jaw that is caused by overactivity of the pituitary gland.""

Acrylamide

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

The measurement of the force of solar radiation.

""Pl. actinomyces Any of various filamentous, mostly anaerobic microorganisms of the genus Actinomyces, which includes the causative agents of actinomycosis.""