2-Letter Words Starting with A

Promises dashed in University College, fools around

Promises

Knocked out a dishonest criminal

Amazed - and so is the organisation

Left slack-jawed

Staggers, due to ill-fitting satin shoes

Knocks for a loop

Surprises, this season, coming out

Adman's adjective

An observation about tenor: 'stunning'

Striking dumb with astonishment

Astrakhan

Astrict

Caustic stinger ant outbreak!

Trains excited bloke, 17 (wordplay)

Sharp as wine with added peel, say

Astringe

Spacey types (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen?

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!

It's shrewd breaking statue over head

Doctor uses a test involving new insight

Shrewdness

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

Asyndeton

Athanasy

Athenaeum

Atonalism

Atonalist

Reparations for wrong.

Reparations for wrongs

Some religious experiences

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

Love sent by email (wordplay)

Love sent by e-mail (wordplay)

File with an email

Like some goals

Not so far as a star.

Within reach

Attainder

The achievement (of a goal)

A b-blemish limiting men's achievement

Act of achieving something

Attaint

Good Twitter handle for a seductress (wordplay)

Factor in grading, perhaps

Gate - enact Dante (anagram)

Guests at Blair's ball (wordplay)

Take care of picnic pests (wordplay)

Checkroom employees, for example

Members of the wedding.

They may be unwelcome

Sergeants' commands

Military standings

Ted ate tuna salad, becoming thin

Reduced in strength

Made thin/thinner

Diminishes in force.

Makes thin.

Weakens

Electronic signal weakener

Electric signal diminisher

Device reducing signal strength

""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.""

Pheromone, notably

Treatise on origins of apparently toxic insect pheromone

Bringing in

Inviting.

It's not repulsive at drawing, perhaps

... for a tire company (wordplay)

Erotic experience is a drag, we're told

They're so wearing

Frictions

Harmonisation needs much attention without having people turn back

Vegetables that might ensure a big stew

Eggplants

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Cautioning over selling house

Activity around the block

Cautioning boss selling the house

(Physics / General Physics) caused or produced by sound or an audio frequency an audiogenic epileptic fit

Tried out for a part

Read (for)

Tried out

Augmenter

Adding to summer (wordplay)

Enlarging.

Increasing

Augmentor

The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.

Ausform

Auslander

Austenite

Of or pertaining to austenite.

AUTOBAHN a German superhighway

Native.

Autogeny

Selfgenerated; produced independently.

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

Autolyse

Autolyze

Automate

Present-day production trend.

Feature of modern industry.

Use of electronic devices.

*Mindless workers (letters 3-8)

Folk who lead a routine monotonous life

Cuckoos in clocks, for example

Independent political groups.

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

Having self-government.

Independent

Independent.

Autopsy

Present participle or gerund

AUTUMNAL pertaining to {autumn=n}

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Winter effects (wordplay)

Skiers' cover-alls (wordplay)

Hazard for skiers.

An undertaking to clad home in glass

Antipathy

Greek egg-citrus soup

Sauce in Greek cuisine

Citrus-tinged Greek soup

Avianize

Avidness

Spare time activities

Free time fillers

Lesser jobs returning Mexican food in French planes

Avoidance

The act of avouching; positive declaration.

Awayness

AXENIC free from germs

Act of desertion

Process of giving up completely

State of desertion

Abdication

Abdominal

Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

Unusual way to see crossword clues arranged

Rudimentary

Aberrancy

They're irregular

Sailor in tears or suffering disorders

Abhorrence

Broth nearly spilt in a repugnant way

In an awful way

So as to inspire loathing

Plural or third person singular

""The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.""

Abiogenist

Abjuration

Pertaining to ablution.

Abnegation

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

Aboriginal

One who procures abortion or miscarriage.

On the surface

GROUCHY

Abreaction

Process of shortening (a text)

Curtailment

Section of Battersea Bridge men tackled as contracted work

Abridgment

Abrogation

Abscission

It leaves one classless (wordplay)

(Practice of) staying away from work

Practice of staying away from work

Mariner answers and gets acquittals

Absorbance

Absorbing

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Absorption

No-votes (wordplay)

Third column in Congressional tallies

Characterized by abstinence; selfrestraining.

Abstinence

With abstinence.

Abstract

Formless art work

Theoretical concept - removal

Preoccupied state

Abstrict

Mistreatment

Insults

An RA, perhaps

Member of a teaching establishment

Member of the RA

""Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.""

Speeding up (music)

Gradually increasing in speed (mus.)

Gradually increasing in speed, in music

Accelerant

In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.

Emphasized

Stresses

Acceptance

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

Accepting

Pertaining to accession; additional.

Accession

Sharps or flats in certain measures

Hawkish marine, left motherless after accident, has another depression

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.""

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

Accordance

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; followed by with or to. with or to.

Bungee jumping is fun

Thus

Like a good math teacher (wordplay)

Obliged (to answer?)

Required to justify oneself

In an accountable manner.

Practice needed for balancing acts

Profession dealing with finance

IRS experts who do sums

Employees in Big Eight companies

Financial experts making reports about worker

Accounting

Getting in gear

Accredit

Accruement

Criminal charges

Legal charges

Charges a couple of hundred on a suit's fitting

Accustom

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

Acetanilid

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

Feat in armour

Thing that is accomplished

Something accomplished by effort

Achondrite

Of or pertaining to achondrite.

ACIDULATE To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.

ACIDULATE To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.

Admit (the truth of something)

Admit the truth of (something)

Recognise current learning

Expert in sound

Source of sound advice

Acquaint

Consenting (to something) without protest

Submissive

Right away, obtains a bit of money, as one falling into line

Giving in

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

A recently received asset or object

Getting clear one that's charged is to be held inside

Gain

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

Acridness

Bright orange-red dye

Like some divorces

Angry and bitter

Producing bad feelings

Having a subterminal centromere

ACTINIC pertaining to {actinism=n}

Actinolite

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.""

Any of various red antibiotics isolated from soil bacteria with a three-ring heterocyclic nucleus with an attached peptide chain.

Parts of software installations

Actomyosin

Making a reality

Complementary medicine using needles

Therapy which needs needles

Method of treatment with needles

Acuteness

Eg, films made from books

Rewritten compositions.

Certain plays.

The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

ADENOMA a tumor of glandular origin

Adeptness

Adjacency

Termination of a meeting

Court suspension

Recess

Adjunction

Solemn appeals

Claim settlements

Modifications

Adjutancy

ADMEASURE To measure.

Madison Avenue V.I.P.'s (wordplay)

Mass communication figures (wordplay)

Directs short note to members of the government

Admiration

Admittance

Admonisher