2-Letter Words Starting with A

Perhaps a spring in abundance

Rich one leaping

That's what a leap year won't be a-doing

Abradant

Skin scrapes

Playground injuries

Wearing a metal jacket, one gets no back injuries

Contracting a sort of loan

Curtailing one type of loan

Reducing a sort of loan

""A sudden, violent separation""

Shedding

Abscisin

Went without saying

Tried to avoid arrest, say

Ran away to avoid legal process

Person on the run

Band score rewritten for The Fugitive

Fugitive running Bond's race

Sailor at sea, some say, descending by rope

Seaman yachting, say, or coming down rope

Sailor navigating yacht, say, or coming down rope

Some ballots or voters

Election tippers, sometimes

They stay away from beast seen running

Absenter

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.

""One that {absorbs=v}, also ABSORBATE, ABSORBENT, ABSORBER""

Bob ran set (anagram)

Spongy clue for boars (wordplay)

Like paper towels

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

Being {built=v}

A bread roll twist perhaps is plenty

Plenty, but it isn't a cake-walk!

Lots of baking at the ball (wordplay)

Abutilon

Some points of contact

Supporting structures of a bridge.

Arch supports

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

Accentor

About a nurse, overcome by real stress showing

Accepting; receiving.

That says one will

Being no refuse here, it seems

Save for the sound

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.

Escort to affirm (wordplay)

Play second fiddle to, in a way

Travel along with

Harmonious

Consonant.

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

Totted up to a hundred, for all that

Considered to be a hundred totted up

All added up to a century

Growing together

Collecting corps' soldiers during battle

Process of growth

Increase of carbon in explosive reaction

Accusant

Acescent

It's a gas!

A collection o' thin ones? Great gas!

Kind of torch

Bringing to a successful outcome

Gaining with effort

Getting a larcenous Conservative for leader ...

Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

Aconitum

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

Developing, as a skill

Acridine

Extreme bitter taste

That's enough to make your eye smart

Acrodont

Acrolein

ACRONYM a word formed from initials

Actinian

Series of radioactive elements

Elements playin' a part on fateful day

Uranium and plutonium, for example

Actinism

Actinium

Actinoid

Motivating

Process of making operate

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

Acutance

Quality of sharp pain

That seems a cunning attribute

Use secant with sharp perceptiveness

Acylate

ACYLATE to introduce acyl into

Adamance

Without backing down

With no sign of caving

In manner unyielding

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

New members of the family.

Extra rooms, for example

Extra publishings, by the sound of them

Adduct

The act of adducing or bringing forward.

Glandular upset ailed an old Democrat

Glandular trouble almost laid one out

Like glandular tissue at back of nose

Adenoma

The 'A' of ATP

The A in ATP

Ability without difficulty

Dud and Pete's singular skill

Savior-faire

Observant quality present in fluid dance

You'd be stuck with that

Sticking ability

Adherend

Followers less certain than Reed's

Tears by poor head's supporters

Supporters of neatherds

Abnormally united tissues

Firm attachments

Contiguity.

Do a jig in new building next door

A daughter doing woodwork? Touching

A daughter getting married next door

Closed court at the end of a session

More than recessed

Postponed until another day

Adjudge

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

Fine-tuning

Assistant officer's role

Military officers

Adjuvant

Madison Avenue undertaking (wordplay)

Guilty plea, say

Commercial assignment (wordplay)

Kind of department at a hospital

Accepting the truth of

Agreement to the truth of entrance

Adnation

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

Touch of color, perhaps

Decoration for naval personnel in a spot

Mend a torn dress with decoration

Like charcoal filter

Capable of deflecting moisture

Capable of producing a film about bears? Don't!

Adsorb

Dug around a Latin - praise be!

Worshipful

Lauding

Very high regard

Sycophant's specialty

High praise for an adult I love to tease

Maturity

Advancer

Lending is increasing

Moving forward like army

Moving forward, as troops

Service commercial vehicle, say, at back

Edge of the tennis court (wordplay)

Head start, say

Advect

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Accidental.

Commercial gamble (wordplay)

Per this perhaps it's exciting

New account on Madison Avenue (wordplay)

Attentive, heedful

The Reverend Father returns to his temporary quarters

Referring to incidentally

The Reverend Father is back for a little tea with gin

Advowson

Adynamia

Giant flightless bird once found in Madagascar

Aequorin

Oxygen-supplying procedures

Aerify

Aerodyne

Balloonists or airmen

They go up and down

Balloon pilots, for example

Upper-atmosphere studier

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

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

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

Afferent

Promised to go into a union

Betrothed

Engaged

Affiance

Saying yes to

Noun (-ment)

Well, that gets one off

Well, it's got off this

A guard contracts sickness in profusion

Affluence.

Affluent

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 fine figurehead ends oddly insulted

Offended by disrespect.

Offended one FBI operative about political group

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

Poison produced by food moulds; oxtail fan (anagram)

Perhaps I am never in time like this

On following no following amend, perhaps

Am finished before it starts (wordplay)

Agatize

Agenesia

Agenize

Agenting

Agentive

Agentry

Aggrade

What a disturbing thing to be doing!

It's shaking, thanks to a can in a gig

One might find it with a can in a horse

State of unrest

Rabble-rouser's activity

Attack of the fidgets.

Aglycone

Agnation

They just don't know

They don't know if God exists or not

Religious doubters

What 14 down is

Going in, as poorly and fretting

Very painful, really hurtful

Argumentative.

Kind of reappraisal

Painful

Advocates of land reform

Farm promoters

Gentlemen's, for one

Arbitrator's goal

Yes, that will make it contract

Of farm management

Pertaining to crop production

Like farming

Agrypnia

Tree of Heaven; Thai Alnus (anagram)

Sugar maybe taking one part of 7 tree

Tree liana winding round in this manner

777's, for example

Passengers travel in them

Logan fleet

Delta force (wordplay)

United ways (wordplay)

Jet set (wordplay)

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

Alarum

Albinism

Affected with albinism.

Alburnum

Attention that fielders must show

Sentry's attribute

Relents as travelling in vigilant state

Aleurone

Author of stepquote (first name)

A great Greek ruler (wordplay)

Any of three Russian emperors

Alfaquin

Natives of Oran

Alginate

Its antonym is in the Declaration

No citizen can transfer what he owns

Capable of being transferred.

Alienage

Shut off (from)

How Keri Hilson feels (wordplay)

Date Liane (anagram)

Puts a gulf between.

Sets at odds

Makes a foe of

Poor diplomat, say

Family outcast, perhaps

One causing estrangement

Alienism

Specialists in the psychiatric field.

Psychiatrists of old

Legal term for psychiatrists.

ALIEN to transfer to another as property

Brightness perhaps for the landing

Getting down to an ignition

Getting down to illumination, it seems

Tin mangle (anagram)

Arrangement in a straight line

Service-station job

ALIKE having close resemblance

Aliment

Severance package payments (wordplay)

Tender towards one's exes (wordplay)

Means of maintainance for former mates

A straightening of the ranks.

Troop order

Political arrangement

Existing quality in a vessel at sea

Vigour, vivacity

Alizarin

Allanite

""Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.""

""A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid. allantoic acid and amniotic acid.""

""Pl. allantoides ( l n-t -d z ) A membranous sac that develops from the posterior part of the alimentary canal in the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles. It is important in the formation of the umbilical cord and placenta in mammals. Also called allantoid .""

Everybody say one soldier's loyal

Orchestra losing leader, a man very great and loyal

German folk dance

A German in Paris.

Baroque-era dance

Sneeze causers, say

Pollen and dander

Dander and dust, often

Allergin

""A synthetic clear or amber-colored viscous insecticide, C 19 H 26 O 3 , similar to pyrethrin.""

Combinations, of states say

Grand, Holy, Triple, etc

Benelux and NATO.