2-Letter Words Starting with A

Skin-cream ingredient, perhaps

Natural heartburn remedy, some say

Succulent plant (with "vera")

Palace, for one.

Apartment, for one

Humble dwelling (wordplay)

In the preceding paragraph perhaps

Over your head (wordplay)

In the preceding paragraph, perhaps

Casa material, perhaps

Material found in an ABODE (wordplay)

Feat of clay (wordplay)

Dig deeply (wordplay)

Love what's found in bread? Oregano!

Hero-worship, say

Catching some Z's

'Twixt the covers

Catching a few zs

Prior to a golfer's warning?

Prior to a golfer's warning (wordplay)

Start for mentioned

Ancient rockers' "ago" (wordplay)

In the past, to poets of the past

Ancient rockers ago

Unlucky in love, say

In solitary confinement, say

In solitary confinement say

Whac- - (carnival game)

Root used as soap in Mexico

Mexican saponaceous root.

Cell division (wordplay)

Positively, some poetry!

Plus side (wordplay)

Green lizard with a pink dewlap

Chameleon's cousin

Lizard kept as a pet

Lost a lap (wordplay)

Did stand up (wordplay)

Gave a standing O say

When penitents convene (wordplay)

When penitents convene?

Make amends or pitch (wordplay)

Ended a nightmare say

Returned to reality, say

Stirred out of REM, say

Part of a nerve cell (Var.)

Part of a nerve cell

Part of a nerve cell.

Amino acids source

Chemical compound group

Class of organic compounds

Nitrogen in chemistry

Lavoisier's name for nitrogen.

Lavoisiers name for nitrogen

Isolated mathematical point

Geometrical point of curve.

Listeria bacterium, for one

Member of upper class

Entity needing oxygen

Early malls (wordplay)

Trading places (wordplay)

Old public squares

Ponied up (wordplay)

My kingdom trade offer (wordplay)

Richard III's desperate cry

Recess (in room)

Breakfast place (wordplay)

Dinette set's spot, perhaps

Chemical sugar

Elbow: Anat

Lack of identity

Unstable societal condition

Breakdown of societal norms

Who's interested (wordplay)

Volunteers report Annie won!

You can hear me, right (wordplay)

Trunk lines (wordplay)

Blood lines (wordplay)

Powerful bloodlines (wordplay)

Highest point (of orbit)

Far point in an orbit

High point in an orbit

Put next to each other.

Put in juxtaposition.

Put next to

Ring of color (Var.)

Biological ring of color (Var.)

Interstice in a leaf

Full of melody.

Characterized by melody.

Of melodic air.

A sandstone

Build a fire under, say

Play Luther Vandross songs for, maybe

Play some Luther Vandross for, perhaps

Dinah, for one (wordplay)

On key, perhaps? (wordplay)

On land (as opposed to the sea)

Not even (wordplay)

On the decline (wordplay)

On the up and up (wordplay)

Gastropod for solo sailor (wordplay)

Edible mollusc - on a bale (anagram)

Sailor has sole as seafood

Abolla

Clear (of blame)

Sailor's love sick? Pardon!

Lob vase (anagram)

Shaped like a pine needle.

One woman sharp as a needle

Fabulous flower, but spiky

Super Glue dissolver

One with bent note's solvent

Solvent found in tea, once

One to initially smell execrable is sour

Vinegarish

Vinegary.

""A yellowish red dye, also ANATTA, ANATTO, ANNATTA, ANNATTO, ROUCOU""

Having seeds, as grapes.

Containing berries

Lace toy (anagram)

Church candle lighter

Priest's attendant

Was it once a poison (wordplay)

A trick - Italian drug is poison!

Poison - it's found in an ice cream!

'Fatty is a dope' - that's cruel!

Is a dope fat (wordplay)

Fat-storing (tissue)

Tarzan, for one

Steve Jobs, for one

Stuart Little, for one

A sugar obtained from agar

Suffer anguish - go in sea (anagram)

Suffer extremely: Eng. sp.

Be in torments of indecision

Lose sleep (over)

Consider a tough decision, say

Struggle painfully (over)

With extra calories, so to say

Do a meal in French style (1, 2, 4)

Having gotten the scoop (wordplay)

Rider of a sort

Coming from galleon with attachment to bill of exchange

Attachment to a bill of exchange for further endorsement

A chemical compound

Unreliable man I love, the heartless reptile, perhaps

Examples of the simple life (wordplay)

Low life (wordplay)

Shape shifters (wordplay)

Vessel holding liquid for injection

Capsule containing injection dose

Solution holder variable

Component of starch

Mystical interpretation of the Bible

Mystic scriptural interpretation

Mystical interpretation of a word

That's a blooming mean one!

A flower; mean one (anagram)

Flowering plant - mean one (anagram)

Aromatic liquid

Supply a coat (wordplay)

Prepare for coating, as aluminum

Protect from rusting

Done any other sedative (wordplay)

G-rated, say

Annoyed, having to reorder painkiller

Part of an electric conductor

Hungry person's question (wordplay)

Is that it (wordplay)

Was that the last one (wordplay)

Proving a point by exposing the absurdity of the opposite

Deletion of last syllable

Loss of a word's ending

Omission of part of a word

Point in a certain space orbit

Far point in an orbit around the moon

Moon orbiter's apogee

Jude, for one

Porter say accepts position as preacher

Thaddaeus, for one

Think well (of)

Say yes to

Pronounce (something) satisfactory

Sandy or gritty

Full of sand.

Ones are sandy

Spaces between the veins of a leaf.

Interstices in veins of leaves.

Rings of color

Top opening (wordplay)

Handy gap in dress

T-shirt feature

More air (anagram)

Bedroom furniture, perhaps

Macron's cabinet (wordplay)

Fragment (S, not Z)

Powder: male is filling five letters

Feline, is 'e? So spray him

Mist-ify (wordplay)

Blast with a ray gun, perhaps

Reduce to small particles

Euro ale? (anagram)

Ring of light

Encircling ring of light

Lights up at night (wordplay)

Night lights (wordplay)

Night sky lights

An African tree

That's great!

Far out, man!

Far out, dude!

A part of a cilium

""To combine with nitrogen, also AZOTIZE""

""To combine with nitrogen, also AZOTISE""

Are a little fruitless in a boat I have

Steal show outside, returning fruitless

Coming to no result

Formally cancel (an agreement)

Annul - to a barge (anagram)

Cancel or repeal, say a law

Positive kind of zero? On the contrary!

Complete and unrestricted, say power

Free from limits, power perhaps

""Stemless, also ACAULINE, ACAULOUS""

A steel tap (wordplay)

Praising mention or award.

A praising mention

Cor! A cute flipping dress!

Equip, Brit-style

Accountant gets bizarre dress

A thin sac at the head of the sperm

Kind of parent

Adult pivoted turning parental

Like certain parents

Eliciting an "aww," maybe

Cute and cuddly (wordplay)

Eliciting an 'aww,' maybe

Recommend like counsellor (wordplay)

Recommend a solicitor (wordplay)

Urge one to be a barman (wordplay)

Heavier-than-air craft

Heavier-than-air aircraft

Weighty flier

Rock meteorite; oil eater (anagram)

Earth-impacting meteorite

Meteorite of stone.

Exchange business.

Stockjobbery? I got stuck in since finding time to mature

""A type of chemical compound, also AGLYCON""

Winging it (wordplay)

Gone with the wind (wordplay)

Like parachutists, at times

Landing field, of a kind

When you might start school

Field of a sort

Large tuna; able orca (anagram)

A fish that gets canned (wordplay)

Al Gore has cab back up for good swimmer

""A large tuna fish, also ALBACORE""

A water-soluble protein

An {enzyme=n}

Part of a pub crawl, perhaps

Drafty establishment (wordplay)

Has he a pub with a louse (wordplay)

Protein granule in seeds.

A protein found in some seeds

Assign or give to, say a duty

Distribute (eg, duties)

Assign (to a purpose)

Heir, for one

One receiving a share

Heir, often

A type of {antibody=n}

A herbicide

The lava of a lamprey

Coiled fossil shell

Type of fossil

Fossil mollusc

Ten on in there (wordplay)

No ten on this to be liquidated

Gradually write off initial costs

Write off gradually

Write off over time

Spread out over time, in a way

Tall classical jars (E, not S)

A battered hamper containing round jars

Ancient Greek wine jars

Septic tank worker (wordplay)

Bacterium that doesn't need oxygen

Organism growing without free oxygen

Duplicate, fancy (var.)

Using hands hour after hour (wordplay)

Margerine, to butter, for example

Neat code (anagram)

Date once (anagram)

Speaker's intro, perhaps

""A chemical compound, also ANETHOL""

Relating to angina

Having an angle

To fuse as the bones of a joint

Add comments to (a text)

Add to marginally (wordplay)

Mark up the margins, perhaps

Declare girl's a lightweight (wordplay)

Make known girl wait, say

Do the play-by-play, say

Having rings

Eland, for one

'Gazelle or springbok, say (8)'

Dik-dik, for one

Toxic avenger (wordplay)

Remedy for one opposing love

I'd not eat nasty poison? Certainly not!

Part of a radio wave

Hint, in one poem, the exact opposite

Opposite conductor, head buried

North, to south

South, to the North

Direct opposite

Clement VII, for example

Breakaway religious leader

Alexander V, for example

Turned forward or upward

A chemical used to kill houseflies

""To make a concise statement, also APHORIZE""

Spout adages

Wax philosophical

Use saws

Relating to a product of a gland

Short story with a moral

Fable right out of a work by Chaucer

Story with a moral.

A curve in a column

Unfolded one (wordplay)

The traitor is a pilot officer, say

Defector - a Petty Officer, say

A spore-producing organ of fungi

Suitable place by a quiet river in Italy

Tip Aesop may give is fitting

A quiet river location, well chosen

Water color (wordplay)

Lithographic process

""To form many branches, also ARBORISE""

Having small crevices

Having a ring

Divided into angular spaces.

A type of {aril=n}

Claim for oneself without justification

Seize without right.

Make undue claims

Forgivable, like venial sins

Like venal sins

Expiable

Declare view after concocting rat poison

Drug left over stopping boundless hurt

Compound used to dilate the pupil

Aureola

Antique car show event, perhaps

Parade of a sort

Procession of cars

Relating to a type of electrical circuit

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

Make more efficient perhaps

Staff with robots (wordplay)

Make more efficient perhaps

A type of chromosome

Facsimile

Worthy of confession

Hate to be a man, I suspect

Tottering in boat, Mae can't stand

Regard with disgust

Earliest inhabitant of, say, Australia

Native of Australia

Inhabitant of country before colonists

One who hates heights

The 'A' of ATP

The A in ATP

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

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

Substance taken up in a lab

A type of tree covered in fruit? It's only on the surface

The use of atmospheric drag rather than onboard thrusters to reduce the velocity of a satellite or spacecraft.

Heathrow, for one

Bumper edition of The Waves (wordplay)

By the sound of it, a plain place

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

""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.""

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

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!

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)

""Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.""

Green variety of microcline

A green semiprecious stone

Green feldspar.

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph

Variant of amoebocyte .

""A type of ammonia compound, also AMMINE, AMMONIATE""

Hornblende

Draw a comparison, in a way

Reason in a way

To dissect a very little matter is easy at first

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

City at the head of Cook Inlet

Alaskan Air Force base.

Place for ships to stop

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

Spicy sausage

A spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin

Hermaphroditic plant

Man or woman? Not black or white, but grey and no mistake

Fibula-foot connector

It's between the shin and the foot

Fibula neighbor

Can anyone shift pest (wordplay)

Bug party for Oriental pest

Pebble in one's shoe, e.g

""A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

Like some headphones

Like some airport laws

Like many a resident near an airport

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

""The protein component of an enzyme, to which the coenzyme attaches to form an active enzyme.""

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

One assigned (to a job)

Chosen one (wordplay)

Pick, of sorts