2-Letter Words Starting with A

Siamang, for one

Fay Wray pal (wordplay)

Make fun of, maybe

Pod squad (wordplay)

Spot for the masses (wordplay)

Ecclesiastical setback (wordplay)

In awe perhaps

In midyawn perhaps

In mid-yawn, perhaps

Enough and maybe more

Nice way to say "heavy"

Enough maple fudge (wordplay)

A quiet one, but fast!

Speedily, to the Bard

Quickly becomes a leading polo expert

Tell tale target (wordplay)

The - Cart (Shaw)

Baldwin for one

Pagan love feasts

Selfless loves

Love feasts

Category for moguls (wordplay)

Nepali straying among Swiss peaks

Like northern Italy

A bit of a shock (wordplay)

A in physics class (wordplay)

Current-sy unit (wordplay)

Shot glass (wordplay)

Sealed glass vial.

It might hold the solution

Cochise, for one

Geronimo, for one

Geronimo, for one.

For one item

A bishop perhaps for every one

A bit for everyone (wordplay)

Light-colored granite

It's pale metamorphosed rock

Fine-grained granite.

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

Not even (wordplay)

On the decline (wordplay)

On the up and up (wordplay)

Have big plans (to)

I spare (anagram)

Have hopes (to)

'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

Vessel holding liquid for injection

Capsule containing injection dose

Solution holder variable

Frostbite victim, maybe

Gangrene sufferer, maybe

I am turning up with one peg, perhaps

Proving a point by exposing the absurdity of the opposite

Natural accompaniment variable

Natural accompaniment Var.

The gift of how old the saucepan is

Hungry-sounding mineral

Ingredient of most bones and teeth

Mineral in the teeth

Hulking and dumb, maybe

Neanderthal, you might say

Resembling an anthropoid

Aphtha

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

Placate (by giving in)

Make calm by offering concessions

Calm, pacify, placate

A priest to stand up and advise

Inform, make aware of

Inform (of)

""To inform, also APPRISE""

Think well (of)

Say yes to

Pronounce (something) satisfactory

A striking against something

An {enzyme=n}

Shakespeare's slander (wordplay)

Drag through the mud

Cast maligning remarks at

Omen; epic USA (anagram)

A sign of excitement after 6 (wordplay)

Gold mace perhaps an omen

A unit of electric current

Type of jellyfish

One admitted to a college, for example

Not set in one's ways

Like a chameleon's color

Doctor paid a vet to be compliant

Kind of parent

Adult pivoted turning parental

Like certain parents

1980 Leslie Nielsen film title!

Runway model (wordplay)

Stew container (wordplay)

A view of the earth from an aircraft

Room at the top (wordplay)

Shows some speed ? flying through it!

Musical tempo above ground (wordplay)

A type of {antibody=n}

Pill case (anagram)

Berry whose oil is used in catsup

Jerk chicken ingredient

The strength of the current (wordplay)

I'm, through time, a fury for 18 across

Strength of a certain current

Tall classical jars (E, not S)

A battered hamper containing round jars

Ancient Greek wine jars

Ancient two-handled bottles.

Small two-handled ancient Roman flasks

Wine chalices

Cut off (limb)

Cut off (a limb)

Remove (a limb)

Stage in mitosis

Eland, for one

'Gazelle or springbok, say (8)'

Dik-dik, for one

A preceding type

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

Concerned with rape prevention

It represents an opposite

Opposite symbol.

Contrasting kind

Here, there, or everywhere (wordplay)

Apathetic reply to a mover's query

Nowhere in particular

Opening for purer tea, perhaps

Opening (for a photographer?)

Opening (on camera, for example)

Dark rock

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

Perk up, dad - face life's later years!

Grant to a priest for a time

Natural adjunct.

Temporary winner at court

Food drive (wordplay)

Desire (for food)

Intake regulator (wordplay)

Appreciative round (wordplay)

Standing O, say

Clapping US appeal (wordplay)

Sewn-on design, perhaps

Designs on you, perhaps

Design sewed on material

Suitable place by a quiet river in Italy

Tip Aesop may give is fitting

A quiet river location, well chosen

Evaluate and pop back to say it's good

Assess the value/quality of (something)

Assess value of (something)

A diet put out for fitness

Tied up at work acquiring proficiency

Natural ability or skill

Aglow

Make rough or harsh

Roughen, old style

Say hi to my favourite snake (wordplay)

Say the "h" in "historical," say

Say "hitch," for example

Declare view after concocting rat poison

Drug left over stopping boundless hurt

Compound used to dilate the pupil

Facsimile

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

Fit for acceptance.

One who hates heights

Of flexible nature.

American with bald pate oddly plastic

Good at fitting in to new circumstances

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

Able to be taken up

Fit for taking home from the animal shelter

Commercial work on board is such as may be undertaken

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

""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

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph

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

APICULATE

""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

This kind of court hears appeals

Like a review panel

Sort of court

E.g. insect's leg, feeler

One of an octopod's octad

An attached part

A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

Washing machine or toaster, say

Machine (for use in the home)

Gift for a housewife.

One assigned (to a job)

Chosen one (wordplay)

Pick, of sorts

""(tr) to assess the worth, value, or quality of""

Sanction

Sanction.

Motorboat's tow, perhaps

Water skis alternative

Skim on layer of water

Standard - cheap tyre (anagram)

Teachers' pay rotten? Not seen as ideal!

Jaguar follows supreme original model

One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.] Illust. of Ascus.]

What NutraSweet is a brand of

After a dispute, subdue with sweetener

It's sweet to take me to a Greek city

ASPARTATE

Aspirata

Line near a hyperbola

Almost a sign to note near tangent

Line that a curve infinitely approaches

Band that plays music (wordplay)

Sound evidence (wordplay)

Garage band's production, once

A liquid mixture of two or more substances that retains the same composition in the vapor state as in the liquid state when distilled or partially evaporated under a certain pressure.

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

Not bad welcome (wordplay)

Good enough but not great

Of (marginally) satisfactory quality

Occasion to give a speech

Granting admission to Powell's world

The world of Powell

Second place comic played

Criminal's associate

Helper in wrongdoing

Growing well in an acid medium: acidophilic bacteria.

Having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface; displaying adsorption.adsorption.

""A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.""

Additional short sketch.

One afraid of open spaces

One who suffers a fear of crossing open spaces

I hate going out since chat with lout who's on benefits

Art for the masses (wordplay)

Communion table screen

Painting placed prominently in church

English word

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

Like Grenada, but not Granada

Like the Bahamas, Barbados and Belize

English-speaking

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

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

""An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.""

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

A comic Frenchman in group is to abandon principles

Abandon your principles with a job at one's expense initially

""To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.""

Office of the Pope.

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

O death, where is thy sting (wordplay)

Greengrocers missing sign (wordplay)

Maker's mark (wordplay)

""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.""

Item on a personnel chief's checklist

Item on a personnel director's list

Reason for a face lift

Open to placation

To perceive; to comprehend.

""Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. as, appetitive power or faculty.""

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

""Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. as, an appointive office.""

It may be set off by commas

Juxtaposed

APPRAISE to set a value on

Increase (in value)

(Of asset) rise in value

Be fully aware of.

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

ARPEGGIATE

The act of ascribing.

""A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine. C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine.""

Asphaltic.

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

Choke, but manage to pay his tax before the end of June

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Hawkish marine, left motherless after accident, has another depression

Shiatsu

Complementary medicine using needles

Therapy which needs needles

Method of treatment with needles

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.

Work on library cards

*Put in order, as files

A white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

Working in MPH, AA meet required speed

Mood-altering drug

Stimulant drug

A metamorphic rock composed chiefly of amphibole and plagioclase.

""In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.""

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

""A mineral relating to the zeolites, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.""

To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.

Worthy of being applauded.

Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical.

Large enough to be noticed

Enough to be taken into account

Paper round gets Puck into Telegraph? That's significant

Suitable to take for one's own use

Acquire something suitable (wordplay)

Take to be suitable

Appear to mix badly? Almost right!

Not totally precise

Rough (figure)

""Pl. arthroscopies Examination of the interior of a joint, such as the knee, using a type of endoscope that is inserted into the joint through a small incision.""

""A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria.""

""Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked.""

English word

Positron in relation to an electron, say

Eg, a positron

Positron, for example

""PLEASURE to give enjoyment or satisfaction to, also PLEASE""

Revise trophies behind a point of sale for writer's way of saying he owns it

Shorten a word

Address an imaginary person

Conscious perception with full awareness.

Showing gratitude

Thankful for backing Evita with epic rap melody

In someone's debt for treasure around island - it's a sign

Even I, perhaps, could be afraid

Even I, perhaps, could become so fearful

Anxious, perhaps even worried about one

Easy to meet or deal with

Easy to talk with

Easy to talk to

""Capable of being appropriated, set apart, sequestered, or assigned exclusively to a particular use.""

Accessory (linked to a particular activity)

Net can be fitted in a quietly perfect accessory

Accessory developing rut in a quiet act of mortification

""A mineral of a tinwhite color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel. arsenical pyrites and mispickel.""