2-Letter Words Starting with A

Risk assessors sign, after a drastic cut

They calculate insurance risks

Insurance company employees

Actuator

""A synthetic purine nucleoside analog, C 8 H 10 N 5 O 3 , derived from guanine and used in the treatment of herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and varicella zoster virus infections.""

Ready to be posted, say

Said to be what was on the envelope

So the envelope must be spoken to

Letter-opener (wordplay)

Letter opener (wordplay)

A letter opener (wordplay)

One on a podium, perhaps

Speech-maker

Business machine.

Points of contact (wordplay)

Speaks to, a crowd perhaps

Places where people can be found

Inner thigh muscles

Certain thigh muscles

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

Closed court at the end of a session

More than recessed

Postponed until another day

They alter commercials - right the Queen should appear in them

Adjustor

This made a certain share

Will Father get back to me with a certain way to share this out (wordplay)

Can A get made certain to apportion this (wordplay)

Deserving respect and approval

Excellent as Barrie's butler

Deserving of esteem

Liam Brady played like this

Main office (wordplay)

The main men (wordplay)

Headquarters of the British navy.

Bouncers, at times

Extraneous ingredient

Say nice things about new tux, creating bit of a stir (wordplay)

Ingredient.

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

Most skilful at concealing steroid misuse

Adscript

Substance taken up in a lab

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

Like charcoal filter

Capable of deflecting moisture

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

Some emissions reducers

Adsorb

Adularia

Prays from them, by the sound of it

Obsequious group

Big fans

Excessively flattering

When almost grown-up, a politician is flattering

Sycophantic

Who later rued straying (wordplay)

Durer tale (anagram)

One's business affairs (wordplay)

Foreshadow a silent tear, perhaps

Indicate a silent speed (wordplay)

Outline from an unintelligent judge

Advancer

Commercial gamble (wordplay)

Per this perhaps it's exciting

New account on Madison Avenue (wordplay)

Kind of clause

Of a class of words.

Type of phrase

Antagonist or opponent

Satan (with "the").

One's not 4U

I write jingles

Harmfully notice poetry lay hollow

In a way, against advertising jingles

State of misfortune or affliction

Something to rise above

(State of) misfortune

Attentive, heedful

The Reverend Father returns to his temporary quarters

Referring to incidentally

The Reverend Father is back for a little tea with gin

Throw out pitches (wordplay)

Promote (a product)

Push kin (wordplay)

{advertise=v}

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Giant flightless bird once found in Madagascar

Aequorin

Oxygen-supplying procedures

One living the high life (wordplay)

Turn up (wordplay)

Man on the flying trapeze

Aerify

Doing stunts with airplanes

Of stunt flying

One in novel boat race having high jinks

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

Aeroduct

Aerodyne

For a couple of eagles, backing up lubricates wings

Aerogram

Meteorites (E, not H)

Stony bodies from outer space.

Stony meteorites

Stony meteorites

Density determining instrument

Gas-density gauge

Gizmo that measures gas properties

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)

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

Dirigibles, balloons, etc.

Balloons

Affecter

Afferent

Affirmer

Saying yes to

Providing a fine crossing

Having enough money to bear the expense

24 down is what you might have been this, as you might say

Afforest

Affrayer

Affray

""A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

Affright

A fine figurehead ends oddly insulted

Offended by disrespect.

Offended one FBI operative about political group

Raised above (wordplay)

Being the one previously mentioned

The one previously mentioned

Road to recovery

Need for recovering patients

Support to customer following a purchase

Unlooked-for ending

Surprise blow following affair thought ended.

Ship area behind the bridge house

Later, adorn part of ship

Dress following of stern queen in area behind bridge

Bursting, flow with great warm feeling

Light once the actual source has gone

Light in the sky post sunset

Medium access (wordplay)

Post-death existence

Heaven or hell., for example

When to study physics?

When to study physics (wordplay)

Consequences (of an event)

Last to be following the majority

Right at the back, yet wanting the lion's share

Perhaps I am never in time like this

On following no following amend, perhaps

Am finished before it starts (wordplay)

'That's of late, it seems (5,4)'

Future

Later, it's not before you draw this up

At a later time

*... war dance ...

Book's epilogue

Concluding section in a book

Concluding part of book

Agentry

Blue or white garden flowers.

Small blue or white flowers.

Garden flowers

Aggrade

Exasperate or exacerbate

Annoy, and make things worse

Make (problem) worse

Collective total - a great egg (anagram)

Greg is stone-faced, in sum (wordplay)

Get garage to fix heap (wordplay)

Aggress

Is first to attack

Sets upon

Communist China, by U. N. vote of 44-7

The one who 'started it'

Beginner of a quarrel.

Dig verge - a mistake - caused pain!

Distressed by old, confused giver-in

How a horse was rid about her for grouse

Rages give awful pains

Treats unjustly

Attorney-General mourns and causes distress

That's sure to get one gone

A gait rots the stirrers

Sort of a gait for trouble, they are

Agitprop

Agraphia

Advocates of land reform

Farm promoters

Nice to be able to say yes

Gee, that makes it 13 down and arable!

In harmony; pleasant

In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly.

Gentlemen's, for one

Arbitrator's goal

Yes, that will make it contract

Of farm management

Pertaining to crop production

Like farming

Agrypnia

Not concerned with the past

Ornamental sprays of feathers

Feather sprays

Airburst

Airbus

Aircheck

Havens for planes.

Orly, Le Bourget, etc.

Landing fields

Broadcast US comic's takeoffs from here

Take-off sites

Landing sites

Broadcast games of snooker for the bulk of planes

Scatterbrained

Ditzy

Removed from the war zone

Carried supplies by plane

Moved the troops, in a certain way

777's, for example

Passengers travel in them

Logan fleet

Sent overseas, maybe

Sent overnight, say

Sent flying (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.""

Delta force (wordplay)

United ways (wordplay)

Jet set (wordplay)

Airpower

Airproof

Part of the "open skies" plan.

Teams operating planes without second propellers

National security concerns

Jurisdictional atmospheric areas

Places for flight patterns

Airspeed

Well known travel trailer brand (3,6)

Miranda Lambert's classic RV (wordplay)

Land Yacht manufacturer

Where fighter jets touch down

Landing spots in the jungle

Small landing fields

Safe to fly

How rarity may be fit to fly

Ready to take off

Statue material, perhaps

Altar base (anagram)

Figurine material, perhaps

Alarmism

Prophets of doom fabricated star's mail

They arouse people's fears needlessly

Chicken Little et al.

Alarum

Long-finned tunas

Fish bar so fancied up with lace

White-meat sources

Ornithological collar (wordplay)

Pacino's burden (wordplay)

Big bird's a hit, of course!

Albicore

Alburnum

Depending on chance

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

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). (Nepeta Glechoma).

Algaroba

A tree, the common mesquite

Type of math equation

Like most chess notation nowadays

Kind of notation

Natives of Oran

Algorism

Decision tree, for one

*Programmer's procedure

Netflix uses one to recommend you movies

Poor diplomat, say

Family outcast, perhaps

One causing estrangement

Able to read but not interested in reading. See Usage Note at literate .

Able but unwilling to read

Disinclined to read

Alizarin

Sneeze causers, say

Pollen and dander

Dander and dust, often

Causes of rash reactions (wordplay)

Reasons for sneezin'

Antihistamines treat them

Allergin

Inspector of hives, perhaps

She can scratch that itch (wordplay)

Doctor healing great ills

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

Creature seen later (wordplay)

Pogo's pal Albert, for one

Florida snapper (wordplay)

Designated hitter finder (wordplay)

Distributor of resources

Budgeter, in a way

""A graft of tissue obtained from a donor of the same species as, but with a different genetic make-up from, the recipient, as a tissue transplant between two humans. Also called homograft .""

Ghost writer's East End greeting on diagram (wordplay)

The study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole.

Everything and nothing - animated TV character's linguistic unit

""Ecology Occurring in separate, nonoverlapping geographic areas. Often used of populations of related organisms unable to crossbreed because of geographic separation.""

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Grant painter graphite, perhaps

Distinct form of an element

One of two or more existing forms of an element

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

Allotter

Almonry

A giver of alms.

Swiss signaling instrument.

Swiss wind instrument

Instrument planner used round the house

Unlike the past

Subject to modification

Subject to change

In an alterable manner.

Alterant

Argue with the girl to try to change her

Dispute heatedly ( 9 )

Argue with Catherine for a change

Every other letter an A? Awkward!

How to shake up Etna (wordplay)

Perhaps change it to ante for a stand-in

Changeover time in the cockpit

Parachutist's device

It measures height above sea level

Boeing engineer's study

Avionics topic

Born naked and blind and dependent on parents for food; -- of hatchlings. Opposite of precocial.precocial.

Altruism

Paragons of unselfishness

They're very unegotistical

Unselfish types

Alumroot

Alveolar

Imaginary flowers that never fade

Imaginary eternal flowers

Legendary unfading flowers

Amarelle

Liqueurs used in "sour" cocktails

Almond-flavored liqueurs

Almond-flavoured liqueurs

Mary Allis - silly flower girl!

Trumpet-flowered bulb

Producer of red-and-white blooms

Plural or third person singular

Blindness of a graduate neurosis: can't see Tyneside

Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

Perfume ingredient from whales

Perfume maker marries big shot, one-off

Light grey French perfume ingredient

Amberina

Angler's catch in the Atlantic

Amberoid

Ones neither withdrawn nor outgoing

Very delicious or fragrant

Fit for Olympian tastes.

Fit for the gods.

Ambrosia

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph