2-Letter Words Starting with A

Pl. auriculas or auriculae (-l ) A central European primrose (Primula auricula) having large yellow flowers grouped in umbels. Also called bear's ear .

Cur Laura and I stupidly told privately

French composer's universal god of the ear

Auricula

Wild oxen extinct since 1627

Ausform

A foreigner.

Planned a Yule rest with no frills

In a harsh or severe way

Simply gives us tea when out - depend on it!

Most severe state sure to be troublesome

Extremely severe

British program of belt-tightening

Condition in post-war British economy.

Severeness of manner

Austral

AUTARCH an absolute ruler

Autarky

AUTEUR the creator of a film

Arthouses neglected creative person

Writer shares out bubbly

Writer shares out novel development

A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist (wordplay)

Author

I share out (anagram)

Writer is going east to say it's okay

Sanction or establish officially

Hoyle, for one

Write on sex with variable confidence

Writer's got it - 'unknown power'

John Irving's peepers (wordplay)

Give the go-ahead to

Give the green LIGHT to

Absolute government by one person

Dictatorship, e.g

One-man rule.

They reign without rein

Rulers with unlimited power

They're absolutely at the top.

Tossed out this sort of clue about sport

Motor racing over rough terrain

Slalom race on parking lot course

Helicopters of yore

Helicopters' kin

A tissue or organ grafted into a new position in or on the body of the same individual.

Sign of the self (wordplay)

Car dealer's chart (wordplay)

Hound's quarry (wordplay)

Some aircraft with propellers

Model company (wordplay)

Ford, for one

Mercedes or Volvo

An expressway in France and French-speaking countries.

""An organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

Should say type of verb

Providing additional support

Functioning in a supporting capacity

""An organism, such as a strain of bacteria, that has lost the ability to synthesize certain substances required for its growth and metabolism as the result of mutational changes.""

Not having blood vessels

Typically maintain lady must be disheartened after maturity

Fairly.

Getting mean (wordplay)

Finding the means (wordplay)

What a mean thing to be doing!

Averment

Opposite of predilections

You want no part of them

Objects of repugnance

Bird keepers

Avigator

Not virulent.

Avoucher

Friendly, as an older relative, say

Friendly, like some relatives

Friendly in a non-threatening way

Alarm clocks, for example

Conferrable

Knowledge (of a fact)

Self following (wordplay)

Self ending (wordplay)

Wondering at a vehicle we collided with

Lost for words as we crashed lorry

Ace you and I hit is impressed

More inept

Less comfortable as a Mon-Sun prison officer

With very little grace

In a clumsy manner

Betraying clumsiness

Carriage's underpinnings.

Ayurveda

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.

Azoturia

Striped hyenas that feed chiefly on insects

Not caused by bacteria.

Abandoner

Make an acronym of, perhaps

Shorten (a word)

Bribe a vet with a new contract

Throne relinquishers

ABDUCTOR a person who abducts

Aberrance

In an unnatural way

Deviation from normality

Delusion or illusion

A wandering from the norm.

Revulsion to constituents of Anchor beer

There's nothing at all like it

Here carbon emission produces disgust

Renunciation

Surrendering sorts

In an unusual manner.

Friend embraces British woman in opera in unusual manner

Abolisher

One hates to see Robin with wingless Batman, struggling to apprehend ring

Bad oil? Bargain first

Present from the earliest times

Present from the start

Algonquins, for example.

Early inhabitants

First inhabitants.

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

Ill-directed dart may land here, honest!

Manna from heaven?

Too proud to take lodgers, honest!

Harshly offering a women's support for eccentric Elvis on Fourth of July

Abreact

Rating right-wing attitude as a psychological process

Compendium or synopsis.

Shortened version of a written work

Shortened form

Abrogate

Annulment of an agreement or law

The sailor's asking for an annulment

Cancelling a second-rate allowance? Go back to intervene

Abruption

Curt rudeness

Criminal rents a pub, leading to son's rude quality

Curtness

Those who escaped ban crossed over

They take their leave without it

Muscles badly scorned by bad runners (wordplay)

Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics a measure of the light-absorbing ability of an object, expressed as the logarithm to base 10 of the reciprocal of the internal transmittance See transmittance ACIDOMETER (Chemistry) a type of hydrometer for measuring the relative density of an acid solution, esp the acid in a battery Also called acidimeter ACTINOZOAN & adj (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another word for anthozoan AEROSPHERE (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Archaic the entire atmosphere surrounding the earth""

""ABSORB to suck in, also SORB""

Absorbant

Terrycloth quality

Receptive nature of abbey treated with scorn

Absorbent

Bounty work (wordplay)

(Process of) taking in

Process of soaking up

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

They are positively negative

Eligible non-voters

Avoiders of alcohol

Absterge

Removed, being absent-minded

Walked off with head in the clouds

Preoccupied when taken out

Abstract

Read this bodybuilding brochure

ABSTRACT to draw away

Abstrict

Last buyers getting treated in an unusual way

Abstruse

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.

Absurdism

Absurdist

Sailors turn on way and head for folly

ACARICIDE

Acaricide

Speeder-up in processing something.

Agent for hastening the progress

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

Accipiter

Acclaimer

(In) conformity (with)

Treating cancer a doc gets agreement

Agreement of opinion

Portable keyboard instruments

Squeezeboxes

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Accouter

Accoutre

Officially approved, as a college

Given official recognition

Like an Ivy League institution

Accretion

Noun (-ment)

Accuracy

Some maniac curate lying? Precisely!

It's precisely a copy you heard Ray let anyhow

Lacy shifts worn by one in church without any slips

In a hateful manner

""Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. as, an accusatory libel.""

Acerbate

Acerbity

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

Stony meteorite

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

Acidifier

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

""The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.""

Acierate

Capable of being acquired.

One who acquires.

Judges or juries, sometimes

Acridity

Acrimony

Acritarch

Feats of agility

Gymnast's display

High-flying performance

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

Acrophobe

Window washer's problem (wordplay)

Second-story man's undoing (wordplay)

High anxiety (wordplay)

Pertaining to a kind of puzzle

""A readily polymerized amide, C 3 H 5 NO, derived from acrylic acid and used in synthetic fibers and sewage treatment. It is a carcinogen and is present in some foods, especially starches and cereals that are cooked at high temperatures.""

Chemical catalysts

Acyclovir

Enveloped names (wordplay)

Letter-openers (wordplay)

You might say their name gets enveloped

Mail-order employees

Speechifiers

Lecturers

Saying what's to be going on th envelope

Ranch, for example

Dealing with commercial arrangement

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that cause conjunctivitis and upper respiratory tract infections in humans.

Head off? New queen rejected church's observances

In an adherent manner.

Postponing

""The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.""

Containing an adjuration.

Portioned out

Admeasure

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

Scotch maid to share esteem (wordplay)

One may be lost in it

Maid out helping gains approval

My darling and I intertwine with desire

Admixture

One who admonishes.

Fussy day monitor giving a reprimand

Conveying a reprimand

Warning politician, I'd moan terribly at the start

Adoration

Send matron out for decorations

Model and monster to become accessories

Embellishments

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

One anorak turned up with some work, in charge of stimulation

Explosive assertion about daughter's skill

Skill

ADSORB to gather on the surface in a condensed layer

They are taken in, notice - top group ('90s group) on the way up...

Adsorbent

Process facilitated by silica gel

Broadcast on Sport Aid - 'a superficial process of accumulating gas'

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

Any substance that lessens purity

Water, vis-a-vis vodka

Corrupter of mature queen by worker

Cut a deal? Utter chicanery!

Water down, perhaps

Grown up with age, note, can be corrupt

Ones fooling around

Having grown up with a couple of cockney girls? Faith, he will have none of it!

Woman whose tears led us astray (wordplay)

Qualities evenly incorporated in an outfit for Madame Bovary, perhaps (wordplay)

Adultery

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

Cheating ruled out as arranged

Like Fontane's woman

Cheating ruled out as wrong

A silent speed's indicated like this

Vaguely outlined

Adumbrate

""ADVENTURE That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.""

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

Tuned raves (anagram)

And then... stories

Basis of many plots.

Adverbial

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

""The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.""

Called attention to

Diets raved about and given publicity

Desired a TV broadcast to be made known

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

Steve raids (anagram)

Puts in a spot

Plugs (colloq.)

Advertize

Advertize

Advisory

Advocator

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

""A spongy tissue with large air spaces found between the cells of the stems and leaves of aquatic plants, providing buoyancy and allowing the circulation of gases.""

Some perform without nets

Performers with dangerous acts

Daring circus performers

Loops and rolls

Exercising swallows at flying display

Stunt flying

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

""AEROBE an organism that requires free oxygen, also AEROBIUM""

AEROBRAKE

Decelerates, as with a space shuttle

Landing fields, in London

Airfields, to a Brit

MOD are sore over these airfields