2-Letter Words Starting with A

Affirm dunderhead always had snacks

Declare that the fool was always feeding

State in which animal always took food

Smashing on mattress, showing variety!

Classification of chocolates (wordplay)

No smart set would make such a selection

Promises dashed in University College, fools around

Promises

Top grade examining body set to right

Star-shaped, as crystals

Needing explanation, perhaps

Marked danger branding a horse

Marked symbolically

Of small celestial bodies

Concerning certain space rocks

Of small planets like Ceres

Astrakhan

Astrict

Caustic stinger ant outbreak!

Trains excited bloke, 17 (wordplay)

Sharp as wine with added peel, say

Astringe

Astrocyte

ASTROCYTE a large star-shaped neuroglial cell in nervous tissue.

Astrodome

Devices superseded by sextants

Old navigation instruments

Sextant forerunners

Expert on moving house (wordplay)

Charter for 11 (wordplay)

House examiner (wordplay)

""The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.""

Spacey types (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen (wordplay)

Houston's spacemen?

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

Ataractic

Pl. atheromas or atheromata (-m -t ) A deposit or degenerative accumulation of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall of an artery.

Athrocyte

Atmometer

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Barbarities at, or around, towns

Cruel deeds

Inhumanities

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

Attainder

Attemper

Electronic signal weakener

Electric signal diminisher

Device reducing signal strength

""The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord.""

Pheromone, notably

Treatise on origins of apparently toxic insect pheromone

Bringing in

Inviting.

It's not repulsive at drawing, perhaps

... for a tire company (wordplay)

Erotic experience is a drag, we're told

Easy on the ol' windows to the soul

Pleasing to the eye

In good taste

Attractor

That's ascribed to a TD about a matter of tax

Thought to be by Alfred Tennyson initially, but going in to be tested

Such properties belong at taxes

Skills shown by artiste, but presented awkwardly

Characteristics

They're so wearing

Frictions

Vegetables that might ensure a big stew

Eggplants

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Audiogram

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

The measurement of hearing.

Auditory

AUDITOR one who {audits=v}

Sitting-room with a view (wordplay)

Room for performances

The principal's classroom

Augmenter

Augmentor

AURICULAE

Goldbearing; containing or producing gold.

Ausform

Auslander

Autarchy

AUTARKIC relating to autarky

Believers in film directors' full control

Throw her out, said official

Licensed originator is a man

Revised share-out I'd sanctioned

Permits will be distributed at house, sir

""Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

Clears

Empowers

Sanctions

Novelist's craft (wordplay)

The Caine or the Pequod?

The Caine or the Pequod (wordplay)

Having absolute power

Like Holmes's breakfast-table man

Croatia cut out being dictatorial

""Sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.""

Autograft

Fan collection (wordplay)

Star signs (wordplay)

Collector's items.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

Automaker

AUTOROTATE

Autoroute

Motorway in Italy

Major Italian highway

Italian highway

Italian superhighways.

Autotroph

""AUTOTROPH 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.""

Big Three employee

Auxotroph

AUXOTROPH

Adjective for Marner.

A king strangled by a savage is grasping

A savage eating most of arm, greedy

An undertaking to clad home in glass

Antipathy

AVERSIVE relating to aversion

Earhart et al.

Earhart, Anne Lindbergh et al.

Amelia Earhart, and others

Aviatrix

Rearing and care of birds.

The stark daw we made very difficult

Axillary

Azeotrope

Short-term (wordplay)

Just like the BBC

Shortened

Shortens a word

Turns a registered nurse into a RN (wordplay)

Creator of short sentences (wordplay)

Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

Unusual way to see crossword clues arranged

Rudimentary

Aberrancy

They're irregular

Sailor in tears or suffering disorders

Abhorrence

Broth nearly spilt in a repugnant way

In an awful way

So as to inspire loathing

Abjuration

Pertaining to ablution.

It's odd what a morality ban can produce

Aberrant feature

Deviance

Abominator

Aboriginal

One who procures abortion or miscarriage.

On the surface

GROUCHY

The magic word!

Magic word - gibberish!

Spelling word (wordplay)

Abreaction

Process of shortening (a text)

Curtailment

Section of Battersea Bridge men tackled as contracted work

Abridgment

Abrogation

Absorbance

Absorbing

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Absorption

Abstracter

Abstract

Abstract

Formless art work

Theoretical concept - removal

Preoccupied state

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

Abstractor

Abstrict

Highly illogical situations

Speeding up (music)

Gradually increasing in speed (mus.)

Gradually increasing in speed, in music

Accelerant

Gave it the gas

Like some college courses

Speeded up

Increases speed

Part of an auto.

Driver's foot pedal

Cycling race, clear to pedal

Accessary

Supplementary

They're both before and after the fact.

Accomplices in case? Scores I suspect

Jewelry and a handbag, for example

ACCESSORISE

Make sure you match

Hawkish marine, left motherless after accident, has another depression

Accordance

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; followed by with or to. with or to.

Bungee jumping is fun

Thus

Accoucheur

Getting in gear

Accredit

Accruement

Assimilate a different way of life, perhaps

Socialize

Bet; large battery cell

Battery - type of bet

Electric cell; bet

ACERBIC {sour=adj}

Achondrite

Of or pertaining to achondrite.

Being without color

To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Acidimeter

A hydrometer used to determine the specific gravity of acid solutions.

""The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.""

Acquisitor

Acridness

Bright orange-red dye

Like some divorces

Angry and bitter

Producing bad feelings

Having a subterminal centromere

""A chronic disease of adults marked by enlargement of the bones of the extremities, face, and jaw that is caused by overactivity of the pituitary gland.""

Acropetal

Acrophobia

Fortified heights in ancient Greece

Acrylamide

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

The measurement of the force of solar radiation.

Actuarial

Shiatsu

Complementary medicine using needles

Therapy which needs needles

Method of treatment with needles

ADDRESS to speak to

Termination of a meeting

Court suspension

Recess

He has decisive qualities

Settler of disagreement

Arbitrator

Solemn appeals

ADMEASURE To measure.

Madison Avenue V.I.P.'s (wordplay)

Mass communication figures (wordplay)

Directs short note to members of the government

Pacific islands that draw in butterflies

Islands near New Guinea.

Islands N. of Bismarck Archipelago.

Admiration

Admonisher

A girl, British one aflame with yen to show appeal to her man (wordplay)

Adrenaline

Adsorption

Adulterant

Energy in X, devalued

No longer pure

Made impure

Debases or dilutes

Uses water maybe to dilute a trusted ale naughtily

Doctors

One who adulterates or corrupts.

A silly sailor making sketch

Overshadowing a stupid sailor

Faint sketch; outline

Act of overshadowing

Shadow a non-speaking part

Faintly representing; typical.

Fortune hunters.

Breathtaking enterprises will take society in. How about Becky Sharp (wordplay)

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

Dame ruins TV set in hazardous practice (wordplay)

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

Boldly enterprising

Daring

In the manner of an adverb.

Combative as a driver, a wild person yet to pass test

Combative

Mostly negative sign from opponents

Advisers are represented on opposing sides

Sign supporting mostly inauspicious opponents

Adjective (-ive)

State of opposition

Adversity

Advertence

Advertent

Advertiser

Commercial world (wordplay)

Classified line of business (wordplay)

Putting in a plug (wordplay)

The act of {advertising=v}