2-Letter Words Starting with A

Foreshadow a silent tear, perhaps

Indicate a silent speed (wordplay)

Outline from an unintelligent judge

Commercial gamble (wordplay)

Per this perhaps it's exciting

New account on Madison Avenue (wordplay)

Throw out pitches (wordplay)

Promote (a product)

Push kin (wordplay)

{advertise=v}

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)

""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.""

Road to recovery

Need for recovering patients

Support to customer following a purchase

Medium access (wordplay)

Post-death existence

Heaven or hell., for example

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

Future

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)

Nice to be able to say yes

Gee, that makes it 13 down and arable!

In harmony; pleasant

""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.""

Able but unwilling to read

Disinclined to read

Grant painter graphite, perhaps

Distinct form of an element

One of two or more existing forms of an element

Unlike the past

Subject to modification

Subject to change

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

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph

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

""A green to brown or black calcium-iron garnet, Ca 3 Fe 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

Hermaphroditic plant

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

""An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.""

""A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).""

""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.""

Against lawbreaking

Like sun visors

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

Sanction

Sanction.

Watercolour is all a queer mishmash

Painting technique

Watercolor

Ballet position - sea barque (anagram)

A square be a ballet movement (wordplay)

Intertwined ornamental design

ARABIC derived from gum arabic

A sugar used as a culture medium in bacteriology

A sugar used as a culture medium for certain bacteria

Mineral similar to calcite.

Calcium carbonate

Trading that exploits cost differences

Market dealer's activity

Simultaneous purchase and sale of assets

Be a middle man (wordplay)

Be a referee

Use a certain route in a dispute

Inverse trig function

Standard - cheap tyre (anagram)

Teachers' pay rotten? Not seen as ideal!

Jaguar follows supreme original model

English word

Frondizi's country (with "the").

S. American region.

Native of Bahia Blanca.

Valuable silver ore

A formal procedure when sculptor's brought in rock

Sedimentary rock that does not split easily

Signature moment (wordplay)

I cite arms deal before truce occurs

It's a crime breaking ceasefire

Impart fragrance to

State of indebtedness

Something held in reserve.

Bookkeeping category.

A striver, I fancy (wordplay)

Ambitious and self-seeking person

Ambitious self-seeker

A grocer with an outrageous conceit

Too much pride in exotic orange car

An "offspring of riches," to Twain

Small blood vessel

Very small blood vessel

Blood vessel connected to a capillary

After 'Jerusalem' maybe choir take break

Plant with a heart (wordplay)

Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps

ASCORBATE

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

A lock up? I have to be forceful

Bold and confident

Far from reticent.

Confidence (in abilities)

Uses car with an awful confidence

Freedom from doubt.

With a leg on either side of (something)

Riding, in a way

On the fence.

Star-shaped glial cell

Spot for celestial navigation

Stadium for almost 68,000

Park that opened in April 1965

A sort able to produce old instrument

Sextant's predecessor

Predecessor of the sextant.

English word

... for a eulogist (wordplay)

Ascribe (to a cause)

Virtue by payment

Purple and gold mixture of beer and gin

Deep purple colour

Fruit popular in French inn

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

I share out (anagram)

Writer is going east to say it's okay

Sanction or establish officially

John Irving's peepers (wordplay)

Give the go-ahead to

Give the green LIGHT to

An expressway in France and French-speaking countries.

Conferrable

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.

Make an acronym of, perhaps

Shorten (a word)

Bribe a vet with a new contract

Revulsion to constituents of Anchor beer

There's nothing at all like it

Here carbon emission produces disgust

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""

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

(In) conformity (with)

Treating cancer a doc gets agreement

Agreement of opinion

Stony meteorite

Capable of being acquired.

""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.""

Rush before a flight (wordplay)

It can give you a rush

Stimulator of ideal Queen Anne building

ADSORB to gather on the surface in a condensed layer

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

Cut a deal? Utter chicanery!

Water down, perhaps

Grown up with age, note, can be corrupt

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

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

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

Air mail letter

Air letter

'Casualty' episode missing opening page, but whoever the writer, it'll take off

AEROSOL a spray released under pressure

A story about company that may be ratified

Warm around volcanic rim, so may be asserted

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

Model T, to Henry (wordplay)

Within one's ability to pay

Not too dear a passage in a story

Flashbulb effect, for example

Lingering impression on the eye

Flashbulb effect

Additional short sketch.

Brut, for one

Face alcohol before breakfast (wordplay)

Where this is (wordplay)

Side effect (wordplay)

Bud or maker (wordplay)

Feeling left following smack (wordplay)

M1's in time to expand

Magnify; increase power of

Make greater grade gains after revision

Exaggerate

Wild, wild raves and gigs on Ecstasy

Like a winning tournament player*

Combative - pushing

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

ALLEGE to assert without proof

Show by storytelling

Everyone repeat! (wordplay)

Say tongue twisters, maybe

Say a tongue twister, maybe

Not in deep water, say

By the sea

Waterfront

Art for the masses (wordplay)

Communion table screen

Painting placed prominently in church

Make better meal, or I eat junk!

Make an unpleasant situation better

Make improvements to

AMERCE to fine or punish

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

Having to report (to)

Article rebel was wrong to blame

Accountable.

""A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.""

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

Alcohol, for one.

Opposed to a cap on wages (wordplay)

Alcohol needed for driving (wordplay)

In favor of the great indoors, maybe

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

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Breeding and care of bees

One might be keeping this, by the sound of it

Bringing up workers in a religious environment

O death, where is thy sting (wordplay)

Greengrocers missing sign (wordplay)

Maker's mark (wordplay)

Item on a personnel chief's checklist

Item on a personnel director's list

Reason for a face lift

To perceive; to comprehend.

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.

Blue-green beryl

Birthstone for many Pisces

Gemstone a queen pinned to a soldier

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

Frame for door or window

Beam resting on tops of columns.

Frame Alistair, vacuously taking tab at party

ARPEGGIATE

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

Attributable (to)

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.""

Affirm dunderhead always had snacks

Declare that the fool was always feeding

State in which animal always took food

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Easy on the ol' windows to the soul

Pleasing to the eye

In good taste

AURICULAE

AUTOROTATE

Italian superhighways.

An undertaking to clad home in glass

Rearing and care of birds.

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature.

ACCESSORISE

Make sure you match

Hawkish marine, left motherless after accident, has another depression

Assimilate a different way of life, perhaps

Socialize

To deprive of color; to make achromatic.

Bright orange-red dye

Shiatsu

Complementary medicine using needles

Therapy which needs needles

Method of treatment with needles

ADDRESS to speak to

Faintly representing; typical.

Adjective (-ive)

What to latch onto, with 'the' ...

What to latch onto, with "the" ...

What to latch onto, with "the"...

""AFFRICATE 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.""

Form a rounded mass

Form into one cluster

Cluster

Taken together; collective.

Curtail urge to work in growing business

The practice of farming

Field for early U. S. settlers

Cat fancier

One who hates or fears cats.

White.

A steroid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex that regulates the salt and water balance in the body.

Twelve-syllable line of verse

Aid external examination of precious stone

A green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone

Not the first choice

Available as another possibility

Option to convert indigene

Of an imaginary flower that never fades

A white crystalline substance used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

""Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.""

""A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda-lime feldspar, usually labradorite.""

""Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.""

Fleabag, for one

Catwoman, for example

Unlikable protagonist

""SEIZURE the act of seizing, also SEISURE""

""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.""

WELFARE general well-being

WRINKLE to {crease=v}

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

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)

""The cultivation of aquatic animals, such as fish or shellfish, or of plants, such as seaweed, in a controlled and sometimes enclosed body of water. The term includes use of either salt or fresh water. It is a form of agriculture, but under water.""

""Plants hydroponics. ; aquicultural ,""

English word

Of or pertaining to arbitration; relating to or having the authority to arbitrate.

See choir ceased performing

See core ideas changing about Church

Important church area

ARGUMENT an exchange of differing reasons

""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.""

""That can be articulated: vague, barely articulable thoughts.""

(tr) to arrange or distribute into groups of the same type; classify

""The capacity, as of a pheromone, to attract.""

Like some nouns

ABSTRACT to draw away

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

ACCREDIT to accept as true

English word

Manage - it's marinated (anagram)

Run, as a Washington agency.

Organise (business)

A naturally occurring chemical formed during the oxidation of epinephrine.