2-Letter Words Starting with A

TikToks, perhaps (hey, I said perhaps!)

Collector's collection, perhaps

Miro, Miro on the wall (wordplay)

Direction to Dugald

Direction, to Dugald

Direction, to Dougald

Cancel the heist!

Cancel the mission!

Cancel the plan!

Demon of Arab mythology

Mythical Arabian demon

Evil demon Arabian mythology

Ready to jump perhaps

'Fore!,' for one

Ready for an attack, say

Gradual payoff (abbreviation)

Spiritless, old style

Loan payment sched

Living in different countries, say

In two say

Separately or role (wordplay)

Left on a river (wordplay)

Left on the boat (wordplay)

Left on board (wordplay)

Talk of sorts

Some gangsterfilm dialogue say

Talk of sorts.

One whos attained Nirvana

Buddhist who has attained Nirvana

Buddhist monk who has at-tained nirvana

Knight cap (wordplay)

Armour for the head, used around AD1500

Headgear of old

Stop, say, before junction

Prevent, say, those with no socks

Head off alien, green head off!

Short bra undone and perhaps put by

Sudden, maybe discourteous

Rub Pat the wrong way? That's sudden!

In need of wind, perhaps

Without a compass, say

Following current trends (wordplay)

To raid (anagram)

Clever commercial rubbish grabs one

Road mended with it becomes neat

Sun spot (wordplay)

Pitch to buy potato crisps, say

Call attention (to)

Demon, Oriental style.

Demon in Arabian myth

Jinni of Arabian myth.

One hundred of these in a shekel

Silver and gold changed to coins in Israel

Heron plume

Plume variable

Plume Var.

Early

A past tense of Greek verbs

Lover deprived of maiden becomes tense

Tense of Greek verb.

Zealous - ranted (anagram)

Burning (with emotion)

Daren't, maybe, get fiery

(In heraldry) silver - garnet (anagram)

Silver, on a coat of arms

Money, in France.

2 x 10 = this? Not correct!

Hat rig (anagram)

Not left if it's put this way

Military band (wordplay)

Elm rat (anagram)

A military band (wordplay)

Secret place (wordplay)

Secret spot (wordplay)

Ban locale (wordplay)

Scram, old style

Begone, as coined by Shakespeare.

'Begone,' to Shakespeare

Begone variable

About an acre, in Quebec and Louisiana.

French land measure

Downright - maybe nonsense

Out-and-out, maybe nonsense

Downright, out and out - say nonsense

Put a collar on (wordplay)

Pull into a station (wordplay)

Stop, check (progress)

Billboard info, perhaps

Sculptor, for one

Wyeth, for one

Say a switch has been turned on

Say it's a lock-up

Say it is so

Put in piles, say

Make classified (wordplay)

Place into categories

One treating disorders of the ear

Ear specialist.

Hearing specialist

Talk out of one's troubles, in psychoanalysis.

Well-informed (of)

Facing parallel, say

On top (of)

Ill-fated, old-style

Detestable

Hex'd

Stuntman wrestling a cobra - it's tense!

Latex-clad swinger (wordplay)

Circus performer (wordplay)

Spoke to Poet.

Spoke to: Poet.

Most ethereal (var.)

Most ethereal

A satellite for air-traffic control

Saying it's a mere pretence is an insult

Insult fellow wearing a disguise

Act of disrespect

Everglades transport

Bayou craft

Everglades vessel

Most light-hearted

Most spacious and open

Most open to the breeze

Evacuate by helicopter, say

Relief supplied by thermals (wordplay)

Send in via helicopter, maybe

Kennedy perhaps left after broadcast

Place to take off (wordplay)

Fly in the fizzy red wine (wordplay)

A kind of mail

Some grammarians say it's all wrong

Way to go!

Land encompassing river? Certainly!

Ovid, for one

Casanova, for one

Lover of love (NY)

Machine's not American but red

Admin system of a communist party

Russian political machine

IFruit tree (nonverbal)

Rip coat (anagram)

Fruit from a tropic (wordplay)

Having the least rainfall

Least productive outings at stores

Most in need of moisture

Place to rub elbows (wordplay)

Divisive thing at the movies (wordplay)

Backseat feature, maybe

Most chi-chi.

Bohemian to an extreme

Most culturally pretentious

Limited the use of: Scot

Eager, avid (for)

Needing a drink (Old English)

Desirous star hit out

What rat is placed across (wordplay)

There's fighting in that way across here

What's different: skill to get across

Draw this at a pamphlet (wordplay)

What opposites do, they say

Have magnetic power

An aquatic plant

Ran in a deviating Albert (wordplay)

'Deviant, behaviour say (8)'

Deviant, behaviour say

Sandpaper, for one

A badly behaved child, boy kept in for being irritating

Quietly remove painting, perhaps

Hard to grasp, maybe

Knock off some modern art (wordplay)

To set free by constriction

Red cacti (anagram)

Give official sanction to (a diplomat)

CID trace (anagram)

Acerb

A light transmitting lens

Acrid

An animal having rootless teeth

Fan sticking (wordplay)

Loyal follower - sticks close

He daren't appear as a supporter

Feudal serf attached to the soil

Written after.

A type of jet engine

Balloonist, say, in bar with tipsy aunt

Pilot - Eton aura (anagram)

Balloon man (wordplay)

Balloon or dirigible

Balloon or blimp

Any lighter-than-air craft.

Conveying impulses toward a nerve center

Conveying impulses to a nerve center

Sensory relay to integrating center

Plant with trees

Plant trees over a wide area

Would, by the sound of it, plant

Scared of a fortissimo - OK (wordplay)

Correctly installing high-volume alarm

A very strong and appropriate terror

Explosion in the atmosphere

Detonation in the atmosphere

Airbus A330 or 380, say

Exhibit skill with kite perhaps

Airbus A330 or A380, say

Lay drunk maybe beyond question

Like some alibis (wordplay)

Sealed completely, perhaps

The sky is falling! crier, for one

Chicken Little, for one

A slim tar (anagram)

Least likely to nod off

Most wide-awake

Most on one's guard

Change-producing agent

Catalyst of a sort

A cause of change

Carnegie, for one

Person with unselfish concern for others

One with unselfish motives.

Plant used as an astringent

North American perennial

NA perennial

Sometimes shy, sometimes outgoing

One who's sometimes outgoing, sometimes shy

Person who might enjoy a party and a Netflix binge equally

Religious worker holds arduous job

Solitary worker holds menial job

Miscreant surrounds house of hermit

Mostly across (wordplay)

Least at peace

Iran gets upset - most upset

To tip forward

Like gear that quells mobs

Like some armored vehicles

Serving to quell violent protests

Like some protective coatings

Like some car wax

Oxidation-inhibiting

It has a laxative effect in repeat runs

Beast interchanged in opening

Drug that is seized by troubled parent

Franklin, for one

User of short, pithy sentences.

I put in short pieces on a page

Moviedom's Ulee, for one

Prop man for "The Sting" (wordplay)

Monitor of workers (wordplay)

Dad backing Mum perhaps - it's obvious

Seeming to be a quiet dad maybe

Visible - plain - presumable

Fish keeper

Without question, Austria's lost expert on tank maintenance

Device for shooting bundles into craft

Old-time crossbow.

Powerful medieval crossbow

""A type of crossbow, also ARBALEST, ARBELEST, ARBLAST""

""A type of crossbow, also ARBALEST, ARBALIST, ARBLAST""

Tree surgeon

Pruning expert

Tree expert

Specialist in antiquities

Collector of antiquities

The Ancient Mariner (wordplay)

Heracles, for one

Gold-rush figure in 1849

Perhaps Deb ate this

Turn game perhaps causing debate

Thrust in one's briefs (wordplay)

Process of equipping for war

Weaponry used by military

So be it in the tram smashed for warfare

Too big for one's britches

Feeling so much better!

Feeling much better (wordplay)

Switched on, star is lighter (wordplay)

One with a burning passion (wordplay)

Flaming guy (wordplay)

Man-made object (maybe found in dig)

Man-made object

A man-made object

Man-made object (US?spelling)

Tool, for one

Object made by humans (US spelling)

Most affected, in a way

One works hard to achieve something

One with a goal

Partisan assembly produces a candidate

Detroit lobby leader (wordplay)

Henry Ford, for example (wordplay)

Detroit lobby leader?

Positive affirmation.

Positive declaration

Affirmation

One who gets lots of tweets (wordplay)

Birdman of a sort.

Birdhouse attendant

Ground hot and barren? Horrible!

Detestable/tenants' motto (wordplay)

Bad breath or not, initially offensive

Abrupt

""One that {absorbs=v}, also ABSORBATE, ABSORBENT, ABSORBER""

Bob ran set (anagram)

Spongy clue for boars (wordplay)

Like paper towels

Most foolish brutes, sad, torn apart

Most ludicrous

Beckett, for one

Like a Something Different puzzle

Beckett's revising suits Bard

Harmonious

Consonant.

Touch of color, perhaps

Decoration for naval personnel in a spot

Mend a torn dress with decoration

Most skilful at concealing steroid misuse

Like charcoal filter

Capable of deflecting moisture

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

Attentive, heedful

The Reverend Father returns to his temporary quarters

One living the high life (wordplay)

Turn up (wordplay)

Man on the flying trapeze

Last to be following the majority

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

Gentlemen's, for one

Arbitrator's goal

Yes, that will make it contract

Inspector of hives, perhaps

She can scratch that itch (wordplay)

Doctor healing great ills

""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 .""

Disorderly sort (wordplay)

Revolutionary in rash act (wordplay)

No government would please him!

DRAFT to conscript for military service

Like some business suits (wordplay)

Opposed to centralized industry.

Describing the Clayton Act.

Flat across the pond (wordplay)

Flat (chiefly US)

Flat (mainly US)

How upsetting for Grany Smith!

One not to upset (wordplay)

Place trap to upset this!

Wren, for one

I. M. Pei, for one

Building designer from the Arctic

One looking after records

Keeper of public records

One holding many records

""The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.""

English word

Missile base or plant

Starch-yielding plant

Take a bow to such starch underground

Rising

A nut roast served for one on rocket

One making use of space (wordplay)

One making good use of space (wordplay)

Most severe state sure to be troublesome

Extremely severe

AUTEUR the creator of a film

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

Not virulent.

Compendium or synopsis.

Shortened version of a written work

Shortened form

Abstruse

Speeder-up in processing something.

Agent for hastening the progress

Noun (-ment)

Any substance that lessens purity

Water, vis-a-vis vodka

Corrupter of mature queen by worker

""The study of the upper atmosphere, especially of regions of ionized gas.""

Specialist on soil and planting.

Land expert on a rig most awkwardly

Expert in soil management

Look about in box in carriage

The means by which goods get put up

Shipping service

Sorting bag later - is one dealing with problems involving letters (wordplay)

C.S. Lewis, for one

John Bunyan, for one

Legislator (wordplay)

Power to attract

Court-imposed penalty

Fine semi-US binder

Punishment with a discretionary fine

Make criticism of unreliable vermin data

Take note of trailer housing man I fancy

Comment on an individual and very angry Green

MARKET to offer for sale

RACIST an advocate of {racism=n}

""A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.""

Trigonometry function

45 degrees, for 1

A fellow admitting misdemeanour finally can't somehow function

Upperclass man (wordplay)

Effendi, for one

One of the upper crust

Stoppage.

Stoppage

Smashing on mattress, showing variety!

Classification of chocolates (wordplay)

No smart set would make such a selection

Caustic stinger ant outbreak!

Trains excited bloke, 17 (wordplay)

Sharp as wine with added peel, say

""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

The stark daw we made very difficult

One who procures abortion or miscarriage.

Process of shortening (a text)

Curtailment

Section of Battersea Bridge men tackled as contracted work

Abstract

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

Termination of a meeting

Court suspension

Recess

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

Result following on

Persisting change

Secondary consequence

Like car accessories

REALIST one who is concerned with fact or reality

Accessory.

Germane

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

Determination; decision; arbitration.

Treelike

Charging in court

Courtroom activity

Court proceeding

Order me new shirt? It's a deal!

Florist's creation

Result of putting in order

Gunnery expert

Squeeze box player

Player is into arranging following agreement

One's instrumental in making peace with Israeli supporter though not at frist

An accessory item of equipment or dress. Often used in the plural.

Article of equipment

Bill gathers another metre, making dress

Items of dress/equipment required for an activity

Executive; acting; managing affairs.

A4 report considered to be premeditated

Conceived in advance

Premeditated

A later train (wordplay)

Item added later

Something added later

Noun (-ment)

""Designed for or used for defense against attack by aircraft; as, anti-aircraft cannon.as, anti-aircraft cannon.""

ROYALIST a supporter of a monarch or monarchy

International sect controlled by a dogmatic type, one supervising workers

Process of assessing

Pressure to mark up people in fitting evaluation

AVICULTURE Rearing and care of birds.

Producing miscarriage.

Needle-worker found in practice

Therapist involved in sharp practice (wordplay)

Needle therapist

Size.