2-Letter Words Starting with A

... to turn Paris into a dream, ...

Breathing in desire

Desire to Parisian is strange ...

Removers of some body fluids

Suction devices

Medical instruments removing fluids from cavities

Assagai

Cruise in a fur, open to attack

Open to attack

Given as seaworthy - but not secure against pirates

Hit makers, say

People who attack the workers

Pepper spray targets

Assaulter

No defence for such a pickling, by the sound of it

Making an assault.

Assegai

Collection (of things or people)

Rally about silver collection

French for "blending"

"Westminster Standards" framers

They come together to put together

Westminster Standards framers

Diets for the party members with seats

Pep rallies

Doctor ambles; she is avoiding hospital gatherings

Gathering son wears same silly flash jewellery

ASSERTED assert

They're said to be positive

Evict from service stations for opinions

Positive statements

Can take stock of pack animals with dark fur

Estimate that can be taxing!

Masses sent abroad for appraisal

Certain tax determinant

Affirm dunderhead always had snacks

Declare that the fool was always feeding

State in which animal always took food

Transferable

Reporter's stint

Task in which worker keeps messing about

Broken-down gents is man's task

Absorb and digest (food)

Take in a smile as it develops

Become part of the prevailing culture

When drunk, can siestas help (wordplay)

One may give this by hand

Help a relative, protected by position

All excited, sits with Santa's helpers

Associates fool with first workers

Right-hand men

Oasis acted badly in a group, perhaps

Kind of press

Got together, tossing coats aside

Star has business ones

Word in many law firm names

Law firm employees

""Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.""

Identical vowel sounds

Stormy seasons can reveal sound correspondences

Soundly corresponding

Smashing on mattress, showing variety!

Classification of chocolates (wordplay)

No smart set would make such a selection

Assumpsit

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

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

Asthmatic

Not right insight (wordplay)

Suffering distortions of vision

Having double-vision

Knocked out a dishonest criminal

Amazed - and so is the organisation

Left slack-jawed

Staggers, due to ill-fitting satin shoes

Knocks for a loop

Surprises, this season, coming out

Adman's adjective

An observation about tenor: 'stunning'

Striking dumb with astonishment

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!

It's shrewd breaking statue over head

Doctor uses a test involving new insight

Shrewdness

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

They're approachable (wordplay)

Lines that approach curves (but never touch them)

Type of curve, in math.

The relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times.

Asyndeton

Ataractic

Athanasy

Athenaeum

Athrocyte

Atmometer

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Atonalism

Atonalist

Reparations for wrong.

Reparations for wrongs

Some religious experiences

Barbarities at, or around, towns

Cruel deeds

Inhumanities

Attainder

Take care of picnic pests (wordplay)

Checkroom employees, for example

Members of the wedding.

They may be unwelcome

Sergeants' commands

Military standings

Diminishes in force.

Makes thin.

Weakens

Attractor

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

Insolent acts

Audiogram

Media for drivers

Driver's entertainment, sometimes

Dinosaurs next to the iPod

Auditory

Augmenter

Augmentor

The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.

Goldbearing; containing or producing gold.

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

Ausform

Auslander

Like a double rainbow, perhaps

Encouraging suspect given new start

Rosy doubtful about substituting top

Austenite

Of or pertaining to austenite.

Autarchy

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

Clears

Empowers

Sanctions

Novelist's craft (wordplay)

The Caine or the Pequod?

The Caine or the Pequod (wordplay)

Autobus

Pressure cookers

Having all stages of a life cycle occurring on the same host.

Autoecism

Autogamy

Characterized by autogamy; selffertilized.

Autogeny

Selfgenerated; produced independently.

Autograft

Fan collection (wordplay)

Star signs (wordplay)

Collector's items.

Derived or transferred from the same individual's body: autologous blood donation; an autologous bone marrow transplant.

""AUTOLYSE to break down tissue by enzyme action, also AUTOLYZE""

Autolyse

Automaker

Some cars

Action which does not involve conscious intention

AUTOMATISE AUTOMATE to convert to automatic control

*Mindless workers (letters 3-8)

Folk who lead a routine monotonous life

Cuckoos in clocks, for example

Independent political groups.

""Government independent self-rule free from outside influence. Freedom , Politics""

Having self-government.

Independent

Independent.

Ones who'd never think of flying (wordplay)

Autopsy

Autoroute

Present participle or gerund

Motorway in Italy

Major Italian highway

Italian highway

Italian superhighways.

Autotomy

""The spontaneous casting off of a limb or other body part, such as the tail of certain lizards or the claw of a lobster, especially when the organism is injured or under attack.""

Autotroph

Autotypy

Auxotroph

Winter effects (wordplay)

Skiers' cover-alls (wordplay)

Hazard for skiers.

Adjective for Marner.

A king strangled by a savage is grasping

A savage eating most of arm, greedy

Antipathy

AVERSIVE relating to aversion

Earhart et al.

Earhart, Anne Lindbergh et al.

Amelia Earhart, and others

Aviatrix

Avidness

Spare time activities

Free time fillers

Lesser jobs returning Mexican food in French planes

Avoidance

Awayness

The stark daw we made very difficult

Axiality

Axillary

Axiology

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

Ayahuasca

'Muslim leaders reject onion' - sure that's the answer (wordplay)

Azeotrope

Shortens a word

Turns a registered nurse into a RN (wordplay)

Abdication

Aberrancy

They're irregular

Sailor in tears or suffering disorders

Abhorrence

Plural or third person singular

""The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.""

Abiogenist

Abjuration

Abnegation

Capable of being abolished.

The action of putting an end to (a practice)

Abominator

Aboriginal

One who procures abortion or miscarriage.

Abreaction

Abridgment

Abrogation

Abscission

It leaves one classless (wordplay)

(Practice of) staying away from work

Practice of staying away from work

Mariner answers and gets acquittals

Absolutism

People with rigid worldviews

A bandleader overcoming very old musicians, their principles undiminished

ABSOLUTIZE

Absolutize

Absorbance

Absorbing

The ratio of absorbed to incident radiation.

Absorption

No-votes (wordplay)

Third column in Congressional tallies

Characterized by abstinence; selfrestraining.

Abstinence

With abstinence.

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

Mistreatment

Insults

Adherence to formal rules (in art or literature)

""Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.""

Accelerant

Increases speed

Stresses

Acceptance

Accessary

Pertaining to accession; additional.

Accession