2-Letter Words Starting with A

Early echo-sounder; a disc (anagram)

Sonar in Soho

Sonar to Brits

Jelly, when still (wordplay)

Mold-y food (wordplay)

Bonded stock formation (wordplay)

Pertaining to an {anise=n}

Drawing many blanks, maybe

Not self-aware, say

Out of memory (wordplay)

Unable to smell

Unable to use language

Not able to express thoughts in words

Of a language impairment

Murder mystery element (wordplay)

What gets As in chemistry (wordplay)

Old lace partner (wordplay)

St. Francis of Assisi, for one

Mahatma Gandhi, for one

Hedonist's opposite

Relating to dropsy of the abdomen

Unable to give you anything (wordplay)

Free of germs

Being clean involves giving it space

Not stable or steady

In neutral equilibrium.

One still without polarity

What one plays pool with?

*Like a Taylor 810, say

What one plays pool with (wordplay)

Leaders in poetry, perhaps

Beginnings of poetry (wordplay)

Initial puzzle (wordplay)

Person acting so dubious (wordplay)

One who's not sure what's up (wordplay)

Doubter - coatings (anagram)

Unsophisticated GI reacts oddly

Rural retreat caught by its awful rage

Unpolished silver on staff detail

Jason Bourne, for one

Man with no past (wordplay)

Patient of unknown origin (wordplay)

Causing memory loss

Pertaining to a verb tense

""One suffering from aphasia, also APHASIC""

Unable to produce new cells, causing defects in organs or tissue

Skilled at painting, say

I stir cat (anagram)

Right-brained, maybe

Pertaining to {asbestos=n}

Acid boracic's turned into (wordplay)

Acid found in citrus fruits, vitamin C

- - acid: vitamin C

Chips are all over the place, but not totally global

Weak

Like "Rain Man" (wordplay)

Living in a world of fantasy

Like the boy in "Mercury Rising"

Pertaining to an autopsy

Concerned with beauty

Organizing principle of beauty

Of pleasing appearance

Argumentative.

Not concerned with the past

AMORIST a {lover=n}

Agent allaying pain

Remedy allaying pain

Bill without a single wrong number

Like some poetic feet

Of or pertaining to anaphase.

""ANDESITE a volcanic rock, also ANDESYTE""

ANELE to {anoint=v}

Of belief in spirits, demons, etc.

Believing that the universe has a soul

Believing that objects have souls

Pauline perhaps relating to preachers

Relating to the Pope

Unholy topic also concerning Pope

""Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous.""

Of a respiratory disease

German cathedral city

That's enough to make short of 27 down

Of a sentence in which conjunctions are omitted

Resembling remote ancestors

Reverting to something ancient

Involving reversion to an earlier type

Rejecting higher authority (wordplay)

Eschewing a higher calling (wordplay)

Not believing the man is in Greek mode

Less than molecular

Composed of simple elements

A cat is twitching, completely broken down (wordplay)

ACTIVIST an advocate of {activism=n}

Affected with albinism.

""ALKAHEST the hypothetical solvent sought by alchemists, also ALCAHEST""

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Unselfish liars? Cut it out!

Concerned for others' wellbeing

Hardly selfish

Aiding the memory

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Ether, for one

It may put you to sleep

It may be administered before surgery

""Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style. as, the dry annalistic style.""

Application for injury benefit, perhaps

Preventing growth of microorganisms

Alcohol, for example.

Counteracting electrical build-up

Kind of carpet

Tending to resist charge build-up

Inclined to quote maxims

Like an adage

Expressed pithily.

""Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.""

""Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.""

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

Not right insight (wordplay)

Suffering distortions of vision

Having double-vision

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

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

Type of curve, in math.

Of or pertaining to austenite.

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

Adjective (-ic)

ALCHEMIST One who practices alchemy.

A knockout in the theatre!

Laughing gas, for example

A person could well be put out by it

Like one wanting to overthrow government

Styptic. <mark>[Obs.]<mark>

Of or pertaining to animalism.

Of or pertaining to aniseikonia.aniseikonia.

""Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.anisotropic.""

Stimulant of desire

Substance that makes you hot

Something that stimulates desire

""Pl. aposiopeses (-s z) A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continue.""

""Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.""

Astronomy

Of or pertaining to astronautics.

'Hi!' to campers (anagram)

Armpits echo (anagram)

Of air; conveying special mood

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body.

""Not astigmatic; free of astigmatism; -- pertaining to a lens or lens system, and used especially of a lens system which consists of a converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and opposite astigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free from astigmatism.""

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

Little colonizer in torment (wordplay)

Little colonizer in torment?

Stupid giant's action showing opposition

Counteracting hysteria.

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Satiric actor playing noble

Of the nobility

Satiric actor turning 'blue'

ARTHROSCOPE

Showing no symptoms of disease.

Having symmetry around an axis: an axisymmetric cone.

Of or pertaining to adventurism.

In the wrong time period

Anarchist icon destroyed before its time

Out of keeping with chronology

Reducing sexual desire

(Drug) tending to diminish sexual desire

(Of a drug) lowering sexual urges - Rio's a handicap (anagram)

A condition in which the refractive power of one eye differs from that of the other.

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Inflected form of PSYCHOTIC Inflected form of PSYCHO a mentally unstable person

Counteracting scurvy.

Drug that helps to stay fit!

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

Canterbury or York, for example

High church office

Senior church post

Inflected form of HISTAMINIC Inflected form of HISTAMINE

""HUMANISTIC Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. as, humanistic devotion.""

""NEOPLASTIC of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.""

Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

""SCIENTIFIC Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations. as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.""

Efficacious against syphilis.

""ASTHENOSPHERE the lower layer of the earth's crust, below the lithosphere. It is estimated as from fifty to several hundred miles thick. It is less rigid than the lithosphere, but still rigid enough to transmit some transverse seismic waves.""

Of or pertaining to achondroplasia.

Same as Antaphrodisiac. Antaphrodisiac.

A form of arteriosclerosis characterized by the deposition of atheromatous plaques containing cholesterol and lipids on the innermost layer of the walls of large and medium-sized arteries.