2-Letter Words Starting with A

Like some headphones

Like some airport laws

Like many a resident near an airport

In opposition to one another

Unconventional literary form

Not in favour of new form of literature

Literary term popularized by Sartre

Like Henry VIII, religiously

An inclination a friend has to be Protestant (wordplay)

PARTY to attend a social gathering

Upset at pianist for starters

One to pour out wine for starters

Hors d'oeuvres make Anita spit

Herod wanted to eat it first!

Introductory Italian course (wordplay)

Italian meal starter, perhaps

Hostility - hint at pay (anagram)

Feeling of deep aversion

Abhorrence of pain that varies, variable

Antiphon

For the real thing (wordplay)

Against bogus responses

Call-and-response singing

Pertaining to the land down under.

At the other end of the world

On the other side of the earth.

Do panties (anagram)

Australia and NZ (from UK)

Poles separated? There's clue in that!

Planetary extremes

Boniface VII and John XVI

Felix V and Alexander V, for example

Targeting the Fourth Estate

Antipyic

QUARK an imagined atomic particle

Dealer in or collector of old things

Specialist in old items

Expert in (or collector of) old artefacts

Render outdated

Render passe.

Make old.

Antiquer

Searching for snuffboxes, perhaps

Relic from hostile desert? Yes, maybe

The old days (wordplay)

Period before the Middle Ages

Stealthy (wordplay)

Like some hard-to-detect missiles

Antirust

SENSE to have an impression or inward feeling

Injection; I'm at nurse (anagram)

I'm nature's fluid remedy for disease

Term in immunology.

SHARK to obtain by swindling

SHOCK to outrage feelings

""SLEEP to be in a natural, periodic state of rest""

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

Opposite the sun

STATE to {affirm=v}

STICK to support with slender pieces of wood

STORY to relate an account of an event

Adjective for hood locks

Like a venom neutralizer

Counteracting poison.

Does Auntie Tock get sick of such a cure (wordplay)

Shot in the arm, perhaps

Neutralizer of a sort

Substance that neutralises poison

Like some business suits (wordplay)

Opposed to centralized industry.

Describing the Clayton Act.

TUMOR an abnormal swelling

Corresponding figures for those characteristically against things (wordplay)

""ULCER to affect with a type of lesion, also ULCERATE""

Buster's stance, maybe

Wal-Mart, to many labor advocates

Unwilling to get organized

URBAN pertaining to a {city=n}

Essential supply for an ophiologist

Solution to a snakebite

Substance that counteracts snake poison

Like AZT

Terrible liar with interminable vanity makes treatment for Aids

Type of protective software

Designed to prevent intrusion, in a way

Like much Norton software

WHITE to {whiten=v}

WOMAN to play the part of a woman

ANTONYM a word opposite in meaning to another

Anviltop

An eleven 'e draws with (wordplay)

One with sixteen wheels carrying international concerns

Anything

Colour scheme that's out of date

South African issue

former South African segregation system

Flat across the pond (wordplay)

Flat (chiefly US)

Flat (mainly US)

Isolation

A wretched cold

Having an "I don't care" attitude

In a way, call up without any interest

A present I gave you to get you moving with them

Drinks provided in wild parties

Drinks before meals

Drinks before food

Openings at a photo studio (wordplay)

Openings for super rate of exchange

Super tear damaged perforations

Apetaly

He loves me ... he loves me not ... now nothing's left!

Creature with claw nearly has the Guardian not flowering (wordplay)

Aphanite

Resembling aphanite; having a very finegrained structure.

Apholate

Saw people (wordplay)

They work with buzzers

A pair of 1 acrosses sits here

Sounds as if they may be keepers

APICULATE

""Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; said of a lens.""

Same as Apodeictic. Apodeictic.

One who defends a policy

Defender of something controversial

One defending most of rationale in a job

APOMICT an organism produced by reproduction

Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio

Those who have lost faith

People who have renounced former beliefs

Pauline perhaps relating to preachers

Relating to the Pope

Unholy topic also concerning Pope

Apothece

""Pl. apothecia (-s - , -sh - ) A disk-shaped or cup-shaped ascocarp of some lichens and the fungi Ascomycetes.""

Apothegm

Horse, maybe, in system

Soldier in appropriate American gear

Gear, as put out for soldier to wear

""Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.""

Try again to meet this person's request!

Man in court.

One takes a case to a higher court for review

This kind of court hears appeals

Like a review panel

Sort of court

""Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. as, a seal appendant to a paper.""

Belong, relate (to)

Relate to an unusual pet pirana

Not the way 8 down would relate to

Appestat

A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

Strong desire

An early form of fuel (wordplay)

Cook prepares it right away, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

Hors d'oeuvres whet them

Urges dad to return with small spades

They get taken to dinner

Eats before dinner (wordplay)

Clams on the half shell, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

How upsetting for Grany Smith!

One not to upset (wordplay)

Place trap to upset this!

I go for it!

Job-seeking insect?

Job-seeking insect (wordplay)

Positively delighted (wordplay)

Put in position (wordplay)

Given a job to pip dean, perhaps

One assigned (to a job)

Chosen one (wordplay)

Pick, of sorts

Divide into shares

Distribute pro rata

Give it out that Father is up a bit

Sanction

Sanction.

State of being deductive.

Kiwis

Subject of certain tests.

Strangely it updates natural abilities

Special talents

Aptness

Aquanaut

Dolphin fans (wordplay)

Goya's "Los Caprichos" set, for example

Some prints

Water carriers

Acts due for renewal to cover question of water transporters

Conduits

""Fit for cultivation, as by plowing.""

Mineral similar to calcite.

Calcium carbonate

Medieval crossbows

Arbalist

Arbelest

Trading that exploits cost differences

Market dealer's activity

Simultaneous purchase and sale of assets

Without specific motive

Like a fiat

Based on random choice

Be a middle man (wordplay)

Be a referee

Use a certain route in a dispute

Where one can't see the wood, they say!

Place for ashes in the garden (wordplay)

A gathering of elders (wordplay)

Alder men (wordplay)

Limb trimmers

Tree experts

Arbutus

Arcature

Archaist

Standard - cheap tyre (anagram)

Teachers' pay rotten? Not seen as ideal!

Jaguar follows supreme original model

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.""

In the form of a bow.

Arethusa

Frondizi's country (with "the").

S. American region.

Native of Bahia Blanca.

Valuable silver ore

Argentum

A formal procedure when sculptor's brought in rock

Sedimentary rock that does not split easily

Toronto seafarers (wordplay)

Golden Fleece seekers

Jason's group

Plural of argumentum .

Discussions or quarrels

Some are heated

Exchanges knitted garment with us

Buddhism One who has attained enlightenment.

Aridity

Weapons of war.

Secy. Wilson's concern.

In the star Mother has men of war

Armature

Frameworks used with modeling clay.

Frameworks in clay modeling

Wire-wound dynamo parts.

Signature moment (wordplay)

I cite arms deal before truce occurs

It's a crime breaking ceasefire

Aroint

Sweet-smelling things

Fragrant plants

Spices

Impart fragrance to

Aroynt

English word

People hauled in

They're charged

Rioters that wake in the slammer

Stoppers for 6s (wordplay)

They make collars

Cops, at times

Unusual police function

Nicking a ring when the others go inside

Lovely job of a police officer

Seizers.

A striver, I fancy (wordplay)

Ambitious and self-seeking person

Ambitious self-seeker

Appropriated without right.

Helped oneself to

Appropriated without warrant

Claims without right

Takes upon one's self.

Assumes presumptuously.

Missile base or plant

Starch-yielding plant

Take a bow to such starch underground

Certain salts or esters.

Poisonous compounds

Arsenite

Lighting specialists (wordplay)

Illegal heaters (wordplay)

Ones with incendiary ideas

Relics, to Brits

Best cafe trattoria boxing up handmade products

Aromatic plant related to wormwood

Genus of herbaceous perennial plants

Bitter tasting plant

Highways

Small blood vessel

Very small blood vessel

Blood vessel connected to a capillary

Inflammation irritates badly

Doctor treats iris mostly for inflammation

With inflamed joints

Suffering from stiff joints

In need of joint relief

Inflammation of joints

Disease of joints

Common elderly affliction

Centipede, e.g

Animal with a segmented body

Crab or spider

Pl. arthroses (-s z) An articulation or a joint between bones.

Articulation.

After 'Jerusalem' maybe choir take break

Plant with a heart (wordplay)

Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps

Article

Pertaining to the joints

Pertaining to joints

Relating to a joint

Ruins things (wordplay)

Objects made by humans

Products of primitive man.

Mechanic in the armed forces

A terrific oily mechanic

A terrific construction worker

Clever tricks

The tricks of painting, if they're so cold

Strategems

Weapons in Welsh town, be gone!

Carney's cannons (wordplay)

Large guns for use on land

Like some cheese

Made by traditional methods

In a naive way

In a crude way

In an unsophisticated manner

""Ladleshaped; applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.""

Arythmia

Smelly gum resin from the Orient.

Get-upping (wordplay)

Rising man penetrating a series of clues

Where the Star was in

Tending upward (var.)

Get up over the ant on the up and up

Rising; predominant

Establish (the facts)

'Find out to assure me, perhaps (9)'

Find assure out (wordplay)

Like the lifestyle of many a monk

Rigorously abstinent

Austere.

ASCORBATE

Ashplant

Is it in any way absurd (wordplay)

Foolishness as of donkey

As it has no limit, no end of folly

What NutraSweet is a brand of

After a dispute, subdue with sweetener

It's sweet to take me to a Greek city

ASPARTATE

ASPECT to look at

Made rough by way of an Edward

Asperate

Snake stopped on the surface of the road

Like many driveways

It stopped the serpent when the road was covered.

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

""Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.""

Partisans of those with high ambitions

Ambitious people

Hopefuls, wannabees

Aspirata

Containing the sound of "h."

Pronounced the letter "h"

Unlike the H in H-hour

They're pronouncedly like sea crooks

They're pronouncedly like criminals

Pronounces an initial H

Medical device removing fluid

Suction pump.

Suction pump

Goon at work

Attacker using wild Alsatians

Hit man, for example

Pickled in a violent way (wordplay)

A pickled sound is 19 down

Came to blows with a seasoned sound

One making violent attack (on another person)

Attacker.

Ones going along

They agree

Seems they're agreeable the way the fool rushes in

Yes man's daily activity

Yes, it's a sniffy-sounding matter

Saying yes

Yea sayers

Those who concur

Asserter