2-Letter Words Starting with A

Sticking up for (oneself)

Claiming to sting and sear this

Claiming it's made of sea string

How silly to start to make such a claim!

Senator is about to make a statement

Claim first son has trouble in store

A lock up? I have to be forceful

Bold and confident

Far from reticent.

Trees in a sort of people making a claim

""Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.""

In France, note how revolutionary they were

Malamud novel (with "The")

Golf club apprentice (wordplay)

Help worker to find a mate (wordplay)

They help as nuns

Helpful ones

Acting as right hand

Helpful to the fool if I cause him pain

The silly one I give pain to with help

Assistor

Hang out (with)

Not yet a principal

Rub shoulders of teammate

Assonant

Ones engaged in separation

They classify

Selectors

Classifying.

""A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied.""

Rising

Astatine

Record-book marks, maybe

"M*A*S*H" stars (wordplay)

Stars of "M*A*S*H" (wordplay)

Star clusters

Classic Atari game

Small planets orbiting the sun

Space Invaders alternative

Asthenia

Asthenic

Astheny

Of a respiratory disease

German cathedral city

That's enough to make short of 27 down

Astigmia

Astony

Amazed by odd aunts round about the east

Shocked when a good man's 'arrassed

Amazed at the date, by the sound of it

With a leg on either side of (something)

Riding, in a way

On the fence.

Beads for starlets (wordplay)

Convex moldings.

Small circular mouldings, on round columns,say

Hark Satan (anagram)

Hark, Santa is in Russian wool

Fur - city on Volga

Astrict

Astringe

Astringe

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.

Dixon line (wordplay)

How stars can make a fortune, perhaps

A house study (wordplay)

A nut roast served for one on rocket

One making use of space (wordplay)

One making good use of space (wordplay)

Celestial sphere (wordplay)

Roman toys (anagram)

Tory moans (anagram)

Imbalance between two sides

Feature of much modern architecture

Difference between two sides

Line near a hyperbola

Almost a sign to note near tangent

Line that a curve infinitely approaches

Of a sentence in which conjunctions are omitted

I came, I saw, I conquered, for example

Atamasco

Of or relating to a drug or other agent that has a tranquilizing effect.

Ataraxia

Ataraxic

Ataraxy

Resembling remote ancestors

Reverting to something ancient

Involving reversion to an earlier type

A secretary, vocal, unaffected by time

Without regard for time

Timeless ruins at Palermo

Rejecting higher authority (wordplay)

Eschewing a higher calling (wordplay)

Not believing the man is in Greek mode

Atheling

Club menu the AA had changed (wordplay)

Inclusive book on wheels (wordplay)

Articles on a menu arranged by club

Reading rooms

Atheroma

Sports - cheat list (anagram)

His cattle wandering off track, perhaps

Lithe acts (anagram)

English word

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer.

Atomiser

Atomise

Less than molecular

Composed of simple elements

A cat is twitching, completely broken down (wordplay)

Scent spreaders

Atomize

ATONAL lacking tonality

ATONAL lacking tonality

Quality of Bartok's music

Feature of the 1925 opera "Wozzeck"

Lack of a key center, in music

Reparation (for a wrong)

Reparation agreed, paid around November

Satisfaction of a sort

Atrazine

Our coat is incredibly appalling

Terrible actor in trouble with debts

Very bad tragic actor promises to pay

Atrophia

Wasted away as a left back at Hyde, say

Decayed from disuse

Aphrodite became emaciated

Article with prizes for degenerates

A pit horse works with withers

Falls into decline

Atropine

Atropism

Attacher

Fixing a non-drinker's craving

(M/W)elding

A teetotaller in pain, and stuck with it

Offensive ones (wordplay)

People in a rush

They're 1 across, not 8 down

Fighting animal volunteers upset leader

At the cat back there His Majesty is offensive

It's so offensive to get at this in a zigzag way

Offense player in lacrosse

Lacrosse player on the offensive side of the field

ATTACK to {assault=v}

Loss of civil rights.

Loss of all civil rights, in law

Get the German punishment for treason

Successful people

Achievers

Getting to be all there

Reaching, as a climax

Having got all there

'Tisn't in the date that you get to Edward

In the date there's judged to be some pollution

A teetotaller? It can't be the editor that's been convicted of that!

Attemper

There was a trial at getting enticed

Took a shot at

Tried at being tried

Escort coming in at 10 (Danish time)

Cupbearer, for one

One who waits upon

Who's there (wordplay)

Those at meetings

They're there

They made it to the event

Ladies in waiting

Those present at proposals

Being present at (function/event)

Present at a funeral without a drink

Be at a teetotal funeral

Standing order (wordplay)

Notice a pressure in the ear (wordplay)

Mental concentration or awareness( 9)

Showing courtesy to another, or alert

At camp under canvas I have to be alert

As alert as the dutiful Pinafore crew

Reduce (a signal)

Had a late meal to make one thin

To have eaten so late may make you thin

Sat around the examiners as they swear to it

Certifiers

Witnesses

... for a teacher (wordplay)

Sounds like a trying bit of a trial

Declaring that something is the case

Notaries public, for example

Atticism

Atticist

Duet? Sit at different positions

Points of view.

Edits taut review of Points of View

Trial members (wordplay)

Case workers (wordplay)

Bar tenders (wordplay)

Attorn

Employed a magnet (wordplay)

Engaged the attention

Exerted a gravitational pull

Magnet or pheromone

Drawing card, essentially

Magnet, vis-a-vis iron

... for a eulogist (wordplay)

Ascribe (to a cause)

Virtue by payment

How wearing down here!

A wearing away

Wearing down, turning it into art

Aubretia

Aubrieta

Had lots to sell (wordplay)

Had a lot to offer (wordplay)

Like a lot, perhaps

Our Altaic version of the author

Of, by or typical of an author

Pertaining to a writer

Band that plays music (wordplay)

Sound evidence (wordplay)

Garage band's production, once

AUDIT to examine accounts

Screen shots (wordplay)

Reads for a part

Tryouts for performers.

Auditive

Eg, concert halls

They are found in schools

School meeting places

Added value to

Added to, increased

Grew, increased

""One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.""

AUGMENT to {increase=v}

August

Aunthood

Auntly

A constituent of some forms of steel

Tate in use, perhaps, for one who likes Jane

Planned a Yule rest with no frills

In a harsh or severe way

Simply gives us tea when out - depend on it!

Most severe state sure to be troublesome

Extremely severe

British program of belt-tightening

Condition in post-war British economy.

Severeness of manner

Austral

Autacoid

AUTARCH an absolute ruler

Autarky

Autecism

AUTEUR the creator of a film

Real thin with a cute bust!

Genuine, not a copy

Real thin with a cute bust

Arthouses neglected creative person

Writer shares out bubbly

Writer shares out novel development

A harlot, I suspect, stealing Waugh's heart as a novelist (wordplay)

Author

I share out (anagram)

Writer is going east to say it's okay

Sanction or establish officially

Hoyle, for one

Write on sex with variable confidence

Writer's got it - 'unknown power'

John Irving's peepers (wordplay)

Give the go-ahead to

Give the green LIGHT to

Autistic

Travelling South, a ban on roads like this

Motor coaches

They're often escorted by police

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

Autocoid

Absolute government by one person

Dictatorship, e.g

One-man rule.

They reign without rein

Rulers with unlimited power

They're absolutely at the top.

Tossed out this sort of clue about sport

Motor racing over rough terrain

Slalom race on parking lot course

Autodyne

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

Golden garment on back of film needs training to relieve stress

Helicopters of yore

Helicopters' kin

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

Sign of the self (wordplay)

Car dealer's chart (wordplay)

Hound's quarry (wordplay)

Some aircraft with propellers

Autolyse

Autolyse

Self destruction of cells

""Of, pertaining to, or causing autolysis.""

Autolyze

Autolyze

Model company (wordplay)

Ford, for one

Mercedes or Volvo

Handled by machinery

Like today's tellers

Like vending machines

Couple in a one-car family (wordplay)

Builds a robot for

Makes machine-run

Will it shoot itself (wordplay)

Occurring as a matter of course

Type of gun or car

Man of sorts.

Does this amount to a robot (wordplay)

Man of many parts, perhaps

Like a nervous system

Occurring involuntarily

Acting independently.

Unthinking state (figurative)

High-level stand-in chauffeur (wordplay)

Robot flier (wordplay)

Finally examined gold deposit that's misplaced

A piteous drunk, having died, examined thus (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations (wordplay)

End-of-term examinations

An A of A&E

An expressway in France and French-speaking countries.

AUTOSOME a type of chromosome

Autosome

Of or pertaining to autotelism.

""An organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

Autotype

Autunite

""An organism, such as a strain of bacteria, that has lost the ability to synthesize certain substances required for its growth and metabolism as the result of mutational changes.""

Avadavat

Aventail

Averment

Bird keepers

Aviation

Greeds

Avigator

Not virulent.

That's the job - or maybe a calling

Hobby; avian coot (anagram)

A life's work leads to hobby

Wondering at a vehicle we collided with

Lost for words as we crashed lorry

Ace you and I hit is impressed

Awful

Taken for granted

Pertaining to self-evident truths

Of universally received principles

Carriage's underpinnings.

Title for Khomeini

An Iranian Shi'ite religious leader

Senior Iranian cleric

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.

Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.

Azotemia

Azotise

Azotize

Azoturia

Not caused by bacteria.

Humiliations

Abashment

Moderations of intensity

Tax deductions

Diminutions