2-Letter Words Starting with A

Make an acronym of, perhaps

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Bribe a vet with a new contract

Abandoning royal dignity

Relinquishing power

Giving up

Acid in boat (anagram)

Edward VIII's action of 1936

Regal resignation

Throne relinquishers

Abducens

Ufologist's subjects

An A of A&E

Snatchings

ABDUCTOR a person who abducts

In an unnatural way

Deviation from normality

Delusion or illusion

A wandering from the norm.

A believer in spontaneous generation

Abjection

Wretched quality

Renunciation

ABLATIVE a grammatical case

Abnegate

Sailor, say, in the country giving up

Bet again? No chance for denial

Disclaimer - there's no beating a developer!

Surrendering sorts

Annulments

Regarded with disgust

Couldn't take

Found repugnant

Much more than dislikes

Dislikes intensely

Loathes

One hates to see Robin with wingless Batman, struggling to apprehend ring

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

Abreact

Rating right-wing attitude as a psychological process

Compendium or synopsis.

Shortened version of a written work

Shortened form

Abrogate

Annulment of an agreement or law

The sailor's asking for an annulment

Cancelling a second-rate allowance? Go back to intervene

Abruption

Curt rudeness

Criminal rents a pub, leading to son's rude quality

Curtness

Sure wobbly as belly out!

I wholly agree!

Okay by me!

Perfect in quality or nature; complete.

Obtain soul renewed with this (wordplay)

Release sailor - there you have it!

A second-rate answer requires indulgence

Doctrine of unlimited power

Total power lost, I am taking bus, sadly

Moral theory that doesn't allow for shades of gray

A distraught sob by musician who dislikes Fifty Shades of Grey (wordplay)

ABSOLUTE self-existent

ABSOLUTE self-existent

Absorbant

Absorbent

Bounty work (wordplay)

(Process of) taking in

Process of soaking up

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

They are positively negative

Eligible non-voters

Avoiders of alcohol

Doing without.

Santa in big buggy not letting anyone get cross (wordplay)

I mess about (anagram)

Moderate Jack to plug debts

I mess about, drunk or sober

Pass in Congress (wordplay)

Act of declining to vote

Withholding of vote

Absterge

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

Removed, being absent-minded

Walked off with head in the clouds

Preoccupied when taken out

Abstract

Read this bodybuilding brochure

ABSTRACT to draw away

Abstrict

Last buyers getting treated in an unusual way

Abstruse

Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.

Absurdist

In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.

Floral designs used in architecture

Speeder-up in processing something.

Agent for hastening the progress

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

Without accent.

What to do with an acute etc (wordplay)

Worried about acne? Cut out stress

Emphasise smart goddess with brogue

Not bad welcome (wordplay)

Good enough but not great

Of (marginally) satisfactory quality

In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.

Occasion to give a speech

Granting admission to Powell's world

The world of Powell

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

Perhaps M is taken toothy to the end

Fortuitous bit of scoring (wordplay)

Flat, say, without planning

ACCIDENT a mishap

Accipiter

ACCLIMATE To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

Acclimate

Bookkeeper, maybe chartered

Someone doing a balancing act (wordplay)

Relation without a tan in summer

Type of work.

FIRST-in, FIRST-out discipline

Giving a reason for financial processing

Accouter

Accoutre

Officially approved, as a college

Given official recognition

Like an Ivy League institution

Accretion

Noun (-ment)

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

Some maniac curate lying? Precisely!

It's precisely a copy you heard Ray let anyhow

Lacy shifts worn by one in church without any slips

Whodunit plot element

Charge copyright to America in case

Charge about, protecting us in battle

The case for the prosecution (wordplay)

Prosecution's case (wordplay)

Case which needs objective prosecuting

""Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. as, an accusatory libel.""

Assigned blame, framing cat as usual

Usual train heading for East Germany

Familiar cat held by defendant

Acerbate

Acerbity

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

Deep cavity on the side of the hipbone that receives the head of the thighbone

The hollow that receives the head of the thigh bone

Acetamide

""A white crystalline compound, C 6 H 5 NH(COCH 3 ), formerly used in medicine to relieve pain and reduce fever. It has been replaced by safer agents because of its toxicity.""

Acetify

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

Acetylate

Acetylene

""ACETYLENE A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.""

Stony meteorite

Colourless church with scent outside

Colorless.

A dreamer with no name embraces church, having no shade

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

""The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.""

Made slightly acidic

Acidulate

Acierate

ACOELOMATE

Serving to aid hearing.

Sounding accusal to premier in Istanbul, hopeless

Auditory

Familiar (with)

Know with with

Know with with

One who acquires.

Acquittal

Judges or juries, sometimes

Acquit

Acridity

Acritarch

Feats of agility

Gymnast's display

High-flying performance

Pertaining to a kind of puzzle

The process of doing or performing something: the act of thinking.

A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

In an actionable manner.

Void of action.

Activate

Process of starting up (something)

Being called up, military-wise

Removal from mothballs

Chemical catalysts

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

ACTIVIST an advocate of {activism=n}

Work, hobbies, social events, etc.

Cite a visit planned with things to do

Things to do

Activize

Splattered on my coat is a muscle protein

""Changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.as, saw his worst fears actualized.""

Actualize

Actuation

Acylation

Maybe detain a man of unyielding nature

Hard type of man, worker in Eden originally

A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable

Play from a novel, for instance

Film version, e.g

TV version of a book

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Hard things to break

Inside moves did seem like bad habits

'More of them, about one hundred, habitually (10)'

Not on the floor model, say

Getting on top of things more (wordplay)

For an extra charge

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

ADDITIVE a substance added to foodstuffs

Unadept at thinking.

Empty-headed.

Muddle-minded

Adduction

Adenitis

Done well enough to earn a C, maybe

In satisfactory manner

Is it satisfactory place is empty to an acceptable extent (wordplay)

In an adherent manner.

Adhibit

Adipocyte

Can lady jet off in a conterminous manner (wordplay)

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

'In deep of night when - / Hath locked up mortal sense' (Milton)

Decide (between claims or in games)

Decide officially on a dispute

Hear and decide (a case).

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

""The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.""

Containing an adjuration.

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

End of the statement

Small change to achieve a desired result

Modification; regulation

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

Scotch maid to share esteem (wordplay)

One may be lost in it

Maid out helping gains approval

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

'Truth be told ... '

By general agreement.

"Truth be told ... "

Admixture

Warning poster has proposal about Ulster

Cautious counsel

Tina in mood that's awkward gets a reprimand

Fussy day monitor giving a reprimand

Conveying a reprimand

Warning politician, I'd moan terribly at the start

Not yet achieved adultery (wordplay)

Youth benefit stops rising

Minor trouble with the French cologne

ADOPTIVE that adopts

Adoration

Send matron out for decorations

Model and monster to become accessories

Embellishments

Explosive assertion about daughter's skill

Skill

They are taken in, notice - top group ('90s group) on the way up...

Adsorbent

Process facilitated by silica gel

Broadcast on Sport Aid - 'a superficial process of accumulating gas'

Having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface; displaying adsorption.adsorption.

Adulation

Any substance that lessens purity

Water, vis-a-vis vodka

Corrupter of mature queen by worker

Cut a deal? Utter chicanery!

Water down, perhaps

Grown up with age, note, can be corrupt

Ones fooling around

Having grown up with a couple of cockney girls? Faith, he will have none of it!

Woman whose tears led us astray (wordplay)

Qualities evenly incorporated in an outfit for Madame Bovary, perhaps (wordplay)

Adultery

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.

Cheating ruled out as arranged

Like Fontane's woman

Cheating ruled out as wrong

Adulthood

A silent speed's indicated like this

Vaguely outlined

Adumbrate

A duke opposing worker - old and privileged

Gave a stand (anagram)

Reasons to say yes

They may overcome the competition

Advection

The membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel.

Adventive

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

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

Tuned raves (anagram)

And then... stories

Basis of many plots.

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

""The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.""

Called attention to

Diets raved about and given publicity

Desired a TV broadcast to be made known

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

Steve raids (anagram)

Puts in a spot

Plugs (colloq.)

Advertize

Advertize

Careful consideration

Deliberation

US lawyer rejected version of events I'm giving US counsel

Advocate

Commercial role being a defender

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of