2-Letter Words Starting with A

Arbitrage

Settled a dispute

Resolves, as a contract dispute

Decides to barter, as it is damaged

Determines to get back her support it deserves

Grieve or Dascoli

Independent settler of dispute

Person authorized to decide a dispute.

Where they might bring back the birch (wordplay)

Flowers that do well among trees and shrubs (wordplay)

Plots of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

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

Real and patchy - crudely typical!

Classic N chapel tray (anagram)

Chat with player when ground's ideal

Original models of sports cars found on bridge

Ones making plans

Pritzker Prize winners

Bezaleel et al.

Frame for door or window

Beam resting on tops of columns.

Frame Alistair, vacuously taking tab at party

Record-keepers of a sort

They say Gemmill leaps over fancy formations

""A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.""

Trigonometry function

45 degrees, for 1

A fellow admitting misdemeanour finally can't somehow function

ARCTIC a warm waterproof overshoe

People of the pampas

Natives of Cordoba.

Argentite

Argillite

""Pl. argumenta (-t ) Logic An argument, demonstration, or appeal to reason.""

Arhatship

Upperclass man (wordplay)

Effendi, for one

One of the upper crust

Activity for summer (wordplay)

Field of operations (wordplay)

R without an apostrophe (wordplay)

Armature

Armistice

AROMATIZE To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

Makes fragrant

ARPEGGIATE

Arrestant

Stoppage.

Stoppage

Varying heartbeat

Lacking rhythm or regularity of rhythm: "a slight arrhythmic imperfection when the car idles" (Garrison Keillor).

Comes to accept first people on the make

Social climbers

Nouveaux riches

All modesty aside

Completely holding game up with hubris

Claiming without right

Unfair claiming giro, rat on a suspect

Improper seizure.

Unjustified seizure.

Some starchy plants

Starchy plants

Topless thin torso, sporting white bloomers

Artemisia

ARTERIAL a type of {highway=n}

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

Arteriole

Dodger's skill (wordplay)

Craft making false turns at sea

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Neuralgic pain in a joint or joints.

Arthritic

Spiders and crabs.

Troops hard to move - they've no backbone

Edible thistles that may be stuffed

Their hearts are often preserved in jars

Edible flower heads are so thick, oddly

Endowed with the power of speech.

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

Skilled craftsmen

Mock trial, if CIA involved

Forced frail cat I upset to eat one

Kiss of life

Artiness

Puppetry and ventriloquism, for example

Skillful qualities

Arytenoid

Odoriferous gum resins.

Gum resin used medically

Foul-smelling but safe aid to a curry

Bitter medicine

Asbestos

Miner's disease

Chronic lung disease

Lung disease

Asbestus

Ancestors

Forebears

Ascendent

Finds out in case star gets worried

Finds out Isaac Stern is playing

Establishes for sure the chump has swallowed it

Austerity of a strict hermit

Discipline of mind and body.

Diogenes belief

Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

Ascorbate

I give praise to Paris in a hundred shapes

Assignment

The act of ascribing.

Having no evident sex or sex organs.

Aspartame

Aspartate

Asperate

Asperity

Asphalt

Asphaltic.

Asphaltum

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

Choke, but manage to pay his tax before the end of June

Huge house plant

Iris adapts, being adaptable plant

Plant rallied Ada's spirit

Pronouncing the "h" as in house

... 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

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.

ASSERTED assert

They're said to be positive

Evict from service stations for opinions

Positive statements

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

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.""

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

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.

Asyndeton

Ataractic

Athanasy

Athenaeum

Pl. atheromas or atheromata (-m -t ) A deposit or degenerative accumulation of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall of an artery.

Athrocyte

Atmometer

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

With regards to nuclear energy

How a nation with nukes is armed

Atonalism

Atonalist

Reparations for wrong.

Reparations for wrongs

Some religious experiences

Barbarities at, or around, towns

Cruel deeds

Inhumanities

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

Capable of being fastened

Like Mr. Potato Head parts

Love sent by email (wordplay)

Love sent by e-mail (wordplay)

File with an email

Like some goals

Not so far as a star.

Within reach

Attainder

The achievement (of a goal)

A b-blemish limiting men's achievement

Act of achieving something

Attaint

Attemper

Good Twitter handle for a seductress (wordplay)

Factor in grading, perhaps

Gate - enact Dante (anagram)

Guests at Blair's ball (wordplay)

Take care of picnic pests (wordplay)

Checkroom employees, for example

Members of the wedding.

They may be unwelcome

Sergeants' commands

Military standings

Ted ate tuna salad, becoming thin

Reduced in strength

Made thin/thinner

Diminishes in force.

Makes thin.

Weakens

Electronic signal weakener

Electric signal diminisher

Device reducing signal strength

""The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord.""

Pheromone, notably

Treatise on origins of apparently toxic insect pheromone

Bringing in

Inviting.

It's not repulsive at drawing, perhaps

... for a tire company (wordplay)

Erotic experience is a drag, we're told

Easy on the ol' windows to the soul

Pleasing to the eye

In good taste

Attractor

That's ascribed to a TD about a matter of tax

Thought to be by Alfred Tennyson initially, but going in to be tested

Such properties belong at taxes

Skills shown by artiste, but presented awkwardly

Characteristics

They're so wearing

Frictions

Harmonisation needs much attention without having people turn back

Against expectations

One predictably in a way deviating from the expected pattern

Bill takes pity, moving colleague in an unusual way

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Cautioning over selling house

Activity around the block

Cautioning boss selling the house

Insolent acts

The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

The measurement of hearing.

Media for drivers

Driver's entertainment, sometimes

Dinosaurs next to the iPod

Tried out for a part

Read (for)

Tried out

Auditory

AUDITOR one who {audits=v}

Sitting-room with a view (wordplay)

Room for performances

The principal's classroom

Augmenter

Adding to summer (wordplay)

Enlarging.

Increasing

Augmentor

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

AURICULAE

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

Austenite

Of or pertaining to austenite.

Autarchy

AUTARKIC relating to autarky

The branch of ecology that deals with the biological relationship between an individual organism or an individual species and its environment.

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

""Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

Clears

Empowers

Sanctions

Novelist's craft (wordplay)

The Caine or the Pequod?

The Caine or the Pequod (wordplay)

AUTOBAHN a German superhighway

Autobus

Native.

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

Pressure cookers

Having absolute power

Like Holmes's breakfast-table man

Croatia cut out being dictatorial