2-Letter Words Starting with A

A type of chromosome

Facsimile

A mineral

Hub-hub (wordplay)

Wheel's attachment on a horse-drawn cart

Bar Alex felling large plant

Hate to be a man, I suspect

Tottering in boat, Mae can't stand

Regard with disgust

Fit for acceptance.

Get used to (Amer.)

Cool indoor conditions (wordplay)

Harden against PAin, etc.

Gradually built up

Solvent used in lacquers

Chemical came with a diet specially formulated

Musty-smelling crystalline solid (chemistry), emaciated (anagram)

Receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

It's a gas!

A collection o' thin ones? Great gas!

Kind of torch

Make slightly sour.

Make slightly sour

That's enough to make you sour - and make you dead in the end

Make a reality of

""Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.""

Of flexible nature.

American with bald pate oddly plastic

Good at fitting in to new circumstances

Hard to give up

(Of drug) habit-forming

Habit-forming

""Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.""

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

The good in "good riddance"

Modifier of a noun

'Dead' or 'alive'

Tending to adjust.

Extraneous ingredient

Say nice things about new tux, creating bit of a stir (wordplay)

Ingredient.

Able to be taken up

Fit for taking home from the animal shelter

Commercial work on board is such as may be undertaken

Substance taken up in a lab

A type of tree covered in fruit? It's only on the surface

Adjective meaning resembling

Foreshadow a silent tear, perhaps

Indicate a silent speed (wordplay)

Outline from an unintelligent judge

Service commercial vehicle, say, at back

Edge of the tennis court (wordplay)

Head start, say

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Accidental.

Commercial gamble (wordplay)

Per this perhaps it's exciting

New account on Madison Avenue (wordplay)

Throw out pitches (wordplay)

Promote (a product)

Push kin (wordplay)

{advertise=v}

Four in a car sleep when it's warm

I've a taste for change and will spend the summer in bed

Tending to affect; affecting.

Attach (to an organisation)

Team up with FIFA et al: one fouled

In trouble if I left AA as associate

""A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

Road to recovery

Need for recovering patients

Support to customer following a purchase

Medium access (wordplay)

Post-death existence

Heaven or hell., for example

'That's of late, it seems (5,4)'

Future

Exasperate or exacerbate

Annoy, and make things worse

Make (problem) worse

Collective total - a great egg (anagram)

Greg is stone-faced, in sum (wordplay)

Get garage to fix heap (wordplay)

Tending to stir up

Wasted the bacon sandwiches I cut

HB1 around the rump

Cut of beef

Able but unwilling to read

Disinclined to read

Make less severe, say suffering

Leave it out after Al displays temper

Take the edge off

Grant painter graphite, perhaps

Distinct form of an element

One of two or more existing forms of an element

""A deep violet-red garnet, FeAl 2 Si 3 O 12 , found in metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone.""

Unlike the past

Subject to modification

Subject to change

Argue with the girl to try to change her

Dispute heatedly ( 9 )

Argue with Catherine for a change

Every other letter an A? Awkward!

How to shake up Etna (wordplay)

Perhaps change it to ante for a stand-in

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

""Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.""

Green variety of microcline

A green semiprecious stone

Green feldspar.

A doctor starts reminiscing over sort of early photograph

Variant of amoebocyte .

""A type of ammonia compound, also AMMINE, AMMONIATE""

An attenuator decreases it

Maximum extent of signal or vibration

On a radio, the A in AM

To dissect a very little matter is easy at first

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

Religious recluse (hist.)

Hermit or religious recluse

Hermit as a result of her action, sadly

""A green to brown or black calcium-iron garnet, Ca 3 Fe 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

A minor ore of lead

""A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).""

""A mineral of the feldspar family, commonly occurring in small glassy crystals, also a constituent of some igneous rocks. It is a lime feldspar. See Feldspar. Feldspar.""

English word

A small antenna; applied to the smaller pair of antenn\'91 or feelers of Crustacea.

Grotesque streak in fold of rock

Arch of stratified rock.

Lark calling beneath arched fold of rock

Against lawbreaking

Favoring common folk

Like sun visors

Like some headphones

Like some airport laws

Like many a resident near an airport

Render outdated

Render passe.

Make old.

SENSE to have an impression or inward feeling

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

STATE to {affirm=v}

WHITE to {whiten=v}

APICULATE

This kind of court hears appeals

Like a review panel

Sort of court

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

One assigned (to a job)

Chosen one (wordplay)

Pick, of sorts

Sanction

Sanction.

Mineral similar to calcite.

Calcium carbonate

Trading that exploits cost differences

Market dealer's activity

Simultaneous purchase and sale of assets

Be a middle man (wordplay)

Be a referee

Use a certain route in a dispute

Standard - cheap tyre (anagram)

Teachers' pay rotten? Not seen as ideal!

Jaguar follows supreme original model

Frondizi's country (with "the").

S. American region.

Native of Bahia Blanca.

Valuable silver ore

A formal procedure when sculptor's brought in rock

Sedimentary rock that does not split easily

Signature moment (wordplay)

I cite arms deal before truce occurs

It's a crime breaking ceasefire

Impart fragrance to

A striver, I fancy (wordplay)

Ambitious and self-seeking person

Ambitious self-seeker

Small blood vessel

Very small blood vessel

Blood vessel connected to a capillary

After 'Jerusalem' maybe choir take break

Plant with a heart (wordplay)

Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps

ASCORBATE

What NutraSweet is a brand of

After a dispute, subdue with sweetener

It's sweet to take me to a Greek city

ASPARTATE

Aspirata

A lock up? I have to be forceful

Bold and confident

Far from reticent.

Hang out (with)

Not yet a principal

Rub shoulders of teammate

With a leg on either side of (something)

Riding, in a way

On the fence.

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.

Line near a hyperbola

Almost a sign to note near tangent

Line that a curve infinitely approaches

English word

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

... for a eulogist (wordplay)

Ascribe (to a cause)

Virtue by payment

Band that plays music (wordplay)

Sound evidence (wordplay)

Garage band's production, once

AUDIT to examine accounts

A constituent of some forms of steel

Tate in use, perhaps, for one who likes Jane

I share out (anagram)

Writer is going east to say it's okay

Sanction or establish officially

John Irving's peepers (wordplay)

Give the go-ahead to

Give the green LIGHT to

Surgical instruments steriliser

Relative of a pressure cooker.

Kin of a pressure cooker

An expressway in France and French-speaking countries.

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.

Make an acronym of, perhaps

Shorten (a word)

Bribe a vet with a new contract

ABSOLUTE self-existent

ABSOLUTE self-existent

Tending to suck up

Tending to soak up

Practice of refraining (from alcohol)

If you pass the bar, what will it mean?

Non-partaking (of liquor)

Maybe create lace and go faster

Create lace dress and be quick about it

Open the throttle wide

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

Occasion to give a speech

Granting admission to Powell's world

The world of Powell

Get together to create a fortune perhaps

Build up

Collect Greek character's former account with Catholic university first

The case for the prosecution (wordplay)

Prosecution's case (wordplay)

Case which needs objective prosecuting

Stony meteorite

ACOELOMATE

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

Worth trying (wordplay)

Possibly libellous (wordplay)

Giving grounds for a lawsuit

Maybe detain a man of unyielding nature

Hard type of man, worker in Eden originally

A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable

Decide (between claims or in games)

Decide officially on a dispute

Hear and decide (a case).

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

Able to be adapted

Not set in stone

Like hospital beds

Maiden, with tact, ordered entree

Letting in a ball stopped by hand

Permission to enter

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

Cut a deal? Utter chicanery!

Water down, perhaps

Grown up with age, note, can be corrupt

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

The quality or practice of being advertent; heedfulness.

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

AFFECT to act upon

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

Flashbulb effect, for example

Lingering impression on the eye

Flashbulb effect

Additional short sketch.

Brut, for one

Face alcohol before breakfast (wordplay)

Where this is (wordplay)

Side effect (wordplay)

Bud or maker (wordplay)

Feeling left following smack (wordplay)

Everyone repeat! (wordplay)

Say tongue twisters, maybe

Say a tongue twister, maybe

Art for the masses (wordplay)

Communion table screen

Painting placed prominently in church

Combine into one

Merge into a single body

Join forces to butcher Malaga meat

""An antiviral drug, C 10 H 17 NHCl, also used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.""

Make better meal, or I eat junk!

Make an unpleasant situation better

Make improvements to

""A cell, such as a leukocyte, having amoeboid form or motion.""

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

Word inversion, such as "Came the dawn."

Inversion, such as "Came the dawn"

Gold place in which land is mined for mineral

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.

Hammer a nail in the bust

Hit an alien ordered to exterminate

Dynamite, say

Serving to explain

Explanatory

Mutant canine tuna, say

Declare girl in acute trouble

Announce (arch.)

Make an enemy of.

Rub the wrong way

Make an enemy of

""A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin.""

I burn, but break your heart? I can't!

Hard, lustrous coal

Hard type of coal

Prepare for (a future event)

Predict - ape in attic (anagram)

Expect worker here for the French spread

Misogynous

Alcohol, for one.

Opposed to a cap on wages (wordplay)

Alcohol needed for driving (wordplay)

Word with prefix anti-

In favor of the great indoors, maybe

PLAGUE to pester or annoy

PLAQUE an ornamental plate or disk

Unable to stand the heat (wordplay)

""An artificial alkaloid, believed to be efficient in abating fever.""

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Breeding and care of bees

One might be keeping this, by the sound of it

Bringing up workers in a religious environment

A comic Frenchman in group is to abandon principles

Abandon your principles with a job at one's expense initially

""To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.""

Office of the Pope.

Nothing delayed support for a job implying leadership of a Propaganda committee

O death, where is thy sting (wordplay)

Greengrocers missing sign (wordplay)

Maker's mark (wordplay)

""Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. as, appetitive power or faculty.""

""Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. as, an appointive office.""

It may be set off by commas

Juxtaposed

Increase (in value)

(Of asset) rise in value

Be fully aware of.

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

Frame for door or window

Beam resting on tops of columns.

Frame Alistair, vacuously taking tab at party

ARPEGGIATE

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

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.

The act of ascribing.

Asphaltic.

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

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

Making an assault.

Affirm dunderhead always had snacks

Declare that the fool was always feeding

State in which animal always took food

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

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Capable of being fastened

Like Mr. Potato Head parts

Like some goals

Not so far as a star.

Within reach

Factor in grading, perhaps

Gate - enact Dante (anagram)

Guests at Blair's ball (wordplay)