2-Letter Words Starting with A

Role call answerer (wordplay)

Paul Newman for one

Cue user, maybe

Introduction to math (wordplay)

Fairy tale's last word (wordplay)

Second of two photos perhaps

Single person's last stand (wordplay)

Sacrificial spot, perhaps

Where to say "I do"

Size up, maybe (wordplay)

Put the cuffs on (wordplay)

Put change in one's pocket (wordplay)

More likely (to)

More suitable - prate (anagram)

Quicker on the uptake

Late bloomer (wordplay)

Michaelmas daisy for one

Yellow-centered bloomer, perhaps

Prison in commotion (wordplay)

Up and about - is art (anagram)

Out from under the covers

Petal pungence (wordplay)

Perfume base perhaps

Perfume base, perhaps

One who eases off

That which diminishes.

One that lessens

One who suspends an action, in law

Stopper of a nuisance

Halter of a nuisance, in law

Closer to being right (wordplay)

More sharp or shrewd

Sharper, in a way

Air of the Olympian gods

Greek god of the upper air

Upper regions of space variable

Is she the insect in 25 down (wordplay)

What a blooming female sort of insect!

What a blooming female insect!

Upas tree gum resin.

Upas tree poison

Arrow poison

Improvised place to hang a hat, say

Buck's crowning glory (wordplay)

One of two for a buck (wordplay)

More stylized, maybe

More creative, perhaps

More drawn to galleries, perhaps

Sorry individual (wordplay)

One recovering from a fall, perhaps

Sorry sort (wordplay)

Truffaut, for one

Kubrick, for one

Hitchcock, for one

Partner in merger #3 (2 letters)

Book-maker (wordplay)

Touring pro, perhaps

Manifestation of a deity (Hinduism)

Embodiment, of sorts

Two-dimensional game face (wordplay)

A reformed assistant (wordplay)

Helpmate of sorts

Partner in crime; tree bat (anagram)

One driving a getaway car, say

Hardly a good helper (wordplay)

Accomplice in crime

Launch stopper

Neighbouring landowner is a bishop, say

Neighbour providing a dairy product

Owner of a contiguous estate

He makes work play, perhaps

Dear Pat (anagram)

Device providing flexibility

Compatibility connecting device (var.)

Connector (O, not E)

Tap road (anagram)

Having more talent

A redtop (anagram)

Parent-by-choice, of sorts

Pet shelter visitor, perhaps

Atomizer, for one

Ozone appraiser (wordplay)

Apparatus used for fumigating

Poem by Shelley, 1816

Poem by Shelley, 1815.

Poem by Shelley.

Paul Revere, for one

Siren, for one

More on guard.

Waist reducer, perhaps

Agent of change (wordplay)

One you get change from (wordplay)

'That's no pronoun, perhaps (7)'

Rank one (wordplay)

Not a pronoun (wordplay)

Source of current information (wordplay)

Reader of current issue (wordplay)

It goes with the flow

The sound of a hymn, perhaps (wordplay)

Sound of a hymn, perhaps

A him, perhaps, or someone else

Opposed to cars

Fighting against fighting, say

Conflicting with conflict (wordplay)

Type of protest

More likely to fidget, say

Nastier stranger is more impatient

More prone to fidgeting

Beef inspector (wordplay)

Umpire, for one

Ruling party (wordplay)

More pretentious, perhaps

With more aesthetic pretension

Affected to a greater degree

Without columns

Art studio / Amazon, for one (hyph.)

Where one might find oils (wordplay)

Oil production site (wordplay)

One who keeps work in balance (wordplay)

Reviewer of books (wordplay)

One has a checkered career (wordplay)

Smilin' Jack, for one

Lindbergh, for one

One up (wordplay)

Expectant one.

Attendant

Watcher.

Place for croaking animals (wordplay)

Place for neat disposal (wordplay)

I tar boat (anagram)

Taker (of someone)

One removing by force

Hercules, to Iole

More sudden and unexpected

Shorter able-bodied man serving on game point, about given up

One intentionally not present

Player stuck round half century gets the bird ...

Bird, in a manner of speaking, joining other ranks

Prunella, the player retaining part of part of play

Oscar winner's stand-in

Recipient

Bill-of-exchange signer

He takes the prize

Draft signer

Ready for battle

Equip

Outfit

Something causing operation

Electric motor, mechanically speaking

Mechanism causing operation

An adducent muscle

Insurance-company employee

Insurance agency employee

Insurance company employee

Professional claims examiner

One who tells all.

More crafty or skillful

With more skill

More skillful

One who overdoes the praise

Flatterer is one among grown-up men

Person who praises excessively

One who {affects=v}

Waving a couple of flippers, say

A US state, say, in hyped-up state

Agitated - excited (eg in anticipation)

One stirring up (things)

A good mixer, maybe, but a trouble-maker

A good mixer, maybe, but a troublemaker

Sparkling silver? Rubbish!

Sparkling silver rubbish

Silver on recent issue, sparkling

One who {allots=v}

Someone in a tree (wordplay)

Great-great-great grandmother, for one

Someone up in a tree (wordplay)

Inspirer

Vivifier.

Walt Disney, perhaps (wordplay)

Ralph Bakshi, for one

Cel-ist (wordplay)

Priest's role during Extreme Unction

One doing the consecrating

Holy-oil sprinkler

Welcome picnic guest (wordplay)

Lover of armies (wordplay)

Pangolin, for one

Nearer the front; prior (to)

Front-facing, anatomically

In the front

One shopping for old curios

Additive type in oil & grease

Collar creator (wordplay)

Cop making a collar

One who takes people in

Police officer, at times

Hinderer.

One agreeing to make fool join

Yes-man, for example

... one agrees for fool to come in

One who agrees

Nominee endorser in Britain

Endorsing voter, in England.

One who states plainly and strongly

One who's sure

One who seizes the day

Star rose to become a champion defender

One speaking positively

Help when family member needed

One who helps because she's related

Right-hand man.

Lawyer's aide

Supportive one

One who classifies things

Classifier

Classifier.

Item on a vanity, perhaps

Perfume delivery option

Item on milady's dresser

Welder, for example

Paper clip, for example

Stapling machine

What an offensive sort of a person!

Take cart moving forward

One picking holes in fancy cake and tart

Achiever of a goal.

One who got it

Goal getter

A term pet used to adapt old style

Modify by mixture.

One who's all there (wordplay)

One who showed up

Someone who shows up

One bearing witness

One who certifies

One who gives evidence

Notary, for instance

One's present at the trial, or ready to give one's 15 across at it

Certifier

All keyed up and telling folks about it

1959 John Wayne western

Nervously excited

August

Auntly

Austere

One who navigates aircraft

On the windy side

Not sheltered, on ship

Dread of woman on the windward side

Edward VIII in 1936

He's giving up

King Edward VIII, for example

One who surrenders

Renouncer over Angora bet

Claim renouncer

Absolute

Seat in bar maybe not his (wordplay)

No little 21 across for one

Who's abandoned seat in bar (wordplay)

Harder to penetrate

A hawk

Hawk shows caprice flying - the thing must be caught

One letting go

Turn-on (wordplay)

Chemical catalyst

Catalyst

Who later rued straying (wordplay)

Durer tale (anagram)

One's business affairs (wordplay)

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Density determining instrument

Gas-density gauge

Gizmo that measures gas properties

Statue material, perhaps

Altar base (anagram)

Figurine material, perhaps

Poor diplomat, say

Family outcast, perhaps

One causing estrangement

Creature seen later (wordplay)

Pogo's pal Albert, for one

Florida snapper (wordplay)

Designated hitter finder (wordplay)

Distributor of resources

Budgeter, in a way

Changeover time in the cockpit

Parachutist's device

It measures height above sea level

ANCIENT an aged man

One making explanatory notes

Jotter in the year disposed to art

Editor of a kind

Part of church; anchorite (anagram)

Part of a church

Area in church; icon heart anag.

Union-busting, say

Opposed to the union, say

Don't be this tomorrow

Stealthy (wordplay)

Like some hard-to-detect missiles

Opposite the sun

TUMOR an abnormal swelling

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

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

An early form of fuel (wordplay)

Cook prepares it right away, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

Eats before dinner (wordplay)

Clams on the half shell, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

Pertaining to the joints

Pertaining to joints

Relating to a joint

Mechanic in the armed forces

A terrific oily mechanic

A terrific construction worker

Medical device removing fluid

Suction pump.

Suction pump

One making violent attack (on another person)

Attacker.

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

Loss of civil rights.

Loss of all civil rights, in law

Get the German punishment for treason

Magnet or pheromone

Drawing card, essentially

Magnet, vis-a-vis iron

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

AUGMENT to {increase=v}

Model company (wordplay)

Ford, for one

Mercedes or Volvo

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

Abstract

ABSTRACT to draw away

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

One who acquires.

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

""One who, or that which, alleviaties.""

Current-generating car part

Dodge Charger charger

Auto part introduced by Chrysler in 1960

Later, he got drunk (completely)

Entirely in the natural state (wordplay)

Great hotel renovated completely

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

""Zoology A small antenna or similar organ, especially one of the first pair of small antennae on the head of a crustacean.""

Powerful drug-treatment class

Like chemotherapy drugs

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

LITTER to scatter rubbish about

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

Nail polish brush, for example

Cosmetician's device.

Device used as a swab.

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

Same as arbitrageur.arbitrageur.

Grieve or Dascoli

Independent settler of dispute

Person authorized to decide a dispute.

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

Expert on moving house (wordplay)

Charter for 11 (wordplay)

House examiner (wordplay)

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

Electronic signal weakener

Electric signal diminisher

Device reducing signal strength

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

Big Three employee

Creator of short sentences (wordplay)

Part of an auto.

Driver's foot pedal

Cycling race, clear to pedal

Bet; large battery cell

Battery - type of bet

Electric cell; bet

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

He has decisive qualities

Settler of disagreement

Arbitrator

One who adulterates or corrupts.

Part of a jet engine increasing thrust

Pollution-control device

Jet power booster

""An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.""

""One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.""

One who ameliorates.

""One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. as, a fire annihilator.""

""One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.""

Small room leading to a larger room

Lobby one college with sign of caution

Small entrance room

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

Expectant one.

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

POPULAR something pleasing

Antitrust

One who values

Exploiter of market differences

Exploiter of stock market differences

Trader offers designer's latest little piece with passion in a very old city

""One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

ASSIMILATE To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

""Any of various rod-shaped, nonpathogenic, nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the genus Azotobacter, found in soil and water.""

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

""He who, or that which, accommodates.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Large oval stadium with tiers

Hollywood Bowl, for example

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

Non-PC chair protector (wordplay)

Chair cover mascara stain made a mess of

Protective cloth on upholstered seat

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

One liberates all but last of fit soldiers