2-Letter Words Starting with A

One who {avouches=v}

Affirms

Tearing away

Tearing away

Sudden removal of land, but no visual changes (wordplay)

Awful

Traditional Indian medicine system

Alternative medicine from India

Holistic medicinal approach from India

Astronomer's measurements

Astronomical surveyors' readings

Surveyor's measurements

An excess of nitrogenous substances in the urine

Blue copper ores

Taking by force

Carrying off (of a person)

Taking badly (wordplay)

Alien encounter, some claim

Courts get rough with bad kidnappers

The act of washing

Usain Bolt ordered washing

Usain Bolt, after injury, showers

Aboideau

Aboideau

Aboiteau

Aboiteau

Perhaps a spring in abundance

Rich one leaping

That's what a leap year won't be a-doing

Abrupt

""A sudden, violent separation""

Absolute

Ultimates and perfections.

Things held to be always true

Some are moral

Harder to penetrate

Most foolish brutes, sad, torn apart

Most ludicrous

Belief that we live in an essentially meaningless world

Beckett, for one

Like a Something Different puzzle

Beckett's revising suits Bard

It's ridiculous vandalising a dirty bus

A dirty bus crashed, stupid thing

What nonsense to make the bar tidy with us!

Being {built=v}

A bread roll twist perhaps is plenty

Plenty, but it isn't a cake-walk!

Lots of baking at the ball (wordplay)

In a harshly insulting way, say

Boatman displaces everyone, starting obliquely and cruelly

Abutilon

Some points of contact

Supporting structures of a bridge.

Arch supports

About a nurse, overcome by real stress showing

Totted up to a hundred, for all that

Considered to be a hundred totted up

All added up to a century

Provides with furnishings

US equips air conditioning - cold son grabs remote

Outfitted and equipped

Dressed or equipped as a warrior

Equipped, in England

Provides with gear, in Gloucester

Furnishes

""ACCRUE to accumulate, also ACCREW""

Accusant

Gets used (to)

This gets used

Habituates

Lacking the basic structure of life

Like viruses having a rest, lying back inside maple

Pl. acervuli (-l ) A tiny cushionlike or blisterlike structure produced by certain fungi on a plant host and consisting of a mass of hyphae-bearing asexually produced spores.

Pl. acetabula (-l ) Anatomy The cup-shaped cavity at the base of the hipbone into which the ball-shaped head of the femur fits.

Aciculum

Make slightly sour.

Make slightly sour

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

Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.

Sharp with asperity

Claudius prepared to eat duck and tart

U.C.L.A. duo is sarcastic

Aciduria

Aconitum

Sound system (wordplay)

Stucco is a puzzle to science

Conductor's concern

Bill, charming little son, keeps up to date

This makes one know what's so nice and old-fashioned in the sac

Lets one know how attractively old-fashioned this is in the sac

Agree bill and become silent

Accept without protest

Agree or accept without protest

Acquirer

Developing, as a skill

Clear indeed, a pound maybe sought by 17

Outcome of the Lizzie Borden trial

Verdict of Not Guilty

Found not guilty and discharged

All let off so a hundred went off

Having been let off, a hundred left

One letting go

Actinium

It's not a dream

Beingness or existence

State of real existence

Make a reality of

So to be working with figures is risky

Of life-expectancy calculation

Relating to statistical calculation

Risk assessors sign, after a drastic cut

They calculate insurance risks

Insurance company employees

Motivating

Process of making operate

Actuator

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

Acutance

Quality of sharp pain

That seems a cunning attribute

Use secant with sharp perceptiveness

Adduct

The act of adducing or bringing forward.

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

Inner thigh muscles

Certain thigh muscles

Closed court at the end of a session

More than recessed

Postponed until another day

Adjudge

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

They alter commercials - right the Queen should appear in them

Fine-tuning

Tending to adjust.

Adjustor

Assistant officer's role

Military officers

Adjuvant

This made a certain share

Will Father get back to me with a certain way to share this out (wordplay)

Can A get made certain to apportion this (wordplay)

Extraneous ingredient

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

Ingredient.

Adularia

Dug around a Latin - praise be!

Worshipful

Lauding

Very high regard

Sycophant's specialty

High praise for an adult I love to tease

Prays from them, by the sound of it

Obsequious group

Big fans

Excessively flattering

When almost grown-up, a politician is flattering

Sycophantic

Who later rued straying (wordplay)

Durer tale (anagram)

One's business affairs (wordplay)

Minor goal (wordplay)

A step above the minors (wordplay)

Supposedly mature years

Adjective meaning resembling

Maturity

Foreshadow a silent tear, perhaps

Indicate a silent speed (wordplay)

Outline from an unintelligent judge

Commercial gamble (wordplay)

Per this perhaps it's exciting

New account on Madison Avenue (wordplay)

Aequorin

Aeroduct

Balloonists or airmen

They go up and down

Balloon pilots, for example

Well, that gets one off

Well, it's got off this

A guard contracts sickness in profusion

Affluence.

Affluent

Baptisms of fire, at the start USA's in round

Blue or white garden flowers.

Small blue or white flowers.

Garden flowers

Agueweed

Aiguille

Tree of Heaven; Thai Alnus (anagram)

Sugar maybe taking one part of 7 tree

Tree liana winding round in this manner

Airburst

Airbus

Alarum

Albumose

Alburnum

Draft pick venues (wordplay)

Round buildings (wordplay)

See a lush reeling round old pubs

Aleurone

Alfaquin

Shouts of joy

Passing references or indirect mentions

Literary references

Passing references

Alluvial

Alluvion

Alluvium

Poor accommodation (wordplay)

Old folks' home (once)

Home to the down-and-out

Air-to-sea readings

Heights above the ground

Pilot's data

Altruism

Paragons of unselfishness

They're very unegotistical

Unselfish types

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

Metal I dropped over the Atlantic

Strong light metal

Metal or salt containing little uranium

To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Of a common metallic element

Containing element #13

Certain shades of gray.

Alumroot

Plural or third person singular

Blindness of a graduate neurosis: can't see Tyneside

Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

Aspect of innuendo

Uncertainty of meaning

Double talker's aim

*Subject to interpretation

Open to differing interpretations

Of uncertain meaning

Greedy, getting stung by debts

Eager to advance.

Keen to succeed

""Pl. ambulacra (-l k r , -l kr ) One of the five radial areas on the undersurface of the starfish and similar echinoderms, from which the tube feet are protruded and withdrawn.""

Road mender (wordplay)

Transport patiently awaited (wordplay)

What drives you to get better (wordplay)

Leader of army badly lamed, but proceeded on foot

Walks about

Walks around

Moves about

Lie in wait for (someone)

Breaking: Cuba's made surprise attack

Concealed military force.

Ambusher

Attacking from a concealed position

New chemical element, Number 95.

Element named by Glenn Seaborg

Element used in radiation research

Ammonium

Morals? You worry, in a loving way

How Casanovas make their moves

Morals you abandoned in passionate style

Not in shape (wordplay)

Without clearly defined shape

Without a clearly-defined shape

Adding up (to)

Coming to a getting up (wordplay)

Being equivalent.

""A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc. (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebr\'91, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.""

An attenuator decreases it

Maximum extent of signal or vibration

On a radio, the A in AM

Resembling an ampulla.

I'm placed and cut off over a boy

So I'm placed to have cut off the date

I'm placed next to a boy yet cut off

Removes limbs surgically

Surgically removes limbs

Prunes

A maiden to exploit men - time for fun!

What fun so to employ people in the mat!

Park opening (wordplay)

In a funny way

Retiring person undressed alone, humorously

Amygdule

Upbeats

Russia can rebuild - that's upbeat!

Unstressed syllable, in verse.

Musical upbeat

Like, with "to"

Comparable in certain respects

Similar opening about a trademark

Comparable things

Parallels.

Anchusin

Spicy sausage

A spicy smoked pork sausage with a blackish skin

Of or pertaining to anestrus.

Having a chromosome number that is not a multiple of the haploid number for the species.

Enlargements of arteries

Disturbing means taking in spoon-bender's abnormal enlargements

Aneurysm

Angelus

Distressed with grief

In pain, wasted away, left abandoned

Getting left out, grew weak and sad

Anguish

Awkwardly.

Cornered gnu dealt a blow

Angulate

Your hands could be lacking moisture

Rear exit keeping spa hotel free from water

An unfinished shelter, terribly dry inside without water

""ANILINE a chemical compound, also ANILIN""

All told, in a manner of speaking

Let all, no, by the sound of it

Declared publicly

Newsreader can run one broadcast

Person with a booming voice, often

Radio/TV introducer

Declares that girl's put on weight

Declares girl's put on some weight

Makes known

Convert to a yearly rate

One with a regular income from a lump sum

An idiot outside university, creepy type who gets cash regularly (wordplay)

An Alsatian night worker, who's paid after work (wordplay)

May they keep aunties in change (wordplay)

They yield payments at specified intervals

Subtly insinuate these are paid every year

She is beginning the cancellation

Declaring invalid, as a marriage

Making void

Union buster (wordplay)

'I do' undoer

That may make an invalid of one

Annulus

Deviating from the usual pattern

Out of the normal

Inconsistent - out of place

Source of the quip (wordplay)

On my back in a sense unknown

Not identified by name

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

The flower head of certain plants

""Any of various evergreen tropical American plants of the genus Anthurium, grown as ornamentals for their attractive leaves and their showy, often red spathes.""

AUXIN a growth promoting substance

FRAUD criminal deception

HUMAN a {person=n}

QUARK an imagined atomic particle

Dealer in or collector of old things

Specialist in old items

Expert in (or collector of) old artefacts

Render outdated

Render passe.

Make old.

Antiquer

Searching for snuffboxes, perhaps

Relic from hostile desert? Yes, maybe

The old days (wordplay)

Period before the Middle Ages

Antirust

Injection; I'm at nurse (anagram)

I'm nature's fluid remedy for disease

Term in immunology.

Like some business suits (wordplay)

Opposed to centralized industry.

Describing the Clayton Act.

TUMOR an abnormal swelling