2-Letter Words Starting with A

Love affair, perhaps secret

Loved one (French)

Affair of one such as Othello, say

What a bore to have a month with 'er!

A much bigger 'and tool (wordplay)

What a bore this is!

Ancient Roman soothsayer

Bode (usu. well or ill)

Foretell something boring, say

Cold cash in Iceland

Icelandic monetary units

Say bully finds work in decrepit bar

Bully or addict

Addict or bully

Closer to being right (wordplay)

More sharp or shrewd

Sharper, in a way

Of a bird's spurious wing

Like a bird's wing.

Of a bird's "thumb"

Fancy tickler (wordplay)

Comedian, for example

Clown, for example

Port for the cockney under the trees

Leafy bower in Leeds

Shady garden alcove

How a Cockney says he works with this

Intense feeling (of love?)

Great enthusiasm or passion

Trial lawyer, say

Forensic specialist (wordplay)

Attorney, for example

Love to receive Romeo's mail, perhaps

Mail perhaps from Romeo in love affair

Meat-packing pioneer

Auld

Truffaut, for one

Kubrick, for one

Hitchcock, for one

Partner in merger #3 (2 letters)

Book-maker (wordplay)

Touring pro, perhaps

One who {abjures=v}

Neighbouring landowner is a bishop, say

Neighbour providing a dairy product

Owner of a contiguous estate

Trial figure, perhaps

Person saying its you is bank client

Plaintiff's role.

Citer, as of facts or proof

He's shown clearly total cure may be effected

Alleger.

One requesting in earnest

Judge, at times

""One who commands solemnly, also ADJURER""

One who entices

Siren, for example

Don Juan, for example

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

Rank one (wordplay)

Not a pronoun (wordplay)

Lean to a certain degree (wordplay)

Thin to quite a degree (wordplay)

'Bony' ran Gaul erratically

Doughnut-shaped - a LAN run (anagram)

Type of eclipse

Ringlike; type of eclipse

Geological formation containing water

Water-bearing stratum of permeable rock

It's often comprised of sandstone

Like a witness who's quite nervous

Trembling, if born in 1650

Shaking some projectiles

Sudden noise, perhaps

Alarm clock, for example

That which excites

Taker for granted

One who pretends

One who takes things for granted.

One saying "All's well"

Trust me speaker

One removing doubt

Underwriter

Like junior perhaps going to pieces

Split like Neath (wordplay)

Sad rune (anagram)

One who keeps work in balance (wordplay)

Reviewer of books (wordplay)

One has a checkered career (wordplay)

Debater

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

More ridiculous

More ridiculous bends on road during Lincoln runs

It's more ridiculous - I'm lost for words after Australian has bowled Root

Ready for battle

Equip

Outfit

A mail shot has no right to be sharp

Needle-shaped.

One who gains something

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 overdoes the praise

Flatterer is one among grown-up men

Person who praises excessively

Waving a couple of flippers, say

A US state, say, in hyped-up state

Agitated - excited (eg in anticipation)

Go back (on a promise)

One who lies in wait

Pertaining to an

Not involving ovulation

One shopping for old curios

Polemic

Old mailman (wordplay)

Custodian of pieces etc (wordplay)

Maker of defensive dress

August

Auntly

Austere

Pertaining to birds

One who {avouches=v}

Awful

Absolute

Harder to penetrate

Lacking the basic structure of life

Like viruses having a rest, lying back inside maple

One letting go

Who later rued straying (wordplay)

Durer tale (anagram)

One's business affairs (wordplay)

Newsreader can run one broadcast

Person with a booming voice, often

Radio/TV introducer

TUMOR an abnormal swelling

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

One who applauds.

""A reptile of the subclass Archosauria, which includes the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and the modern crocodilians.""

Pertaining to the joints

Pertaining to joints

Relating to a joint

One making violent attack (on another person)

Attacker.

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

AUGMENT to {increase=v}

Cur Laura and I stupidly told privately

French composer's universal god of the ear

A foreigner.

Model company (wordplay)

Ford, for one

Mercedes or Volvo

Not having blood vessels

Friendly, as an older relative, say

Friendly, like some relatives

Friendly in a non-threatening way

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

One who acquires.

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

Armored beast of old

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

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

Water-skier's next of kin

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

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

Bet; large battery cell

Battery - type of bet

Electric cell; bet

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

""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.""

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

POPULAR something pleasing

Antitrust

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.""

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.

""AUTHENTICATE To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.""

""FILIBUSTER A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.""

TUBERCULAR Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

Writer of their own life story

""A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.compensator or balancing coil.""