2-Letter Words Starting with A

Set apart for a specific purpose

Bertie found leaving set aside

Assigned everybody at co-ed school

Leader of army badly lamed, but proceeded on foot

Granted a pardon to

Pardoned

Pardoned.

Written off over time

Mediators somehow paid debts

Liquidated by periodic payments

Spread out, in a way

Wrote off gradually

... and Pan's Dream, perhaps

Thelma & Louise character (wordplay)

Barnes & Noble link (wordplay)

More voluminous (wordplay)

Made louder

Intensified

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

A person undergoing psychoanalysis.

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

Distressed with grief

In pain, wasted away, left abandoned

Getting left out, grew weak and sad

Cornered gnu dealt a blow

Ankylose

With useful info in the margins, say

Wrote in the margins, say

With extra info

All told, in a manner of speaking

Let all, no, by the sound of it

Declared publicly

Went first in order to enact deed

Preceded in time

Preceded in time.

Went back further

Antidote

FRAUD criminal deception

Colour scheme that's out of date

South African issue

former South African segregation system

Aphorise

Aphorize

Decked out

Geared up

Acknowledged in a handy manner!

Didn't let a good turn go unrewarded

Cheered a dud Apple developed

Applique

Positively delighted (wordplay)

Put in position (wordplay)

Given a job to pip dean, perhaps

Disappear (anagram)

Told about article being valued

Phone feature put up and sized up

Arrest (for a crime)

Perceive or take in

Recognise and arrest

Appress

Of spiders and such

Daddy longlegs, e.g

Daddy longlegs, for example

Arborize

Archaise

Archaize

Villain, like Lex Luthor (2 words)

Prince of Darkness

Mephisto himself.

Armature

Got a charge out of (wordplay)

Charged at the bench

Charged, in court.

Appropriated without right.

Helped oneself to

Appropriated without warrant

The point of a quarrel (wordplay)

What's the point of a quarrel (wordplay)

Game sticker (wordplay)

Tree once associated with bow wielders

Centipede, e.g

Animal with a segmented body

Crab or spider

""Ladleshaped; applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.""

""A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.""

Made rough by way of an Edward

Snake stopped on the surface of the road

Like many driveways

It stopped the serpent when the road was covered.

Containing the sound of "h."

Pronounced the letter "h"

Unlike the H in H-hour

Assagai

Pickled in a violent way (wordplay)

A pickled sound is 19 down

Came to blows with a seasoned sound

Assegai

Gathered together in one place

Gathered to make male's beds

Came together or put together

Amazed by odd aunts round about the east

Shocked when a good man's 'arrassed

Amazed at the date, by the sound of it

Astrict

Astringe

Wasted away as a left back at Hyde, say

Decayed from disuse

Aphrodite became emaciated

'Tisn't in the date that you get to Edward

In the date there's judged to be some pollution

A teetotaller? It can't be the editor that's been convicted of that!

There was a trial at getting enticed

Took a shot at

Tried at being tried

Employed a magnet (wordplay)

Engaged the attention

Exerted a gravitational pull

Had lots to sell (wordplay)

Had a lot to offer (wordplay)

Like a lot, perhaps

Added value to

Added to, increased

Grew, increased

Ausform

Autolyse

Autolyze

Handled by machinery

Like today's tellers

Like vending machines

Finally examined gold deposit that's misplaced

A piteous drunk, having died, examined thus (wordplay)

Avianize

Regarded with disgust

Couldn't take

Found repugnant

Ill-directed dart may land here, honest!

Manna from heaven?

Too proud to take lodgers, honest!

Removed, being absent-minded

Walked off with head in the clouds

Preoccupied when taken out

Abstrict

ACCLIMATE To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

Accouter

Officially approved, as a college

Given official recognition

Like an Ivy League institution

Assigned blame, framing cat as usual

Usual train heading for East Germany

Familiar cat held by defendant

""A white crystalline compound, C 6 H 5 NH(COCH 3 ), formerly used in medicine to relieve pain and reduce fever. It has been replaced by safer agents because of its toxicity.""

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

Made slightly acidic

Familiar (with)

Know with with

Know with with

Complied without putting up opposition

Assented

Agreed

""Changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.as, saw his worst fears actualized.""

Unadept at thinking.

Empty-headed.

Muddle-minded

Portioned out

Warned by a note on day I cast off

Told off

Chastised

A silent speed's indicated like this

Vaguely outlined

A duke opposing worker - old and privileged

""ADVENTURE That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.""

Called attention to

Diets raved about and given publicity

Desired a TV broadcast to be made known

Advertize

AEROBRAKE

Passed summer in a dormant position

File data, if somehow connected

Like some local stations, vis-a-vis a radio network

Like some local stations, vis- -vis a radio network

Afforest

Gave a scare to

Paradise? PS: Liberal welcomed

Made (offence) more serious (legal)

Vexed by burglary (wordplay)

Made more serious

Gathered into a mass or whole

Combined into a whole

Brought together

Like many Playboy Playmate photos

Sprayed with paint

Landed supplies when breeze subsided

Airproof

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alkalify

Made more durable

Relieved everyone except the first turned aside

Ideal valet becomes unkempt and is relieved

ALLOWANCE Approval; approbation.

ALPHABET a system of letters

Were at each other's throats

Wrangled.

Went in turn

Took turns

A bird cutting dead duck's head went this way, then that (wordplay)

ALUMINIZE To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Ambition

""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.""

Descriptive of new dentifrices

Ammonify

English word

""A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.""

Made "talent" from "latent," e.g

Got into a mix-up with letters

This mad manager produces the answer

Shown to be similar

Article's broken down and analysed

ANATOMIZE Styptic. <mark>

Ancestor

Made English clean digs I refurbished

Adapted a foreign word to English usage

ANIMALIZE To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

ANNUALIZE

Antevert

Kind of ape

Enos or Able.

If it looks like a man and walks like a man, what is it (wordplay)

Old-fashioned

Awfully quaint, a Fifties youth is seen as behind the times

Passe.

Said sorry for serving old sago pie

Expressed regret for what one has done

Expressed regret

Began damage control, perhaps

Ended a spat, in a way

Expressed regrets

Clad

Was nearly as good as

Came near

Drew near

APPROBATE Approved.

Skidded on film of water

Engraved on copper using resin and nitric acid

ARABICIZE

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

Settled a dispute

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

Oasis acted badly in a group, perhaps

Kind of press

Got together, tossing coats aside

Top grade examining body set to right

Star-shaped, as crystals

Needing explanation, perhaps

Marked danger branding a horse

Marked symbolically

Knocked out a dishonest criminal

Amazed - and so is the organisation

Left slack-jawed

Attemper

Ted ate tuna salad, becoming thin

Reduced in strength

Made thin/thinner

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

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

Tried out for a part

Read (for)

Tried out

Throw her out, said official

Licensed originator is a man

Revised share-out I'd sanctioned

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

AUTOCLAVE A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid.

""AVALANCHE A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.""

Short-term (wordplay)

Just like the BBC

Shortened

On the surface

GROUCHY

ABSOLUTIZE

Gave it the gas

Like some college courses

Speeded up

Emphasized

Accession

Escorted

Brought together into a group or crowd

""ADJUDICATE To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.""

Energy in X, devalued

No longer pure

Made impure

AEROSOLIZE

Disposed.

Gardenias, good on both sides, could be made to look larger

""AGGRANDIZE To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.""

ALKALINIZE

ALLEGORISE

""ALLEGORIZE To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. as, to allegorize the history of a people.""

Began the same way

Produced 'Love's Labours Lost', say, fully performed many times

Allograft

United, as corporations or labor unions

Old-time area (anagram) - made better

Made better

Improved a red meat stew by putting oil back in

ANASTOMOSE Styptic. <mark>

Utterly destroyed

Destroyed completely

Wiped out

Proclaimed a religious woman third-rate, ab'orred on the radio

Made an enemy of

Expected; opposite of unanticipated and unexpected.unanticipated and unexpected.

Type of drug that can counteract glandular activity

TYPHOID an infectious disease

APOSTATISE

""APOSTATIZE 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.""

APPERCEIVE To perceive; to comprehend.

Ate in dapper-fashion, that could have been relevant

Doled out

Became more valuable

Was grateful for

Caught her up, put on manacles

Understood to be arrested

Got arrested

Employed to learn a trade

ARPEGGIATE

Clearly stated to be jointed

Put into words

Said to be segmented

Found out

Killed by oxygen starvation

Bit in papers after a small dose of drug reportedly caused death

Choked

""ASSEVERATE To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.""

Integrated.

Incorporated

""ATMOSPHERE The whole mass of a\'89riform fluid surrounding the earth; applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. as, the atmosphere of Mars.""

Used a stethoscope

Autograft

Like books that may fetch a higher resale value

Signed

AUTOMATIZE same as automate.automate.

""AUTOMOBILE a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.""

AUTOROTATE

AUTOTOMIZE cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

AXIOMATIZE

Like a Disney film professor (2 words)

Contemplating truancy (wordplay)

Given to woolgathering

ACCESSORISE