2-Letter Words Starting with A

Searching for snuffboxes, perhaps

Anvil

Become boring copying out: awful

Very bad mimicry about to become tedious

A reverend gentleman worn out? Gee, that's awful!

Attractive bowlers (wordplay)

Sporting drama (wordplay)

Attractive fielders (wordplay)

Seeming not to be 23 across

Showing one's face

Becoming publicly available

Settling down

Satisfying vegetables served in a sound container

How a priest may be a bit slack just to pacify one

Adding, a footnote perhaps

Adding or hanging on to something

A priestly death, one may add

Informing a priest on the up and up

Is a priest getting up to being an informer (wordplay)

How a priest may be informing one that he is getting up

Apprize

Giving the OK

Sanctioning

Is he not staying in his parish? One is not objecting to that

Arabize

Archive

Argufy

Armour

Aroint

Aroynt

Putting in order.

Putting into order

Putting in order

Unusual police function

Nicking a ring when the others go inside

Lovely job of a police officer

Article

Is counsel at last up to it (wordplay)

Up with a dying counsel!

Is counsel finishing up (wordplay)

Attributing (to) - giving credit (to)

Crediting (to)

Putting it down to one as it's in writing

Ashlar

Ashler

Asperse

Sick donkey (wordplay)

Silly to get sick as you're on a yacht

Like being on the sea if it's storming

Yes man's daily activity

Yes, it's a sniffy-sounding matter

Saying yes

Sticking up for (oneself)

Claiming to sting and sear this

Claiming it's made of sea string

Rating, for taxation say

Finding how much 17 down becomes vocal

Mokes making music

Like giving your name to it (wordplay)

Like giving your autograph away

Giving out by way of giving your autograph

Acting as right hand

Helpful to the fool if I cause him pain

The silly one I give pain to with help

Assoil

Classifying.

Alleviating, allaying

Alleviating, appeasing

Bringing relief to, as a guilty conscience

Asswage

Astony

Atomise

Atomize

Fixing a non-drinker's craving

(M/W)elding

A teetotaller in pain, and stuck with it

Fighting animal volunteers upset leader

At the cat back there His Majesty is offensive

It's so offensive to get at this in a zigzag way

Getting to be all there

Reaching, as a climax

Having got all there

Being present at (function/event)

Present at a funeral without a drink

Be at a teetotal funeral

... for a teacher (wordplay)

Sounds like a trying bit of a trial

Declaring that something is the case

Attorn

Aureole

Author

Getting mean (wordplay)

Finding the means (wordplay)

What a mean thing to be doing!

Keeping out of hospital, stifling cry of pain, giving assurance

Sleep's end

Rousing a boy in one part of house

Arousal from sleep

Azotise

Azotize

Leaving a report about scholar at home

A group performing, one no good, giving up

Deserting

Abandoning royal dignity

Relinquishing power

Giving up

Abnegate

Formally ending (a practice)

Action demanded by W. L. Garrison

Wiping out

Abreact

Abrogate

Abscess

Leaving secretly in a hurry

Doing without.

Santa in big buggy not letting anyone get cross (wordplay)

Absterge

Welcoming with shouts of joy

Giving praise to

Type of work.

FIRST-in, FIRST-out discipline

Giving a reason for financial processing

Accoutre

Acerbate

Acetify

Acidify

Acierate

Acquit

Activate

Activize

Saying what's to be going on th envelope

Ranch, for example

Dealing with commercial arrangement

Adhibit

Postponing

Advocate

Affiance

Afflict

Affront

Aggress

Infringing another's legal rights

Emergency transportation method

Flying in Hackney's hair-raising (wordplay)

Moving in emergency, scary for Cockneys (wordplay)

Airmail

Giving the cold shoulder

Causing a rift between

Turning away

Aliment

Alkalise

Alkalize

Alkylate

Allocate

The giving of alms.

Walking

Amnesty

Amortise

Paying down

Making (a signal) greater

Amputate

Anguish

Angulate

Ankylose

Editorial activity

Supplying notes when she has nothing but odds and ends I find to be no good

Declaring

Antecede

Preceding in time

""BUSING the act of transporting by bus, also BUSSING""

CAKING the act of caking

Antidote

Aphorise

Aphorize

APPAREL to {clothe=v}

Mince pies and a pint - good and tasty!

Mouth-watering

Quite mouthwatering - but gets a pip in by accident

Appetize

Going like the clappers (wordplay)

Giving a hand around the house (wordplay)

Clapping etc

Assigning (to a post)

Designating.

It's not about rejecting a father losing article for blessing

Informing about a judgmental activity

Sizing up

Arborize

Archaise

Archaize

Armature

Charging in court

Putting on trial Arabian ruling is heard

Calling before a court to answer charge

Claiming without right

Asperate

Asphalt

Pronouncing the "h" as in house

Assagai

No defence for such a pickling, by the sound of it

Assegai

Gathering son wears same silly flash jewellery

Adman's adjective

An observation about tenor: 'stunning'

Striking dumb with astonishment

Astrict

Astringe

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

Attaint

Good Twitter handle for a seductress (wordplay)

Bringing in

Inviting.

Cautioning over selling house

Activity around the block

Cautioning boss selling the house

Adding to summer (wordplay)

Enlarging.

Increasing

Ausform

Autolyse

Autolyze

Automate

Autopsy

Present participle or gerund

Avianize

Loathing.

Abstract

Abstrict

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

Getting in gear

Accredit

Accustom

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

ACIDULATE To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.

Acquaint

Giving in

Making a reality

ADMEASURE To measure.

Reprimanding

A silly sailor making sketch

Overshadowing a stupid sailor

""ADVANTAGE Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.""

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

Commercial world (wordplay)

Classified line of business (wordplay)

Putting in a plug (wordplay)

The act of {advertising=v}

AEROBRAKE

AESTIVATE

""AFFILIATE To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.""

Afforest

Affright

Making (a problem) worse

Making worse

Exacerbating

AGGREGATE To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. \'bdThe aggregated soil.\'b8aggregated soil.\'b8

Photo lab job

Photoshop job

Delivering in flight, as military supplies

Airproof

ALCHEMIZE To change by alchemy; to transmute.

Alkalify

ALLEVIATE To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

ALLOWANCE Approval; approbation.

ALPHABET a system of letters

""ALTERCATE The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.""

Sort of current found in tidal river

Type of current from your alternator

Taking turns

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.""

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

Ammonify

Anagram

""ANALOGIZE To employ, or reason by, analogy.""

ANATOMISE

ANATOMIZE Styptic. <mark>

Ancestor

ANGLICISE

""ANGLICIZE To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.""

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

ANNUALIZE

Antevert

DUMPING the selling of large quantities of goods below market price

FOAMING the act of foaming

FOGGING fog

FOULING a deposit or crust

HUNTING an instance of searching

Technique designed to reduce blocking of radio signals

Turning obsolete

SMOKING to preserve by smoke-drying