2-Letter Words Starting with A

Monkey on one's back ("Henry V")

I did act on (anagram)

Maybe this is inhabited

The act of adducing or bringing forward.

Madison Avenue undertaking (wordplay)

Guilty plea, say

Commercial assignment (wordplay)

Commercial speech (wordplay)

Love a fair helping of bother (wordplay)

Allowance of fuss and of love (wordplay)

Very high regard

Sycophant's specialty

High praise for an adult I love to tease

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Feeling of fondness

Feeling of strong liking

Admiration of affectation from the army

Poison produced by food moulds; oxtail fan (anagram)

Perhaps I am never in time like this

On following no following amend, perhaps

Am finished before it starts (wordplay)

State of unrest

Rabble-rouser's activity

Attack of the fidgets.

""A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid. allantoic acid and amniotic acid.""

""A synthetic clear or amber-colored viscous insecticide, C 19 H 26 O 3 , similar to pyrethrin.""

Swiss signaling instrument.

Swiss wind instrument

Instrument planner used round the house

Swimmer able to do the crawl (wordplay)

A suitable vehicle for Kermit (wordplay)

Sea-going jeep

""A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.""

The diastase of the pancreatic juice.

Rather rank (wordplay)

One with breaking news

Jim Lehrer, for instance

Huntley and Brinkley, for example

Rather and Brokaw, for example

Rather and Jennings, for example

I'm in a race - go!

Paul's in a state - that's life!

Perhaps I'm A in a people for life

Earthworm or leech

It's to do with worms that lady confused Daniel

Earthworm.

Articles above Leo, seen opposite the sun

A floral ornament. See Palmette Palmette

Any of various water-soluble pigments that impart to flowers and other plant parts colors ranging from violet and blue to most shades of red.

Pertaining to the Anthozoa.

ALIEN to transfer to another as property

AUXIN a growth promoting substance

CODON a triplet of basic DNA components

HUMAN a {person=n}

""One of several antibiotic substances produced by several species of Streptomyces, active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A1 (C28H40N2O9) and antimycin A3 (C26H36N2O9). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi.Streptomyces, active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A1 (C28H40N2O9) and antimycin A3 (C26H36N2O9). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi.""

Shot in the arm, perhaps

Neutralizer of a sort

Substance that neutralises poison

Buster's stance, maybe

Wal-Mart, to many labor advocates

Unwilling to get organized

URBAN pertaining to a {city=n}

Essential supply for an ophiologist

Solution to a snakebite

Substance that counteracts snake poison

WOMAN to play the part of a woman

Belong, relate (to)

Relate to an unusual pet pirana

Not the way 8 down would relate to

Divide into shares

Distribute pro rata

Give it out that Father is up a bit

The Easter Rising (wordplay)

Canonises, being on the way up

Island of St. Helena.

Establish (the facts)

'Find out to assure me, perhaps (9)'

Find assure out (wordplay)

It's slander, like the old Iranian said

It's cast in a derogatory manner

This may be cast like one in one

How silly to start to make such a claim!

Senator is about to make a statement

Claim first son has trouble in store

Hark Satan (anagram)

Hark, Santa is in Russian wool

Fur - city on Volga

I came, I saw, I conquered, for example

Offense player in lacrosse

Lacrosse player on the offensive side of the field

ATTACK to {assault=v}

Standing order (wordplay)

Notice a pressure in the ear (wordplay)

Mental concentration or awareness( 9)

How wearing down here!

A wearing away

Wearing down, turning it into art

Man of sorts.

Does this amount to a robot (wordplay)

Man of many parts, perhaps

That's the job - or maybe a calling

Hobby; avian coot (anagram)

A life's work leads to hobby

Acid in boat (anagram)

Edward VIII's action of 1936

Regal resignation

Deviation from normality

Delusion or illusion

A wandering from the norm.

Renunciation

Sailor, say, in the country giving up

Bet again? No chance for denial

Disclaimer - there's no beating a developer!

Rating right-wing attitude as a psychological process

Annulment of an agreement or law

The sailor's asking for an annulment

Cancelling a second-rate allowance? Go back to intervene

Leaves shed as some scissors cut bonsai strain

His jazz opera illustrated the importance of being Ernst

Obtain soul renewed with this (wordplay)

Release sailor - there you have it!

A second-rate answer requires indulgence

Bounty work (wordplay)

(Process of) taking in

Process of soaking up

Pass in Congress (wordplay)

Act of declining to vote

Withholding of vote

Whodunit plot element

Charge copyright to America in case

Charge about, protecting us in battle

Process of starting up (something)

Being called up, military-wise

Removal from mothballs

Splattered on my coat is a muscle protein

Play from a novel, for instance

Film version, e.g

TV version of a book

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

""The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.""

Scotch maid to share esteem (wordplay)

One may be lost in it

Maid out helping gains approval

Warning poster has proposal about Ulster

Cautious counsel

Tina in mood that's awkward gets a reprimand

Process facilitated by silica gel

Broadcast on Sport Aid - 'a superficial process of accumulating gas'

Commercial role being a defender

Noun (-tion)

A Fine Romance: left in distress

Cause of pain or harm

Coburn's 1998 Oscar-winning film

Substance in body - a s-surfeit gets in repeatedly

Antibody causing sticking together of bacteria, cells, etc

Is sore with gang's violent hostility

What eleven Ac displays

Act of aggression,physical force

Local lady legislator

Abbr. Ald. A member of the municipal legislative body in a town or city in many jurisdictions.

State of feeling isolated

Legal transfer of ownership.

Common punk rock theme

ALKYLATE to combine with alkyl

Testimony that is contestable

Assertion made without proof.

Charge a liberal group of diplomats

Divvying-up process

Assignment left in a particular spot

Arrangement of resources or funds

""The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.""

Tailor's service.

Tailor's job

Change made by modiste.

The act of walking.

Charge for fire-arms

An A of A&E

Charge for firearms

A semisynthetic penicillin which can be considered as the common benzylpenicillin containing an amino group at the alpha benzyl position.

Limb removal

In the morning put it back in a leg that's cut

Removal of member from a redcap university rubbish club not right

A making angular; angular formation.

Appropriation of adjoining territory

Act of taking possession of.

Forced takeover, at times

Marginal comment, for example

Explanatory item in a textbook.

The adding of notes to a text

Ring formation

Old-fashioned and then some

Possibly anoint main sectarian denying moral law

'His true Penelope was Flaubert, / He fished by - isles' (Ezra Pound)

Not accepting moral law, yet opposed to revolutionary Minoan

22 against potty principal

Coming from other side of the world

Relating to Australia/New Zealand

Cosmic ray component

Certain particle with an opposite charge

Particle discovered in 1955

Banquo, for one.

Hamlet's father made one

Phantom pair in a top review

Putting side by side.

Proximity to a quiet location

Contiguity, grammatically

""Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian.""

Roguish cleric (wordplay)

Cleric ruined chance with Dora

Ecclesiastic next below a bishop

Unfair claiming giro, rat on a suspect

Improper seizure.

Unjustified seizure.

I give praise to Paris in a hundred shapes

Assignment

... to turn Paris into a dream, ...

Breathing in desire

Desire to Parisian is strange ...

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so

It's not repulsive at drawing, perhaps

... for a tire company (wordplay)

Erotic experience is a drag, we're told

AUTOBAHN a German superhighway

Native.

Present-day production trend.

Feature of modern industry.

Use of electronic devices.

Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

Unusual way to see crossword clues arranged

Rudimentary

Curse hum during a big road race

Action that is vile

Feeling of hatred or disgust

Formless art work

Theoretical concept - removal

Preoccupied state

An RA, perhaps

Member of a teaching establishment

Member of the RA

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

Enthusiastic praise

Public praise

""The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.""

ACETYLATE receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds

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

Expert in sound

Source of sound advice

A recently received asset or object

Getting clear one that's charged is to be held inside

Gain

Any of various red antibiotics isolated from soil bacteria with a three-ring heterocyclic nucleus with an attached peptide chain.

Faint sketch; outline

Act of overshadowing

Shadow a non-speaking part

Torpid state during the hot season

A change of face tint giving unnatural appearance

Deliberate pretence of kindness, embracing volunteers

Attachment (to an organisation)

Official connection

Business relationship

""Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. as, the affirmation of a law.""

AGGRADE to fill (a stream bed) with sediment

Worsening annoyance

Hassle

Annoyance

Assembly process in garage got modified

Process of material coming together

Compound

English word

Easing (of pain)

The making (of pain) less severe

Painkiller's job

See isoantigen .

Action (wordplay)

Caught in middle of change, quarrel

Can't loiter about after a row

Vary the race, going by turns

Interchange name in heartless dispute

Taking of turns

A balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion.

""A folic acid antagonist, C 19 H 20 N 8 O 5 , used as an antineoplastic agent. It has been mainly replaced by methotrexate.""

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

Pneumonia medicine

""An semisynthetic penicillin, C 16 H 19 N 3 O 5 S, having an antibacterial spectrum of action similar to that of ampicillin.""

""The outer portion of a starch granule consisting of insoluble, highly branched polysaccharides of high molecular weight.""

Syntactical incoherence

""The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.""

Paula Zahn of CNN, for example

Norah O'Donnell, for example

Katie Couric, for example

A woman who narrates or coordinates a newscast in which several correspondents give reports.

""Any of three polypeptide hormones, one of which is a powerful vasoconstrictor, that function in the body in controlling arterial pressure.""

""ANODIZE to give a protective coat, also ANODISE""

Same as Anthokyan. Anthokyan.

FASHION to {shape=v}

FOREIGN situated outside a place or country

Subatomic particle in nature not transformed

NUCLEON a subatomic particle

Collector of old things

One who collects relics of the past

Expert on old things

""The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated.""

""VITAMIN an organic substance essential to proper nutrition, also VITAMINE""

Pilot a plane quite new in style

Name state of North American mountain region

A very quiet woman morphed into just 'a name'

Request for hard work

Computer program requiring diligence

Formal request; sustained effort

It begins Our Father

Acclaim - applause

(Official) approval

Process at work in some hearings

One way to settle differences

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination. Illust. under Invagination.

""Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs.""

Member of a legislative body

Superhero whose power is putting together IKEA furniture (wordplay)

Job mistakenly sought by a model airplane builder (wordplay)

ASSEMBLY the act of {assembling=v}

""Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.""

Go in as saint (anagram)

Secret rendezvous

Secret meeting

Football club (wordplay)

Part of PA

Conceptual connection

""The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced.""

Reduction in strength

Weakening, as in the value of a lawsuit

Taken in by police without husband, giving testimony

Act of ascribing

The act of ascribing eg a picture to an artist

The ascribing of a particular work to an author or artist

A bridge player, Richard, and two fellow players filled with astonishment

E.g. for example (wordplay)

Tues. or Agt. (tsk-tsk!)

Shortening - above Britain (anagram)

An increase in rate

Rate of increase of speed

A speeding up

Giving special importance to something

Emphasis, stress

Process of gathering

Growth of capital

Build-up

Formal judgement

Civil judgment based on evidence presented

Addition of contaminant let loose in a time span

Corruption of European in indecent allowance

One versed in the theory of beauty and artistic expression.

""An antigen that stimulates the production of a particular agglutinin, such as an antibody.""

Noun (-tion)

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

Poetic ploy practised with panache!

What William Wordsworth wrote, perhaps

It's seen in some Shakespeare sonnets

Union of diverse elements

Merger.

Merger

Changed email address for enhancement

Improvement.

Improvement

""The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain. dead hands, or in mortmain.""

""An anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.anchorman or anchorwoman.. The anchorperson usually begins the broadcast, discusses certain topics, and introduces new topics, which may be discussed by other reprorters, especially when the report is recorded or broadcast from a location other than the main broadcast studio.""

Head of African country admitting nothing in defeat

Original Christmas forecast (wordplay)

Very old (before the Flood)

Very old and outmoded

Old adult in vain working without energy

Like opposers of the Roe v. Wade decision

Carly Simon tune

Foretaste - expectancy

Expectation, prediction

DILUTION the act of {diluting=v}

ELECTRON an elementary particle

""ESTROGEN a female sex hormone, also ESTRIOL, OESTRIOL, ESTRIN, OESTRIN, OESTROGEN, ESTRONE, OESTRONE, THEELIN, THEELOL""

Something to lessea. Tending to lessen friction. a. Tending to lessen friction.

GLOBULIN a simple protein

RELIGION belief in a higher power

THROMBIN an {enzyme=n}

""The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception.""

Going up in one's estimation (wordplay)

Gratitude; increase in value

Acknowledgment of rise in value

Fear taking (wordplay)

Fear, perhaps, in one that's disturbed

Taking fright (wordplay)

""The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.""

Dean co-chairs shambles in one of the church provinces

Relates to clerical figure starting off in March around the sea reportedly

English word

Clarity in speech

Tunic a tailor prepared for delivery

Term for off-road suspension compliance

Gunner can be taller in army

What Harry Truman was in World War I.

Soldier unwell in channel by island