2-Letter Words Starting with A

One who {allots=v}

Pertaining to the lungs' air sacs

Of the lungs' air cells

Like the sound "tsk"

Go back (on a promise)

One who lies in wait

Pertaining to an

One who traces the cause of things

One that breaks down, as nearly mad

One who assays

Good looker (wordplay)

One doing a dissection

Someone in a tree (wordplay)

Great-great-great grandmother, for one

Someone up in a tree (wordplay)

Inspirer

Vivifier.

Walt Disney, perhaps (wordplay)

Ralph Bakshi, for one

Cel-ist (wordplay)

Oven for tempering glass.

Glassworker, at times

One working with glass, at times

Priest's role during Extreme Unction

One doing the consecrating

Holy-oil sprinkler

Not involving ovulation

One who gets it (wordplay)

One who responds

Person coming back

Welcome picnic guest (wordplay)

Lover of armies (wordplay)

Pangolin, for one

Nearer the front; prior (to)

Front-facing, anatomically

In the front

One shopping for old curios

Additive type in oil & grease

Advocate.

One who gives in easily

Chamberlain, by reputation

Neville Chamberlain, to his critics

A confessed criminal who accuses an accomplice

One who'll fill you in

""One who informs, also APPRISER""

One signing off

FDA, vis-a-vis Pfizer products

One who gives permission

Polemic

Certain critic's seat (wordplay)

Quarterback's spot (wordplay)

Athlete's place (wordplay)

Old mailman (wordplay)

Custodian of pieces etc (wordplay)

Maker of defensive dress

Like Gil Evans maybe (wordplay)

One who organises one in a jam perhaps

One who scores (wordplay)

Collar creator (wordplay)

Cop making a collar

One who takes people in

Police officer, at times

Hinderer.

Part of letter one posts, say

Characteristic of b, d, or h

d or k, for example

One who runs a smear campaign

Vilifying villain

He accuses falsely, as the ship's officer said

""One who asperses, also ASPERSER""

He mugged a sailor, they say

One on the attack

One casting aspersions

One agreeing to make fool join

Yes-man, for example

... one agrees for fool to come in

One who agrees

Nominee endorser in Britain

Endorsing voter, in England.

One who states plainly and strongly

One who's sure

One who seizes the day

Star rose to become a champion defender

One speaking positively

Perhaps the woman is silly or values it

One with a taxing job (wordplay)

Perhaps she's silly or after 22 across

Professor, at times

Professor, re homework

One transferring property rights, in law

Property transferor

One who nominates a southern Italian gentleman

Help when family member needed

One who helps because she's related

Right-hand man.

Lawyer's aide

Supportive one

One who classifies things

Classifier

Classifier.

Item on a vanity, perhaps

Perfume delivery option

Item on milady's dresser

Welder, for example

Paper clip, for example

Stapling machine

What an offensive sort of a person!

Take cart moving forward

One picking holes in fancy cake and tart

Achiever of a goal.

One who got it

Goal getter

A term pet used to adapt old style

Modify by mixture.

One who's all there (wordplay)

One who showed up

Someone who shows up

One bearing witness

One who certifies

One who gives evidence

Notary, for instance

One's present at the trial, or ready to give one's 15 across at it

Certifier

All keyed up and telling folks about it

1959 John Wayne western

Nervously excited

August

Auntly

Austere

Pertaining to birds

One who navigates aircraft

One who {avouches=v}

An alarm clock or rooster, for example

Alarm clock, for example

An alarm clock or rooster, e.g

On the windy side

Not sheltered, on ship

Dread of woman on the windward side

Awful

Deserter

Deserter.

Edward VIII in 1936

He's giving up

King Edward VIII, for example

One who surrenders

Renouncer over Angora bet

Claim renouncer

Abraham Lincoln, notably

Lincoln, notably

A throwback by literary cameraman chopping wood - one wielding axe

Person on the run

Band score rewritten for The Fugitive

Fugitive running Bond's race

Absolute

Seat in bar maybe not his (wordplay)

No little 21 across for one

Who's abandoned seat in bar (wordplay)

Harder to penetrate

A hawk

Hawk shows caprice flying - the thing must be caught

Applauder

Lacking the basic structure of life

Like viruses having a rest, lying back inside maple

""A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.""

One letting go

Turn-on (wordplay)

Chemical catalyst

Catalyst

""A synthetic purine nucleoside analog, C 8 H 10 N 5 O 3 , derived from guanine and used in the treatment of herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and varicella zoster virus infections.""

One on a podium, perhaps

Speech-maker

Business machine.

Who later rued straying (wordplay)

Durer tale (anagram)

One's business affairs (wordplay)

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Density determining instrument

Gas-density gauge

Gizmo that measures gas properties

Upper-atmosphere studier

Communist China, by U. N. vote of 44-7

The one who 'started it'

Beginner of a quarrel.

Statue material, perhaps

Altar base (anagram)

Figurine material, perhaps

Author of stepquote (first name)

A great Greek ruler (wordplay)

Any of three Russian emperors

Poor diplomat, say

Family outcast, perhaps

One causing estrangement

Creature seen later (wordplay)

Pogo's pal Albert, for one

Florida snapper (wordplay)

Designated hitter finder (wordplay)

Distributor of resources

Budgeter, in a way

A giver of alms.

Changeover time in the cockpit

Parachutist's device

It measures height above sea level

Device used to increase sound

Device to boost sound levels

Part of a plane detector.

ANCIENT an aged man

ANIMAL a living organism with voluntary motion and sensation

One making explanatory notes

Jotter in the year disposed to art

Editor of a kind

Newsreader can run one broadcast

Person with a booming voice, often

Radio/TV introducer

Part of church; anchorite (anagram)

Part of a church

Area in church; icon heart anag.

Union-busting, say

Opposed to the union, say

Don't be this tomorrow

Stealthy (wordplay)

Like some hard-to-detect missiles

Opposite the sun

TUMOR an abnormal swelling

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

""Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.""

An early form of fuel (wordplay)

Cook prepares it right away, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

Eats before dinner (wordplay)

Clams on the half shell, perhaps

Hors d'oeuvre

One who applauds.

Vintage-vehicle valuation expert

Art expert, at times

Extoller of a news agency's virtues (wordplay)

""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

Mechanic in the armed forces

A terrific oily mechanic

A terrific construction worker

Medical device removing fluid

Suction pump.

Suction pump

One making violent attack (on another person)

Attacker.

Constructor, of a sort

Person piecing something together

Code-converting computer program

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer.

Loss of civil rights.

Loss of all civil rights, in law

Get the German punishment for treason

Magnet or pheromone

Drawing card, essentially

Magnet, vis-a-vis iron

""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

More inept

Less comfortable as a Mon-Sun prison officer

One hates to see Robin with wingless Batman, struggling to apprehend ring

Abstract

ABSTRACT to draw away

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

Cupshaped; saucershaped; acetabuliform.

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

One who acquires.

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

One who admonishes.

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

""One who, or that which, alleviaties.""

Current-generating car part

Dodge Charger charger

Auto part introduced by Chrysler in 1960

Later, he got drunk (completely)

Entirely in the natural state (wordplay)

Great hotel renovated completely

David K. E. Bruce, for one

Bunker, for one.

One who's goodwill hunting (wordplay)

""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.""

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c\'best. c\'best.""

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Armored beast of old

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

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

Powerful drug-treatment class

Like chemotherapy drugs

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

LITTER to scatter rubbish about

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

Nail polish brush, for example

Cosmetician's device.

Device used as a swab.

Water-skier's next of kin

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

Same as arbitrageur.arbitrageur.

Grieve or Dascoli

Independent settler of dispute

Person authorized to decide a dispute.

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

Expert on moving house (wordplay)

Charter for 11 (wordplay)

House examiner (wordplay)

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

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

Creator of short sentences (wordplay)

Part of an auto.

Driver's foot pedal

Cycling race, clear to pedal

Bet; large battery cell

Battery - type of bet

Electric cell; bet

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

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 aggrandizes, or makes great.""

""An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.""

""One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.""

""One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.""

One who ameliorates.

""One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. as, a fire annihilator.""

""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.""

Small room leading to a larger room

Lobby one college with sign of caution

Small entrance room

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

Expectant one.

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

POPULAR something pleasing

Antitrust

One who values

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.""

ASSIMILATE To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

""Any of various rod-shaped, nonpathogenic, nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the genus Azotobacter, found in soil and water.""

""ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

""He who, or that which, accommodates.""

One who accomplishes.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Large oval stadium with tiers

Hollywood Bowl, for example

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

Non-PC chair protector (wordplay)

Chair cover mascara stain made a mess of

Protective cloth on upholstered seat

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.