2-Letter Words Starting with B

One who must face the music (wordplay)

Arm or rubber (wordplay)

Glenn or Mitch Miller

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

BANKROLL to {finance=v}

Shakespearean fan

Agent noun (-or)

""One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.""

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

Ring sailor? No time, he complains

Faultfinding type

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

Seepage aboard ship

Ship's seepage

Nonsense

Creator of life in a bookshop (wordplay)

A life's work for him

One who can tell your story

""An apparatus in which a suspension of microorganisms in a liquid are used to perform chemical reactions, as in synthesis of pharmaceutical agents or the conversion of harmful waste to less harmful substances. The reactor consists of a vessel to contain the suspension of microorganisms, plus a variety of attached devices used to control the reaction.""

Othello

1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers

1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers

One who uses blandishments.

Rebel MP has reformed, so he swears!

One who reviles

Impious one

NCO arranged raid in Lancaster, maybe

Canadian snowmobile inventor

Crowd round pub ride off with soldier

It shows what stage you've got to in your romance

Around end of October person at races may be one beset by leaves

""BRACHIATE Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.""

Ruling (or, more modestly, intelligence)

Support presiding wisdom

'Solvers need this book' (The Sun's ruling)

Mole takes holiday by lake perhaps

Mole's holiday by river (wordplay)

Protection from shore erosion

Construction worker's course (wordplay)

Wall builder, maybe

Building trades worker

Jurassic giant

Early vegetarian sausage primarily out - or bran flakes (wordplay)

A muscle of the cheek; so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

Bird, one moving round capital

Popular cage-bird

Bird commonly kept as a pet

Pit viper; sham brutes (anagram)

Top horticulturist (wordplay)

Venomous pit viper

Backwoodsman in awful rush in clapped-out car

So two heads of state spoke across the Atlantic? That's criminal!

Former US president meeting forest officer, backwoodsman

MP without office

Rank and file MP

MP not holding office

Straw, to a camel (wordplay)

The last straw

Extremely strenuous task

SCATTER to disperse in all directions

Effusively friendly person

Cousin of a hail-fellow-well-met.

Hail-fellow-well-met.

False friend (Medical)

Treacherous person posing as a friend

Poor choice for a friend

*Airline for Lucille (wordplay)

Boat for fullbacks (wordplay)

Grange for one

Many an early aviator.

Many an early aviator

Itinerant actor.

Metal detector user, maybe

Shore patroller (wordplay)

One with a metal detector

Substitute player: Slang.

Seldom-used substitute

*Sub in the dugout

Excessive adherence to a literal interpretation of the Bible.

""Pertaining to, involving, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).""

Pacific slave ship

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Blacklist

Perry Mason's prey.

Criminal with dirt on someone

So the unions would ban Norman? That's criminal!

See windsurfing .

Noah was one

He made a bluebird to perform for Sir Donald!

Beer-and-whiskey cocktail

Whiskey with a beer chaser

Whiskey-beer combo

It may call for lateral thinking

Puzzle requiring thought

New artisan beer is a puzzle

Genius spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Cult leader, in a way

Person who supports a family

Family's main earner

Source of family funds

Breakfast

CBS, for one

Radio/TV provider

Radio or TV journalist

Of or pertaining to a bronchiole.

Broomball

Mayor in Germany, Austria, etc

Mayor, in Mainz

Mayor.

Oater villain who attacks from hiding

Western baddie

Oater ambusher

Background

""A sensory nerve ending that is stimulated by changes in pressure, especially one in the walls of blood vessels such as the carotid sinus.""

English word

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; sometimes called simply clabber. clabber.

Member of the smart set.

Man-about-town in Paris

Brainstorm

A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

Certain scholarly person

Academic press worker

Compiler of a list of books on a particular subject or by a single author

The study of the geographic distribution of organisms.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

See Brailler .

BREASTSTROKE

A smoked liver sausage.

A drug that widens the air passages of the lungs and eases breathing by relaxing bronchial smooth muscle.