2-Letter Words Starting with B

Of a red colour

A marine fish

Showing pride, but loafs around!

Given to bragging

Given to blowing one's own trumpet

Ride the waves

Float on incoming waves without a board

Catch a wave, in a way

Boffola

Boiloff

Dark characters (wordplay)

A type to exhibit brazen effrontery

Printing type with thick, heavy lines

Florida catch.

Silvery swimmer

No briefs (anagram)

Nighttime pep-rally features

They're lit on Halloween

The patron saint of Germany

Pope who instituted All Saints' Day.

Patron saint of Germany

Bookful

Pasture pests.

Puffed out (of hairstyle)

Puffed out (hair)

(Of hair) standing out

Having a curved front

Bowlful

They instruct fliers before missions

Cheese party (wordplay)

Of shortest duration

Most epigrammatic

Act of giving instructions in advance

Local barman at home for great session

Information (meeting)

Firm moves into sort of market with no room left

Hurry away after second snub

Give the cold shoulder to

Ignore sweeper out of form

Able to be buffed

Oxlike animals.

Range roamers

Like some aspirin

Struck or jolted repeatedly

Hit by strong winds

Jolted or pushed repeatedly, as by waves

One that {buffets=v}

Buffy

Rude or vulgar fools

Clowns or dolts

Rude fools

Animal twofer (wordplay)

A beast like you've never seen before!

Amphibian with deep croak

Trouble in the Aussie wilderness

Rapidly-spreading conflagration

Scrub conflagration

A medicine

Group of football players

Players behind the line of scrimmage

Part of a football team

Restores a dig site

Rebounded noisily, perhaps on the grid

Went wrong

Had a bad effect on the instigator of the action

Has the reverse effect

Flops create serif, apparently

Boomerangs

Backflow

Balefire

With malice aforethought.

With undisguised menace

BANEFUL poisonous

Not ashamed to be 31 across (wordplay)

Yogi unmasked (wordplay)

Kind of lie

Quantity of laughs (wordplay)

Quantity of monkeys or laughs

As much beer as can be put in one container (wordplay)

With a blush, beat one up thoroughly

In a shy and timid manner

Basifier

Basify

Basinful

Laundry load, typically

Laundry load

Flying gurnards.

Batfowl

Made very, very happy

Declared Blessed as precursor to canonisation

Declared blessed as first step towards canonisation

Beatify

Football, despite the scars (wordplay)

That's fine end for 2 down!

Narcissus' wedding song (wordplay)

Bedeafen

Sleeping partner (wordplay)

Partner (in the boudoir?)

Undercover partner (wordplay)

Shams may be against them

Bedwarf

Beefalo

Models on some calendars

They're built

Hunky guys

Yeoman producing crab apple (wordplay)

Carnivorous guard (wordplay)

Yeoman of the guard.

Complaint given audible support gets cut

Protein-rich entree

Kind of tomato

Beefwood

Happening to be getting prone to this

Happening to be something of a come-down

It's happening to someone about to tumble

Befinger

Suitable or appropriate for

Suitable for

Beflag

Beflea

Befleck

Beflower

Clouding the issue

Being missed, by the sound of it, may be having one confused

Befool

Befouler

Befoul

Befret

Becomes pals with

Acts as a comrade towards, helps

Treats as a pal

Befringe

Befringe

Confused

Puzzled

Discombobulates

Begulf

Bellyful

Benefice

Each of them is living for 7 down

There's more than one living like this

They're living in the Church

Made a killing

Gained (from)

Was useful

""One who confers a benefit; also, one who receives a benefit.""

BIFILAR having two threads

Divide into two branches

Fork into two branches

Bat, cue made with fir, perhaps, having 2 branches

Money holders

Pickpockets' targets

CDC concern, at times

Laboratory concern

Birdfarm

""SULFATE to treat with sulfuric acid, also SULPHATE""

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

""SULFITE a chemical salt, also SULPHITE""

Guise of American minstrels

Blackfin

""A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size. Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.""

Departures from Cape Canaveral

Launches reports about cricket side

Activities using lox.

""A small fish (Amblyopsis spel\'91us) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name. Amblyopsis spel\'91us) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.""

'Pin the tail on the donkey' prop

Piece of cloth etc to prevent one seeing

Item for a TV panelist.

Bloodfin

Metallic blue insects

Bluebottles

*Family of insects that can smell dead animals from up to a mile away...ew

(Astronomy) a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system Compare redshift

Deceive head, showing outspoken nature

Doesn't go overboard (wordplay)

Rides the waves, in a way

Rides the waves without a board

Impudent type (wordplay)

Like obvious type

Like the obvious type

Boldface

Surefire, as a standup's material (wordplay)

A lot of money made as evidence of being well protected

Boniface

Novel storage area (wordplay)

Supporter of literature (wordplay)

Where volume may be turned up (wordplay)

The quantity contained in a bottle.

Bouffant

Ample or generous (Lady!)

Generous lady of Farquahar (wordplay)

Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest's home in Utah.

Boxfish

Pin giver, maybe

Male that might be 19 across

Swain keeps fiery type in restraint

Eat on the go (wordplay)

Baker cooked cracking meal

First meal at Tiffany's

Lawyer meeting patient, maybe a carrier

Short job for Belli?

Accessory in a drug deal (wordplay)

Instructions for monarch to be executed in underwear

Without a brief

Concision

""A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit. Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.""

*Fast-spreading blaze, perhaps

Minor rural blaze

Type of conflagration.

Rebuffs; acts of ignoring

Disdainful dismissals

Disdainful rejections

Brutify

Brutify

Without opening blue KFC tub, in pieces how much chicken's there (wordplay)

Buffalo

4-footers with growth in the 3rd foot

Wild animals have to rub on trees

Polish drug for bison

Shielding of a sort

Buffeter

Buffet

Dispute among optimists (wordplay)

Spectacle in "Around the World."

Death in the Afternoon event

Small Eurasian songbird

Bird that eats fruit buds

Common garden bird

Ranids with bass voices

Pond croakers

Bushfire

Busulfan

Goat maybe with solid product from dairy

Say female in club gets dairy product

Calorie counter's concern

A stroke or a comma, maybe

Monarch, for one

Net stroke (wordplay)

Football groups.

It's Dell, if one got rid of the hole (wordplay)

Second dismissal not going as intended

Returning soldiers will be having an undesired effect

Backfit

Utter perplexity

Total bewilderment

Chaps chasing fox for time in utter bewilderment

BAFFLING baffle

Discalced, as certain monks

Kicked around a match official having forgotten trainers (wordplay)

Pub second team paid the cost for not wearing boots

Barrelful

BARRELS barrel

Picnic loads

BASKETS basket

Catching birds at night using lights to confuse them

Coastal strip of land, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers

Beatify

Made to look gorgeous

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

Makes prettier

Bedeafen

Sleeping partners (wordplay)

Altogether lying chaps

Associates

Bedwarf

Red guards (wordplay)

Yeomen of the guard.

Tower of London guards

Live bats seek fast food

Tournedos, e.g

Tournedos, for example

Befinger

Beflag

Befleck

Beflower

WHERE'S THE SECOND (wordplay)

Deck or second (wordplay)

When to ante up (wordplay)

Early example of an oxymoron (wordplay)

Early, while the pub is still open

Not - - means none too soon

Befret

Became mates with (someone)

Got close to

Treated as ally in brief realignment, then stopped

Befringe

Befuddle

Showy blossom

Flared plant

Campanula.

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

Kind of meat without name at small price

Doing good.

Doing good

Changed Inca belief? It's useful!

Like health food

Helpful belief I can spread around

Benefice

Benefiter

Been fit to have gin with it? You'll be the better for that

Received an advantage

""A colorless liquid, C 8 H 6 O, found in coal tar and used to make thermoplastic resins for paints and varnishes. Also called coumarone .""

FACIALLY pertaining to the face

Bifidity

Two-pronged; forked.

Forks

Billfish

""The impairment or degradation of something, such as a ship's hull or mechanical equipment, as a result of the growth or activity of living organisms.""

Bisulfate

Bisulfide

Bisulfite

Blackface

Blackfly

BLAMEFUL deserving blame

Blindfold

With Joy and Sibyl's full review

Blowfish

Bluefish

Blueshift

Boarfish

In an overly self-proud manner

Bodysurf

Wave catcher

Boldface

Bonefish

Bottleful

Heartthrobs, perhaps

Ring in by Friday with results and dates

Beaus