2-Letter Words Starting with B

Better

Sloping the edges of.

They can be hot, warm or cold

Punch and smash

Dame into emptying of bounteous drinks

Bewail

Beweep

Bewig

Beworm

Bewray

Disputing petulantly

Tour de France activity

Two Dutch chaps (wordplay)

People with too many in-laws

Oft-maried lawbreakers

Bigarade

Bigaroon

GEMINAL having two matching substituted groups on the same atom

Of two groups

Conceited, like Humpty Dumpty (wordplay)

Conceited with large cranium

Full of oneself

Secrets aren't safe with them

Windbags

Bigness

Bignonia

How Archie Bunker thought

Acts of intolerance

Omega scores on prejudices

Shakira, for one

Able to code-switch, say

Fluent in double-talk (wordplay)

Pool of stagnant water

Backwater, in Australia

Australian stream-bed

Housing, as soldiers

Placing in quarters.

Quartering

Unpaid debt rolling and swelling

The wavy account has not been settled

The outstanding debt is swelling

So as to bind.

Biogas

Biogeny

BIOGEN a hypothetical unit of protoplasm

Book about a legend (wordplay)

Life far more than a sentence (wordplay)

Kind of book.

Biologic

Biology

""Use of biological principles in explaining human behavior, especially social behavior.""

Gregor Mendel, for instance.

Life-science lab worker

Jeff's job, officially

Biopsy

Spots for canaries

Canaries' locations

Parakeets' homes

Birdie

High notes (wordplay)

Series of tweets (wordplay)

Forking

Halving

Bishop

Bitewing

Bitter

Blackgum

Blacking

Scabs left in some beastly panto costume

Gloomy members, who do not strike

Blanch

Blasting

BLAZING blaze

Blazon

Lightening up (wordplay)

Process of whitening

Whitening.

They are for the bloody letting of a single bed

Turning pale

Quailing.

Good things to count

Grace and others.

God's provisions

Reprobates ultimately bomb boats

So-and-sos offering second-rate barges

Blighty

Dashing crooner keeps entertaining

Blindage

Artery problems

Drunk goes back, clutching large bottlenecks

All no go

Blooding

Bloody

Blotch

Bound legs with clubs

Uses a club as a weapon

Bass feed

Panfish.

Unhappy shop music (wordplay)

A type of country music

The shade for age in Kentucky

Boarding

Minding one's business (wordplay)

One who is paid to protect another

One protecting another

Bollix

Bollox

Enola Gay device

Aircraft's aiming device

Volatile big shot takes medic on board aerial war contraption

Bongoist

Bonnet

English word

BOOGER a piece of snot

Boogey

Mr. Fright (wordplay)

""BOOGEY to dance to rock music, also BOOGIE, BOOGY""

Sobbing

Noisy Australian club (wordplay)

Get off me, chimed Kylie (wordplay)

One making a comeback (wordplay)

Along the edges of

What the unclued letters...

On the verge or boundary of

Credit card companies encourage it

Taking a loan

Having something on loan

Aggravating in night-robe

Taking the time

One bright rogue is a pest

Bottling

The act of reaching the lowest point before stabilising or improving

Large containers for cut flowers.

Middle-class (person)

Shapiro's sort of poet

Member(s) of the middle class

Flourishes variable

Bowel

With pins like a cowpoke's, perhaps

Describing most cowboys.

Like many a cowboy

Archer's need

It has plenty of pull

Horizontal tie on a bridge or girder

Bowwow

Brabble

BRACING a reinforcement

Blowhards

Self-advertisers

Braggy

Braiding

Braille

Brakeage

Britain's first non-resident bird

Bird closely related to the chaffinch

Type of finch

Dividing as a plant stem

Forking, separating

Splitting part of tree in garden, initially

Brandy

Melee

Squabble

Brassage

Brattle

Brazen

Transgressing, rules say

Getting through, carry a head inside

Breaking a rule or law

Some grocery store losses

You'll have a smashing time with them

Some grocery store loses

Breaking

Opposing a painful injection at last

Take it with you around the East when you're confronting it

Facing up to what could be bare and what's in the tail at the bottom

Alive (but in need of space?)

Getting a change of air (wordplay)

Elocutionist's concern

Breech

Breeding

Brevet

Artwork made from a clog, creatively coated in cheese

Bridging

Instructions for monarch to be executed in underwear

Incarcerate Bambi (wordplay)

*Latvian colonel's superior

British military rank

Brigade

Makes a little better, as someone's day

Benjamin is just about right - it' getting lighter

Improves.

Superlative for Sirius

Most intelligent

Most brainy

Fetch a bit of fluff, appearing humble

Overthrow; humble

Brisling

Getting stiff, like quills

Reacting angrily

Reacting defensively

Brittle

Google search competitor

Opening up like this has your brother in pain

The little brother finds it painful making an opening

Brocade

Brockage

Period with less money (wordplay)

E*Trade is one

Dealer's commission

Agent's work

Bromate

Bromize

Bronzing

Sounds of impact entertaining rowdy coaches

English word

Showy but inferior

Anything cheap and gaudy: Colloq.

Anything cheap and gaudy Colloq.

Brunch

What's chewed and blown (wordplay)

Stick in one's mouth, maybe

Something chewed and blown

Bucket

Of a financial plan

David Bell, for example.

Budgeter

Blooming little to get gin if the money will stretch to it

Shielding of a sort

Buffet

Buggery

Bugger

Bughouse

""A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage. Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.""

Bugloss

Man-made structures

More than one construction vehicle's caught idling foully

Bullet

Dispute among optimists (wordplay)

Spectacle in "Around the World."

Death in the Afternoon event

Ranids with bass voices

Pond croakers

Rendezvous for matadors.

Fighting there all through the nose

Picadors' places

Bullyrag

Bumbling

Bumper

Bundling

Single-storeyed houses

One-story houses

Bogus lawn goes with the houses

Cask openings

Bungling

Bunker

Weighing down with a load

Ego burden (anagram)

Made new buds

Developed and flourished

Colonial legislators

Old members of British parliament produced sailing flag around ship at point

Burgonet

Burgrave

BURNING the firing of ceramic materials

Digging tunnels

Barn extension where pack animals sleep (wordplay)

Mole activity

Bushel

Bushgoat

Toast task

Making it fast despite the weight of gin

Fastening, though going together

Bypass

Babbitt

Nasty office gossip

Malicious talk

Saying mean things, at the wrestling match (wordplay)

Backdate

Second dismissal not going as intended

Returning soldiers will be having an undesired effect

Support Bacon (wordplay)

Game belonging to the past? Nonsense!

Rump, ham or game (wordplay)

Second-floor family (wordplay)

Person's experience

One never comes to the fore

Backlight

Backlog

Backswing

Badinage

BAFFLING baffle

Trifling things

Trifles with femmes fatales, holding a gun

Trifles.

A knitted fabric

Heavy material for stabilizing a ship

Airborne activity

A treatise on baths; the science of bathing.

Banalize

Old parade sights

Banquet

Behind tavern, be giving the signal by grilling

Bear cub's broken home - Goldilocks started by cooking outdoors

Barbeque

Bargainer

Type of chip

and 6: Source of leverage secure, acquiring Shard (wordplay)

Haggling

A vergeboard.

Lush travel plan (wordplay)

Doing the town

Tavern-tour activity

Barograph

Rank higher than knightdom