2-Letter Words Starting with B

It's pointless and time-consuming

Reshining the pencils, for example

Cheeky couple (wordplay)

Bottom (not ticks ...)

Body parts covered at least by 13

Buyback

Baaskaap

Russian peasant wear

Russian headscarves

Backache

Rock sounds

Like most MPs, needing support with seat

(Of MP) not holding office

Bet against the replacements not in the cabinet

Some acrobatic feats

Calisthenics

Perhaps a molar re tib

Molar (wordplay)

One attacks the reputation of another

Attacks absent friends, say

Disparages player defending snacks

Slanders

BLOCK to {obstruct=v}

It's behind a hoop

Where Wilt Chamberlain shines.

Support company leaders in panel

Main supports.

Certain columns.

Spines

Backcast

Backchat

Support ministers creating a scene

Maintain ministers should set the scene

Painted fabric scenery

COURT to {woo=v}

CROSS to intersect

Made retrospectively valid

Made retroactive, as a contract

Pretended to have written earlier, as a letter

Makes retroactive... or what the eight other longest Across answers have

Makes retroactive ... or what the eight other longest Across answers have

*Prepares to pass the football

They go behind the scenes

Stage scenery.

Backdrop

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

Reverse shots on court (wordplay)

Not hush-hush tennis shots!

Support workers making plays in court

Backhaul

A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

Backland

*Source of a halo effect

Where to find modern classics, say, in publishers' catalogues

Hikers' burdens

Knapsacks, rucksacks

Students' carriers

Reverse attitude - on bicycle (wordplay)

Modify one's opinion

Retreat in the ring

Many stools' lacks

Places for some drivers, so to speak

Passenger places

Car parts

Rears to support crews

They may get spanked

Rumps, informally

Strikes among co-workers (wordplay)

Congratulates effusively

Congratulatory gestures

Fall away in faith or morals

Revert to old habits

Left in rear, go astray

Return a letter, say

Certain typewriter key

Move a cursor left

Backspin

Betrays, in a way

Behind the scenes (theatrically)

Near, but not in, the limelight

In the green-room

Backstay

Tennis and baseball necessities

Screens in sports arenas.

Gives support to summit's contingency plans

Defenders cried moving away from front

Slanting away

Golfer's reverse mode

Start of a golf stroke

Movement of sportsperson helps side

Fencing stick with a basket-hilt

Beat a retreat (wordplay)

Retrace one's steps

Return to support course

How to look for nostalgia (wordplay)

Support hospital facilities in recession

What Mica Paris claimed you are

Re taw, perhaps, in no current way

O2H (wordplay)

Tew, perhaps, is an isolated spot

Support drivers (wordplay)

Help drivers to find remote places

Support golfer from remote country area

Backwrap

Play areas, perhaps

S dray not on the road

City playgrounds

Sealskin boats of Alaskan Eskimos

Area of authority

Jurisdiction of a bailiff

Area of expertise

Bakemeat

Bakeshop

Payment to expedite service

Just the tip of the East

Cook's welcoming that woman with hot tip

Lake like a ... they say like a guitar

Triangular-bodied instrument

Mandolin's cousin

Baldrick

""To divide a territory into small, hostile states.""

Likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly.

Balkline

Ballhawk

Approximate US venues for games!

Approximate venues (wordplay)

Where to go out to the games (wordplay)

They may go through withdrawals

They might get "swiped out"

Guarantors lean toward eccentrics

Forms of paper money

They're payable on demand.

Promises to pay

Finances, a business say

Supplies of paper currency.

Sinks cash into

Causes to go into receivership.

Forces out of Monopoly

Ruins financially

Bankside

Baresark

Sam Malone, on "Cheers"

Happy hour server

Dog secures European record for host

Encouraged to embrace a bishop when heckled

Accommodated as soldiers given hostile reception

Jeered

Hostile demonstrator, a supporter down under

Mythical reptiles

If looks could kill, the boy starts them with a kiss

Laundry load, typically

Laundry load

Baudekin

Baulky

Beadwork

Hides from the grizzlies (wordplay)

Hides in a cabin, perhaps

Rugs unlikely to be owned by vegans

Bechalk

Beckoner

Waving over

Seemingly inviting

Making a curling motion with the forefinger, maybe

Becloak

Bedarken

Adding adornments to

Adorning.

They do frame work

Models on some calendars

They're built

Hunky guys

Complaint given audible support gets cut

Protein-rich entree

Kind of tomato

One with a honey bunch?

One with the hives (wordplay)

Sir Edmund Hillary, for one.

Befleck

Bekiss

Beknight

Beknot

Bemock

Standard set by a substitute (wordplay)

Standard score from judges (wordplay)

Don't let Harmon play (wordplay)

Benedick

""A chemical element of the transuranic series. Chemical symbol Bk; atomic number 97; atomic weight 247. It is a radioactive element, with no stable isotopes; the longest-lived isotope is of mass number 247.07, decaying by alpha-emission with a half-life of 1,400 years. The isotope with atomic weight 249 has a half-life of 314 days, and was isolated in weighable quantities.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Warrior who often wore a coat made from a bear pelt

BERSERK out of control

Besmoke

Bethank

Betoken

Squabblers

Disputing petulantly

Bidarkee

Billhook

Right sort of hat for one who rules the roost

Beauty spot, perhaps

Means of identification, in fiction.

Blemish on the skin

Bitstock

Bivouac

Karen and Lucille vote no (wordplay)

Shut out (of a group)

Something from a snooker room or bar

Jet flier (wordplay)

Pie filling of a sort

'White Album' song

BLACK to {blacken=v}

Blackboy

Birds which were signs of doom (wordplay)

""The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse. Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.""

Like some Cajun food

Vilified.

Charred

One who blackens.

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.""

Blackgum

Spot of darkness (wordplay)

Spot gloomy principal

*Facial blemish

Blacking

Great deal (wordplay)

Knave of Clubs (wordplay)

Gambler's game, perhaps

English word

To coat or to polish with black lead.

Scabs left in some beastly panto costume

Gloomy members, who do not strike

Relative of boycott.

The Weavers topped it in 1952

Bar in Hollywood

Exact money (wordplay)

Motive for murder, perhaps

Film murder motive, perhaps

A situation without light

Reasons to use flashlights

Some skits

Power failures.

A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata). Dendroica striata).

Western mule deer

Mule deer

Deer.

Surfaces, as roads, runways, etc.

Broadway's Hagen, who was blacklisted

Paves, as a driveway

Founder of influential magazine: Ebony, possibly (wordplay)

Adjective meaning resembling

Embedded with cover (wordplay)

That's C over all over

Hit the whole area

Void

Starkness

Blesbuck

Blinkard

Narrow view of some racehorses

Narrow-minded and maybe retired (wordplay)

Like some racehorses

Sealed off (eg, a port)

Surrounded by hostile troops or ships.

Lock Father up in bed? That kept him shut in

Fleet, at times

Some trade barriers

Artery problems

Drunk goes back, clutching large bottlenecks

All no go

No rocket scientist, he

Idiot wants to impede the boss

Stupid person

Blocky

Blowback

Requirements for some tests

Social registers

Social registers

Bluejack

Bluetick

Adjective meaning resembling

Expensive Monopoly property

Its houses cost $200 each

Site of many arcades

They're used to snag mooring lines

Docking aids

Mooring equipment

P.G.A. Hall of Famer Jones

Birds named for their song.

Migratory songbirds

Medical obstruction (wordplay)

Hit on ice

Could be physical obstruction

Bodywork

Bontebok

Order examples for the works (wordplay)

Law office fixtures

Shelves trial in reserves

BOOKISH pertaining to books

Booklore

A minute wingless psocopterous insect (Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.

Bet middler (wordplay)

Publisher perhaps enjoys course work

Odd accountant (wordplay)

Dog-ear alternates

Volume's identification.

Found in some volumes

One may get stuck into a literary work

Bookrack

Reading supports

Novel storage area (wordplay)

Supporter of literature (wordplay)

Where volume may be turned up (wordplay)

Businesses that thrive on high volume sales (wordplay)

They sell the dead presumably? It's novel to the markets!

Bibliophile's source

Reserves lofty retail outlet

Where the volume is not 30 across

Volume setting (wordplay)

Volume business (wordplay)

Barnes and Noble, for one

Very serious students

They haunt libraries

Ones who study hard

Rough country: Slang.

Rough country Slang.

Sticks may be advantage with crops

Buffer (wordplay)

Oxford shiner

Pump polisher

Bootjack

Bootlick

Boschbok

Boshvark

English word

Bousouki

English word

Bouzouki

Boychick

(Making a commotion in bed?)

Grouped together

Awful noise in part of garden separated off

Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.

Brakeage

Like some bikes

Live outside right the same as live outside left? Not likely to last

Fragile

Some grocery store losses

You'll have a smashing time with them

Some grocery store loses

Work out a route for escape

Made to come apart easily

Form splinter group for foreign holiday

Analyse sudden failure to work

Analysis of components

Lively shuffling dance.

Point of no return (wordplay)

End with a zero balance

Show a zero balance