2-Letter Words Starting with B

Truffle detective (wordplay)

Head of an inn (wordplay)

Crashing critter (wordplay)

Lout shouting down the rector (wordplay)

Many a Dangerfield character

Rude, uncultured type

Armor for the face

Like reddish clay

Like clay.

Clayey

Error of sorts

Member state (wordplay)

Error of sorts

Termite for one

Mole, for one

Termite, for one

Polite person, maybe

Jack Ketch's security device, perhaps

One inclined to make retreat (wordplay)

Sparring dog (wordplay)

Rocky for one

Tyson, perhaps - type of dog

An aristocrat, in Czarist Russia

Noble of old Russia.

Former Russian aristocrat.

Trusty delivery person (wordplay)

Frustrated family member, for example

Entruster of property

Exacta placer, perhaps

High roller, for example

One taking action

A gastric mass

Fan - telephone (slang)

Fan; telephone (colloq.)

Telephone fuse (wordplay)

One leaving a wake, perhaps

Hat, one in a row (wordplay)

Sailor's hat (wordplay)

Fisherman's gadget

Tackle box item

Plate leader (wordplay)

Part of a steam generator

Source of steam

Heavier rock for the audience

Not as timid

Darker and thicker, typewise

Runaway horse, for example

One who quits his political party.

One given to running away

Enola Gay, for one

B-47, for one

B-52, for one

Epoxy user

Bailsman.

Tougher to filet, perhaps

Having less embonpoint.

Having a lower body mass index

In Australasia an informal word meaning very good

Dame Edna Everage's excellent bronze bust

Little thing to pick

Nasal nugget

Snot

New Jersey senator-elect Cory

Talk show V.I.P

Senator Cory of New Jersey

Millennial's parent, maybe

New arrival of the 1950s (wordplay)

Unlikely TikTok user, maybe

Barstool attachment (wordplay)

Two-time All-Star power forward Carlos

Breath-test flunker

Teeny follower (wordplay)

Certain jazz musician

Dancer to jazz

Land line (wordplay)

Kind of line or patrol

British control frontier

Very good

Neither speaks fluently? Drat!

Worry, upset (someone)

Neither is a fluent speaker, drat it!

Hat (for cricketer?)

Hard hat for cricketer (wordplay)

Strike participant (wordplay)

Maker of archery gear

Archer's supplier

Fletcher's coworker

Caboose neighbor, perhaps

Freight wagon (US)

Hobo's ride, perhaps

More like a Nissan Cube

More squarish

Less aerodynamic

Stock character (wordplay)

Intermediary's more skint (wordplay)

Hasn't a penny registered with agent

Beat to death, as a point

Flog a dead horse

Beat a dead horse

To scour thoroughly

Sporting a pair of shades (wordplay)

Black and white, maybe

Blue and red, say

Prone to major mood swings

Having opposing opinions

Like Brian Wilson, clinically

Herring or puffer fish (wordplay)

Herring, salted and smoked

Oarsman catches lake fish that's smoked

Tight end, at times

One preventing movement or flow

More like Monroe, in a way

Beauty-shop comparative

One way to leave a hair salon

Slip in cowslip, perhaps (wordplay)

Iris maybe making bread

Flour, say, for bread

Embarrassing error (informal)

Humorous DVD extra, perhaps

Mistake in pub loo perhaps

Police record book

It has a police record

It's needed by a writer who's drying up

Blowy

One of the inn crowd (wordplay)

Bed and breakfast visitor, for one

Inn crowd member

Major Hoople, for one

Braggart, loud-mouth

One who's hardly humble

Boggy

One who {hesitates=v}

Latin-American hero

George Washington of S. A.

Simon's ready in South America

Prop up with long pillow

Support; a pillow

Support; long pillow

Celine in "The Assignment"

More beautiful, to Burns

Better-looking and not so plump when disheartened

Someone involved in bribery

Boomy

Second shot, maybe

Athletic supporter (wordplay)

Rocket stage; vaccine

More drunk

Bosky

More cowlike (wordplay)

More like Mrs. Rumpole of books and TV

More likely to give orders

No artist, he

Bungler gets many into trouble

Provider of top of the milk (wordplay)

One putting drink in containers

Concern selling soda or beer

Bedroom fit for a lady

Literally, "sulking place"

Lady's bedroom

A stone overweight (wordplay)

Colorado River dam (officially "Hoover")

Hoover Dam's old name

Club employee (informal)

A heavy - ball, say

Heavy trampolinist (wordplay)

Untrustworthy type (once)

A hop-along cad (wordplay)

Jumpy cad (wordplay)

Jackie's maiden name

Marge Simpson's maiden name

Mrs. Kennedy then.

""A large rock, also BOULDER""

Larger in the beam

Not as specific

More liberal.

To adorn with needlework

Young chicken for food

Chicken runs protected by heater

Pilgrim's Pride or Perdue product

Alternative to a tanning booth

Faux-suntan cosmetic

Get-tan-quick application

Place to pick up chicks (wordplay)

Hamlet, at times

Where the chicks are

Trade unionist perhaps runs into trouble

Relatively more like soup (wordplay)

Dime sparer (wordplay)

Darker, as toast

More tanned

More sunbaked.

Chrome or Firefox (wordplay)

Herbivore perhaps runs into tanker

Leaves its food

Buxom

One yet to meet his match (wordplay)

Non-union member (wordplay)

Mister Solo (wordplay)

Underhand means of entry (wordplay)

Tryster's escape route, maybe

Portal to a patio, perhaps

John Q. Citizen in November

Voter

Voter.

""A pernicious litigant, also BARRATER, BARRETOR""

""A pernicious litigant, also BARRATER, BARRATOR""

Jazz artist of sorts.

Performer in complex modern jazz style

Real gone musician.

One using a come-hither gesture

Person summoning you

Signaler.

To make a loud continuous outcry

It's fit for a queen

Wrap of eiderdown

It might be fit for a queen

To cover with flowers

One who {soils=v}

Factor in a parole board's decision

Conduct, in report card comments

Sociologist's study

One with an eye for beauty (wordplay)

Beauty is said to be in this eye

In his eyes, beauty may be seen

Harp on about 'Blue Boar', Barking

Heckle with simple political slogan

Attack with blows or words

To soak with liquor

One who shouts

Bull.

Bismuth has to turn red, perhaps piebald

Derived from two ova

Line dividing an angle.

It'll give you an even split

It splits in two

One who {blazons=v}

Blocky

More costly, as a battle

More gory, as a horror movie

More rare, in a way

Bloomy

Blotty

Blousy

More disheveled

Blowzy

One living on the edge (wordplay)

Person living close to another country

One living near a national frontier

Neither this nor a lender be, they say

Victim of a certain shark

One taking to give back later

Botchy

One that {bottoms=v}

Bouncy

One that {broaches=v}

Bronzy

Broody

Broomy

Browny

Animal such as a rabbit

Mole.

Certain garment worker

Garment worker

Seamstress, sometimes

Soldier's over-the-shoulder belt

Ammunition belt

Cartridge belt.

Lad in robe fixed with special belt

Shoulder belt for carrying bullets

Shoulder belt for cartridges

It's all very fine for one to get a rise

It goes up and down

Forecaster's instrument

Miami tourist, often

One packing up the answers to the seven starred clues, maybe

English word

It is monitored in the football crowd

Measurable activity of an organism

Conduct - performance

Billowy

Concerned with double vision (wordplay)

Buy-one-get-one-free item (wordplay)

For both eyes

""A device that detects, records, and transmits information regarding a physiological change or process.""

Fleet, at times

Mix lice with broth, as more patchy

""An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; called also actinic balance, thermic balance. actinic balance, thermic balance.""

Fan or supporter

Bet middler (wordplay)

Publisher perhaps enjoys course work

Odd accountant (wordplay)

A participant in boycotting.

One who coerces animal to sleep by river

Farm animal, sleepy type in tractor

Beast that's 13 is a pushy one

BANKROLL to {finance=v}

Shakespearean fan

Agent noun (-or)

Showy blossom

Flared plant

Campanula.

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

Creator of life in a bookshop (wordplay)

A life's work for him

One who can tell your story

""A macromolecule in a living organism that is formed by linking together several smaller molecules, as a protein from amino acids or DNA from nucleotides.""

""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

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h

Winter Olympics competitor

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h.

Wave catcher

NCO arranged raid in Lancaster, maybe

Canadian snowmobile inventor

Crowd round pub ride off with soldier

Promise to take case, as tends to be fireproof in this country!

Union offers support to one that never gets burned in this place (wordplay)

Investor

Could he make broken nose better (wordplay)

Cured one's inside, though no doctor (wordplay)

Unqualified treater of fractures in times past

He wraps leaves up (wordplay)

Printing-shop employe

Library menace (wordplay)

Librarian's bane?

Librarian's bane (wordplay)

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

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

Shopkeeper hires Fitzgerald expressly

Vendor of volumes

Borders of old, for example

Salesman of sorts.

One running for work (wordplay)

Speak-easy supplier

One fond of dining on tongue (wordplay)

Subservient one

Suck-up

""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)

Jurassic giant

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

Obsequious person

Obsequious student

Brother right to cover own nose for obsequious person

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

BULLDOG to wrestle and throw a steer

Many an early aviator.

Many an early aviator

Itinerant actor.

Metal detector user, maybe

Shore patroller (wordplay)

One with a metal detector

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).""

Jean (wordplay)

Big character (wordplay)

Popular film? Ban one about train robber

House wrecker's big brother

Clouds broke over Dracula, for one

Extortioner, one who sponges on another

Leech is one

See windsurfing .

Noah was one

He made a bluebird to perform for Sir Donald!

One doing serious physical exercise

One developing muscles through exercise

Mr. Olympia, e.g

Beer-and-whiskey cocktail

Whiskey with a beer chaser

Whiskey-beer combo

""BOONDOGGLE a braided cord made by hand by young scouts, used for various purposes, such as a hat cord or a key chain.""

""BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

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.

BUTTONHOLE The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

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.

Type of ranch hand

Tamer of wild horses

Cowboy, at times

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

BREASTSTROKE

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