2-Letter Words Starting with B

Unpaid tech worker (wordplay)

Modern customer-service rep, maybe

Sci-fi sidekick, maybe

Stain (on landscape?)

A drop of ink (wordplay)

Apply tissue to fresh lipstick, perhaps

Sampan, for one

Loophole-exploiting casino site, say

Islander's need, maybe

Run away; fasten (door)

Run off with a nut (wordplay)

Run away - fastening!

Soccer star's shoe (wordplay)

Sturdy shoe; start (a computer)

Wellington, for one

Low-quality diamond

Low-grade diamond

Diamond used for industrial purposes.

Taphole plug, in a foundry.

Larva of a fly.

Taphole plug

Something with round parts (wordplay)

Thrilla in Manila, for one

"Thrilla in Manila," for one

Caused to be.

Sired in the Bible

Sired, in the Bible

Get a woman drunk say

Get a woman drunk, say

Make stupid or foolish.

""A small whirlwind, also BHUT""

No egalitarian, to say the least

Sectarian bias understood? Not so!

Bunker, for one

Living thing

Organism

Blow up (wordplay)

Round out (wordplay)

Gas up (wordplay)

Inferior diamond

Speak for yourself (wordplay)

Let out hot air (wordplay)

Veni, vidi, vici, for one

Kicking boots for one of the Spurs

Shoplift so to say

Push up (eg morale, chances)

Lottery (for tickets)

Where X marks the spot (wordplay)

Lottery (eg, for tickets)

To tie in knots

Type of wild "kitty-kitty" E (nonverbal)

Hope's feline (wordplay)

Hope's feline?

20 cap some vermouth (not of the French)

Bee's place (wordplay)

Headdress (for Easter?)

Beet soup (Var.)

Russian soup.

Beet soup

Thicket

Accepted without question

Accepted as true

Procured branch on treetop

A pot for boughs as an ornament

A biting fly

Fresh-water fish.

Freshwater codlike fish

Freshwater cod

Store closing wish (wordplay)

Corporate deal

Corporate takeover

Withdraw defender (unconscious)

Withdraw with lumbago (wordplay)

Abandon support away from home

Rescue from bilge (wordplay)

Hit the silk.

Escape from airplane

Bent oar (anagram)

A Bronte (anagram)

Degree of honor above a knight.

Gun point (wordplay)

Sharp shooter's weapon

Dagger fixed to rifle

Retired person's supporter (wordplay)

Pole near a mattress

Pole near a pillow

To shout at

To vomit all over

Objet d'art.

Article of virtue.

Attractive or curious trinket

Famous print maker (wordplay)

Supposed NW US ape-like creature

Hairy humanoid of legend

A plant of the dock family

Lavish meal (slang)

Sudden tire failure (4,3)

Flat feast? Don't hold your breath!

Tops in audacity

Most daring or naughty

Most daring.

What a boastful way to blow a street up!

High-sounding words.

High-sounding words with little meaning

Herb also called agueweed

Folk medicine herb.

Plant used in folk medicine

Skinny to the max

Most difficult to fillet

Hardest to eat, as fish

Instruction manual, perhaps

Light reading (wordplay)

Postage-stamp buy

Small-scale economic upturn

Small upswing on Wall Street

Small spurt in the economy

Soup often served with sour cream

Dish ladled out hot or cold

Eastern European soup

""A thicket, also BOSK, BOSQUE""

Fight, having boxed that Spanish nose!

Bunch (of flowers)

The aroma of an aged wine

Shoelace feature, often

It is tied with one or two loops

Option for the present

Arrow's flight distance

Distance an arrow flies

Old firing range is bandy and randy

Most squarish

'Ignore the little blue bed,' you say

Make a statement while shopping, say

Political protest of sorts

Stag sees first of blue-chips go up rapidly

Carried (to a place)

Delivered or carried

Took along with you

Provisions provider, around a harbor

Small craft which ferries items for sale to a moored or anchored ship

Like a happy sailor (wordplay)

Like a life preserver

Like a life jacket

""A thick oatmeal, also BURGOO""

Exhaustion after fire? (4-3)

Dragstrip stunt to warm tires (4,3)

Fizzle, as a candle

Farthest to the rear

Farthest to the rear.

A small balloon

Musician with a lot of pluck (wordplay)

Prohibit support for musician

Veto support for plucky player

A boat rented without amenities

Like some hippies (wordplay)

Modeling a swimsuit, maybe

30 centimetres discalced (wordplay)

Dark red salad item

Dark red vegetable

Essential ingredient in borsch

A flowering plant

Kind of orange - great mob (anagram)

Earl Grey tea flavouring

Oil producer making composer take a test

The bogus criminal begged

Begged, pleaded with

Entreated, begged

Small pellets for hunting rifle

Small spheres found in shells

Need in fight to lose consciousness

Loss of consciousness

Occasion for lighting candles

Most fair (wordplay)

Like Baby Spice, vis-a-vis the other Spice Girls

Most fair

Wildest line in Ziggy Stardust's 'Time' (wordplay)

Most breezy

19th-century US soldier

Cop in uniform

Christ's Hospital boy

A machine-made net

An omen

Bits you'd adjusted in tight outfit

One-piece outfit

One-piece to look good on torso first

Boggy

A bongo player

Most healthy-looking baby

Most comely

Literary supporter (wordplay)

Reader's support

Den accessory

Boomy

Most alcoholic

Jeer is followed by enthusiasm when crossing island least dry

Bosky

Most domineering and overbearing

Most dictatorial: Colloq.

Most dictatorial Colloq.

Plant supervisor (wordplay)

Plant manager (wordplay)

Asa Gray for one

Puffed out (of hairstyle)

Puffed out (hair)

(Of hair) standing out

A large {vase=n}

Having a curved front

Bit of ship to buckle on trips at sea

Pole, tie and skewer? That's about right

Spar projecting from front of a boat

Add to the rash of escapes (wordplay)

Go over the wall, say

Start suddenly; escape (from prison)

With the most breadth

Most general, extensive

With the most latitude

A little running water (wordplay)

Pamphlet about river and small stream

Tiny stream

Give a hard time to

Cow pound on ridge

Bully boy started argument about a bet

Is that where the forehead was born - in the darkest shade (wordplay)

Power takeoff (wordplay)

Certain power failure

Brief voltage reduction

Projectiles for hunting game

Coarse lead pellets for guns

Money's stolen and ammunition, too

A {bullhead=n}

A drink made of vodka and bouillon

An open helmet

""A small antelope, also BUSHBUCK""

Buxom

COURT to {woo=v}

Backdrop

Today's most popular writer (wordplay)

Kind of pen

Paper Mate product

Marsupial, one breaking ring on bird

Small insectivorous marsupial

Marsupial in group with one bird

Elizabeth should have had this in mind

Elizabeth should have minded this

Girl should have considered

Gregor Mendel, for instance.

Life-science lab worker

Jeff's job, officially

""An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties. Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.""

""A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties. Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.""

Blocky

Likeliest to get an R rating, perhaps

Most violent

Circulatory system (wordplay)

Circulatory system?

With dashing young man, search for scarlet flower

Inflamed (of eye)

Reddened, inflamed eye

(Of eye) streaked with red

Bloomy

Blotty

Blousy

Blowsy

Blowzy

Long Island oyster

Small edible oyster

Siamese cat

Enola Gay device

Aircraft's aiming device

Volatile big shot takes medic on board aerial war contraption

Botchy

Bouncy

Sent out in waves (wordplay)

Common female performers put on show

Programme of actors with bad cast

Bronzy

Broody

Broomy

Browny

Phileas Fogg, for one

One seen in a hanging basket (wordplay)

Party item to sit out, being in the air

Orchestra member

Certain instrumentalist

Woodwind player

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

Well meaning, kindly

Like an Elk, supposedly

Well-meaning, kindly

Person associated with (-ist)

Most wavy.

Asimov, per his doctorate

Person knee-deep in formulas

A studier of living organisms

State flower of Montana

Montana's state flower

Montana-Idaho range.

The germinal vesicle.

The fact or state of being guilty of murder or bloodshed.

Blotchy

Depressed stomach in Balmoral, perhaps

Sad Easter headgear (wordplay)

Milliner's favorite flower (wordplay)

Overall troubles I doubly reviewed

Overall, last set of clothes is for a tough old bird locally

Like the green traffic light

Lowest

Cabinet or bookcase

Dining-room piece

Large cabinet.

Newspaper on a double bed (wordplay)

The Times is terribly bad, so there!

Paper covering double bed (wordplay)

Hitlerian militia member

(Dress of) Nazi militiaman

Storm trooper

One versed in bryology.

""A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone. Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.""

The line along which opposing armies face each other.

Hazarding a guess: worker with really good manners (wordplay)

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

BIOETHIC relating to ethical questions in biology

Aquatic plant whose leaves trap small insects

Prolonged missile attack

Nine ac attack

Assault, shelling

Covering for the loins.

Umbrella, humorously

In the back of the car, brown, half shut brolly

Umbrella

A chemical or biological material that inhibits bacterial growth.

A bookbinder.

Same as Bibliopole. Bibliopole.

(used with a sing. verb) The science that deals with the application of physics to biological processes and phenomena.

See life science .

PROPELLANT

Mr. X's favorite form of trickery (wordplay)

A basal body in certain flagellated protozoans that consists of a minute mass of chromatin embedded in the cytoplasm at the base of the flagellum.

Expert on some microorganisms

One studying harmful micro-organisms

Germ expert

""Emission of visible light by living organisms such as the firefly and various fish, fungi, and bacteria.""

""Names the science of the classification of living things. ; biosystematic, biosystematical,""

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

BRONCHOSCOPE

""→ biotechnologue mf , biotechnologiste mf hc_En_Fr()""