2-Letter Words Starting with B

Avoided (a town or city)

Didn't go through

Went around, town or heart

They go around towns

Gets around through use of quiet donkeys

Circumvents with the aid of permits

Baaskaap

*Prepares to pass the football

They go behind the scenes

Stage scenery.

Backdrop

Hikers' burdens

Knapsacks, rucksacks

Students' carriers

Reverse attitude - on bicycle (wordplay)

Modify one's opinion

Retreat in the ring

Strikes among co-workers (wordplay)

Congratulates effusively

Congratulatory gestures

Return a letter, say

Certain typewriter key

Move a cursor left

Backspin

Tennis and baseball necessities

Screens in sports arenas.

Gives support to summit's contingency plans

Defenders cried moving away from front

Slanting away

Backwrap

St. Patrick's Day sight

Some droning musicians

Scottish musicians

Bakeshop

Cueballs, so to speak

Approximate US venues for games!

Approximate venues (wordplay)

Where to go out to the games (wordplay)

Today's most popular writer (wordplay)

Kind of pen

Paper Mate product

Causes to go into receivership.

Forces out of Monopoly

Ruins financially

Baptisia

Baptise

Of Christian ritual immersion

Type of certificate

Type of pool

""In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.""

Baptizer

Baptize

Barhop

Sam Malone, on "Cheers"

Happy hour server

Dog secures European record for host

One puts pen to paper when there's pressure

""Botany Of or relating to the development or maturation of tissues or organs or the movement of substances, such as hormones, from the apex downward toward the base.""

""A type of white blood cell, also BASOPHIL""

Basophil

Wearers of 30 x 38 jeans, say

Skinny people plan to mingle with obese

Tall, thin types

Bebopper

Becap

Becarpet

Beclasp

Bediaper

Bedimple

Bedimple

Bedplate

Bedrape

Night cover (wordplay)

Something fit for a king (wordplay)

The cover of night (wordplay)

Support for a king (wordplay)

One of many supporting a mattress

Mattress support

One with a honey bunch?

One with the hives (wordplay)

Sir Edmund Hillary, for one.

Beleap

Bellpull

Bename

Bepaint

Bepimple

Bepimple

Soil of a resort in superior situation

Cover with slander

Spray with droplets

Bespouse

Bespouse

Bespread

Bethump

Beweep

Bewrap

""Having two heads or origins, as a muscle.""

Canine neighbors

Book about a legend (wordplay)

Life far more than a sentence (wordplay)

Kind of book.

Bioplasm

Biopsy

Early movie projectors.

Organic section (wordplay)

Life-support system (wordplay)

Where the wild things are (wordplay)

Having two sections

Divided into two sections

Involving two sides

BIPEDAL having two feet

Biphenyl

""PINNATE resembling a feather, also PINNATED""

PYRAMID to increase by adding gradually

Bishop

Phobic sir (anagram)

Seat of a Catholic official

See, that's for the church

Birds which were signs of doom (wordplay)

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

Surfaces, as roads, runways, etc.

Broadway's Hagen, who was blacklisted

Paves, as a driveway

Utter obscenities or profanities

Curse afflicting sheep and lamb

Curse MP - he's able to change...

That's sacrilege!

Sacrilege, profane speech

Profane talk or behaviour

Air-concentrating tubes

If it comes to blows, they're fatal

Glassmakers' tools

Long Island oyster

Small edible oyster

Siamese cat

Plan to have naughty image (wordplay)

Design for a rude picture (wordplay)

Depressing picture (wordplay)

Boltrope

Surefire, as a standup's material (wordplay)

A lot of money made as evidence of being well protected

Bonspell

Curling tournaments

Volume's identification.

Found in some volumes

One may get stuck into a literary work

Businesses that thrive on high volume sales (wordplay)

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

Item for a certain lift

Computer program loading method

Metaphorical self-help aid

English word

Large containers for cut flowers.

Sailors' spars

Skulls fall quietly in bars

""A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand Aphyllon Ludovicianum.Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spiked flowers, and grow attached to the roots of other plants, as furze, clover, flax, wild carrot, etc. The name is sometimes applied to other plants related to this genus, as Aphyllon uniflorumand Aphyllon Ludovicianum.""

Any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta.Bryophyta.

Bullpout

Heavy lash

Bumper

Feature of some roads.

""Unsophisticated in a manner resembling a lifelong resident of rural areas; as, bumpkinly country boys.as, bumpkinly country boys.""

Irritatingly self-assertive

Seat up, so it moves forward

Offensively self-assertive

Cow, perhaps, a pest on the lawn

In ancient times, say, raised flower

Swap prize ram for cow (wordplay)

Bypass

Backpack

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

Football player goes biking (wordplay)

Starts to waffle

Does a volte-face.

BACKSPACE

Hits the Delete key

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

He's debased (wordplay)

Fieldstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Musician at a dance (wordplay)

Today's most popular writers (wordplay)

Pens from pin endings

Some pens

Desperate declaration (seven letters)

Red state (wordplay)

State of insolvency

Bankrupt

Pool house (wordplay)

Brat's piety seems phony in sacred area

Sportscaster Red's short leap (wordplay)

Dance for tonsorial artists?

Where to find a short cut (wordplay)

Lush travel plan (wordplay)

Doing the town

Tavern-tour activity

Barkeeper

Agent noun (-or)

Barograph

Basophile

""The affinity of cellular structures for basic dyes, such as methylene blue.""

BASOPHILE

Deep-sea submersible

Formidable, perhaps, as Hood

The USS Maine, for one

15 - or should it be Queen? - maybe 19

Becarpet

Beclasp

Bediaper

Bedimple

They may be laid on for midnight feasts

Throws a banquet in the garden

Nighttime covers

JUMPING AIDS

Plural noun or verb form

Apiary workers

They profit from their workers' operations

THEME ANSWER 2

A honey of a job (wordplay)

Apiarist's job

Honey producer's task

Bepaint

Bepimple

Splashes with mud

Bespeak

Bespouse

To sprinkle over; to scatter over.

Bethump

Bewrap

Pile big boy upset reveals some fine bookbinding

Bookseller.

The subject of a biography.

Creator of life in a bookshop (wordplay)

A life's work for him

One who can tell your story

BIOGRAPH to write a biography of

BIOMORPH a decorative image of a living thing

Cissy with phobia, mostly about science

""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.""

Bioscopy

Is posh beer brewed in living quarters (wordplay)

BIOSPHERE

PARENTAL pertaining to a parent

What foreign policy often is.

With two-party support

Involving the agreement of two parties

BIPEDAL having two feet

BIPEDAL having two feet

State of two extremes

""POLARIZE to give polarity to, also POLARISE""

Bipyramid

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

Bishopric

Blackpoll

""BLASPHEME To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.""

Rebel MP has reformed, so he swears!

One who reviles

Impious one

Speaks irreverently.

Curses

""The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.""

BLIMPISH like Colonel Blimp

Small oysters

Choice oysters

Many have designs on them

They're drawn for lots

Architect's plans

Library menace (wordplay)

Librarian's bane?

Librarian's bane (wordplay)

Set of ex libris

Fasteners on a German boat (wordplay)

Pull yourself up the ladder to load computer program

Borescope

Marine invertebrate crab craftily hid around different pool mostly

Ruling (or, more modestly, intelligence)

Support presiding wisdom

'Solvers need this book' (The Sun's ruling)

Broomrape

Bryophyte

Of or pertaining to bryophytes.

BUMPKIN a clumsy rustic

Spread what's blooming well in them

Love-in-a-mist bouquet

Backdrop

*Hostel audience (wordplay)

Peripatetic football team

Wolves keeping supporters outside, walkers with their kit (wordplay)

Trekking with a rucksack

Mount Whitney activity

Hiking with a rucksack

Tried to distance oneself from a gaffe, say

Backslap

Effusively friendly person

Cousin of a hail-fellow-well-met.

Hail-fellow-well-met.

Covering up a typing mistake, maybe

Deleting letters, in a way

Backstop

A court attendant entrusted with duties such as the maintenance of order in a courtroom during a trial.

Judge, Sale, and Trout

Do they cooperate with the dance band (wordplay)

Adam Jones, Ray Rice and LeBron James, for three

Bankrupt

In a baptismal manner.

Baptistry

Barbershop

Baroceptor

BAROGRAPH An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.

Basipetal

Basophilia

""A free-diving deep-sea vessel consisting of a large flotation hull with a crewed observation capsule attached to its underside, usually capable of reaching full ocean depths.""

They work under pressure

Deep-sea vessel

Diving bell.

Beebe vehicle

Oklahoma and West Virginia

Attackers of Truk.

Units of a fleet.

Becarpet