2-Letter Words Starting with B

Low-quality diamond

Low-grade diamond

Diamond used for industrial purposes.

Bart Simpson, for one

Army kid, perhaps

Bad child - pack member!

Andy Murray, for one

One with Windsor ties (wordplay)

Tony Blair, for one

Very dry (of champagne)

Dry (of champagne)

Like some wine? It's no end crude!

Artists hat perhaps

Top of the Special Forces (wordplay)

Uniform part maybe

Say without thinking (with "out")

Say suddenly (with "out")

Don't mean to say

Inferior diamond

Flower-bearing leaf

Leaflike flower part

Petallike leaf on a poinsettia

Type of goose

Mallard-sized goose

Mohawk leader Joseph

He played in "Jezebel" 1938

He played in "Jezebel": 1938

Spiner of "Star Trek: T.N.G."

Ekland from Sweden

Ekland of films

The Green Hornet's alter ego

Spread a rumor (with "about")

Spread abroad as a rumor

Spread, as news

Main force of a blow

Unservable, say

The chief stress or strain

Laboratory tube (var.)

Chemist's measuring device

Graduated glass tube used by chemists.

More than charred (Var.)

Left under the broiler too long, say

Extremely well-done (wordplay)

Explode; volley (of fire)

Let it all out say

Succumb to pressure (wordplay)

Con done over cocktails, maybe

Its stakes may be a beer

Kind of poodle.

A type of helmet

Least furnished, as a room

Most scantily dressed

Most sparsely furnished

Small cap; biretta

Old clerical cap

Small cap, like a biretta.

To {gnaw=v}

Encircled with a band

Encompassed.

Deprived, say of reason

Deprived, perhaps of reason

Deprived of, perhaps by death

Beet soup (Var.)

Russian soup.

Beet soup

Set bar (anagram)

Reach the top of (a hill)

Reach summit of (hill)

Special officer's commission

Officer's preretirement promotion

Nominally higher rank.

Shining (with intelligence)

Bowled straight? That's brilliant!

Cheerful or quick-witted

A biting fly

Brown-haired (var.)

Person with dark-brown hair (var.)

Brown-haired boy

Fresh-water fish.

Freshwater codlike fish

Freshwater cod

Spiky rose plant.

Member of the rose family

1960 Nobelist in physiology/medicine

{barefoot=adj}

Bent oar (anagram)

A Bronte (anagram)

Degree of honor above a knight.

A living marvel!

Stutz classic car

Panda car crushed in pound

To cover with a crust

Becurse

Bewrap

A plant of the dock family

Soup often served with sour cream

Dish ladled out hot or cold

Eastern European soup

""A hunting dog, also BRACH, BRATCHET""

Support for shelf - ( )

I.R.S. category

What ( or ) is

Most daring pair of undies (wordplay)

Least likely to shrink

Least likely to turn tail

Braw

Block of charcoal

Item for fuel or kindling.

Brick-shaped slab

Relating to brisance

Quick note about joint of meat

Cut of meat.

Cut of beef from near the ribs

Stag sees first of blue-chips go up rapidly

Carried (to a place)

Delivered or carried

Took along with you

""A thick oatmeal, also BURGOO""

Exhaustion after fire? (4-3)

Dragstrip stunt to warm tires (4,3)

Fizzle, as a candle

Casino game for Bond

Monte Carlo game.

French card game

Part of a chair

Chair part, often

Bet on others for support

Bust in business

'Wheel of Fortune' chance

Bench for sport to exercise bust

Knight risked capturing Stuart queen

Girl wearing hat for 'Sir'

Small flag

A boat rented without amenities

Like some hippies (wordplay)

Modeling a swimsuit, maybe

30 centimetres discalced (wordplay)

Doglike goblin of folklore

""A dog-like goblin, also BARGHEST""

Barky

Least sensible part of job armies tackled

Lots of soldiers in outskirts of Beirut? That's extremely foolish

Barny

To cover with a carpet

Most drunken

Most drunk

Bishop most strange and least likely to be sober (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

Sprinkled, old-style

Small pellets for hunting rifle

Small spheres found in shells

Literary supporter (wordplay)

Reader's support

Den accessory

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

Jewellery - clear bet (anagram)

Charmed circle (wordplay)

Charmed gift (wordplay)

A small leaf on the axis of a flower

Horn tooter (wordplay)

Expert in self-praise.

Show off brother with a horse on craft

Brag

Braky

Flashiest and loudest

Most insolent

Most impertinent

Sort of band using instruments with skill

Central American staple food

Mexican tree with large, edible seeds

Product of tree of Jamaica and Mexico, roasted and ground into flour.

Add to the rash of escapes (wordplay)

Go over the wall, say

Start suddenly; escape (from prison)

Censure of a good chap by the club

Piece of blunt criticism

(Critic's) weapon

Cheese party (wordplay)

Of shortest duration

Most epigrammatic

Highest in salt, perhaps

Most refreshing

Most peppy

Chance to be among the finest, most energetic

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

Brusk

An open helmet

Most husky

Burry

Hardly a main drag

Part of many a detour

Obscure road in town

COURT to {woo=v}

Backdrop

Barren

""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.""

Most sour-tasting

Most cynical

Most acrid

Least clear, in a way

Most misty

Superlatively fuzzy

Circulatory system (wordplay)

Circulatory system?

With dashing young man, search for scarlet flower

Plan to have naughty image (wordplay)

Design for a rude picture (wordplay)

Depressing picture (wordplay)

Blurry

Braggy

BRAILLE to write in raised print for the blind

Like the class valedictorian, perhaps

Most clever

Most brilliant

A little bit wooden (wordplay)

Branny

Brashy

Having the most nerve

Bratty

Link of German origin

German pork sausage

A type of small pork sausage

Brawlie

Maximally muscular

Eat on the go (wordplay)

Baker cooked cracking meal

First meal at Tiffany's

Most carefree

Bricky

Superlative for Sirius

Most intelligent

Most brainy

Excellent fish ain't at sea!

A diamond could be terrific!

Excellent fish? Ain't cooked!

Most likely to crumble

Least likely to bend

Most fragile

Sent out in waves (wordplay)

Common female performers put on show

Programme of actors with bad cast

Bronzy

Broody

Broomy

Browny

Brushy

Brusque

Burbly

Goat maybe with solid product from dairy

Say female in club gets dairy product

Calorie counter's concern

Born fool wrapping complete tree

Squash and spread fruitcake

Goat head, a sort of pumpkin down under

Road in reverse (wordplay)

*Road less traveled

Best seller by Fannie Hurst

Bairnly

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

A writer of literature

Little Serb turns out to be writer of aesthetic essays

Progress in standard of living

Live with Hilary, perhaps, in a tent for gain

How more good men come to tea for improvement

Civil liberty in the U. S.

Labour facing Tory inheritance

Inheritance of the firstborn

State flower of Montana

Montana's state flower

Montana-Idaho range.

Joan Jett's own record label

""Any of various deciduous shrubs or small trees of the genus Staphylea, native to north temperate regions and having opposite compound leaves and terminal panicles of white flowers and bladderlike fruits.""

Overall troubles I doubly reviewed

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

Least passable, as a thicket of shrubs

Most expansive, as a tree

Pacific islanders cash crop (wordplay)

Two-fer menu item (wordplay)

Plant brought on board the HMS Bounty

Cabinet or bookcase

Dining-room piece

Large cabinet.

Breathy

Bristly

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.

Detail man (wordplay)

A brute, a cur - horrible official!

Office credit gets at bean counter

Buttery

""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)

Looking for scraps (wordplay)

Looking for 5 across (wordplay)

Aggressive - it'll be green (anagram)

Loss of someone close

Deprivation.

Mourning

Sugary drink (wordplay)

Like a lemon dessert (wordplay)

Play with acid drop (wordplay)

Aquatic plant whose leaves trap small insects

Prolonged missile attack

Nine ac attack

Assault, shelling

Region of comparable size (wordplay)

Baker's middle name (wordplay)

Stomach (with rolls?)

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.

Drunk trembled, wine causing confusion

Perplexity, confusion

Confusion of less sophisticated people in punt

PROPELLANT

""REFRINGENT Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar. as, a refringent prism of spar.""

(tr) to trouble persistently; harass

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

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

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