2-Letter Words Starting with B

One with a muzzle maybe

Muzzled dog, perhaps

Illtrained dog perhaps

One who heckles

One deliberately provoking another

Heckler's cousin.

Raillery (before in old railway)

Light-hearted friendly talk

Playful exchange of teasing remarks

Come to a trade agreement (wordplay)

Exchange with Simpson say, facing Queen

Trade (goods for goods)

Child's gadget

Turkey cooking need

Chef's implement

Man in the drink (wordplay)

One dipping in the briny (wordplay)

Enjoyer of balneological pleasures

Lead-off, for one

One making a sacrifice, maybe

Coat, of sorts

Whisk, for one

Rug-cleaning tool

Hunter's assistant.

Exert/rouse (oneself)

Move top one, right (wordplay)

Rouse to action

'Raise', one might say (wordplay)

An improvement for Ascot, perhaps

Gambler cured (wordplay)

Exacta placer, perhaps

High roller, for example

One taking action

Dark-brown pigment from soot.

Dark-brown pigment.

Sour kind of English ale (wordplay)

A sour English beer (wordplay)

Resentful about English beer (wordplay)

One leaving a wake, perhaps

Hat, one in a row (wordplay)

Sailor's hat (wordplay)

Runaway horse, for example

One who quits his political party.

One given to running away

Neither speaks fluently? Drat!

Worry, upset (someone)

Neither is a fluent speaker, drat it!

Cake time at school unending for him!

Sacrifice offerer (wordplay)

Fatty cake bird's not finished

Brown or Keaton

Term of address to a little boy.

- Keaton, comic actor

Valet of sorts

Head of a household (wordplay)

Jeeves, for one

A fat 20 down (wordplay)

Perhaps more although a fat ram

Will milk make the ram fat (wordplay)

One who puts things together

Sportsman catching one more out there

More bananas

More crazy

Conflicted sort (wordplay)

One who doesn't quit

Fighter's first to lunge in assault

An operator of a cloth-finishing machine

More wee

Quarryman with explosive (wordplay)

One who uses dynamite

Sci-fi weapon

That's just confounded soapy talk

Long-winded talk with no substance

Foolish chatter, just oul' talk

Make a rattling noise.

Celtic's torrent of words for football official

Soccer administrator fifty covered in flour mixture

A pound returned to diner who complains

Sheep or snipe

One sounding like sheep

Some trouble the Russian with idle talk

Voluble talkativeness

Woe for one with new shoes

Maybe second-rate celeb in bubble

Lash with words

More careless loose talk (wordplay)

More thoughtless gossip

Talk foolishly

Herring or puffer fish (wordplay)

Herring, salted and smoked

Oarsman catches lake fish that's smoked

Police record book

It has a police record

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

More candid

More frank

Duller.

One that {blurts=v}

Brag (to hide fear)

Use empty threats

Loud aggressive talk

Major Hoople, for one

Braggart, loud-mouth

One who's hardly humble

Prop up with long pillow

Support; a pillow

Support; long pillow

Second shot, maybe

Athletic supporter (wordplay)

Rocket stage; vaccine

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

Trade unionist perhaps runs into trouble

Relatively more like soup (wordplay)

Dime sparer (wordplay)

One that {bruits=v}

A firecracker is one.

Top deck on public transport (wordplay)

Perhaps top deck is better upholstered

Having a larger endowment (wordplay)

He may mince but he's more manly!

More masculine although he minces!

Kill, as more masculine (wordplay)

John Q. Citizen in November

Voter

Voter.

Brag about amateur's support

...support American capital in boasting

Staircase railing part

Slide for a kid (wordplay)

Second-class wine sent back by rail

It can be found step by step

Lover of the give-and-take

Dispenser of chaff and jest.

Repartee expert

Saint John, for one

Saint John, famously

One who purchases state office.

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

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

One who doesn't take cash

Peter Minuit was one

Goods-for-goods person

Hatch fastener.

One producing (child)

Father, say, is outwardly improved

It's preferable without, for example, a father

One who perplexes could live with me

Live with one such as me, a person constantly harassing

Besieger.

To {tatter=v}

Judas Iscariot, for one

The carrier's in liquor, the rat!

Feeding donkey occasionally eats grass

One who {billets=v}

Two-month period

Year sixth

Line dividing an angle.

It'll give you an even split

It splits in two

Bitchy

More resentful

More acrid

Most unpalatable

Blasty

That so-and-so frost (wordplay)

Annoying person (slang)

The so-and-so is on the b..... boat!

Blotty

Botchy

One that {bottoms=v}

More ill-mannered

More ill-behaved

More impudent

Rest? The British are working!

Rest lung, possibly (wordplay)

Break one's nose, perhaps

Sunnier or smarter

Shinier or smarter

Emitting more light

More likely to crumble

More breakable

Less flexible

Itemizerof income and outgo

One who lives within his income.

Person in charge of fiscal decisions

One that {buffets=v}

Certain garment worker

Garment worker

Seamstress, sometimes

Perhaps a molar re tib

Molar (wordplay)

One attacks the reputation of another

Re taw, perhaps, in no current way

O2H (wordplay)

Tew, perhaps, is an isolated spot

Sir Roger -, first sub-four-minute miler

Handrail on a staircase

Famed former miler

Diner.

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

It goes up and down

Forecaster's instrument

Lawyer maybe railing about the street

Lawyer for the higher courts

Legal advocate, must be briefed

Courtroom judge (wordplay)

Jailer's other job (wordplay)

Gym assistant (wordplay)

It's tested with a toe

Rubber duck's milieu

It's often draining

More brutish

More abominable

More gross.

Yeoman producing crab apple (wordplay)

Carnivorous guard (wordplay)

Yeoman of the guard.

BELITTLE to disparage

""One who confers a benefit; also, one who receives a benefit.""

Soil of a resort in superior situation

Cover with slander

Spray with droplets

Long-winded sort

Someone talking a lot about a little

One who talks senselessly; the barrel (anagram)

Mix lice with broth, as more patchy

Be around the north in order to get right person with loud voice

""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

A participant in boycotting.

More like a whisper

Bristly

David Bell, for example.

Buttery

Innocent one (wordplay)

Onlooker (often innocent)

One in the crowd

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

Shakespearean fan

Agent noun (-or)

""One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.""

V.I.P. among sheep

Leader of the flock

Leading sheep; trendsetter

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

Seepage aboard ship

Ship's seepage

Nonsense

""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.""

1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers

1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers

Could he make broken nose better (wordplay)

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

Unqualified treater of fractures in times past

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.""

Mole takes holiday by lake perhaps

Mole's holiday by river (wordplay)

Protection from shore erosion

BRIGHTEN to make {bright=adj}

Jurassic giant

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

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

Pit viper; sham brutes (anagram)

Top horticulturist (wordplay)

Venomous pit viper

SCATTER to disperse in all directions

False friend (Medical)

Treacherous person posing as a friend

Poor choice for a friend

Many an early aviator.

Many an early aviator

Itinerant actor.

Excessive adherence to a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Blacklist

Big character (wordplay)

Popular film? Ban one about train robber

House wrecker's big brother

Noah was one

He made a bluebird to perform for Sir Donald!

It may call for lateral thinking

Puzzle requiring thought

New artisan beer is a puzzle

Breakfast

CBS, for one

Radio/TV provider

Radio or TV journalist

Spanish athlete in a ring

Waver of a red cape

Suit of lights wearer

Breed of dog

Breed developed in England

English dog breed

Mayor in Germany, Austria, etc

Mayor, in Mainz

Mayor.

Butterfly

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

""A sensory nerve ending that is stimulated by changes in pressure, especially one in the walls of blood vessels such as the carotid sinus.""

Brainstorm

Type of ranch hand

Tamer of wild horses

Cowboy, at times

Comparative adjective or agent noun

See Brailler .

BREASTSTROKE

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