2-Letter Words Starting with B

Animal such as a rabbit

Mole.

One who mends clothing

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

Bairnly

Singer makes a buck perhaps after party

Allan-a-Dale, for one

One putting a tale in the air (wordplay)

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

Sir Roger -, first sub-four-minute miler

Handrail on a staircase

Famed former miler

Diner.

""BARBECUE to grill over an open fire, also BARBEQUE""

Tag-sale shopper, often

Labor negotiator.

One in a compromising position (wordplay)

Sam Malone, on "Cheers"

Happy hour server

Dog secures European record for host

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

It goes up and down

Forecaster's instrument

Hostile demonstrator, a supporter down under

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)

Defensive type around court brewed beers in LA

Tennis player who rarely approaches the net

It's tested with a toe

Rubber duck's milieu

It's often draining

Miami tourist, often

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

Trunks, bikinis etc

*Thongs and surf shop T-shirts

Cabana items

More brutish

More abominable

More gross.

Yeoman producing crab apple (wordplay)

Carnivorous guard (wordplay)

Yeoman of the guard.

One with a honey bunch?

One with the hives (wordplay)

Sir Edmund Hillary, for one.

English word

It is monitored in the football crowd

Measurable activity of an organism

Conduct - performance

Surround with trouble

Bug fever rebel unfortunately catches

Put in a very difficult position

BELITTLE to disparage

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

Warrior who often wore a coat made from a bear pelt

Soil of a resort in superior situation

Cover with slander

Spray with droplets

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.""

One who blackens.

Long-winded sort

Someone talking a lot about a little

One who talks senselessly; the barrel (anagram)

Blessed

Fleet, at times

Mix lice with broth, as more patchy

One making stupid mistake

Incompetent conservative Republican houses rejected Communist name

Bungler.

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

Bet middler (wordplay)

Publisher perhaps enjoys course work

Odd accountant (wordplay)

A participant in boycotting.

Brambly

Branchy

More like a whisper

Incarcerate Bambi (wordplay)

*Latvian colonel's superior

British military rank

Bristly

Sir Henry Morgan, for one

U. S. Navy long-range dive-bomber.

One who robs at sea

David Bell, for example.

One who coerces animal to sleep by river

Farm animal, sleepy type in tractor

Beast that's 13 is a pushy one

Smart on top, is that woman in rubber (wordplay)

Buttery

Innocent one (wordplay)

Onlooker (often innocent)

One in the crowd

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

He's debased (wordplay)

Fieldstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Musician at a dance (wordplay)

One who must face the music (wordplay)

Arm or rubber (wordplay)

Glenn or Mitch Miller

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

BANKROLL to {finance=v}

Shakespearean fan

Agent noun (-or)

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

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

Showy blossom

Flared plant

Campanula.

V.I.P. among sheep

Leader of the flock

Leading sheep; trendsetter

Ring sailor? No time, he complains

Faultfinding type

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

Seepage aboard ship

Ship's seepage

Nonsense

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

1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers

1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers

One who uses blandishments.

Rebel MP has reformed, so he swears!

One who reviles

Impious one

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)

Mole takes holiday by lake perhaps

Mole's holiday by river (wordplay)

Protection from shore erosion

Construction worker's course (wordplay)

Wall builder, maybe

Building trades worker

BRIGHTEN to make {bright=adj}

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.

Bird, one moving round capital

Popular cage-bird

Bird commonly kept as a pet

BULLDOG to wrestle and throw a steer

One who burlesques.

Pit viper; sham brutes (anagram)

Top horticulturist (wordplay)

Venomous pit viper

Backwoodsman in awful rush in clapped-out car

So two heads of state spoke across the Atlantic? That's criminal!

Former US president meeting forest officer, backwoodsman

MP without office

Rank and file MP

MP not holding office

Straw, to a camel (wordplay)

The last straw

Extremely strenuous task

SCATTER to disperse in all directions

Effusively friendly person

Cousin of a hail-fellow-well-met.

Hail-fellow-well-met.

False friend (Medical)

Treacherous person posing as a friend

Poor choice for a friend

*Airline for Lucille (wordplay)

Boat for fullbacks (wordplay)

Grange for one

Many an early aviator.

Many an early aviator

Itinerant actor.

Metal detector user, maybe

Shore patroller (wordplay)

One with a metal detector

Substitute player: Slang.

Seldom-used substitute

*Sub in the dugout

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)

Pacific slave ship

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Blacklist

Perry Mason's prey.

Criminal with dirt on someone

So the unions would ban Norman? That's criminal!

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.""

It may call for lateral thinking

Puzzle requiring thought

New artisan beer is a puzzle

Genius spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Cult leader, in a way

Person who supports a family

Family's main earner

Source of family funds

Breakfast

CBS, for one

Radio/TV provider

Radio or TV journalist

Of or pertaining to a bronchiole.

Broomball

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.

Oater villain who attacks from hiding

Western baddie

Oater ambusher

Butterfly

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

See Brailler .

BREASTSTROKE

A smoked liver sausage.

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