2-Letter Words Starting with B

Nerve gas (wordplay)

Lip in place again, over jaw

Ta, H.C., for being so impudent

Publisher's asset.

Older titles, to a publisher

Support composer giving out unknown previous compositions

Farthest to the rear

Farthest to the rear.

Part of a chair

Chair part, often

Bet on others for support

Favorite location at the drive-in (4,4)

Take this to become invisible (wordplay)

Certain driver's spot

Furthest from formfitting

Most loose-fitting

A delivery of goods in trust

{pastry=n}

Balky

A small balloon

Most pleasantly warm

Most refreshing.

Most summery

Musician with a lot of pluck (wordplay)

Prohibit support for musician

Veto support for plucky player

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

Place for a bargain (wordplay)

Best name perhaps for servants' quarters

Bargain setting (wordplay)

The fish I catch for baby (wordplay)

Fish in bed (wordplay)

Berth of a baby (wordplay)

Least lucid

Most eccentric

Most crazy

Most off-colour - bed waits (anagram)

Most lewd

Spangliest

Beaky

Beamy

To cover with a carpet

Decorative coverlet

It may be fit for a queen (wordplay)

What's needed on the double (wordplay)

Cover for sleeper

Fruit of the Fagus tree

Three-cornered fruit of hardwood tree.

Fruit Stripe Gum maker

Brawny to the nth degree.

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

Dub "sir"

A flowering plant

Strangely, the pope left a nice debt

Saint who founded a monastic order

Texas family in "Giant."

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

Sprinkled, old-style

Mild stimulant from a tree

Certain palm fruit

South Pacific chew

Man with double trouble (wordplay)

One with two other halves (wordplay)

Woman over-groomed (wordplay)

Bilgy

Small pellets for hunting rifle

Small spheres found in shells

Bitty

Tetrad, in genetics

Double, in biology.

Navel bit (anagram) - associated together in pairs

Most tragic thing missing in defeat

Most gloomy.

Need in fight to lose consciousness

Loss of consciousness

Occasion for lighting candles

Outside range, sandwich is least tasty

Most in need of ponzu or piri-piri

Most soothing.

Most unproductive

Most vague

Most expressionless

Most dismal and desolate

Most dark bitter's bottled to make water

Least cheerful

Least able to see

Least percipient.

Most carefree

Most merry

Most joyful

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

Bluff

Most brutally honest

Least sharp

Most offensive about conservationists, and most outspoken

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

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

Projectiles for hunting game

Coarse lead pellets for guns

Money's stolen and ammunition, too

Buffy

Buggy

Bulgy

Hardest to carry, perhaps

Hardest to ship, say

Bishop and I cutting version of St Luke that's taking up most space

Bully

A {bullhead=n}

A drink made of vodka and bouillon

Least smooth

An open helmet

Most husky

Burry

""A small antelope, also BUSHBUCK""

Bushy

Model held in greatest demand (wordplay)

Buxom

Hardly a main drag

Part of many a detour

Obscure road in town

COURT to {woo=v}

Backdrop

*Source of a halo effect

Defenders cried moving away from front

Slanting away

Sentimental singer

Traditional singer of considerable weight embracing girl briefly

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

Barren

""(Performing Arts / Ballet) Ballet extension of one leg forwards, sideways, or backwards, either once or repeatedly [French, literally: beating]""

Baulky

Beachy

Beechy

Kindly.

""The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.""

Elizabeth should have had this in mind

Elizabeth should have minded this

Girl should have considered

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.

Armstrong, for one

One on two wheels

Many a Beijing commuter

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.""

Bitchy

Most sour-tasting

Most cynical

Most acrid

Relative of boycott.

The Weavers topped it in 1952

Bar in Hollywood

Blasty

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.

Least clear, in a way

Most misty

Superlatively fuzzy

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

Plan to have naughty image (wordplay)

Design for a rude picture (wordplay)

Depressing picture (wordplay)

(Astronomy) a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system Compare redshift

Bluesy

Blurry

Enola Gay device

Aircraft's aiming device

Volatile big shot takes medic on board aerial war contraption

Botchy

Bouncy

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

Most enthusiastic

Type of cereal

Ingredient in pancakes

Flour used in pancakes

Dispute among optimists (wordplay)

Spectacle in "Around the World."

Death in the Afternoon event

Bunchy

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

Meaningless talk

Road in reverse (wordplay)

*Road less traveled

Best seller by Fannie Hurst

Utter perplexity

Total bewilderment

Chaps chasing fox for time in utter bewilderment

Bairnly

Phileas Fogg, for one

One seen in a hanging basket (wordplay)

Party item to sit out, being in the air

Pig out, say, in Dickensian constituency

The exclusion of someone from a country

Exclusive treatment for a political offence

Orchestra member

Certain instrumentalist

Woodwind player

Archer's post

Ghostly hangout in "Hamlet"

Fortified area of a castle

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

Most abominable

A writer of literature

Little Serb turns out to be writer of aesthetic essays

Absent-mindedness

Confusion, bewilderment

Puzzled thoughts

Kind of meat without name at small price

Doing good.

Doing good

Well meaning, kindly

Like an Elk, supposedly

Well-meaning, kindly

Progress in standard of living

Live with Hilary, perhaps, in a tent for gain

How more good men come to tea for improvement