2-Letter Words Starting with C

Gambling metaphor for a risky venture

Something determined entirely by chance

It's tough to predict

Small cavity atop a volcano

Crawly

Kindergarten artist.

Most dilapidated.

Most smooth, as peanut butter

Richest, as soups

(Of sauce/soup) richest

Creasy

Nectar: it's spread around top of pork crackling

Crackling

Croaky

1 across ordered books for 14 (part 2)

French breakfast food

Buttery bakery buy

""Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant.""

Fiercely competitive - type of razor

Court that misrepresented killer

Merciless fox to hurt cat

In audition, emblem is attached to foremost musician

The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery.

White-hot vessel sinking

Glowing tin going down

Glowing beer container beside slope

Chinese citizens last in boot camp

Military quarters.

Soldiers from city on Pearl River served time in military camp

The Ist one not a communist (wordplay)

Deep-dyed villain, a la Moscow.

Astor, for example

Carroty

Strip artist (wordplay)

Eg, Peter Brookes

Arno or Nast, for example

Central

Advocate of stronger federal government

I concentrate power, as moderate protecting a Liberal

Potter about before armistice arranged

Pot thrower

Certain

Fanatical patriot

Superpatriot.

Staunchly patriotic companion gets gold, plus French wine first

Latin lover, perhaps (wordplay)

Latin lover, probably

Latin or Greek scholar

""CLAVIER an early keyboard instrument, also KLAVIER""

Cleanly

Merging into a single group.

Coming together

Growing together.

CATALYST a substance that speeds a chemical reaction

DOMINANT a controlling genetic character

One sharing living space

Consort making name in Co-Conran creation

Person sharing address that's surprising slightly in odd talk

Military insect (wordplay)

Title for a senior officer, perhaps

Title for a senior officer

Compact

Niels Bohr, to Victor Borge

Fellow countryman

Fellow citizen

Smug, uncritically self-satisfied

'Smug, but comes to a cheap end (10)'

Point for me in remark that's smug

Small colony member (New Hampshire)

Being of the same opinion

"Class, music that is consistent between all instruments is ..

""One who congregates, especially a member of a group of people gathered for religious worship.""

Restriction - in contrast (anagram)

Check criminals before exercise time

Antonym for freedom

Advice-giving insect (wordplay)

Advice-giving insect?

Senior hospital doctor

Competitor cannot broadcast about match

Herb Stempel, notably

One entering a competition

""Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. as, a continuant sound.""

Bond embracing girl? Say it isn't so!

Assert the opposite of (a statement)

No, I'd turn up in what 14 down might do

Au fait (with)

Familiar rascal oddly hiding in nunnery

Acquainted (with).

Having fits of laughter with "clot," "sun" and "van"

Tell against (something)

Work in opposition to

Check work on worktop

Crackly

Rotating part of engine

Auto-engine part

Rotating engine part

End of quote

Dim illumination from tapers, etc

Part of a romantic ambience

Careful

The power or quality of pleasing or delighting; attractiveness: a breezy tropical setting of great charm.

""A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.""

""A plastid that contains pigments other than chlorophyll, usually yellow or orange carotenoids.""

Rene, the prophet (wordplay)

Broken crayon vital for one who makes 3s

First-year law course

Artie Shaw, for one

Woody Allen, for one

Woodwind player (US spelling)

One devoted to matters of the clergy

Partner in crime, perhaps

Often danced around in front of the judge

Oscillation (anagram)

Oscillation (wordplay)

Advocate of a certain foreign policy.

Order (one of ten)

A divine rule

Any of the Decalogue

An advocate of communalism.

Eucharist partaker

COMPARE to scrutinise for similarities

Remark about role in section

Divide into separate sections

Something said about piece or section

One who makes complaint.

Cooperating while in turn stopping grievance

Process of hiding

Place of hiding.

Act of hiding

Naturally associated

Burning together in a common flame.

The act or the process of congealing; congeliation.

Keeping (of something) under control

U.S. policy.

Action of keeping something harmful under control

Pollutant

""CORPORATISE CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

Strengthening; supporting; corroborating.

It carries glucose across the luminal membrane

Role for Geiger?

Role for Geiger (wordplay)

Fraction on calculator opposite number

""A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.""

One believing in divine origin of earth

One believing God made everything

Evolution denier

Malady that passes fast (wordplay)

Terminal cut (anagram) - downsizing

Abridgement, shortening

Specialist in heart disease

Heart specialist

Doctor is one in suit I love to register with first

USA art critic (anagram)

A curt satiric version from Cruikshank

Artist producing comic portraits

Beating faulty machine tests

Mate snitches, may result in a beating

Scolding Bond about messing up his SAT

Lying round; borderong on every side.

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience.""

Musician, like Benny Goodman, say

Goodman or J. Dorsey.

Musician's recital stint broadcast

One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.

""MANAGEMENT The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.""

Early Soviet government department

Miss aromatic stew in food supplies

Maoist racism possibly observable in old-style Soviet department

English word

Getting better sort of home

Gradually recovering health

One recovering from medical treatment

SURFACTANT

English word

Token expletive in defiant response

Strongly-worded reply

Token expletive in aggressive response

GCHQ worker

Code breaker

Codebreaker

Decorative writer

Does he practise strokes in particular waves (wordplay)

Producer of decorative writing a spiral glitch ruined

A belly boy (wordplay)

Belle (wordplay)

One skilled in bell ringing

One who holds the theory or catastrophism.

English word

""CEREMONIAL Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites.""

1998's word: Artist like Rembrandt

Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.

""CLAVICHORD A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord. Clarichord.""

One studying, eg, global warming

Global warming expert's got coal limits resolved

COMMERCIALISE commercial

COMPARATIVE Of or pertaining to comparison.

One who maintains the theory of conceptualism.

Rotterdam, for example

One who traffic illegaly; a smuggler.

CONTRABASSI

One who writes music in the style of Bach, say

English word

""Remedies a procedure that uses radioisotopes of various elements, as iodine, phosphorus, and gold, to treat cancers of the thyroid gland, lungs, and other organs. Cancer""

OPERATIONIST

English word

""A substance, such as glycerol, used to protect cells or tissues from damage during freezing.""

""Classification of organisms based on differences at the biochemical level, especially in the amino acid sequences of common proteins. Also called chemosystematics .""

""A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.""

""A priest hearing, or sitting to hear, confession.""

A greenkeeper (wordplay)

Green satin cover is not to be changed

T.R. was one

One who adheres to a convention or treaty.

Part of a debate

Dialogue between diner waitresses (wordplay)

Debate side

Distractive annoyance

member of church certain a lot's going wrong (17)

One skilled in talking with others

One good at chatting

One good at talking