2-Letter Words Starting with C

Cause of some charley horses

Arnold's leg woe, or a speed-solver's wrist woe (wordplay)

Starting an ancient auto

""An artificial island, also CRANNOG""

Ancient lake dwellings of Ireland or Scotland.

Crap

Char's gin (anagram)

Collapsing suddenly, as the stock market

Total going down

Intense desires

Great desires evident in Conservative gibberish (wordplay)

Desires

Action of baby, naked, to hug clothes

Moving along the ground slowly

Creeping slowly along the ground

Giving away an intruder, maybe

Sounding like a loose floorboard

Sounding like old floor boards

Defeating soundly

Making folds

Is the crescendo getting slack in the fold (wordplay)

Folding

Establishing credit, being a consumer

Bringing into being

Bringing into existence

Creel

Oozing

Moving on hands and knees

Kind of juniper

Like ground ivy

Reaching the highest point

At its peak

Rising, as a flood

Key capture at the end of the card game

Card game for two to four players

Popular card game.

Plagiarising or complaining

Action taboo at West Point

Relying on a cheat sheet

Crick

Prioritising economy, dismissing son and making waves

They obviously show fear

They show timidity about the doubles

Reacting to an awkward moment, perhaps

Wincing in fear or embarrassment

Reacting to an awkward hug

Cringle

Making brittle

Browning

Sounding like a frog

Making frog noise

Going west and not really caring - OK (wordplay)

Crock

Making a bend in

Bending

Singing Sinatra at karaoke, say

Singing a la Michael Buble

Singing like Bing Crosby

Cutting off short

Letter in two puzzle words, maybe

Ferry ride, say

Pelican perhaps going over the water

Pressing too closely

Gathering together in large numbers

Overfilling with people

Putting a cap on (wordplay)

Part of a royal enthronement ceremony

Credit with having the very best

Crud

Aboard the QE2, perhaps

See are you the one I serenade at sea

Meeting no resistance

Dusting off the dinner table.

Crump

Violently subduing (opposition)

It was originally done by foot

Putting down note in a hurry

Becoming corroded under carbon coating

Losing liquidity

In a crying manner

Freezing mixtures

Refrigerants

Study of low temperatures

Getting close and comfy

Hugging, embracing affectionately

Hugging, nestling

Beat with a heavy stick.

One that {cudgels=v}

Cully

""A variety of plant originating under cultivation, also CULTIVAR""

Cunning

Cupel

Cupping

Curbing

Congealing

Curling

Curragh

Groom's work is preparing Indian stew

Grooming in Indian cooking

Give the lawn the coup de gras, perhaps

Poem by Philip Larkin

15 across

Cuttage

Pieces of plant for propagation

Collage material

Cuttle

Nancy takes ego trip, which is lethal

Compound of carbon and nitrogen forming an essential ingredient of Prussian blue

Cycling

""A variety of squash, also CYMLIN, CYMLING, SIMLIN""

Cymling

A volatile compound

The formation of cells

Study of plant and animal cells

Cell study

Cabal

Cabbage

Ancestor of a fax

Telegraphed message

Overseas message

Cabotage

Cachet

Cadence

Holds to an opinion about duration of life for birds in aviary

""CAGEY shrewd, also CAGY""

Quartz variety

A plant that does not grow well in lime-rich soil.

Calcine

Callus

Camber

Cambogia

Presses the flesh

Takes the stump

Political moments of semi-truth

Campus

Canal

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Canker

Cannon

Canopy

Providing fast food around the North

Is 'e unable to phone at speed (wordplay)

Is 'e unable to phone in a hurry (wordplay)

Canton

Canvas

Caprifig

Fitting hats (wordplay)

Fitting hats?

Turning over headwear before measuring

Capsule

Portraying very well

Captain, you get around to what's catching

Caragana

Carageen

Carangid

They have pockets for cigars and change

Halves of twinsets

Sweaters with buttons

Tossing from side to side

This could become very upsetting, e'en in such a worrying way

Going full tilt

Calling over the gin, out of control

Rushing wildly

Live-in nurse, perhaps

Many an in-home helper

Treating with fondness.

Worries start 5 down with love

Treating with kindness

Soho seasonal singing

Singing Christmas hymns

Singing at 7 across

Reveler's activity

Many awakening us with their 28 across

Heading for a hangover

Mid-1800s luggage

Luggage of the 1800s

Piece of luggage

Covering darling in fond embrace

Concerned about sweetheart dressing down

End of the quip

CARPING the act of one who {carps=v}

Mini modified genera of seaweed

Purplish-red, edible seaweed

Purplish-red North Atlantic seaweed

Gigs and cabriolets

Victoria and clarence.

Coaches affected airs and graces endlessly

Carrom

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Carton

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

Descending in steps

Flowing like a waterfall over rocks

Emulating a waterfall

Caseate

Casefy

Casket

Criticise cold wine scandal (wordplay)

Chastise - tacit sage (anagram)

Reprimand, showing players one way out

Listed

Librarian, at times

List maker

Library-user's aid

Mail-order item

Librarian's concern

Positive cat is to go in Eric's custody

Without exception included in a class

Unambiguously direct

CATFACE a deformity of fruit

Catfight

Caucus

Caulking

""(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol a burning sensation along the course of a peripheral nerve together with local changes in the appearance of the skin [from New Latin, from Greek kausos fever + -algia ]""

CAUSAL a word expressing cause or reason

Caveat

Cavern

Cavil

Larking about in underground activity? Nothing right in that

Gamboling

Unsteady diligence having an upper limit

Charge for storing (wine?)

Certain storage charge

Cost of storing wine

Cellar

What C might be doing on Crete (wordplay)

Making secure

That's got C on Crete, just to make it hard

Having a vet remove something

Hays office job

Denying free speech

Reprimanding, rebuking formally

Blaming a number before making sure

Reprimanding, rebuking

Census

Adjusting an axis to normal position

Moving away from the sides

Metric-system unit

That grate of mine carries little weight

Approximate weight of a grain of sand

Very little money distresses utterly Dome's supporters

Feeling humiliation, dispersed in charge by Duke

Put out

Upset

""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of the elements oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, or polonium, of group 6A of the periodic table [from chalco ( pyrite ) + -gen ]""

Dispute (a statement)

Question truth of - dare

Dare to raise an objection

Chammy

It's the wine talking - fake anguish!

Holiday sparkler (wordplay)

Symbol of luxurious living.

University town in east central Illinois

Victor contrived gain in old country

Hospital used during manoeuvres in open country

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.

Chantage

Chasse

Chaunt

Chelate

Dress requiring cash - men go wild

Chinese dress with split skirt

Oriental dress hems can go crooked

Sophisticated article on gin cocktail leads to old form of cheating

Chigetai

Frank-and-beans concoctions

Stadium fare topped with meat and beans

Stadium snacks

CHISEL to use a cutting tool

Small intestines of pigs prepared as food

Pestering (someone to do something)

CHOKING choke

Sophistic, involved argumentation

Overly complicated argumentation

One who bandies words Shakespeare.

Laughing gleefully

Embrace, hugging king in passionate laughter

Chuckling

CHORUS to sing in unison

Chroming

Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

Little Charlie having a laugh

Charles and Heather are obviously amused

Throw the fish away with a laugh

Drinks in one gulp

Church

Churning

& 9 Smoking accommodation (wordplay)

Not a patch on wanting one (wordplay)

Smoke under fire.

Small tobacco product

Small roll of tobacco

Crushed garlic oil can be smoked

""Poisoning caused by ingesting fish contaminated with ciguatoxin, characterized by gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms.""

Cinder

CINGULA cingulum

Cipher

Citify

Cladding

""A branching, treelike diagram in which the endpoints of the branches represent specific species of organisms. It is used to illustrate phylogenetic relationships and show points at which various species have diverged from common ancestral forms.""

Clamor

Clangor

Clangour

Claught

Claver

Incline to do wrong in the wash

Comet's purpose

Like a nice soak

Open forest areas

Settlements of differences of accounts.

Places where it's sunny

Type of moth

Diamond fragments

Splits

Being tight-fisted (wordplay)

Is he in a service industry (wordplay)

My clanger about the vicar (wordplay)

Person of the cloth

Cloth workers (wordplay)

Revs may have them in masses 99)

Spiritual leaders of a Christian Church

State of being client.

Reaching the top

Coming to a conclusion

Clinch

Most tenacious

Scrapbook fodder

Removed articles

Perhaps it's beating that has them all in bits

Cloggy

Shutting up hard by the metal G

Hard by the tin - Gee, that's shutting up!

Cooping up

Closure

Acts of pulling on threads (wordplay)

Cloture