2-Letter Words Starting with C

Ornamented with crockets.

Alarm clock swallower in "Peter Pan"

Captain Hook's nemesis

Large aquatic reptile

Crocoite

1 across ordered books for 14 (part 2)

French breakfast food

Buttery bakery buy

Cromlech

Cronyism

A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.

Crooked

Honestly, that's not the way to do it

In a bent or twisted manner

Dishonestly, illegally

""Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped.""

Cropland

Croquet

Deep-fried dish

A fried roll of potato

Dish fried in breadcrumbs

What the Delaware was, Christmas, 1776.

Transverse bars.

They connect uprights

Uprights support them

Good field goals go over these

Angry on account of bird (wordplay)

Bird's exact heart (wordplay)

Flier's annoyed with demand for payment

Yields on hybrid weapons

Old-time weapons

William Tell's arsenal

Like designer dogs

Angry b-bloody mongrel

Hybridised

Saws

Telescopic sighting aid

Target-centering aid

Aiming aid

""A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.""

Points of intersection

Transits of Fast and McCarthy

They may be guarded

Crosslet

Asperity

Change one's bank, perhaps

Turncoat perhaps in bad mood at an end

Change one's bank perhaps

Traffic light site, maybe

Place for a stoplight.

Street, vis-a-vis an avenue

Bridge maneuver

Support for a railway.

Railroad sleepers.

Rail supports

Traversing Waltham, say

EastWest in Manhattan.

East-West in Manhattan.

Pedestrian's lane.

Corner-to-corner lines

Pedestrian's lane

Irritable habits of Meredith's girl (wordplay)

Transversely

How the second lawyer to question a witness gets (wordplay)

A blow in anger (wordplay)

Side-blow (wordplay)

Cyclist's woe

Transversely

Transversely.

Contrarily

Angry remark that puzzles (wordplay)

Puzzle (for the intelligent)

What are you doing here (wordplay)

Musical notes equal to two quavers

Quarters notes in music

They are whimsical notes

Out of sorts to a notable extent

Perhaps having a note of anger

Out of sorts, to a notable extent

Squatting

Monte Carlo workers

Las Vegas figures.

Our prices are shocking: we rake it in

Croupy

""Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon.""

""A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; also called crakeberry. Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; also called crakeberry.""

Crowfoot

Without a crown.

Crowstep

Shaped like a cross

Cross-shaped

Vintage Formica cut for use in cathedral maybe

Crumhorn

Crusado

Cruzado

Cruzeiro

Requiring low temperatures

Relating to very low temperatures

Slippery icy conger kept at low temperatures

Cryolite

A surgical instrument used to apply extreme cold to tissues during cryosurgery.

An instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.

CRYOSCOPE an instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.

Cryostat

Cryotron

Starting below ground, this plant is never seedy

Old garment adopted by government leader after call from Moss, say

Code name

A disguised identification, especially for military purposes or in espionage

Snug place for young foxes (wordplay)

Snug enclosed space

Place for keeping bits and bobs

Betrayed at heart, wicked love caught in illicit cuddle

The state of being a cuckold; the practice of making cuckolds.

Cuckoo

Chips off the old block (wordplay)

Ancient writing system

Like Assyrian writing

Cuniform

Pieces of furniture for storage

Places for storing trophies around table

Absurd cop hiding in furniture

Cupola

Curassow

Road block (wordplay)

Part of the street scene.

Part of the sidewalk scene.

Curculio

It killed the cat, in a saying

Something unusual (that killed the cat?)

What killed the cat, in a saying

More strange, to Alice

Maybe doctor takes in personal debts for stranger

Inquisitive types behave so strangely

Not straight about signs of debt, oddly

Oddly, peculiarly

Horse-grooming tool

Hostler's need

Grooming tool

""Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.""

In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.

Eased, as from shock.

Softened and served dish on cue

Ring in copper polished and protected

Aim of many cowboys (wordplay)

Censor's concerns

Taboos around kids

Geezer's invectives

Of confinement - aids clout (anagram)

A sentence to be penned (wordplay)

Relating to a guard or guardian

Protector/guardian (of something)

He takes care to get a discount, perhaps

Keeper of keys

Custody

According to usual practice

See us to the girl in the usual way

Commonly used or practiced

Rituals welcoming the Queen's clients

They're always right, it's said

Shop's clients

Adapt for particular requirements

Heart of 5 replacing 5 in drunken Muscovite tailor

Chop, channel, slam, etc.

Relating to the skin

Of skin

Fiercely competitive - type of razor

Court that misrepresented killer

Merciless fox to hurt cat

Cyanogen

CYCAD a tropical plant

Cyclitol

""Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base. as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base.""

Vast empty city with no place to settle

Gigantic.

Massive

Pictures representing a continuous scene

Pictorial landscape encircling a viewer

Curved wall used as a stage background

Physicist's accelerator

Particle-accelerating machine

Apparatus accelerating particles

Cymbalom

Cymogene

See Chrysoberyl. Chrysoberyl.

Things that strongly attract attention

They provide guidance

Very Big Apple written up in parish priest's objects of admiration

""A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.""

A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.

Cytokine

Any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and growth and delay the senescence of leaves.

""The branch of biology that deals with the formation, structure, and function of cells.""

""Cells the degeneration of cells. ; cytolytic ,""

""A substance, such as an antibody, capable of dissolving or destroying cells.""

""Cells the degeneration of cells. ; cytolytic ,""

The dissolution or destruction of a cell.

Cell stuff

Cytosine

CYTOSOL the fluid portion of cell material

""Of, relating to, or producing a toxic effect on cells.""

A substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells.

Horsemen, in the Southwest

Horsemen on the rancho

Men of La Mancha

Their horses are in front, running a bit closer

Carriages

Italian cooking style

Prepared with tomatoes, mushrooms and herbs

Account on agency model in essence is prepared Italian-style

Cacodemon

Bad handwriting or spelling, as any fule kno

Ring-tailed cat

Resembling a corpse

Haggard rogue has to swear nothing to us

Thin and bony like a corpse

English word

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany growing in dense tufts [from New Latin caespitōsus, from caespitem turf]""

Dual-purpose room in a school

Scrambling on crag's rim - here (wordplay)

National park with Britain's only herd of reindeer

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

Cajolery

Lockups.

Stirs

Pens

The DI's aster is blooming awful

Dreadful alternative to a musical

Catastrophic changes to a musical

+Tangerinelike Philippine fruit

""Partaking of the nature ofcalcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containg, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.""

Calcicole

""One of the forms of vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets. It is an unsaturated alcohol, C28H43OH found in foods such as milk and fish liver oils. It is used as a dietary supplement in milk.vitamin D, a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets. It is an unsaturated alcohol, C28H43OH found in foods such as milk and fish liver oils. It is used as a dietary supplement in milk.""

CALCINE to reduce to a calx by heating

CALCINE to reduce to a calx by heating

""A peptide hormone, produced by the thyroid gland in humans, that lowers plasma calcium and phosphate levels without augmenting calcium accretion. Also called thyrocalcitonin .""

A collar cut off for summer (wordplay)

The button counter (wordplay)

Arithmetician's gadget

Zodiacal adjustor (wordplay)

Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.

Callous

Bid one's spades over West, showing immaturity

""A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells that affects the activity of many calcium-sensitive enzymes, including those involved in muscular contraction.""

Calorize

Restaged opera primarily unmusical? That's defamatory

Calvados

Modern devices for home movies

Old name for the giraffe

Old mammal arrived with another short of energy

Obsolete word for a giraffe

Cardinal who is the papal treasurer

Camisado

English word

English word

Disguise (from enemy)

Hide male in a foul cage after beating

Means of disguise

Campesino

Place to erect a tent

Only common word in the English language with the consecutive letters MPG

Treat with a type of insect-repellent

""Having a spongy or porous stracture; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones. as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.""

It may be burned for light

Connecticut lake resort.

It's burned for light

Given spin, fair stuff (wordplay)

Light, fluffy confection of spun sugar

Fairground's pink confection

""The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larv\'91 are also called cankerworms.""

""A nonpsychoactive chemical constituent of cannabis, C 21 H 26 O 2 , from which THC forms.""

Literally, "large reeds"

Cylindrical stuffed pasta

Nine on call, cooking Italian food

""CANNONADE The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; usually, an attack of some continuance.""

Reportedly, churchman assists shelling

Noises to greet the Fourth.

Sound of repetitive music boosts artillery attacks

Dive done with the arms around the knees

Way to make a big splash

Civil War missile.

Cannoneer

Cannonry

Canoness

""The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when oficiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.""

The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

Canonise

Putting on a pedestal

Kissing and cuddling

CANOROUS {melodic=adj}

Hasn't a way to run away?

Hasn't a way to run away (wordplay)

Fruit worker gangster forced into car

Cantaloup

Chinese citizens last in boot camp

Military quarters.

Soldiers from city on Pearl River served time in military camp

Pure rubber.

Charge holders

Electrical devices

Condensers

Caparison

Payment per head

Memorable mention about a prince introducing poll-tax

Beginners' alphabet in wording under diagram could be taxing

Caponize

Sounds like Al's hat (wordplay)

Frothy coffee drink

Type of coffee

Capriccio

Island with many debts is undependable

Arbitrary and inconsistent

Island with many debts is unstable

Capriole

Caption

In a faultfinding way

CAPTIVATE To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

Captopril

Foreign policeman in vehicle with a large but not good emperor

A Spanish or South American frontier guard or customs official

Caracole

Caracol

Carambola

Carbachol

Carbanion

Carbazole

Carbonade

Carbonado

Carbonara

Fizzy, as a soft drink

Like some beverages.

Fizzy element consumed by daughter

Carbonate