2-Letter Words Starting with C

A restricted chicken (wordplay)

Fowl with head covered (wordplay)

Chicken wearing hat (wordplay)

Shade of blue Colloq.

Write with another, as a novel

Shade of blue, for short.

Tramp filmed rejecting hospital fish

A fungicide

Did he have meat in with sand (wordplay)

Karate blow, popular for one who scored

Sand man (wordplay)

Newspaper clipping, perhaps

Paper clip (wordplay)

It might get you two for one

Agent in trick to supply material

Crinkled fabric

Jesuitic flower (wordplay)

Wild flower (red, white or bladder)

Writer Allingham's sleuth.

""A small edible fish, also CAPELIN, CAPLIN""

Northern sea fish

Smelt

Turner's for drawing painter, perhaps

One used to reel on deck (wordplay)

Ship's cable drum.

Team leader, perhaps

Lead (a team)

Kangaroo's title (wordplay)

'Pontiac hit by 1 across', say

Photo ID (wordplay)

Photo copy (wordplay)

Johnny a.k.a. Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed's name.

Graham of Monty Python

Chapman

Caught bird eating parrot? Disgrace!

Lessen the value of

Degrade (something)

Streaked Italian marble.

Italian marble.

A shallow depression in clay

""The last prayer of the day, also COMPLINE""

Climber's sole aid (wordplay)

Ice-climber's boot attachment

Climbing aid on boot

Make crunchy

Third-century martyred saint

Nicosia native

Wanton

Seek office, perhaps

Promotional operation, perhaps political

(E.g. military, political) project

Glove leather from goats

South African leather

Soft leather

A liquid used as a flavoring

Franciscan friar - cha in cup (anagram)

Monk - monkey - china cup (anagram)

Friar; cloak and hood

""A bodily chemical, also KEPHALIN""

Support (a cause)

Back the winner (wordplay)

Cup holder? ("Macbeth")

Car-phone (anagram)

Older prom attendee (var.)

Broken car phone in Escort

Member of the clergy, in 24 ac say

For a clergyman providing tea is obvious

Tea taken with simple clergyman

Publisher's imprint

Publisher's emblem

Publisher's distinguishing mark

Beef, grouse or carp (wordplay)

Beef (or grouse?)

Express a grievance

Introduction of someone new in shop, one into fashion

A fellow patron

First-aid giver

Certain soldier or sailor.

Army medic

Army medics

""A device for raising heavy objects, also CRAMPET""

Journal on which connecting rod rides (5,3)

Small-ball bowling target

Target for some keglers

*Boston bowler's target

Perhaps dressages for the horses

Read about a capital way to dress well

Rich cloth laid over a warhorse

""A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity. Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.""

Any of various proteolytic enzymes found in animal tissue that catalyze the hydrolysis of proteins into polypeptides.

University town in east central Illinois

Victor contrived gain in old country

Hospital used during manoeuvres in open country

Chestnut tree Var.

Chestnut tree variable

""A platinum-containing chemotherapeutic drug, Cl 2 H 6 N 2 Pt, used in the treatment of metastatic ovarian or testicular cancers and advanced bladder cancer.""

Get a grip (wordplay)

Attempt at suppression

Attempt to suppress something

Continental title

Mate (maybe of honour!)

Person who lives or travels with you

One of the gang

Vast empty city with no place to settle

Gigantic.

Massive

Payment per head

Memorable mention about a prince introducing poll-tax

Beginners' alphabet in wording under diagram could be taxing

""A semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin, C 16 H 17 N 3 O 4 S, used especially in the treatment of respiratory and urinary tract infections.""

Advocate eats good northern mushroom

Small edible mushroom often found in a fairy-ring

Dejected fellow killed in battle

A man dropped will naturally be dejected

Weary to an extreme.

Dwarf chestnut tree found in eastern USA

A number supporting feature as tree

Dwarf chestnut tree of eastern USA with edible nuts

""Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen. Chapfallen.""

Line item (wordplay)

It's left hanging on the line

It may hold up your shorts

""The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.""

CHAMPION to defend or support

""The act of making compact, or the state of being compact.""

French parallel (wordplay)

Assessment of differences

Act of examining resemblances

Way finder with an atom of sympathy

Feeling the needle a tiny bit

Common love and desire invoke pity

Final stage of property purchase

Describes closure for Finnish state

Finish last of all in contest, not exactly what is looked for

Skin's tone and texture

Albinos have a light one

Appearance of mental condition I will take on

Subjection to force.

Strong irrational impulse

It's usually irresistible

Idea (maybe leading to baby)

Fusion of gametes

What a type of pill can prevent? The idea!

Fit of anger

Tantrum

Reproductive intercourse, how fun!

Focus of muckraker journalists

Dishonesty, altering prior count

Rotten nature

Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.

""Greek Mythology A sea nymph who delayed Odysseus on her island, Ogygia, for seven years.""

Enchantment

A semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin having a broad spectrum of antibiotic activity that is administered parenterally and used especially to treat systemic infections caused by susceptible microorganisms.

""Any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.""

President reformed prisoner after tea

Committee head, feminist style

*Board meeting VIP

Same as chiropter.chiropter.

Insect having hard or horny forewings

Rival prize crossword (wordplay)

The life of trade.

Final part of the chance card

At the Close of a Century, for Stevie Wonder, for example

Anthology

Some notes for an essay

Character study, perhaps

Make-up - essay

Forced reduction in volume (of gas)

Process of being forcibly condensed

Act of forcing together

I'm feeling sorry for wordplay in cryptic not comic setting

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

Eating disorder

Wasting disease

Tuberculosis

Device torn apart in explanatory text

Strange machine

Unnamed object #1

Work done together

Group action

Common effort

Mythology

Officer almost into rebuilding firm

Large company gathering in a root crop

City body; paunch

A plan intended to counter or oppose another plan.

It's God's own work to keep mine from crackling

Crackling.

""Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having transparent, gelatinous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming. Also called comb jelly .""

""The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel.""

A decoration using cusps.

Film set worker

CAPACITATE To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Natural environment

Surrender

""An oily colorless liquid, CCl 3 NO 2 , that causes skin, lung, and mucous membrane irritation and is used in tear gas and in dyestuffs, disinfectants, insecticides, and soil fumigants. Also called nitrochloroform .""

A pancreatic digestive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain proteins in the small intestine into polypeptides and amino acids.

Mutual adaption.

Style of address or salutation; an appellation.

Award for, eg, injury

Redress main cost with open payout

Minnesota cop rigged damages

A. Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite.

Difficulty produced by aggravation of illness

Difficulty

""The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

He's impressed by this (wordplay)

Compulsory enlistment

Service requirement to study text no one recalled

Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose; conspiracy.

Difficulty going on after Ascot tip in racing

It's treated by gastroenterologists, strangely, not opticians

Coproduct

Familiar with many cultures

Liberal and worldly, or a cocktail

Citizen of the world

A craftsman or a craftswoman.

Like a loud brass band that's out of practice

""The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.""

""Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development.""

""Any of a class of chemical substances, some of which have therapeutically useful antibacterial activity, whose structure contains a beta-lactam ring fused to a six-membered ring containing a sulfur and a nitrogen atom. The first of the series, cephalosporin C, was discovered by G. Brotzu in 1955 in the culture broth of a Cephalosporium species found off the coast of Sardinia. Other cephalosporins have been found to be produced by species of soil bacteria (actinomycetes). Many semisynthetic analogs have been tested for antibacterial effect, and several of them have found use as important clinically useful antibacterial agents, some of which may be taken orally for treatment of bacterial infections. The cephalosporins are the second class of beta-lactam antibiotic to be discovered, the first being the penicillins and more recent classes being the thienamycins and sulfazecins. The cephamycins are a variant of cephalosporins with a methoxyl group on the beta-lactam ring, rendering them more resistant to penicillinases. Among the cephalosporins which have been found clinically useful are cephalexin, cephaloridine, and cephalothin.cephalosporin C, was discovered by G. Brotzu in 1955 in the culture broth of a Cephalosporium species found off the coast of Sardinia. Other cephalosporins have been found to be produced by species of soil bacteria (actinomycetes). Many semisynthetic analogs have been tested for antibacterial effect, and several of them have found use as important clinically useful antiba

A blood glycoprotein to which copper is bound during transport and storage.

(Chemistry) an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds

""A conjugated protein, such as hemoglobin, that contains a pigmented prosthetic group, such as heme.""

""CHAIRPERSON the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; -- same as chair{3} or chairman{1}, but used to achieve a sex-neutral register.chair{3} or chairman{1}, but used to achieve a sex-neutral register.""

Capacity of under-standing

Grasp - knowledge

Perception

'Sages leave your --s' (carol)

Thinker's forte

Long and thoughtful observation

Mechanism blocked by church (wordplay)

Gubbins the church brought in for limiting population

See ACTH .

See cycloalkane .

It makes letters bigger

The physiological response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus.

Cautious behaviour

Caution, prudence

Maybe representative of sons, green crops supplied

A placing over against; opposite position.

See ACTH .

An inscription written around anything.

The grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate.

""COMPUTERIZE to provide with computers; as, Our office is fully computerized now.as, Our office is fully computerized now.""

English word

Noun (-tion)

Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii.