2-Letter Words Starting with C

Courtier

More refined

Action scene (wordplay)

Setting for 'Brief Encounter' (wordplay)

Solicit space for trying suits

Boat for judges (wordplay)

Suitor.s heyday

Bar in front of boat leads to affair

""The area immediately bordering the official court of play, as in tennis or basketball.""

Area surrounded by walls or buildings

Walled-in area

Open-air enclosure attached to a house

Valentino, for one

Christian Dior, for example

Dior or Klein

""A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.""

COVER to spread something over

Insurance options

Mechanic's wear

Mechanic's garment

Handyman's outfit

They're on top of things

COVER to spread something over

Bedspreads

Spreads.

Coverlid

Bit of glass on a microscope slide

Section without deliveries is on the slide

Shelter.

Shelter

Lack of courage

Severe lack of courage

Timidity - lack of courage

Cowinner

Retreat attendees, maybe

Water cooler gatherers

Participants in water cooler chats

Cowrite

Like many screenplays

Like Rodgers/Hart songs

Like Lennon/McCartney songs

Silly conceit or vanity.

Most ill-tempered

Most grouchy

... for a grouch (wordplay)

Lawn-keeper's bane

Problem in suburbia.

Crabmeat

""A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the carb tree.""

English word

Expert depressed by repressive measures

Repressive action taken

Newly appointed disciplinarian's measure

Cracking

Crackly

Very narrow fissure (wordplay)

Sound a vegetarian won't relish

Adjective for a noisy campfire

Cracknel

Be an abusive chef (wordplay)

Partly pixilated people

Their elevators don't go to the top

... joker that breaks in (wordplay)

The burglar works out on the island

Burglar jokes with servant

CRACKS crack

Crafty

Boatyard worker (wordplay)

Skilled sailor (wordplay)

Expert shipwright (wordplay)

Males with manual skills

Males with skill in the manual arts

Manual workers with great skill

Craggy

Cramoisy Crimson.

Crampoon

Type of juice

Thanksgiving Day sauce source

Small red fruit

Cranch

CRANIAL pertaining to the skull

Craniate

Crotchety engine feature (wordplay)

What gets the shaft (wordplay)

Trial of a grouch (wordplay)

Most irritable

Crankle

Crankpin

Crannoge

English word

Crappy

Gambling metaphor for a risky venture

Something determined entirely by chance

It's tough to predict

Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses.

It's utter stupidity to caress most of this

How the crescendo of stupidity, perhaps, leads to such lack or manners

Insensitivity

Cliff goes round tip of west Ireland disfiguring the landscape

Small cavity atop a volcano

Craunch

Craunch

Craven

Crawly

Crawlway

Crayola color action

Kindergarten artist.

Pure bedlam

Tomfoolery, flakiness

Absurd quality shown by unusual size in cars I ignored

Does this drive gardeners loco?

Does this drive gardeners loco (wordplay)

Most dilapidated.

Plant of the Southwest

Calif. poppies

Most smooth, as peanut butter

Richest, as soups

(Of sauce/soup) richest

Off-white pottery

Creasy

Creatine

Reactions to inventions

Designer garments Tories can display

Artworks, for example

Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature.

Elves, reindeer, etc.

Bilbo and Bigfoot

A rest cure arranged for dependants

Beliefs

An article of faith

Dining room furniture

Low cabinets

Sideboards

Believing or trusting

Having faith in.

Ones with IOUs

To whom one owes money

They are owed money

Tendency to believe anything

Willingness to swallow anything

Disposition to believe without sufficient evidence

Sure could become gullible!

Likely to believe

Too ready to believe things

Creepage

Most spine-chilling

Describing a ghost story.

Most unsettling

Creesh

Burning, of a corpse say

Making about a thousand for burning

Burning (of a body)

Disposal of last atom in life (wordplay)

A burning romance somehow holds it back

Cremator

Mortuary furnace

A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.

CRENEL to make indentations in a parapet

Notched, as a battlement

Battlement openings

""Krnlt, Crenulated Minutely crenate.""

Creodont

Creolise

Creolise

Creolize

Creolize

Old drunkard without principles given a coat

The core was in bits, so Edward got it tarred

Treated with a preservative, as telephone poles

Applies wood preservative

Flammable oily liquids

Wood preservatives

Nectar: it's spread around top of pork crackling

Crackling

Make a crackling noise.

Rattle stone that's found outside

What it swallowed at last could be crackling

""Krpss'l, Crepuscule Twilight.""

""Gradually increasing in volume, force, or intensity.""

Growing louder (mus.)

Get high in the music room (wordplay)

Peak of intensity

Aspects of the moon.

See about the smells of the curves

Things shaped like the waxing moon

Cresting

Like the scrub jay

Idiocy

Various countries lacking common sense

Very stupid

Not able to learn? Can, in special course

Cretonne

Crevalle

Having deep fissures.

Perils for polar explorers

Climbers' obstacles

Deep fissures

Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins

Those people on boats kiss local skinhead with T-shirts

Cribbage

Cribbing

Cribwork

Cricetid

Played a bat-and-ball game

Don Bradman or David Gower, say

Wicket-keeper, for one

One striking on the square (wordplay)

Free of lawbreaking

Like paradise, to cops

Like a utopia

Record collectors (wordplay)

Record holders (wordplay)

Ones in joint custody (wordplay)

Charge with an offense

Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous.

Crimpy

Crimple

Boy involved in murder, say, with hand finally this (wordplay)

Ablush.

Having more bends and twists

Crinkle

Councillor in old cord skirt (wordplay)

Does my bum look big in this (wordplay)

Does her bum look big in this (wordplay)

Crippler

Severe, as pain

Severe cold could signal the end of you taking place in Government

It could be financially damaging for Bond holding onto last letters to post

Crispen

Crispy

A quality of new bills.

Potato chip quality

Dry/brittle quality

Swimsuit competition for one

Swimsuit competition for one

Where to play Touchstone (wordplay)

English word

Find fault with

Point out problems or mistakes

Is it Circe who turned to find fault (wordplay)

Trilling's forte.

Analysis and judgment of artistic work

Pulitzer Prize category since 1970

Dress down

Carp

Like academic research, routinely

Dissertations involving analysis and assessment

Croaky

Croceine

Did some needlework

'He, Edward, followed the crocodile in a decorative manner (9)'

CROCHET to work wool or thread with a small hook

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

Essentially, copper is outside entrance to Room 101 with partner

Vitally

Metal-melting vessels

Melting pots

Catholic church upset over books lacking bishop trials

Crucifer

Nailed to a cross

Returned most of fig amid wailing, torments