2-Letter Words Starting with C

It's used to purify a swimming pool

Pale green gas

PS This follows periodically

Green stone

Member of a certain biological phylum

Vertebrate, for example

Having vertebrae.

Crime writer's serial killer

"Death on the Nile" author

'Agatha..., crime writer (8)'

Salt of an acid.

Salt of a certain acid.

Compound of element #24

A tropical fish

A chromium ore

""To chrome, also CHROMISE""

Guide famous old orator to Tyneside

A guide supplied by rice cone, strangely

Guide for sightseers

Belt for senior officer? Possibly true

Generalissimo with true twist of belt

Surrounding border.

19th century carriage

Thomas in court

Mr. Mulford, creator of Hopalong.

Earth's additional weapon (wordplay)

Two-edged broadsword

About to put down extra weapon

Pottery

To admire together

Arrogant bird? Yes!

Positively crowing (wordplay)

Describing a certain bird (wordplay)

Cobble together

To derive jointly

To endure together

Involving intimidation, say

Pressurising old chap about cooked rice

Having power to restrain by force

An arrangement of locks

Hairdo, if of curls dipped in restorer

Sassoon job

Stick together as indicated by ticket machine (wordplay)

Share a policy's risk

Share a policy

Pressure surrounding midsummer trade

Business award in force

Home of L.A. Poker Classic*

Friend (from Spanish)

Friend, come detail father

Close to forehand in set against friend

Include Charlie, replacing semi-pro

Include Conservative promise broken

Include free ticket? That's a deception

""To include or contain, also COMPRISE""

Mason's material

Real cold on Greek isle

It's definitely in the mix

Badge wearer, perhaps

Recipient of an academic degree

Award winner

Stir brother (wordplay)

Stir brother?

Tory Right blocking liberal colleague

Protect (from damage)

Save (eg energy)

Forestall a shortage, perhaps

Plot together - on prices (anagram)

High point of a skyline

Join a cabal

Read - trounces (anagram)

Recounts so as to interpret or explain

Explain the sense

Scottish loughery, perhaps (wordplay)

Chastened tot - nicer maybe as a result

Saying 'Sorry,' say

Does one man age like this (wordplay)

Bring about; successfully manage

How to manage to get the cot riven

Tend to meet at a point

Meet criminal grass at side of road

Meet criminal by the roadside

Talk of being contrary!

Talk about 22 down (wordplay)

Discuss poetry in prison (wordplay)

Pots and pans and such

Pots and pans

Kitchen utensils

One of two princes ruling jointly

To use a tow rope to tow a boat

Like a cord

To place in mutual relation

Like cork

Like a corm

Breakfast item, sometimes

Brazilian dessert delicacy

BREAKFAST ITEM

Cliff-side road

Cliff-face coastal road

Road along a cliff

A part of an aphid

To rotate together

Stingray, for one

Chevy muscle car

Sports car introduced in 1953

Member of a ballet corps

Ballet dancer, especially one who leads a ballet.

Dance with running steps

Court dance of the 16th century

Old French dance

100 too old for insurance (wordplay)

Treatment (of an issue by the media)

Treatment for man's madness

(Of movement) sideways

Curve lifted over web is turned sideways

Occasionally cars at BMW did skew sideways

Type of animal.

Having a skull

""An artificial island, also CRANNOG""

Supplement used by bodybuilders

Powder supplement for bodybuilders

Bodybuilder's supplement

Kind of accounting

Make fuss about tea time is innovative

Like some differences

Life's little pleasures!

Habit adherer, maybe

Habit devotee, maybe

Something lent (wordplay)

Faith or belief placed in something

Belief; type of table

Trustworthy (unlike Bruce Banner)

Like something to believe in

Having a ring of truth

Oozing

Embrasure in a battlement.

Frenchman in ghastly cell finds gap in castle wall

Coat on a tie (wordplay)

Oily, smelly wood preservative

Chimney cleaner's target

Increasing

Cotton fabric being worn, new in island

Fabric used for upholstery

Fabric once rent needs repair

Fla. food fish

Ground rent at high level (wordplay)

Sever sac (anagram)

Rent at a high level (wordplay)

Key capture at the end of the card game

Card game for two to four players

Popular card game.

""Curled, also CRISPATED""

""Having a projection on the head, also CRISTATED""

Point out the pluses and minuses of

Nearly plagiarise quite freely in review

Review, as an article

""A red dye, also CROCEIN""

A mineral

Beam for rails (2 words)

Part of a railroad track

Transverse railroad timber

Odd bits to unclip in box, like a cross

Shaped like a cross, as ligaments in the knee

Erica cut loose piece arranged like a cross

Snooker hot spot (wordplay)

Shaun Murphy reached meltdown here!

Melting pot or pots here (wordplay)

Forming a thin brittle crust

Sodium-aluminum fluoride

The earliest source of aluminium

Mineral extractable from Tyrol ice

""Cubical content, also CUBAGE""

Sharp edged and pointed

A poisonous alkaloid

""To poison with curare, also CURARISE""

Well, that's the way to make one

Restoring to health

Restoring to health.

Able to be reined in

Place to leave your recycling

Trash pickup spot

Kind of spiral ornamental line

Fancy curve in handwriting

Scribe's flourish

A fancy twist or curl

Light racing carriage

Two-wheeled carriage

Might rice curl with such carriage (wordplay)

Old pickpocket - true cups (anagram)

Pickpocket - set up cru (anagram)

Give new order to put inside evil thief

Object of great interest.

Center of attraction

Centre of attraction

Sunstroke, in medical parlance.

Adjust (gauge for accuracy)

Determine the capacity of

Mark a scale to use in taking readings

Thicket of a sort

Bamboo thicket

Southern thicket

CARBAMATE

The technical name for urea.

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Dyeing) a colourless insoluble solid obtained from coal tar and used in the production of some dyes. Formula: C 12 H 9 N Also called diphenylenimine [daɪˌfiːnaɪˈlɛnɪmiːn] CARBONADE (Cookery) a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer""

(Cookery) a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer

Add bubbles to

To make soda water.

Add fizz to

To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

Large pimple on face or neck

Sort of boil; a gem

Stone from eruption

CARBURISE

To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

CARESS to touch lovingly

A betaine commonly occurring in the liver and in skeletal muscle that functions in fatty acid transport across mitochondrial membranes.

T. Rex, for one

Tip of rhubarb? No, I crave tripe!

Lion or tiger, for example

An ore of uranium

""A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.""

CARTEL a business organization

CARTEL a business organization

Flexible connective tissue

Connective tissue of the human body

Kind of bone

Oblong in Egyptian hieroglyphs

Tablet in scroll form

Any scroll-shaped ornament.

Credit rag (anagram)

Sort of paper-round (wordplay)

Sort of paper round (wordplay)

Dish (served in a dish of the same name)

Dish for bad loser in lawsuit (wordplay)

Church-supper dish

""A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.""

Cathedra

Burn, as a wound

Burn with a hot iron

Sear with a corrosive

Have a party, say

Mark (a birthday)

Publicly praise (someone)

Charge for storing (wine?)

Certain storage charge

Cost of storing wine

""One of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of nine triplet microtubules, which form the asters during mitosis.""

Cercaria

Have an idea

Think hard

Just think how to get the beer into the crate

A feeling of conviction, given rectitude

You can't predict the weather with this

Feeling of surety

""Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.""

Parent at the prom, say

Teacher at a dance, say

Guardian could be no cheaper

Did Bates report her quarrel (wordplay)

Queen of puddings (wordplay)

She's a tart - but deep!

A satin-finished silk fabric.

A foot covering of any kind.

Head of hair

Red squirrel named for the sound it makes

Gift for the second wedding anniversary.

Chopsticks (wordplay)

Feature informed on Delft art

An acnelike skin disorder caused by prolonged exposure to chlorinated hydrocarbons.

""A colorless, odorless, viscous liquid, C 10 H 6 Cl 8 , used as an insecticide. It may be toxic to humans and wildlife as a result of its effect on the nervous system.""

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

""A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites. chondrites.""

""Pl. chronaxies The minimum interval of time necessary to electrically stimulate a muscle or nerve fiber, using twice the minimum current needed to elicit a threshold response.""

Account of important events

(Make a) historical record

Narrative description of past events

Form a scar

& 9 Smoking accommodation (wordplay)

Not a patch on wanting one (wordplay)

Smoke under fire.

""Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.""

Move around (at a function)

Move around (at a party)

Make to go round, in a curve perhaps

Cisterna

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.

Like easy high jump settings

Official permission (for an action)

Eviction from lands

Right of passage

'Ride a ......... to Banbury Cross'

Ride it 2 across, by the sound of it (wordplay)

'Ride a . . . . . . . . . from Banbury Cross'

CULTURE to cultivate

Not totally unyielding

FEATURE to present prominently

Study secures present church agreement

Make what you mean clear with this

Sticking together once cheer erupted

Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.

Like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.

Naval rank junior to rear-admiral

Star Trek bigwig

Perry's title

Tranquillity of old city shown in design

State of calmness

Write about ancient city's tranquillity

Porter, caretaker (esp. Fr.)

Residential block porter

Doorkeeper, in France

Route to prison (wordplay)

Way to prison (wordplay)

Large area in, eg, railway station

Conferva

Set up company with new person

Set up argument against human form

Assemble, as a computer system

Fruit preserves

Prison record keeper (wordplay)

Enlist new son, symbol of 8, into church

There's a barrel of work for one in this

17 across after C comes from here

Where to buy kegs

Be one of a team of surgeons (wordplay)

How surgeons work together (wordplay)

Act jointly with others.

PRODUCE to bring into existence

A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Like many reefs

Pinky knackered in the middle

Type of atoll composition.

A sculptured basket of flowers or fruits used as an architectural ornament.

Elusive grassland bird

Bird with rasping cry

Secretive grassland bird

""Krllt, Corollated Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla.""

Like Bonds in business (wordplay)

Kind of takeover

Relating to a large group; united

White or red

Cruel cops sabotaged cell

Component of blood

Corrosive.

Make a connection between (things)

Do a statistician's job

One of a pair

Caustic about Ivor's broken heart

Caustic and destructive

Destroying by chemical action

Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.

New drug for arthritis.

Steroid developed nice torso

Miraculous new remedy for arthritis.

Gleam in flashes

Sparkle as American chap in central part

Glance confusing to accuser

""Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.""

A joint trustee.

Variety of marrow

Zucchini is its American equivalent

Small green vegetable

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

COVER to spread something over

Shelter.

Shelter

Lack of courage

Severe lack of courage

Timidity - lack of courage

Cramoisy Crimson.

Crotchety engine feature (wordplay)

What gets the shaft (wordplay)

Trial of a grouch (wordplay)

Off-white pottery

""Krnlt, Crenulated Minutely crenate.""

Make a crackling noise.

Rattle stone that's found outside

What it swallowed at last could be crackling

""Krpss'l, Crepuscule Twilight.""

Charge with an offense

Councillor in old cord skirt (wordplay)

Does my bum look big in this (wordplay)

Does her bum look big in this (wordplay)

Find fault with

Point out problems or mistakes

Is it Circe who turned to find fault (wordplay)

Dress down

Carp

Alarm clock swallower in "Peter Pan"

Captain Hook's nemesis

Large aquatic reptile

Deep-fried dish

A fried roll of potato

Dish fried in breadcrumbs

What the Delaware was, Christmas, 1776.

Transversely

Transversely.

Contrarily

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

Flimsy cord around basket material

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

An instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.

Road block (wordplay)

Part of the street scene.

Part of the sidewalk scene.