2-Letter Words Starting with C

Checked out (the joint)

Considered for a job (wordplay)

Looked for escape routes from, say

The outer protein coat of a mature virus

Plant-feeding bug

Virus' protein shell

Didn't deposit, perhaps

Left the tables for the night, with "in"

Led a sure winner

Put in a barrel

Effected by force

Was responsible for

Set in motion

Relieved after cold ended

A number relaxed and stopped

Came to a close

Put the kibosh on

Burned in a thurible

Used a thurible on

Taxed in Britain

Appalling cad - and he's run after!

Put to flight.

Tried to catch

Muggy day clinched the sale (wordplay)

Sign of the holidays (wordplay)

Is not open or shut (wordplay)

Battered fish she accepted

Hit with a blackjack

Blackjacked, London style.

Got comfortable, British style

In the budget

Figured the price of

Estimated the price of

Uttered imprecation, swore

Placed a hex on

Under an evil spell.

Pointed, as a crescent moon

Pointed, as teeth

Having a pointed end

Another term for a canine

Canine with a white coat

One of a human quartet

Talked a blue streak (wordplay)

Swore up and down (wordplay)

Shouted oaths at

Having a casque

Saved the king, maybe

Players went ahead and moved two men

Made a two-in-one move, in a way

""A tapeworm, also CESTODE""

Having a chasm

Performed a ballet step

Did a gliding dance step

Cheese

Barrel attachment (wordplay)

Controlled with the torso, as a soccer ball

Chouse

Chowse

{varicose=adj}

Geometric curve

Locked horns (with)

Didn't match, colorwise

Contended they didn't go together

Laid hold of

Took one's hand

Held cap with sled out of control

Put in place in school (wordplay)

Sorted or rated

Put in a category

Was powerless to proceed (wordplay)

Went downhill, perhaps

Kept going on acquired momentum

Top player tucked into fish and fruit

Apple that's about starfish

Apple company's almost sluggish

Hunted with hounds.

Moved like a river

Ran, as a stream

One steer here (wordplay)

Dismayed, keeping quiet in farm building

Shelter for cattle

Gone broke (wordplay)

Froze, as a computer

Surprised at the party

Doubled up after credit was relaxed!

Folded a line into, say

Crumpled - red case (anagram)

With plume on helmet

Describing titmice, flycatchers, etc.

Reached a high stage, as a flood

Pan-fried, as pancetta

Added crunch to

Like rice in some cereal treats

Emulated a chicken, perhaps

Frustrated, that's what a mule is!

See previous clue

Rode with the Rangers?

Rode with the Rangers (wordplay)

Took a trip of a sort.

Like some garlic and egos

Ruined vintage got rid of

Employed a pestle

Like most pies

Least refined

Hard-covered

Creme brulee, for one

Pie that may be an eyeful (wordplay)

Sweet sauce of eggs and milk

""A cyst-like structure, also CYSTID""

Designating an animal's head in heraldry.

Place for a pickup line (wordplay)

Spot for a Checker (wordplay)

Where business is picking up (wordplay)

Like globetrotters' feet (wordplay)

Like globetrotters' feet?

Campus

Covered with a coarse cloth

Overturned (in the water)

Overturned in water

(Of a boat) turned over

Capsule

Had a stroke (wordplay)

Soothed, in a way

Stroked lovingly, petted

Revelled in so crude a play (wordplay)

Painted the town red.

See flush in nasty chap, drunk

Rushed downward, as water

Fell over rocks, as water.

Rushed in torrents

Caseate

Casefy

Lawyer's burden

Lawyer's work

*Lawyer's backlog

Casket

Got together for a party (wordplay)

Met for a party (wordplay)

Got together to talk politics

Emulated the Johnston office.

Encoders (anagram) - made cuts

Cleaned up dodgy corn seed

Expressed disapproval of.

Many made certain to be rebuked

Strongly criticised or condemned

Census

Like a bodybuilder's body

Like a buff guy

Like some physiques

Uttered in unison.

Spoke in unison.

Sang in unison

The available water of the soil

Did a juice diet, say

Leeds can (anagram)

Did a week-long juice diet, say

Like some skeletons (wordplay)

Do select (anagram)

Shut up! It's a stone's throw to Edward

Closure

A shed for storing coal

Cognise

Helmed with help

Wasn't the only entertainer to fashion hoods etc

""A plant of the cabbage family, also COLE, COLEWORT""

Even agitato passage may be so written!

Put together a score, not 27

Wrote music that's calm

Mixed up in fun codes

Prisoner joined in disorder

In a muddle, perplexed

Gave comfort to (someone)

With a bad cold, one's cheered up

Offered sympathy to

Used up.

Counted as bruised around the South

Created a bruise

Bruised and baffled, needing time for female

In a bind (wordplay)

Dressed like a Victorian woman

Wearing some Victorian garb

Cosher

Acted as surety

Backed up for an advance

I agree

Treated as a pet.

Brought up too closely

Doses, etc., doctored and spoiled

Clad, as for a festival

Ready for Halloween

Provided with period attire.

Creesh

Pushed hard (for)

Fought with Richard the Lion-Hearted

Pushed one's cause

Bent the knees as a gesture of respect

Made an obeisance - on the short side, perhaps

Made respectful gesture, better to welcome in first to turn up

Having a point

Censored item, maybe

*Censor's target

Angry oath

{bluish=adj}

Like workman's hands

Made unsympathetic

Canalise

Declared to be a saint

Bestowed sainthood, in Salisbury

Catholic soon is journalist and dubbed saintly

Took a poll.

Did a survey

Found out people's feelings involving sand and caves

Fired, as a salesclerk (wordplay)

Scanned the goods, say

Dismissed from one's job

Actors awarded stars? Done!

Players given value - done

Like a gelding thrown a painter by boy

Caucus

Chamois

Many raced, getting beaten (wordplay)

Took to task

Humiliated, Charlie stepped on the gas

Sad ethics (anagram)

Called on the carpet

Beaten at chess, I'd messed up

Lovingly cared for

See, it's her beloved self I got rid of

After a century it's her I got rid of so tenderly

Shaped with a certain cutting tool

Chorus

Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.

Socially and culturally developed

'Criminal is evil,' CID educated

Brought out of barbarism

Nearly set (wordplay)

Unevenly distributed, in a way

Like some distributed computing systems

Came together as one

Came together to form one whole

Came together for company, drinks and starters of cheesy, exquisite dips

Made less refined

Became rougher.

Coassume

Beach real estate

Littoral.

Towards land (when at sea)

Didn't kill each other

Lived with peacefully

Lived together

Coinsure

Newly sold place fell down

Cracked up - gave way

Fell apart when pass ran out

Settled for punctuation onside

Settled by way of a punctuation mark, perhaps

Following the punctuation it dies, so that's settled

Combust

Encircled

Treated to form into fertilizer.

Put into a heap to decay

Conservative's naughty romp - is journalist included (wordplay)

Made up

Common condition of a ko'd boxer

Cornelius swore when he got a blow on the head

It was after quite a blow that Cornelius swore like this

Like most canned soups

Kind of milk made into 26

Changed from gas to liquid

Admitted (to crime)

Admitted to the truth

Admitted guilt

Blocked when cheat quipped, we hear

Blocked (nose)

Like rush-hour roads

Agreed, gave permission

Gave an enthusiastic "Yes!"

Gave permission

Saved, as one's strength

Was frugal with

The argument against was useful, and retained

Entrusted to another for safekeeping

Entrusted.

Was composed (of)

Is the CID made up with stone (wordplay)

Was made (of)

Kept company (with)

Spent time getting prisoner settled

Kept company

Partnered in crime

Prisoners, with pride shattered, plotted

Plotted together

Understood criminal's honest daughter

Took to mean

Interpreted

Sought information or advice from, say doctor

Conferred with.

The counts led to having asked for advice

Cornelius fought to be a 29 across

Up for debate

Like some wills

Was part of an exchange

Spoke to skilled prisoner first

Talked with opposite number

Convulse

Split the bill (wordplay)

Shared the limelight.

Played the other leading role

Offered advice to

Gave advice

Advised

Creolise

Old drunkard without principles given a coat

The core was in bits, so Edward got it tarred

Treated with a preservative, as telephone poles

Having deep fissures.

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

Ablush.

Crispen

Like designer dogs

Angry b-bloody mongrel

Hybridised

""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.""

Traffic light site, maybe

Place for a stoplight.

Street, vis-a-vis an avenue

A blow in anger (wordplay)

Side-blow (wordplay)

Cyclist's woe

Angry remark that puzzles (wordplay)

Puzzle (for the intelligent)

What are you doing here (wordplay)

Cuirass

Bobbed - bent the knee

Eased, as from shock.

Softened and served dish on cue

Ring in copper polished and protected

Cutinise

""Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box;""

Like a news brief

CARBURISE

CARTELISE

Players I kept in school and told off

List of actors I shut up, reprimanded

Players I kept in and chastised

Causeway

Chainsaw

Where one may run into a mate (wordplay)

Bossed char (anagram)

Where to find a perfect mate (wordplay)

Named

Baptized

In the right form at school (wordplay)

Help wanted, for one

Secret, as files

Secluded tree is cold like this

Like some nuns

Sheltered from outside society

Coassist

Football player at the beach (wordplay)

The main service provider (wordplay)

CO at a drugs bust (wordplay)

Coattest

Codesign

COMMUNISE

""COMPOSITE Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language. as, a composite language.""

Condensed or reduced in volume

Flattened by pressure

Squeezed The Media into Medoc complex

Do something below one's dignity

Patronise dive after study

Show that one feels superior

Congress

CONSCRIBE To enroll; to enlist.

Believed to be

Thought carefully about

Took into account

Run into experienced Tory in leading position, shown to be different

Agree to write (wordplay)

Keep in touch by letter

'Just the same, write the letter (10)'

CORUSCATE To glitter in flashes; to flash.

Coscript

Kind of oil

Pip's soft substance first, it yields a valuable oil

Barrister went ahead and gave advice

Advised

Courtesy

""The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.""

Was a crew leader

Crawfish

Cold gent upset with penny lolly in cracker

Cooked spider-crab suitable for a low calorie diet (wordplay)

""CRITICISE To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.""

Ill-humored species (wordplay)

Mate (two different species)

Mix, as dogs

CUSTOMISE

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

Floating naiad corpse richly arrayed

Wearing ornamental coverings, as circus horses

CAPITALISE

""CARAMELISE to to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

Having turrets and battlements

Having battlements

Like fortification Bill set up with girl and boy

Put into boxes in iced storage possibly

CENTRALISE

Chemisorb

CHLORALOSE

Of or belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

CLASSICIZE to make classic or classical.

Mean and prepared to fight

Stingy

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