2-Letter Words Starting with C

Outer covering of a tire or a salami.

Protection around grass

Reconaissance activity for a criminal

Action at a bank

Sleeping on a friend's couch

Getting money for what's been burnt in the middle

Cask

What a mouldy way of fishing!

Assigning stars to (wordplay)

Shaping in mould; assigning actors to

Setting off, perhaps

Producing as a result

Responsible for placing uranium in shell

Stopping by sea, say, and relaxing

Coming to an end

Leaving off.

Performing a spiritual ritual

Filling with perfume

Cesse

Running after Carol after tea

In hot pursuit.

Design on metal

Farewell, as a performance

Not winning a hundred not for TheOpen

Mortgage lender's contract signing

Cosh

Management's concern

Evaluating business scam

Financial estimate brings pain to firm

Cosy

Using bad language

Hurling imprecations.

You'd swear the poor brute could give you one of 13 across

Talking a blue streak (wordplay)

Emulating a sailor, in a way

Using bleepable words

Chess move involving the king and rook

Movement on board moulding left inside

Chess strategem

Smiling for the camera, in slang

Selecting, opting for

Purpose of a coin toss

Selecting, opting

Chouse

Chowse

Sharply and harshly discordant

Realising about fifty may be ill-matched

Striking (cymbals)

Hugging serpent in embrace

Gripping

Holding

Grouping.

Resting on one's laurels

Agnostic (anagram) - moving easily

Agnostic (anagram)

Hunting with dogs

Using bad language about old type of hunting

Swearing when nothing is caught in illegal hunting (wordplay)

Char's gin (anagram)

Collapsing suddenly, as the stock market

Total going down

Making folds

Is the crescendo getting slack in the fold (wordplay)

Folding

Reaching the highest point

At its peak

Rising, as a flood

Making brittle

Browning

Letter in two puzzle words, maybe

Ferry ride, say

Pelican perhaps going over the water

Aboard the QE2, perhaps

See are you the one I serenade at sea

Meeting no resistance

Violently subduing (opposition)

It was originally done by foot

Putting down note in a hurry

Becoming corroded under carbon coating

Losing liquidity

Callus

Campus

Canvas

Fitting hats (wordplay)

Fitting hats?

Turning over headwear before measuring

Capsule

Treating with fondness.

Worries start 5 down with love

Treating with kindness

Reveler's activity

Many awakening us with their 28 across

Heading for a hangover

Descending in steps

Flowing like a waterfall over rocks

Emulating a waterfall

Caseate

Casefy

Casket

Caucus

Having a vet remove something

Hays office job

Denying free speech

Reprimanding, rebuking formally

Blaming a number before making sure

Reprimanding, rebuking

Census

Chasse

CHISEL to use a cutting tool

CHORUS to sing in unison

Incline to do wrong in the wash

Comet's purpose

Like a nice soak

Shutting up hard by the metal G

Hard by the tin - Gee, that's shutting up!

Cooping up

Closure

Cognise

Police chap, or police trap

Sharing the stage, in a way

Working like Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, say

Making notes of it (wordplay)

Stravinsky's forte.

Making it for the thousand in a coop to sing at last

Bewildering or perplexing

Very strange

Perplexing, puzzling

Giving a pat on the back, say

Comforter's activity

Affording comfort or solace

Getting down

Eating, using

Bruising

Stays with the gin to keep her in

Cosher

Cosign

Mollycoddling, pampering

Pampering provided by Conservative gent is so unusual

Costume

Creesh

Contending against evil.

Espousing aggressively

Bobbing in respectful greeting

Bowing daintily

Callous

Canalise

Canonise

Soliciting to make the painting squeal!

Dismissing a wrongdoer from the armed forces

Reach GIs in disarray, moving from military position

Making ineffective players score

Caucus

Chamois

Dressing down

Teaching a lesson in front of class making rapid progress

Chastise

Cherish

Cheating companion, one taking money

Chorus

Civilise

Cluster

Coalesce

Becoming rude could make a son cringe

Making rough

Coassume

Coexist

SCOURING

Falling down

Coming down pass, have a little drink and celebrate

Settling point, one Government restricts crime

Combust

Compass

Compost

Comprise

Concuss

Making shorter

Owning up

Congest

One might have agreed to have sent this in in Mayo

Agreeing

Saving argument against being of use

That's Cornelius putting his name to the send-off

Comprising band members

Prisoners/bell sound

Keeping company

Associating.

Conspire

Construe

Giving advice professionally

Giving advice to

Disputing, as election results (give it up, dude)

French short story with surprise ending entering competition

Converse

Convulse

Performing with another major actor

Lettuce with something sticky, a doughnut perhaps also appearing

Sharing the limelight's worth a band following Queen

Direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.

Early form of rock music? Yes!

Early form of rock music (wordplay)

Composing music for child

Creolise

Creosote

Crevasse

Becoming flushed

Crispen

Cuirass

Curtsey

Cushion

Cutinise

CAPSULIZE

CARBURISE

CARTELISE

""CASTIGATE To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.""

Causeway

Chainsaw

Using for the first time

Naming ceremony

Baptising

Putting things into categories

Taxonomist's job

Cloister

Coassist

Coattest

Codesign

COMMUNISE

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

Applying pressure

Approach taken about newspapers applying the squeeze

Squeezing

Moving forward to vote (wordplay)

CONSCRIBE To enroll; to enlist.

Against team circle, all in all

Anti/facet/circle

Judging criminal gang taking bank

Differing strikingly

Showing the difference in argument against police entrapment

Comparing

CORNHUSK the husk covering an ear of corn

Flashing, sparkling

Coscript

Counsel

Courtesy

Coxswain

Crawfish

""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.""

CUSTOMISE

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

Caparison

CAPITALISE

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

CATEGORISE

CENTRALISE

Mean with money

Mean to be cutting down dairy produce

Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious

Chemisorb

""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.

Cocounsel

Cohostess

""COMPENSATE To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.""

Like some positions

Officer starts marching, hopeful of meeting someone halfway

Making concessions and undertaking to support firm measures initially

CONFISCATE Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.

Bringing into force

Against writing text for computer and compulsorily listing

CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

CONSOCIATE An associate; an accomplice.

Causing constipation.

CONSTITUTE To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

Forcing prisoners to take exercise

Restricting severely

What you might see in prisoners' exercise yard is compelling

Constrict

CONSTRINGE To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.

Building prisoner's training in to get released

Randomly counting carts leaving a building

Building

CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

Recuperating

Copresent

PROCESSING process

Copublish

Corkscrew

Cosponsor

COUNTERSUE

Crescendo

Crossband

Crossbar

Crosscut

Crossruff

CRYSTALIZE

""CYCLOSTYLE A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.""

CANNIBALISE

CIRCULARISE

CLOTHESLINE A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

COUNSELLING counsel

Codiscover

Sympathising

Feeling pity for Scrooge having empty apartment in Advent (wordplay)

Appointing group of church workers during Advent

COMPUTERISE

Snooty prisoner sent down (wordplay)

Patronising Tory on the way down

Disdainful prisoner being sent down

CONSOLIDATE Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.