2-Letter Words Starting with C

He's on the way up

Awful career, not a person heading for the top

That which clarifies.

Klutz, perhaps

Cleanly

Clerkly

Assistant to a diocesan bishop

""A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; called also clotbur. Xanthium; called also clotbur.""

Stan Lee, for many superheroes

Jerry Siegel or Joe Shuster, for Superman

CURATOR a museum manager

Jobs at Apple, say

INSURER one that {insures=v}

Numismatist, for one.

Group-minded individual

One who accumulates things

In the same straight line

Lying in the same straight path

Sharing the same one-dimensional space

One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist.

Supervision-sharing job

Jet-engine chamber

Warm and cozy cover

Dummy's arrival outside strongpoint

Baby's dummy

Rank below captain in the Navy

Captain's subordinate

One in authority

COMMENCE to {begin=v}

One who commends or praises.

Leader in a red state (wordplay)

As Soviet official, I'm cross, am mad

Russian minister, before 1946

MONOMER a type of chemical compound

Compact

Trash-crushing appliance

Performer after free ticket? This can be crushing

Dot's follower, safe fellow about fifty, gives help in solving crossword

Complex

A kind of steward or agent.

Skin-tone cosmetic

Color correction tool

Cover-up.

One who conceives.

Bring together at a focal point

Of an assemblage

One who concludes.

One who concocts.

Judge, at times

CONDEMN to judge unfavourably

Part of a radio.

Another name for a capacitor

Study more compact radio part

Moonlighting electrician (wordplay)

*Score keeper (wordplay)

Tour director (wordplay)

One who confers; one who converses.

Father's visitor perhaps

Order scones for King Edward (wordplay)

Father's visitor perhaps

A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.

He tends to follow girl with past

Same as connector.connector.

Child vis-a-vis numbered dots

Railroad coupling.

Link

Victor - or William (wordplay)

William, for one.

William, for one

One who consents.

One who protects

Wise user

One sending something to trick a gentleman of Verona (wordplay)

Person sending things? Tricks to disregard for the most part

Chiromancer client, for example

CONSULT to ask advice of

Chest perhaps, or ancient bust

Box? He must do this to get here!

Vessel on 10, perhaps

Legal offender

CONTEMN to {scorn=v}

Prison guard (wordplay)

One fighting others (for something)

No red cent (anagram)

Disputant

One who continues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence.

He may devise or fabulize

Scheming one

How one managed to get a hundred on tea to the water

Heat radiator.

One who engages in conversation.

One who converts; one who makes converts.

A device for changing one substance or form or state into another.

Persuasive arguer.

Associate can report disruption

Equal business associate

Associate with equal share in a business

Synthetic compound with molecules of more than one kind

Herb no good for dog and its owner!

An aromatic seed; carried on (anagram)

Spice-rack item

Correct

Blimey, Vicar, we've got a fixer here!

Editor or debugger, for example

Editor, essentially

Wicked one

Bad influence

Jointly underwrite

Tom Cruise (anagram)

French dresser Tom Cruise ordered

Tom Cruise arranged for theater job

Mace Windu or Yaddle, say

Perry Mason, for one

Summer-camp worker

Summer camp staffer

More refined

Valentino, for one

Christian Dior, for example

Dior or Klein

Crackly

Don Bradman or David Gower, say

Wicket-keeper, for one

One striking on the square (wordplay)

Having more bends and twists

CROCHET to work wool or thread with a small hook

Crooked

Telescopic sighting aid

Target-centering aid

Aiming aid

Change one's bank, perhaps

Turncoat perhaps in bad mood at an end

Change one's bank perhaps

Crumbly

Crumply

Like Grape-Nuts vis-a-vis other cereals

A strainer. See Colander. Colander.

Cunning

Ganymede's saucer (wordplay)

Wine server, to a king

Certain servant in a royal palace

More strange, to Alice

Maybe doctor takes in personal debts for stranger

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl""

One who curtails.

""Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.""

Strutting dancer

Certain dancer

""Wood A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazelbrown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood. Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.""

A collar cut off for summer (wordplay)

The button counter (wordplay)

Arithmetician's gadget

CALENDER to smooth by pressing between rollers

Zodiacal adjustor (wordplay)

Person on a trail

Man running for office.

Party man in action.

Projecting beam fixed at one end only

Kind of arch or bridge

Beam fixed at one end

CAPTIVATE To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

A nicer bear mauled sharpshooter

Soldier calling about a container

Cavalry soldier

""CARABINE a carbon compound, also CARABIN""

He keeps moving house

Choke's locale

It mixes air with gasoline

Fuel-injector ancestor

Name on a Visa

Place to keep your 'plastic'

Place to keep your "plastic"

One who wants in on the deal

One holds hands during the game

World Series participant

Careful

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Laborer making watch covers (wordplay)

Investigator of family problems, say

Social agency investigator

Severe critic to have fresh go at racist

One who makes a listing or inventory

Lynx becomes list maker

He should make the list

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

A photoelectric instrument for ascertaining cloud heights.

New Year's Eve figure.

Jubilant one

Dec. 31 figure

Small metric unit

Unit equal to 0.338 fluid ounce

.6102 cubic inch

Almost two-fifths of an inch

*Approximate width of a pencil

Unit, as a Salk vaccine.

Made rebel clear off, being a bit brainy (wordplay)

Daring sportsman (wordplay)

U.S. space shuttle

Professor in Doyle novels.

Lucky rollover for 20 (wordplay)

Govt. finance minister

German head's luck with press spin

Lighting up (wordplay)

Is it involving candle hire (wordplay)

The light fantastic (wordplay)

When tennis players meet in transition

Shifting of position.

Workplace activity, sometimes

Her erotica (anagram)

Ben Hur, for one

Ben Hur (wordplay)

CHARMING charm

Working hard with officer in Cabinet

Ornamental cabinet.

Setter keeps fine rosebowl initially in a cabinet

Account king gives to historian

One has The Times ordered

One who records important events

One who enters the services

Regular worshipper

A pious type, Winston, fit to move the queen

Churchly

Film buff, say, could make one grimace

I see picture blur once image runs

One sees pictures to make one grimace

""One who, or that which, circulates.""

One who classifies.

Of or pertaining to the clavicle.

Full-dress coat, colloquially

Basic part of a tool kit

Puller or pounder

Tool in forestry to measure slope, vertical angles and tree heights

Convert mile - not v. tricky if you have surveyor's instrument

Hold copper (anagram)

Clumsy person (wearing heavy shoes?)

Ultralight balloon (wordplay)

Cobwebby

Large beetle

Large beetle destructive of vegetation - frock cache (anagram)

A worthless or despicable person; -- intended as disparaging and invariably offensive.

COMPOSER one who writes music

One who helps call the shots

""DISCOVER to find out, also DISCOURE, DISCURE""

A joint executor.

""INVENTOR one who invents, also INVENTER""

INVESTOR one who {invests=v}

Allot micro-switch to subsidiary telescope

Peddler of Bibles, tracts, etc.

Pedlar disconcerted poor cutler

Pedlar of religious works

""Pl. columellae (-m l ) Any small columnlike structure in various plants and animals, often forming the central axis of development for the organism or an anatomical structure.""

Take by force

Take by force.

Forcibly take mad McEnroe away

Makes changes to AC/DC perhaps for bad actor entertaining old Mike with dog

Device for reversing current short journey on a rocky height

An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

Rival clubs promote changes covering it

Sporting contest entrant

Entrant in race scheming to crop time

Member of the "cavil-ry"?

Member of the "cavil-ry" (wordplay)

Faultfinding type

Mulch over first person or typesetter

Print shop employee

Newspaper employe.

""One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines. as, a compounder of medicines.""

Impeller on a jet engine

Supercharger

Leading Romanian composer's work with a forceful air

Black-eyed Susan.

Prairie blossom

One who confounds.

Defiant one.

Did he get the building bug (wordplay)

Party to an agreement

His work is constructive

It's a game changer

One holding the reins

Officer who checks expenditures.

One working with another

Man of the day, a high point for team member (wordplay)

One working together with old film star and another caught out

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.

PRISONER one that is imprisoned

PRODUCER one that {produces=v}

PROMOTER one who {promotes=v}

Keeps the paper united with impression of custodian

An editor who prepares text for publication.

Producer of text for ad

Public relations position

Author who wrote pricy composition

Catholic sect keeps wagon for shoemaker

Old shoemaker in business with change in drawer

Scented foot-growth (wordplay)

Scented foot-growth?

Hokey Bloomer (wordplay)

""A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.""

CORRELATE To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.

TRANSFER to move from one place to another

""Any of an extinct order (Cotylosauria) of massive primitive reptiles of the Carboniferous and Permian periods that included the ancestors of all of the reptiles. Also called root reptile , stem reptile .""

A device for determining the amount of a substance released during electrolysis by measuring the electrical charge.

Member of a county administration

Adviser; a senior diplomat

Breakdown specialist

Adviser

17th century fighter for the Kirk

One wanting religious liberty? Witches aren't different

The party who makes a covenant.

Ranch hand (wordplay)

Lasso in front of train (wordplay)

Lasso part of train (wordplay)

Ranch worker to show fear taking blow

One who's at home on the range

Vaquero "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" (nonverbal)

""CRITICIZE same as criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.""

""A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow.""

A soldier armed with a cuirass.

Farmer

Pl. curricula (-l ) or curriculums All the courses of study offered by an educational institution.

CUSTOMIZE to make to specifications.

""A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle.""

Heat measuring device

Heat-measuring device

Apparatus to measure quantity of heat

One who calumniates.

""Pl. canaliculi (-l ) A small canal or duct in the body, such as the minute channels in compact bone.""

Measure of light emitted

CP, to a physicist

Measure of luminosity

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

Part of car engine

Part of internal combustion engine

Car's petrol/air-mixing device

Amusing person, not so sweet as a cheat

He often makes money from crooked deals

Cheater at the gaming table

Cartwheel

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Larva with a pet in it (wordplay)

A future monarch (wordplay)

Provide post for leaf dweller

Variety of cabbage

It has an Orange Bouquet variety

It has a big head

""CENTRALIZE To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.""

CHANSON a {song=n}