2-Letter Words Starting with D

To {curse=v}

Fix a heel, perhaps

Blast! There's a cover over the hole!

Oh, come on!

Occasion for crowing (wordplay)

Upcoming event (wordplay)

Time to get cracking (wordplay)

Wormer of "Animal House," for one

Dizzy athlete (wordplay)

Wormer in "Animal House," for one

Small hoofed animal

Rock rabbit or hyrax.

Cony, in the Bible.

Pray in a synagogue

Recite Hebrew or Yiddish prayer

Daw

Official of India.

High official in India

Official of India

Parlor piece, perhaps

Place for an odalisque (wordplay)

Parlor piece perhaps

Official in India

Official, in India

Hindu official variable

Daughter perhaps showers in ditch

Exhaust (of liquid)

Snake's spot (wordplay)

What The Roots "Guns are" (wordplay)

Depicted (as being lined?)

Tense, and ending in stalemate, say

Evil spirit (Var.)

Evil spirit (bonus points for spelling!)

Faery gone bad (wordplay)

An evergreen tree

Literally, "big root"

Literally, 'big root'

Another name for mooli; on a kid (anagram)

Occasional

Welshman and Scotsman? The devil it is!

Indwelling power or spirit

Evil spirit variable

Brosnan's Bond predecessor

Bond in "License to Kill"

Bond between Moore and Brosnan

Writer's block coming on? Apply liquid!

A politician in retreat's wet

Check wall on compound

Mother and child in a jam (wordplay)

Does her boy make her fruity (wordplay)

Mother and child after fruit

Throw shade at (wordplay)

Dim the lights

Grow less light

Cleric - canoed (anagram)

Church official - canoed (anagram)

"One Hoss Shay" constructor

Muffle (a sound)

Do a number on (wordplay)

Make less sensitive

Need FA (anagram)

Play too loud, perhaps

Cause loss of hearing to (someone)

An official in India

Humble cleric covering Middle East

Lower me a bit in the end

Put down, degrade

Molelike aquatic mammal of Russia.

Aquatic molelike animal.

Aquatic animal

Hold for questioning, perhaps

Ate din (anagram)

Sing to (someone)

""A chemical compound, also DIAMIDE, DIAMINE""

""A chemical compound, also DIAZINE""

Woman's cloak.

Jacket with wide sleeves

Type of cloak.

Scope for matricide (wordplay)

Perhaps commit matricide around 18 down

Eminent follower (wordplay)

One shooting from the mouth (wordplay)

Puff for one

Fafnir, for one

Fruit in Thai cuisine

Foul-smelling spiny fruit of SE Asia

Tropical fruit with offensive smell

A herbicide

Hindu blessing conferred by seeing or touching a holy person

A tropical plant

Le roi's heir, perhaps

Royal French title

Princely French name: 1349-1830

An {arbiter=n}

Daysman

Like much McCain humor

Boring god with emotionless face

Showing no emotion

A polygon - eg can-do (anagram)

The shape of accountant shot in study

Belizean dollar coin's silhouette

A great wave

To dispute a claim

Newspaper staffer

Get rid of the dye instead

Remove dye, as from a specimen

Remove blotches

Alight! I daren't move!

Get off at Grand Central, say

Alight from French TGV (wordplay)

A substitute for blood plasma

A circuitry design that uses diodes

A {lungfish=n}

Died suffering India's scorn

This Hamlet might be said to show scorn

Scorn - feeling of superiority

Type of hands (wordplay)

Type of hands?

Word for rough, red hands

To {stain=v}

One with an entry-level job (wordplay)

Entry-level job (wordplay)

Hotel employee, perhaps

Soldier of British "Guards."

Soldier's round embedded in battleaxe

Doctor previously dealing with pressure

Reader of 'Cart & Driver' (wordplay)

Reader of "Cart and Driver" (wordplay)

Hauler of goods

Mule wagon drivers

Carters have to measure up people

Some horse cart operators

Rude man fabricated wood

Heartwood.

Heartwood, central core of dark hardwood in tree-trunks

My old man's occupation

Sussex sanitation worker

Mr Doolittle's calling.

Part of sweeping efforts (wordplay)

Stand up (anagram)

Bunny collector (wordplay)

Purveyor of "Jersey juice"

Butter, cheese maker

Neat worker repaired mainyard

Jersey boys (wordplay)

Jersey owners, maybe

Many ride out with such farmworkers

A European bird

Valley dweller

Desperate fellow drinking beers, male who may live in Yorkshire (wordplay)

Many drinks offered to fellow - he's from Yorkshire

Yorkshiremen from valleys

More than one man allied to Leeds United (wordplay)

Spying and informing.

""Characteristic of a demon, also DEMONIC""

Organ stop; sad piano (anagram)

Full-toned organ stop

Pipe-organ stop

An insecticide

A swell occurrence (wordplay)

A swell occurrence?

The result of getting blown up

Flood-related

Bishop; is deacon (anagram)

Once said (anagram)

See about this

Gym period beset by noise coming from insect

Legally seize (property)

I'd raised pressure to grab property

If Sidney comes back by rail, sieze him

Graduate's gift, maybe

Present country that acts (wordplay)

Gift (to charity)

An endowment

Lizard bites a master interpreter

Tourists' guide in the East.

Full of energy, play with new guide

Travelers' guide, in the Near East.

Near East guides.

Arabian guides

Reduction of military strength

Deplete steadily

Around it (anagram)

Length (of time)

For this for now

Flyer of opera (wordplay)

The Flying - (Wagner)

Hieronymus Bosch, for one

Vacuum tube

Croatian dog (wordplay)

A mad Latin (anagram)

Dog (from Croatia?)

To hell with such a matriarchal people!

Oh dear, it's a matriarchy!

Curses motherland (wordplay)

Leo's lawn invader (wordplay)

Your lawn guy (wordplay)

Leo's lawn invader?

ALATION the state of having wings

Old-time executioner.

DEATHS death

Of or relating to the Decapoda or a decapod.

Latched on to jockey - it's eventful!

Ten out of ten for the all-rounder!

Summer Olympics event

A real let-down!

Decline in general price level

Loss of air

Erring and straying (wordplay)

A turning aside from a certain course

Departure from accepted standards

Get this at in a manner of speaking

Take it down from this

Speaking of words to be taken down

I incited a bent authority on food

He'll tell you what to have, of course

One guides you, as a matter of course

Food expert to stop working with artist

One helping with servings

Specialist in the study of nutrition

Drug for fingernail treatment

Ailing, I'd start to take new drug

Approve of European cutting out a drug

Twelve-sided figure

Good movement with dance figure

12-sided figure

Very severe medic with a look over Scot

Very harsh like severe laws

Incan road (anagram) - extremely harsh

Bartender (wordplay)

One who draws up legal documents

Architect's aide

Some architecture firm workers

Metal found in mud deposit round Russian river

"Hunger Games" descriptor

Like "The Hunger Games" society

Like 'The Hunger Games' society

English word

AERATION exposure to the action of air

Solid figure with ten plane faces

Ten-faced solid

Solid figure having ten faces

15 across, with a loss of 10%

This took 1 across in execution

After such a loss last month, I am at one on the end

Coordinate new colour scheme (wordplay)

Prize for painting (wordplay)

Bunting (in honour of a brave man?)

Devotion (to a task)

Inscription in a book.

'Lowly, with a broken neck, / The - lays her cheek to mine' (Meredith)

Result of having falsely named one 'fat' and 'round'

Betrayal involving a waste disposal operation

Private act you might (might!) do in front of your partner

""A team member, as in hockey, who plays a defensive zone or position.""

Goalie in ice hockey

Certain hockey player

One of six teammates

Commission special Donegal tie

U. N. General Assembly group.

Convention group from a state

Denial.

The marking off or separation of anything.

""The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.""

Removal of hair

A representative body

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

""Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.""

Belittling of a good interchange

Not ideal, so may result in ruin

Isolated after roaming about on ruin

Are you, by the sound of it, in? (Poor you!)

No-one thanks important backer? Blast!

School at first in academic outburst

Loud report.

Belittling of the French drawing

Not a direct criminal slander

Criticism means upset editor must get a grip

English word

Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

Demoralise the sardine by cooking!

To take away enthusiasm or courage

Take away courage

Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.

The use of deterrence

Deterrence

What deters wandering Saudis? Promised land (wordplay)

What could get one avoiding a subject ultimately (wordplay)

Occult art

Get a share for the Sioux by telling the future

Prediction of small return on investment by state

Present compiler's back in control

I am held back by present government

Exercise of mastery.

Sad fine comedian failed

Ruined

Defeated

Auto-warranty subject

Gearing bolt found in exhaust

Car's engine-to-wheels connector

Act of doubting; doubt.

DEAMINATE

Disembarkation.

""The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.""

""The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. as, the practice declamation by students.""

It begins: "When in the Course... "

It begins: "When in the Course . . . "

It begins "When in the Course . . . "

""The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. as, declination of the head.""

The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

""Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc. as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.""

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; setoff.

""The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. as, the defloration if a virgin.""

The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

Alteration of shape

Disfigurement

Trained a dog to suffer humiliation

Trained a dog that's going off, going off

Humiliation.

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

Excessive loss of water from body

Significant loss of water

Making a god of

Eaten cold it could provide enjoyment

Election date endlessly changed for amusement

Enjoyment of naughty cat in act of destruction

Vivid verbal description

Sketch

A fellow with a round bowler, perhaps

Male who goes round dropping off goods

Courier called up about chauffeur's uniform (wordplay)

Boundary

""NERVATION The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.""

Calumny? Snarl and ignore it

Unfair criticism

Disparagement

The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

The expelling of a foreigner from a country

What's patriot done wrong to become exile (wordplay)

Detraction; depreciation.

The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.

Plundering.

Despoilment

Severe lack of essentials

Violently disrespectful treatment

Damage of anything sacred

The offence of considerate vandalism

""The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.""

Official title or description

Appointment

Term Democrat used for Republican in giving up office

A rope ends it (wordplay)

Complete lack of hope

Rashness of Iran to speed development

Distant one I set out for (wordplay)

Where one is going

Place to which one is travelling

Hating to be almost put off before Crewe, perhaps

Loathing

Hatred

DEUTERATE

Diminution of worth.

Currency maneuver

Destruction of old Chester depot

Great damage or grief

Ruin, destruction

The interval of a fourth.

""The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.""

One of the Dinosauria.

Where we be (wordplay)

Disturbance of the normal position

Shoulder injury

""The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.""

RELATION an association between people or things

Overindulgent living

It stops one concentrating

Agitated mental state

Extreme agitation

One skilled at drawing

Technical plan maker

Chap who makes plans as potential king

Drawers needed for board-games

Those on the board who make plans

Copy of linocut - paid out

Copy of linocut – paid out

Doubling up

English word

Process of stopping something working

""The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.""

Strange patina to iced topping

An action that leaves the head isolated

Fate of Anne Boleyn

A slowing down

Reduction in the going rate

Slowing of velocity

Burning away of a substance

Worsening state of French breeding

Decline of French production

Decline of French age group

GLACIATION Act of freezing.

The act or process of removing ions.

Formation and separation of lamin\'91 or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

Considering rearrest (wordplay)

Long and careful consideration

Thought on the continent of freedom

Not 1 across (as in selected outlets)

Mayo clinic (wordplay)

Tender foreign money around second shop

The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.

Extraction of a signal from its carrier

""DEMONIZE to make a demon of, also DEMONISE""

DENATURE to deprive of natural qualities

One, for one

He's mixed up in a religious group

Faith in money