2-Letter Words Starting with D

Cleric - canoed (anagram)

Church official - canoed (anagram)

"One Hoss Shay" constructor

Decree in Scotland

Distinguish clearly.

Distinguish

A polygon - eg can-do (anagram)

The shape of accountant shot in study

Belizean dollar coin's silhouette

To {depose=v}

A great wave

What you choose to say

At which Laurence Olivier shines.

Choice of words

Understand the difference

Cinders (anagram)

Spot Cinders acting up

Bird's jewelry (wordplay)

Bowler's target oboe (nonverbal)

Alley dweller, perhaps

Santa's boxing award (wordplay)

Duty expected of an executive.

Judge's sentence remarkably is in code

A commander of a decury

Bishop; is deacon (anagram)

Once said (anagram)

See about this

Remove symbol of royalty from record, with name below line

Flyer of opera (wordplay)

The Flying - (Wagner)

Hieronymus Bosch, for one

Juliana's ships.

Europeans munched nuts around square

Go to net her lands to get them

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

'Code' with inept resolution is cunning

For such trickery one must need cop it

Smoke, from a magician

One followed by 33 zeros

1 followed by 33 zeros.

Nice doctor shortly produced a pharmacological essence

Removal from gathering

That's not 25 down, and with reason

Points taken away in the ring

The Berlin Wall's purpose was largely to prevent this

Low spirits of a number getting dismissal

Despondency

Sadness ... or, read another way, what five puzzle answers have in common

Drawing EP, in a manner of speaking

Representation in art

Delivery contains record of picture

Uncovering deceit? Not difficult!

What sleuthing is all about

Police work cited note in question

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

Course of a free-kick (wordplay)

Telling the way to go (wordplay)

Management's right, perhaps

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

English word

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

The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

Coordinate new colour scheme (wordplay)

Prize for painting (wordplay)

Bunting (in honour of a brave man?)

Try PIN code, scrambling a spy's work

Devotion (to a task)

Inscription in a book.

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

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.""

DEFENCE protection

Shield's purpose

Turning Labour leader in rebellion

Liberal in act of revolt turning away

The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

Belittling of the French drawing

Not a direct criminal slander

Criticism means upset editor must get a grip

English word

The better part of valor

Liberty to act at pleasure; prudence

'The better part of valour'

Talk in field event is about leg

Debate is back on after athletic event

Talk of rock discos in US

Some analytical piecework (wordplay)

Senior policeman opening special branch enquiry

Cutting up middle slice of dessert, in manner of speaking

""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.

""CONDITION Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.""

""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.

Making a god of

Eaten cold it could provide enjoyment

Election date endlessly changed for amusement

Enjoyment of naughty cat in act of destruction

Boundary

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

Neglect before line in speech

Do nice strip perhaps showing outline

Portrayal

Violently disrespectful treatment

Damage of anything sacred

The offence of considerate vandalism

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

Ruin, wreckage

... R-U-I-N

Ruin

""A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.""

""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.""

FUNCTION to perform or act

""The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.as, the disjunction of soul and body.""

Where we be (wordplay)

Disturbance of the normal position

Shoulder injury

Difference isn't changing, in manner of speaking

Prestige gained by outstanding exam candidates

Celebrity makes speech about last of his money

It stops one concentrating

Agitated mental state

Extreme agitation

""An antibiotic obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces peuceticus, used as an anticancer drug.""

Copy of linocut - paid out

Copy of linocut – paid out

Doubling up

Abnormal operation

English word

Process of stopping something working

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

Body that busted a Brooklyn gangster

Take (eg, a warship) out of operation

Promise not to fire editor coming back to ask journalist to say something

Decongest

GLACIATION Act of freezing.

Not 1 across (as in selected outlets)

Mayo clinic (wordplay)

Tender foreign money around second shop

Strong public criticism

Public condemnation of awful auctioned inn

What the whistleblower is capable of is informing

It never goes up in financial crash

Gradual loss of value

Loss in value

Act of uprooting

I worried about body of people being uprooted

TOXICATION Poisoning.

One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.

The interbrain or thalamencephalon; sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon. dien. See Thalamencephalon.

Alienation; ill-will

Alienation

A disavowing or disowning.

Medical safeguard against underworld disease

Action of separating

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

Twelve-faced solid

Any polyhedron having 12 plane faces

Hooded dancer in motion revealing solid figure

The cardinal number equal to 10 39 .

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to dress like or cause to resemble a dandy dandification   n""

CARBONATION

""CEREBRATION Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.""

Process of decay

Collapse of French work of art

Putrefaction

Cause of sickness if sudden

Reduction in air pressure

""The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.""

""The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.""

An increase in the density of something.

The state of being set with small notches or teeth.

Doctor aiding actions abroad

Identifier of illnesses

In row, sceptic repulsed excellent health care worker

The act of changing the natural color

Removal of electricity supply

Act of breaking a link

Complete break - relative can go to the devil!

One that makes documentaries or a documentary.

Concerted action mounted by the papers

Written papers

If it's wild, you might get to this by train round the top to begin with

The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

""CHLORINATION The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

""The act of changing to a decimal system; as, the decimalization of the British currency.as, the decimalization of the British currency.""

The action of changing from colonial to independent status.

COLORIZATION

COMPENSATION The act or principle of compensating.

CONSECRATION The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.

Method of critical analysis of literary texts

Label that released hits by M-People, Kylie Minogue etc.

""LOCALIZATION Act of localizing, or state of being localized.""

NAZIFICATION

Process of removing poisons

Separation from princess's union

Disconnection, separation

Separation

One keeping strict control

One who exercises firm control

Martinet

Dejection; grief.

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's "The Sneetches"

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's 'The Sneetches'

With record margin, one people showing good judgment

Reluctance (to do something)

Hell at home: Eastwood embracing a cowgirl showing new reluctance

""ACIDIFICATION The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.""

The removal of calcareous matter.

CARBOXYLATION

""The act, process, or result of decarburizing.""

CASUALIZATION

CERTIFICATION The act of certifying.

Act of deconcentrating.

Removal of harmful substances

One goal of the E.P.A.

The removal of dangerous substances

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

""MYSTIFICATION The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.""

""The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.""

SACRALIZATION

Dust-bowl action

""The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products. devitrification products.""

DICHOTOMIZE To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

ARTICULATION A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

Bad-mouth longevity (wordplay)

Interruption, as of a subscription

Breach

""INTOXICATION A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.""

Rap a Rolling Stones classic (wordplay)

Anger over Sidney getting compensation

Discontent; uneasiness

One objective of fund management

Business practice stressing variety

Portfolio manager's quest

Process of downgrading secret documents

Act of making ineligible

State of being declared unsuitable