2-Letter Words Starting with D

Bunch of thieves (wordplay)

Viewing room, perhaps

Man cave, perhaps

Wormer of "Animal House," for one

Dizzy athlete (wordplay)

Wormer in "Animal House," for one

Pray in a synagogue

Recite Hebrew or Yiddish prayer

Daw

Lower oneself (to)

Condescend to draw missing son

See fit to plan Sunday outing

Incubus for one

Speedy one (wordplay)

Overly possessive type (wordplay)

Malcolm from the west (wordplay)

County cricketer on-side (wordplay)

SW county of England

Official of India.

High official in India

Official of India

Dress up in finery

Deck with finery

Deck out

""To utter Jewish prayers, also DAVEN""

Senior group member

Senior member of a profession

Dean of a group.

Thirteen tarts, perhaps

Case number maybe

Boxful (of donuts)

Evil spirit (Var.)

Evil spirit (bonus points for spelling!)

Faery gone bad (wordplay)

Occasional

Writer's block coming on? Apply liquid!

A politician in retreat's wet

Check wall on compound

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)

Decree in Scotland

Distinguish clearly.

Distinguish

Make navigable, maybe

Dig down (wordplay)

Go further into the hole (wordplay)

An official in India

Take two points off (wordplay)

Make safer, as livestock

Make safer, on the ranch

Humble cleric covering Middle East

Lower me a bit in the end

Put down, degrade

Major part of a tooth

Principal mass of a tooth

Hollow in hard calcareous material

Make plans (wordplay)

Plan to remove your name from (wordplay)

Plan to remove authorisation (wordplay)

Molelike aquatic mammal of Russia.

Aquatic molelike animal.

Aquatic animal

Hold for questioning, perhaps

Ate din (anagram)

Sing to (someone)

Strip, in a way, as shrimp

Prepare, as shrimp

Prepare for eating, as a shrimp

Possibly elite - or even a paragon

Smashed old people's tomb

Ancient tomb for old men

Urges or conveyed, perhaps in car

Highly motivated (informal)

Hungry for success, say

Irishman's short tobacco pipe.

Short clay pipe

Dubliner's clay pipe.

A tropical plant

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

To {depose=v}

A great wave

An insecticide

Nerve cell part

Tree Comb. form.

Tree: Comb. form.

Inhabitant (of the deep?)

Nightclub regular, for example

Resident of a particular place

To dispute a claim

Newspaper staffer

Newspaper staffers

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

Rid Next of awful gummy mixture

Understand the difference

Cinders (anagram)

Spot Cinders acting up

Does family have leather (wordplay)

Cloth suffices, sort without hem

Glove material, sometimes

Entry-level employees (wordplay)

Hotel swingers (wordplay)

Whistlers outside hotels

Mule wagon drivers

Carters have to measure up people

Some horse cart operators

The worst kind of drivers (wordplay)

Intoxicated, frequently so

Slurred, perhaps

Forgery gets good long time for offence

Resentment, often high.

A figure gone berserk in indignation

Grey, say, up above, cooler underground

Basement of a castle, perhaps

What a dirty long time in prison!

Rude man fabricated wood

Heartwood.

Heartwood, central core of dark hardwood in tree-trunks

Council workers sent mud flying

British cleaners.

They have rubbish jobs, shifting smut in Home Office

Soft fabric with velvety nap

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)

Santa's boxing award (wordplay)

Duty expected of an executive.

Judge's sentence remarkably is in code

A commander of a decury

Elk, for example (wordplay)

Red Ken is let loose? Hide!

Bambi's pelt (wordplay)

Spying and informing.

Removal (of text)

A crossing out of noted lie

Removal of text

Used loin in a stew? That's fancy!

It may be one of grandeur

Unsoiled kind of hallucination

Jo's bottle (wordplay)

Large bottle for half-Jack (wordplay)

Narrow-necked bottle.

""Characteristic of a demon, also DEMONIC""

Loss of a stripe, maybe

Drop from major to captain, say

Forced loss of rank

Laughing stock in side or out (wordplay)

What tomatoes are thrown in (wordplay)

Inside or away for ridicule

Nucleus of hydrogen isotope, mass 2

Nucleus comprising a proton and a neutron

Gremlin.

Commitment to some purpose, religion say

Commitment, to religion say

Video not working, love (wordplay)

An insecticide, now widely banned

Double pyramid

Bishop; is deacon (anagram)

Once said (anagram)

See about this

A hydrocarbon

Gym period beset by noise coming from insect

""A two-winged insect, also DIPTERAN, DIPTERA""

Travelers' guide, in the Near East.

Near East guides.

Arabian guides

Juliana's ships.

Europeans munched nuts around square

Go to net her lands to get them

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

'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

A real let-down!

Decline in general price level

Loss of air

Low spirits of a number getting dismissal

Despondency

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

""The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.""

Linda or Dale

Make a hole in it with one on for the teeth

I intend to manipulate development of teeth

Drawing EP, in a manner of speaking

Representation in art

Delivery contains record of picture

Reduction in total value (of a resource)

Ozone layer issue

Reduction in quantity

That's leaving things in a barren state

Grounds for divorce.

Don Revie was accused of this

Uncovering deceit? Not difficult!

What sleuthing is all about

Police work cited note in question

Punishment for a class cut-up, maybe

It need not give rise to punishment

After-school punishment

A wearing off or away.

Erring and straying (wordplay)

A turning aside from a certain course

Departure from accepted standards

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

Gut reaction (wordplay)

span>Fizzy gin and it

Process of assimilating food

I'm done! Sin horrendous in magnitude!

Time, for one

Length or breadth, say

Course of a free-kick (wordplay)

Telling the way to go (wordplay)

Management's right, perhaps

Supply bride's undies, 50% off or free

Rubens did work for free

Underbids in order to offload

Shown to be false.

Demonstrated to be false

Drips spilled on cooker shown to be a mistake

""SEISIN legal possession of land, also SEIZIN""

The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold.

Little girl's type of entertainment

Bypass papers reviewed for adaptation

Category of many movies.

Twelve-sided figure

Good movement with dance figure

12-sided figure

Bridge suit holding

Two cards of a suit in a hand

Blonde out (anagram) - two cards

Some architecture firm workers

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

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)

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.""

DEFENCE protection

Goalie in ice hockey

Certain hockey player

One of six teammates

DEFENSE to guard against a specific attack

Do it fine in sporty Focus

One of 144 here

The meaning of a word

Shield's purpose

Turning Labour leader in rebellion

Liberal in act of revolt turning away

Commission special Donegal tie

U. N. General Assembly group.

Convention group from a state

Licking lemon, idiot idiotic!

Ryan Adams' current album

Light Infantry in degrading defeat

Denial.

The marking off or separation of anything.

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

Removal of hair

Player's place?

Player's place (wordplay)

It's signed by a witness

Slump causing gloom

Dent made by sniper does damage

Black dog's bowl

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

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

Not ideal, so may result in ruin

Isolated after roaming about on ruin

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

SORPTION the process or sorbing

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

Violent duo out to get a transfer of power

In county one has nasty lout leading delegation

Duke heading off rebellion with transfer of authority

A departure from the main subject

Straying off the subject

Going off course from nameless entrance in Dublin (wordplay)

The better part of valor

Liberty to act at pleasure; prudence

'The better part of valour'

Demoralise the sardine by cooking!

To take away enthusiasm or courage

Take away courage

Scattering of things

Process or state of being scattered

Distributing of novel so inspired

Some analytical piecework (wordplay)

Senior policeman opening special branch enquiry

Cutting up middle slice of dessert, in manner of speaking

I send SOS in trouble and strife

Disagreement leading to discord

Discord, disagreement

DISSENT to {disagree=v}

Swelling

""The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs. as, the distention of the lungs.""

Sad fine comedian failed

Ruined

Defeated

Auto-warranty subject

Gearing bolt found in exhaust

Car's engine-to-wheels connector

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.

""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.

""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

The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

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)

Inflected form of LIVERYMEN Inflected form of LIVERY a uniform worn by servants

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

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.""

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