2-Letter Words Starting with D

Half your supper (wordplay)

Ear irritation (wordplay)

Say over and over.

Bottled spirit (wordplay)

Spirit in a bottle variable

Spirit in Muslim demonology variable

Lower oneself (to)

Condescend to draw missing son

See fit to plan Sunday outing

Parlor piece, perhaps

Place for an odalisque (wordplay)

Parlor piece perhaps

Official in India

Official, in India

Hindu official variable

Dress up in finery

Deck with finery

Deck out

Mythical Islamic spirit (var.)

Muslim spirits (Var.)

Free spirit (wordplay)

Daughter perhaps showers in ditch

Exhaust (of liquid)

Snake's spot (wordplay)

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

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)

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

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

""A chemical compound, also DIAZINE""

Agent Orange ingredient

Very toxic poison

Extremely toxic chemical by-product

Take out of the will, maybe

This way round is to say isn't mine

Is down (anagram)

A herbicide

Traditional name for a workhorse

Gentle family horse.

Name for a farm horse

Scope for matricide (wordplay)

Perhaps commit matricide around 18 down

Eminent follower (wordplay)

""Abscisic* acid, a plant hormone, also ABSCISIN, ABSCISSIN""

Urges or conveyed, perhaps in car

Highly motivated (informal)

Hungry for success, say

Label on container for leather treatment

Grease for softening leather

Confer with writer about proofing

Red-backed sandpiper

Breed of sandpiper

Love practically naked flipping bird

Fruit in Thai cuisine

Foul-smelling spiny fruit of SE Asia

Tropical fruit with offensive smell

Asian tree

Le roi's heir, perhaps

Royal French title

Princely French name: 1349-1830

Inhabitant (of the deep?)

Nightclub regular, for example

Resident of a particular place

To dispute a claim

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)

Rid Next of awful gummy mixture

A circuitry design that uses diodes

What you choose to say

At which Laurence Olivier shines.

Choice of words

A glycoside obtained from the foxglove and used as a heart stimulant

A {lungfish=n}

Understand the difference

Cinders (anagram)

Spot Cinders acting up

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

Prevent the union of

Disconnect, become separate

Separate 12 accompanying another in vice

To make {dim=adj}

To {stain=v}

Does family have leather (wordplay)

Cloth suffices, sort without hem

Glove material, sometimes

Flipper for one

Bottlenose creature (wordplay)

Flipper for one

Small elongated oval hill, in Cavan, say

Small glacier-formed hill

Small hill, common in Cavan and Monaghan

Bird's jewelry (wordplay)

Bowler's target oboe (nonverbal)

Alley dweller, perhaps

Nuts bid (anagram)

British garbage can

Receptacle for rubbish

Purveyor of "Jersey juice"

Butter, cheese maker

Neat worker repaired mainyard

Jersey boys (wordplay)

Jersey owners, maybe

Many ride out with such farmworkers

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

Gremlin.

Commitment to some purpose, religion say

Commitment, to religion say

Video not working, love (wordplay)

Organ stop; sad piano (anagram)

Full-toned organ stop

Pipe-organ stop

An insecticide

An insecticide, now widely banned

Double pyramid

A swell occurrence (wordplay)

A swell occurrence?

The result of getting blown up

Old Inuit set adrift, weakening

Guillotined, missing leg and weakening

Weakening, stuttering, 'I do, until...'

Flood-related

""Coarse rock deposited by glaciers, also DILUVIUM""

""An ancient Greek coin, also DIOBOL""

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""

Remove symbol of royalty from record, with name below line

Legally seize (property)

I'd raised pressure to grab property

If Sidney comes back by rail, sieze him

Separation? I sound in disarray

U.S.S.R. crisis: 1991

U.S.S.R. crisis 1991

Long tail (wordplay)

Commons vote leads to disagreement

Large army unit

Perhaps I do M on this for authority

Lordship needs cook and lackey

What Canada is.

Graduate's gift, maybe

Present country that acts (wordplay)

Gift (to charity)

An endowment

A metal pin for securing timbers

Around it (anagram)

Length (of time)

For this for now

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

'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

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

I would back loud form of jazz spreading

Osmosis, for example

Dispersal

Gut reaction (wordplay)

span>Fizzy gin and it

Process of assimilating food

Drug for fingernail treatment

Ailing, I'd start to take new drug

Approve of European cutting out a drug

English word

""A steroid glycoside, one of the cardiotonic chemical substances which is extracted from the foxglove. It is a white, crystalline substance (C41H64O13), and is a 3-substituted triglucoside of a steroid, related structurally to digitalin and digoxin. It is used as a cardiotonic for treatment of certain heart conditions, such as congestive heart failure. Chemically it is (3. The related compounds digitalin and digoxin are also extracted from the foxglove (Digitalis lanata and Digitalis purpurea). The class of steroid glycosides having cardiotonic properties are refered to as the cardiac glycoside group.steroid glycoside, one of the cardiotonic chemical substances which is extracted from the foxglove. It is a white, crystalline substance (C41H64O13), and is a 3-substituted triglucoside of a steroid, related structurally to digitalin and digoxin. It is used as a cardiotonic for treatment of certain heart conditions, such as congestive heart failure. Chemically it is (3. The related compounds <er>digitalin</er> and <er>digoxin</er> are also extracted from the foxglove (<spn>Digitalis lanata</spn> and <spn>Digitalis purpurea</spn>). The class of steroid glycosides having cardiotonic properties are refered to as the <isa><ecol><b>cardiac glycoside</b></ecol></isa> group.""

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.

Very severe medic with a look over Scot

Very harsh like severe laws

Incan road (anagram) - extremely harsh

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

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

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.

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

English word

A departure from the main subject

Straying off the subject

Going off course from nameless entrance in Dublin (wordplay)

Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

Obscure union - it might well be weakening

Decrease

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

Demoralise the sardine by cooking!

To take away enthusiasm or courage

Take away courage

""The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury. as, the dismission of the grand jury.""

Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.

Scattering of things

Process or state of being scattered

Distributing of novel so inspired

Explosion.

Alternatively, pundits or I get upset

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}

The use of deterrence

Deterrence

What deters wandering Saudis? Promised land (wordplay)

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.""

Wide-angle lens concern

Travesty of a sort

A twisting out of shape

""A pale yellow, highly toxic systemic insecticide, C 8 H 19 O 2 PS 3 , used for some vegetables and flowers.""

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.

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.

""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.""