2-Letter Words Starting with D

To {curse=v}

Small hoofed animal

Rock rabbit or hyrax.

Cony, in the Bible.

Incubus for one

Speedy one (wordplay)

Overly possessive type (wordplay)

Evil spirit (Var.)

Evil spirit (bonus points for spelling!)

Faery gone bad (wordplay)

Occasional

Welshman and Scotsman? The devil it is!

Indwelling power or spirit

Evil spirit variable

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

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

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

Woman's cloak.

Jacket with wide sleeves

Type of cloak.

Possibly elite - or even a paragon

Smashed old people's tomb

Ancient tomb for old men

Scope for matricide (wordplay)

Perhaps commit matricide around 18 down

Eminent follower (wordplay)

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

""A large fast-sailing medieval galley, also DROMOND""

An {arbiter=n}

Daysman

A great wave

An insecticide

Newspaper staffer

Newspaper staffers

To make {dim=adj}

One with an entry-level job (wordplay)

Entry-level job (wordplay)

Hotel employee, perhaps

Entry-level employees (wordplay)

Hotel swingers (wordplay)

Whistlers outside hotels

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

Small elongated oval hill, in Cavan, say

Small glacier-formed hill

Small hill, common in Cavan and Monaghan

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.

Council workers sent mud flying

British cleaners.

They have rubbish jobs, shifting smut in Home Office

Purveyor of "Jersey juice"

Butter, cheese maker

Neat worker repaired mainyard

Jersey boys (wordplay)

Jersey owners, maybe

Many ride out with such farmworkers

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)

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

Perhaps I do M on this for authority

Lordship needs cook and lackey

What Canada is.

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

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

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)

Old-time executioner.

DEATHS death

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

I'm done! Sin horrendous in magnitude!

Time, for one

Length or breadth, say

Bartender (wordplay)

One who draws up legal documents

Architect's aide

Some architecture firm workers

Metal found in mud deposit round Russian river

English word

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

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

""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

Licking lemon, idiot idiotic!

Ryan Adams' current album

Light Infantry in degrading defeat

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

English word

Obscure union - it might well be weakening

Decrease

""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.""

Present compiler's back in control

I am held back by present government

Exercise of mastery.

DEAMINATE

""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.""

Alteration of shape

Disfigurement

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

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

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

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

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""

One, for one

He's mixed up in a religious group

Faith in money

""A surgical procedure designed to remove skin imperfections, such as scars, by abrading the surface of the skin with fine sandpaper or wire brushes.""

""The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.""

""DIMERIZE to make into a dimer, also DIMERISE""

A disavowing or disowning.

Process of decay

Collapse of French work of art

Putrefaction

Cause of sickness if sudden

Reduction in air pressure

Upset, stand it no more - protest!

How-to event

Picket villain's timeshare

DEMYELINATE

24 put off people crossing motorway

Firmness of purpose

Resolution to get legal decision

Act of spreading widely

Scattering process

Spreading, distribution

The act of making dissimilar.

Upper-class girl set about in spreading hypocrisy

Hypocrisy

One that makes documentaries or a documentary.

Concerted action mounted by the papers

Written papers

DOGMATIZE To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

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

The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

Same as dramatization.dramatization.

Screenplay, for one

This is how it might have happened (nonverbal)

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

COMPENSATION The act or principle of compensating.

""FEMINIZATION The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.""

HUMANIZATION The act of humanizing.

LEGITIMATION The act of making legitimate.

Post-war problem for Uncle Sam

""The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.""

""The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy. as, the demoralization of an army or navy.""

""PIGMENTATION A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver. as, pigmentation of the liver.""

Removal of uncertainty of meaning

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

The act of disembarking.

Girl's part of a dancing set-up? That's a lie

DOLOMITIZE DOLOMITE a mineral

Removal of harmful substances

One goal of the E.P.A.

The removal of dangerous substances

GLAMORIZATION

Magazine diet not working, an unattractive process (wordplay)

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

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

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