2-Letter Words Starting with D

'Code' with inept resolution is cunning

For such trickery one must need cop it

Smoke, from a magician

Losing leaves periodically

Losing leaves annually

Bare in winter

One followed by 33 zeros

1 followed by 33 zeros.

What everyone has to make.

They are often unanimous

They are not always unanimous

Naval architect's creation

Ship superstructure

Choked, spoiling exercise in navigator's cabin (wordplay)

Decoct

Nice doctor shortly produced a pharmacological essence

Separate the sheets, maybe

Separate computer printouts

Behead

Having a low neckline, from French

Low neckline cut round half of bust

Adjective for some evening gowns

Decolor

Bleaches coloureds when boiled

Hide half what Bach did? Rot!

That's the way to make it all rot

Resolve into constituent parts.

Get rid of stuffiness: get second wind

Clear churchman's joke for an audience

Remove restraints or official authority

Remove restrictions from

Make unregulated

Painted like a warrior (wordplay)

Awarded medal(s)

Smashing do, catered for and honoured

Papers unveiled a secret do

Bestows medals.

Beautifies

Tradesman handing out medals (wordplay)

Authority on interiors.

Hiree after a move

Art coated in varnish

Paper cutouts as a decorative art

Cut-paper decoration

Unlinked

Decouple

Established by a decree; definitive; settled.

Decrown

Decurion

""One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.""

Removal from gathering

That's not 25 down, and with reason

Points taken away in the ring

Scottish hunting dog

Large dog bred for hunting

The Berlin Wall's purpose was largely to prevent this

Kin of apostates

Political asylum seekers

Some exiles

A real let-down!

Decline in general price level

Loss of air

Pessimists, often (wordplay)

Pins and needles (wordplay)

Air releasers

Shield in "Star Trek"

Furnace device

Deflower

Defoamer

Defoam

Defocus

Defocus

Windshield adjuncts

Visibility aids

Defog

Leaves-dropper (wordplay)

Type of chemical sprayed on plants

I don't mess with leaf stripper

Use Agent Orange on

One does this and leaves off

Remove leaves from a tree

Deforce

Converts to pastureland, say

Clears (land) of trees.

Builds an apartment complex in the Amazon, perhaps

Deformer

Disfiguring

Corruption of god's taking shape

Lack of proper shape

Imperfection or defect of the body

Deposed from the priesthood

Like former fathers

Deposed from priesthood

Readied for roasting, perhaps

A poet in action thawed out

Did freezer maintenance

Ice-melting device

Rear window grid

Ridder of ice

Dehorner

Rendering harmless, in a way

Dehort

Deionize

An apparatus used to remove ions from a solution; a common variant contains a mixture of cation exchange resin in the acid form and anion exchange resin in the hydroxyl form inside a replaceable cartridge; ions in aqueous solution are exchanged for the elements of water by passing the solution through the mixed resin.

Deionize

Low spirits of a number getting dismissal

Despondency

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

Delation

LEGATOR one that {legates=v}

Crossings-out; cancellations

Files in a recycle bin

Nose around the tile for removals

Variety of apple.

High quality apple.

Very pleasant to taste

Bouncing off the walls

Really out of it

Top-ten Prince hit

Fumigation experts

That'll be getting the bugs out of it

Nitpicking (wordplay)

Ridding of lice

English word

False beliefs of French in souls transformed

By the sound of them, Miss gets taken as they are

They will profoundly mislead you, unless I do otherwise

Demagog

By way of being a teacher

Rabble-rousing

Agog in half a hundred like any schoolmaster

Emotion-arousing politico

Incite-ful orator

Political agitator.

""A yellowgreen, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.""

Facial appearances

Outward attitudes

Bearings

Energy low inside gloomy carriage

Unusually enamoured by one's appearance

Manner of behaving towards others

Bulbous, narrow-necked bottles

Bottles of a kind.

Narrow-necked bottles

A shady hemisphere (wordplay)

Amber's class, forever (wordplay)

Low-prestige circle

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

Demivolt

See demimonde .

Demob

Rule of the people

Form of government.

McCoy read novel, The Common People

Their sights are set on '54

Certain party men.

US political party

Demoniac

Fiendish

Action taken around start of week is vilified

Demonise

Demonism

They know hellish things

Turned into an evil spirit

Demonize

Military punishments

Rank reductions

March into conflict with squadron leader after positional losses

Demotist

Demount

Formed from a noun

Spoke ill of

Condemned big cat in lair died

Openly rebuked

One making a public accusation

One condemns squalid quarters used by wild cat, right (wordplay)

Condemns; informs on

Makes accusations about study on weights

Speaks ill of dental exchange for 10 oz.

Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; toothshaped.

Linda or Dale

Make a hole in it with one on for the teeth

I intend to manipulate development of teeth

Possessing teeth; toothed.

Sure thing (wordplay)

Underarm spray, perhaps

Secret stuff (wordplay)

Render inoffensive, in a way

Freshen

Deorbit

To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.

Drawing EP, in a manner of speaking

Representation in art

Delivery contains record of picture

Depictor

Reduction in total value (of a resource)

Ozone layer issue

Reduction in quantity

Deplorer

Being sorry about.

Placing, as troops.

Placing troops in battle formation

Distributing strategically

Witnesses giving written testimony

Vice unit given odd notes by witnesses

Out-of-court testifiers

National personae non gratae

Lucky Luciano and others.

They've been expelled

Expelling (from country)

Laid down naturally (like silt)

Placed for safekeeping

Put into an account

Saver made half the penniless sit inside

Bank account holder

One putting money into a bank account

Doctor's instrument

Muscle of a certain kind.

Instrument for the tongue

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Derision

Anatomy An area of skin innervated by sensory fibers from a single spinal nerve.

Rate dodge made to seem disreputable

Lowered in rank

Detracted from French staff outside entrance

Runs down

Disparages

That's leaving things in a barren state

Grounds for divorce.

Don Revie was accused of this

Tied to sedentary work

Vault below lectern offering no escape from office

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Cytology a structure in the cell membranes of adjacent cells that binds them together

Like ghost towns

With no one around

Made extremely sad

Ravager

Does least (anagram)

Leaves forlorn.

Forsakes

Volunteers misplace gun without retreating. One's devastated!

Desorb

Road speed (anagram)

Billy the Kid, for one

Speed trick Radio 1 dropped? Bravo!

Ravaged

Sherman at Atlanta

Thief.

Thief

Despond

Do miss pet (anagram)

Tyranny makes its mark in religion

System espoused by tyrants

Tore the defence apart

Put an end to

Damaged irreparably, ruined

The Caine, for one

Noaj for one

Does Terry turn killer (wordplay)

Half-hearted duels over a Conservative

With neither plan nor purpose

Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm

Uncovering deceit? Not difficult!

What sleuthing is all about

Police work cited note in question

Devices for locating submarines.

Radar and sonar.

Sensors, essentially

Punishment for a class cut-up, maybe

It need not give rise to punishment

After-school punishment

Toppled, in a way

No longer the champion

Deposed champion

One in three-D version: King Stephen, say

Causes a power outage (wordplay)

Displaces the reds on top (wordplay)

Removes from power

That can be detonated: detonable warheads; detonable bombs.

Noted date had switched and set off

Set off from school in old hat

Set off dynamite

Sets off, as a bomb

Causes an explosion

Sets off with girlfriends to tour the school

Do not tear off to get a primer!

Fuse, for example

Set off with this

Detour

Brooklyn trailer hauler (wordplay)

One who is critical

One disparages or belittles

A wearing off or away.

Very small things not reused, chucked

Wanted to get a negative result

Turned out in a negative sort of way

As it turned out with a negative result

One with lots to talk about

Photo lab chemical

Real estate speculator

Develope

Erring and straying (wordplay)

A turning aside from a certain course

Departure from accepted standards

Non-U eats, the first with a plate getting in - they go another way

""Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. as, deviatory motion.""

""A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive. Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.""

Behind someone's back

Devoice

Devolve

Love Teddy Askew with commitment

Religious observ-ances

That's prayers for Devon, so it is

Religious observances.

Devourer

You phone at last while I'm eating

What I've been so eager to eat has got mostly ground

Most reverent.

Dewool

Dewormer

Deworm

Ragged-trousered unknown exposed right away, which is skilful

Adroit

Dextrose

""Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.""

DIABOLISE

To render diabolical.

""Time the study and description of the change or development in the structural systems of a language over a stated period of time. Also called historical linguistics . Cf. synchronic linguistics . ; diachronic , adj . Linguistics""

Dick Dudgeon was the devil's

Act on idea put out by clerical office

Identified

Doctor agonised over second opinions

Identifies problem of San Diego's poor

Doctors' determinations

Result of an exam

Physician's conclusion

Identification of a disease

They show a bias

Virgules or twills

Geometry lines

Dialoger

Dialog

Plato was one

Conversation writer

Held colloquy.

Works by Plato

Late talk recorded by King and Lyttleton

Two-person talks

13 with ice (wordplay)

Pipe organ stops

Diaphone

Administer a horrid enema to be purged of this (wordplay)

Motions not welcomed from her radio broadcast at one

Polish in Chicago and Italians in Argentina

Diaspore

Diastole

Part of a heart rhythm

I slid coat off, relaxed after being pumped up (wordplay)

Injecting iodine into clot aids dispersing of cardiac dilation

Algae remains

Diazinon

""Any of various compounds, especially an aromatic hydrocarbon, containing the cation N 2 attached to an organic group.""

""To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.""

""The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.""

A small creeping herb (Dichondra micrantha) commercially cultivated as a substitute for lawn grass.

Division into two parts or kinds

Division into two parts

Dual nature

""The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.""

English word

Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers.

A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.