2-Letter Words Starting with D

Giovanni, for one

Soprano's role (wordplay)

Cherry, for one

Soft feathers (like this clue)

Not a cross here'? That's soft!

Loan lure, maybe

Incubus for one

Speedy one (wordplay)

Overly possessive type (wordplay)

Malcolm from the west (wordplay)

County cricketer on-side (wordplay)

SW county of England

""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)

Pour too much syrup on, perhaps

Audibly overwhelm (with "out")

Pour too much syrup on perhaps

Evil spirit (Var.)

Evil spirit (bonus points for spelling!)

Faery gone bad (wordplay)

An evergreen tree

Literally, "big root"

Literally, 'big root'

Another name for mooli; on a kid (anagram)

Welshman and Scotsman? The devil it is!

Indwelling power or spirit

Evil spirit variable

Brosnan's Bond predecessor

Bond in "License to Kill"

Bond between Moore and Brosnan

Mother and child in a jam (wordplay)

Does her boy make her fruity (wordplay)

Mother and child after fruit

Cleric - canoed (anagram)

Church official - canoed (anagram)

"One Hoss Shay" constructor

Take two points off (wordplay)

Make safer, as livestock

Make safer, on the ranch

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

""A former gold coin of Spain, also DOBLA""

He drew the first Christmas card.

On several occasions he wrote poems

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)

Keep of medieval castle

Castle's inner tower

Keep for a fellow-man

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

One shooting from the mouth (wordplay)

Puff for one

Fafnir, for one

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

Asian tree

A herbicide

A polygon - eg can-do (anagram)

The shape of accountant shot in study

Belizean dollar coin's silhouette

To {depose=v}

An insecticide

Nerve cell part

Tree Comb. form.

Tree: Comb. form.

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}

Prevent the union of

Disconnect, become separate

Separate 12 accompanying another in vice

Does family have leather (wordplay)

Cloth suffices, sort without hem

Glove material, sometimes

Flipper for one

Bottlenose creature (wordplay)

Flipper for one

One with an entry-level job (wordplay)

Entry-level job (wordplay)

Hotel employee, perhaps

Entry-level employees (wordplay)

Hotel swingers (wordplay)

Whistlers outside hotels

Soldier of British "Guards."

Soldier's round embedded in battleaxe

Doctor previously dealing with pressure

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!

Santa's boxing award (wordplay)

Duty expected of an executive.

Judge's sentence remarkably is in code

A commander of a decury

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

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

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...'

""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

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

Remove symbol of royalty from record, with name below line

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

Old gold coin

Mardi Gras money

Former Spanish gold coin

Middle of Bangor, maybe (wordplay)

Central commercial district (US)

Newry, for instance (wordplay)

Maybe Bangor's act is in decline

Unhappy with change into recession

Feathers go into decline

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

Reduction of military strength

Deplete steadily

Around it (anagram)

Length (of time)

For this for now

Vacuum tube

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

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

Get this at in a manner of speaking

Take it down from this

Speaking of words to be taken down

I would back loud form of jazz spreading

Osmosis, for example

Dispersal

Gut reaction (wordplay)

span>Fizzy gin and it

Process of assimilating food

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

Shown to be false.

Demonstrated to be false

Drips spilled on cooker shown to be a mistake

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

Very severe medic with a look over Scot

Very harsh like severe laws

Incan road (anagram) - extremely harsh

"Hunger Games" descriptor

Like "The Hunger Games" society

Like 'The Hunger Games' society

English word

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

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

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

""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.

Sad fine comedian failed

Ruined

Defeated

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

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