2-Letter Words Starting with D

Prompt thing to arrive on (wordplay)

Period in time (wordplay)

Good name for a pointillist (wordplay)

Love too fondly Var.

Love too fondly variable

I double dare you!

Get busy on that!

C'mon, I dare you!

Blockhead, to cheat officer!

Fool told to get lost!

Blockhead student in a spot

Do as the Bible says (wordplay)

Old-fashioned do (wordplay)

Out-of-fashion do (wordplay)

Bus stop (wordplay)

Military storehouse, perhaps

Training area (wordplay)

Plant I had raised on bed

Flowering plant with two seed leaves

Plant with two seed leaves

Golfer's slice (wordplay)

Result of a bad shot, maybe

Chunk from a chip, maybe

Act, in Acts (wordplay)

Accomplish, in the Bible

Performs, old style

One in a baker's dozen, perhaps

Hole food (wordplay)

Brief coffee gowith perhaps

Trigger for one

No din, perhaps, by the sound of it

Feel pessimistic about

A Parisian's right (wordplay)

Right in France (wordplay)

Right, in law

Let fall in poetry

Fell to the ground, in poetry

Let fall poetically

Gangster, Asiatic style.

Criminal class of India

Gangster of India or Burma.

Member of an armed gang of robbers (Var.)

Extract the essence of by boiling

Make extracts from by boiling

Make an extract by boiling.

Seek to dissuade: Rare.

Seek to dissuade Rare.

Banish (undesirable alien?)

Cause of gout (wordplay)

Order beyond the border (wordplay)

Pharaoh, for one

Democrat's opponent (wordplay)

Kim Jong Un, for one

Voted out the Unionist in earnest

Pious and prayerful

Vet duo ridiculously pious

Bilingual

Double-tongued character has to cultivate allotment

Bilingual

Low-power period

Darken all lighting

Darken

Museum volunteer, perhaps

Image consultant, at times (wordplay)

Museum tour guide

List of things to try (wordplay)

Array of suits (wordplay)

List of cases

Electronic impurity

Trace impurity inserted into a semiconductor to alter its properties

Dow

Place to fatten livestock by limiting roughage

Can O and E be in the water (wordplay)

Bunker (for the football manager?)

A canoe in place of a sub (wordplay)

Mechanical device hit vessel

Dead treetop's somehow damper

Initially dry wood container gets damper

Clear the windows, maybe

Thaw (frozen food)

Prepare for cooking, perhaps

Remove from exhibition musical recording with short tune that's discordant

Begin to complete a space trip

Top side's changing grounds, perhaps

Put into, bank account say

Gold, perhaps, you put in the bank

An organism with a particular chromosomal structure

The lady's left to enjoy herself

Play endless record by Queen in can

Cavort, lark about

Tear from a foundation.

Do the twist (wordplay)

Make too much of, maybe

Runs I'd built up in scramble

Rover's old two-wheeler (wordplay)

Horse-drawn vehicle

Light, one-horse vehicle

Follow the leftie at a gentle pace

Slowish running pace of canine analogy

Slow, easy jog

""Stupid, dazed, also DONNARD, DONNART, DONNERD, DONNERED""

A trodden-on jellyfish (wordplay)

One might say 'Welcome'

One might say "Welcome"

Most inane and silly

The most stupid bit covering pies

Dazed to the max

Sleeping or inactive, say volcano

Sleeping party worker takes room inside

Beetle having married insect is sleeping

Doty

T.T. with the hose (wordplay)

Something to wear two times (wordplay)

The T.T., with hose attached (wordplay)

Are you soundly sleeping? Most obstinate

Morose to the max

Most gloomy.

House for pigeons.

Dwelling of a sort.

There's billing with the birds there

Party enjoyment - I being hugged may be most stupid

Small tear (of liquid)

Bit of liquid

Bit of mist

One with no class (wordplay)

Classless one (wordplay)

Restart (rugby game)

Hot drug (anagram)

Hurt dog (anagram)

Some arid rough time (wordplay)

A flowering plant

Eurasian shrub having serrated leaves and white flowers

Extinct measure for a roll of cloth?

It's a lock

Apartment door feature

Costar of William and Leonard

Clear-cut, as for lumber

Rid of trees

""A half turn made by a horse, also DEMIVOLTE""

Tom Daschle, for one

Person who likes the blues (wordplay)

Tom cared about this voter?

One who believes in demons

A student of demotic writings

One making a statement under oath

Person giving testimony opened unusual New Testament

Smashed open in Germany with old books for someone making a deposition

Mission controller (wordplay)

Immune one (wordplay)

Rice, for one

Ignore incentive to buy (wordplay)

Take no notice of sales ploy (wordplay)

Ignore sales ploy (wordplay)

Make incoherent

Come apart

Get off one's high horse perhaps

Get down from (a horse)

Get off (bike)

Diploma, for one

Don cut me (anagram)

Report duke? Count me out!

Most marked by skill in deception

In which boxers do combat (wordplay)

Canine struggle (wordplay)

Heightened clash of brawling boxers, say

Doggy

Like an alpha male

Refrain from taking out main ruling

Most important or influential

Could one hold up entrance (wordplay)

Upright of an entrance

Upright part of entrance frame

Most like George Michael Bluth

{asleep=adj}

Capital in Byzantine architecture

Most bananas

Most eccentric

Sit exam - holding it back is extremely silly

Small ring-shaped cake

Small circular cake

Deep fried snack

Most old-fashioned

Least fashionable.

Most frumpy

Gloomy round of an Ulster cop (wordplay)

Conductor's cue, maybe

Understated unhappy defeat

Unhappy players at Bangor (wordplay)

Gloomy players near Belfast (wordplay)

Ulster actors depressed (wordplay)

Most fluffy

Brightly colored fish

Brightly colored marine fish

Trawl collects ordinary fish

Waggish to the max

Most like Balzac's tales

Funniest.

Andy Murray's choice sinks in

Ball that just clears the net

Short return of hot tears at first

A perennial herb

Engraving of laconic fieldsman

Steel needle for engraving

Etching needle.

Dark purplish-red

Aperitif made with quinine

Tub on end (anagram) - aperitif

Napping spot Iowa (nonverbal)

Lindsay, a Wimbledon champion

Napping spot in Iowa (wordplay)

Get rid of stuffiness: get second wind

Clear churchman's joke for an audience

Leaves-dropper (wordplay)

Type of chemical sprayed on plants

I don't mess with leaf stripper

Sure thing (wordplay)

Underarm spray, perhaps

Secret stuff (wordplay)

Most reverent.

DIABOLISE

Plato was one

Conversation writer

English word

Make uneasy or embarrassed

Rattle male in party with sudden attack

Sweet daughter is first to perplex

A dishcloth.

It's lying by the plate, one's tea, say

Deceitful - hedonists (anagram)

Hedonists turned out to be deceptive

Puzzle Editor's in muddle!

Confuse the team at Leyton (wordplay)

Confuse at Brisbane Road!

Off-key and cacophonous

Lacking harmony

Clashing unmelodiously.

A. A violent fight between or as if between dogs.

Doggone

Canine doctrinaire (wordplay)

Pet in fog at dyed-in-the-wool type

Stickler for rules to follow a tribal leader into haze

Doughy

""An extremely powerful downward air current from a cumulonimbus cloud, typically associated with thunderstorm activity.""

""In basketball, in a direction towards the basket, also UPCOURT""

Vertical air movement

Spoiler of a smooth plane ride

Air pocket

Totally blue and Tory!

Germany have the side? Absolutely!

Absolutely miserable, agreed (wordplay)

Move from "D" to "L" (4,5)

Move to a lower gear

Slow without braking

A vertical pipe for carrying rainwater down from a roof gutter.

Most forlorn

Least spirited

Lamp on an adjustable cord

Drossy

Most likely to nod

Most soporific

Sign; indication.

final part (of play, etc)

Final resolution (of play, film, etc)

Final part (of film, play)

Extensive use of troops (wordplay)

Positioning of troops

Distribution of resources

Schools used to grade pupils in this.

Expel people starting to trash carriage

From outside port, men took bearing

Lacking hope - ten odd pens (anagram)

Down in the dumps

Almost without hope

TOXICANT a poisonous substance

""The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.""

""One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India. Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.""

""Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; opposed to monophyodont. as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; opposed to monophyodont.""

Let down badly in paid post

Fill with chaGRIN

Let down

The uneasiness of party maiden almost 40

Storm if doc creates pain

Club, male bastion, creating irritation

Rattle record playing? Sure thing

Put out of underworld union

Prior to musical event duke is upset

Break off an engagement (wordplay)

Divorce adjusted in second court

Detectives and screw pull the plug

Now is the winter of our - (Richard III)

Now is the winter of our - (Rich.III)

Lack of satisfaction

Quarreling insect (wordplay)

Quarreling insect?

Lacking harmony; conflicting

Act of disowning.

""Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach. as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.""

Doughty

Drouthy

Valley outlet

Dismantle (something)

Break down

Churchmen wanting a heavy vehicle reduced time to break down

""A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.""

Despoliation.

Process of growth

Cluster of apartment houses

New product/idea; state of growth

One who dichotomizes.

Representative abroad

One's certificate is in abstinence - from candour (wordplay)

The forcing from a fixed position

Going against instructions

Insubordinate, spreading sedition around base

Naughty daughter isn't accepting order to stop working

Act of disporting; diversion; play.

""An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.""

DIVISION the act of dividing

Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation.

Doggoned

Doleful

Red and tough (anagram); battleship

Aden drought affected battleship

Famous British battleship.

Superlative adjective

Medicine to unblock the nose

Medicine clearing airways

Catarrh reliever

Demolition.

""One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.""

Good tendrils could excite this type of plant expert

Conclusion is to include North Carolina in the criticism

Conclusion is to include North Carolina for criticism

One versed in deontology.

Toppling of a king

Removal from power

Removal of bishop from the highest seat in the land (wordplay)

""DEVIATION The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.""

""DIFFUSION The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.""

The taking away of funds and property (from an established church)

Removal from a fixed position

""DIVERSION The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business. as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.""

One razing buildings

Skin disease expert

Skin disorder expert

Doctor specialising in skin disorders

The character second in importance to the protagonist in classical Greek drama.

One wanting local powers

Person associated with (-ist)

DOCUMENTAL Of or pertaining to instruction.

DOCUMENTARISE

""Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.""

One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.

The study of dialects.

CID officer's job leads to frustration

Day one's date is a letdown

Letdown (skin)

Noun (-ment)

Sadness is something inside people stopping extremes of delight

Persuasion (against an action)

That which disheartens

Come in, Ted: 3 will destroy inhibition

""The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.""

One who takes daguerreotypes.

Learning that there's no Santa Claus

State of disenchantment

Result of shattered ideals