2-Letter Words Starting with D

Pro athlete's no-no

It leads to a serious race problem

Olympics no-no

Making a fool of

Fooling or hoaxing

Taking in

Reducing the amplitude of (a vibration)

Pad up with a pong in a fishy sort of way

A couple of fathers and one gin to go fishing with

Type of sauce served with dumplings

Doing a ballroom maneuver

Action of a ladle

Arranging in folds.

Arranged to fall just so

Gown designer's concern

Selling at any price

Discarding unceremoniously

Throwing away doughy piece of food left out

Dup

Spotting

Testifying under oath

Sacking of corrupt GP is done

*Writing one's sworn testimony

Getting rid of dogs, pine terribly

Appointing as one's agent

Making little dents in

'Being just a little depressed, yet smiling (8)'

Fat daughter's renting

Fat Duck's starter found by A1

Penny's splendid spread

Visibly exhausted

Hanging limply

After going round the Philippines poor Gordon is flagging

"For peace comes ... slow" (W B Yeats)

Send a quick message to

In free fall

Store fish - for the stew (wordplay)

Landfill in a toy city (wordplay)

Ball of dough

Dampen

Splitting from French river, Napoleon perhaps bears north

Decuple

Changing the channel (wordplay)

Dredging a river or harbor channel

Becoming abstruse

Taking a hike

It's just no go

It's just no go for the leaves

It's all this hanging on

Relying on this, the last comes last

Relying on deputy finishing off

Deperm

Depict

Getting off a DC-6.

Taking away from

Causing to run out

Draining

Being sorry about.

Placing, as troops.

Placing troops in battle formation

Distributing strategically

Deplume

Expelling (from country)

Leading down the primrose path

Stripping

Loathing pigs, Enid's going mad!

Hating with every inch of one's body

Disdaining, scorning

Despite

Diaper

Ou, for example.

A couple of characters sticking together

Tongue-moving vowel sound

Dispose

It's a Russian head that's in there, in the argument

What Russians are ill-advised to do? Leader in general challenging

Dognap

Dollop

Duplex

Disconnecting two objects

Decrypt

Depaint

Removing hair from, as the body

Sadly, pet dog is in for putting down

Putting in

What Brooklyn dry cleaners do (wordplay)

Brooklyn dry cleaner's chore (wordplay)

Slice-of-life realism...

Depurate

Deputize

Hopeless couple taken in by bad design

Losing all hope

Giving up broadcasting after Desmond gets quiet

Despoil

Despond

Converting (open land) to buildings

Darkroom activity

Blooming old pig never moving without resistance

Diapause

Diploma

Dipnet

Discept

Disciple

Dispart

Regularly admit taking turn driving off

How I'd turn to ending 1 across while driving away

Dispend

Doing away with the work of a chemist

Spending is, in a way, sharing

Doctor in digs welcomes writers giving out to the chemist

Disperse

Taking the place of model splicing ad

Showing someone the door for most of the presentation by Charlie in government

The District Inspector's in the game. It all goes to show

Displode

Displume

Amusing (oneself)

At play

Disprize

Disprove

Disrupt

Dognap

Deadpan

Decipher

Breaking down

DECOUPAGE

Depolish

In a deprecating manner.

Preying upon

Despatch

Policemen, as expected, withering and scornful

Girl's father venting his spleen, being abusive

Derogatory

Dispatch

PEOPLING people

Causing loss of hope

Causing a loss of hope

Displant

Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable.

PRAISING the act of praising

Dispread

Breaking up and scattering

Downplay

DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

POLARIZING polarize

POPULATING populate

Losing value with time

Expressing disapproval about one losing value

Deprogram

Derepress

""DILAPIDATE To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; said of a building.""

*Part of many a magic act

Fading rum dip gains when fruit is added

Doctor finally is paged and pain unexpectedly is vanishing

Builder providing spa is critical

Critical of detective's program going out of range

""DISCIPLINE The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.""

COMPOSING compose

Distemper

Decompress

""Inflected form of CREPITATING Inflected form of CREPITATE To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.""

PROGRAMMING program

Failing to satisfy

Not as good as one had hoped

Dispossess

Disrespect

""Inflected form of COMPENSATING Inflected form of COMPENSATE To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.""

Inflected form of POLITICIZING Inflected form of POLITICIZE

""Inflected form of POLYMERIZING Inflected form of POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Inflected form of PRESSURIZING Inflected form of PRESSURIZE

""DIPHTHONGIZE To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.""

Reproducing photos by a former method, on a silver plate

Inflected form of PERSONALIZING Inflected form of PERSONALIZE To make personal.