2-Letter Words Starting with D

Certificate of debt.

Long-term security issued by a company

IOU for time between rivers

One throwing a ball (wordplay)

Poet takes pipe back for new one

Coming-out party honoree

Debutant

Decadent

DECAL a design made to be transferred

Metric length

393.70 inches, metric

32 feet, 9 inches

Ornamental glass bottles.

The wine bottles have sad centre, oddly

Decorative wine bottles

Producing a downpour

Latched on to jockey - it's eventful!

Ten out of ten for the all-rounder!

Summer Olympics event

Decedent

Not to be trusted

Deft clue I misjudged? It's misleading

Cue lifted for swerving? False

Makes eccentric.

Decent

Decentre

Decentre

'Code' with inept resolution is cunning

For such trickery one must need cop it

Smoke, from a magician

So are David Blaine's appearances

Seems that M. is leading this

Not straight

CERTIFY to declare as true

""Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.""

About 3.38 fluid ounces

State of Manawatu on Tuesday!

Destroyed a large part of.

Destroyed most of

Married tithers (wordplay)

Nearly wipes out

After the first of the month one takes ten per cent from one's colleagues

DECIME an old French coin

U.S. citizen-to-be

Downward slope

City lived in turmoil; it's a downward slope

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

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

Movement of eyes in modest lowering

Amount lost

Reduction, diminution

Decretal

Having the force of an edict.

Established by a decree; definitive; settled.

Cracked, and took overground (wordplay)

Deciphered

Cracked

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.

Extending downward; said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.

""To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.""

Devoted to a cause or ideal 99)

Consecrated - single-minded

Means of one-to-one communication

Elise, for one

Person named early in a book

Elise, for Beethoven's "Fur Elise"

Makes a commitment (to)

Sets aside for some purpose

Names in someone's honor

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

Deduct

Removal from gathering

That's not 25 down, and with reason

Points taken away in the ring

Like evidence-based reasoning

Like Sherlock Holmes's powers

Like "top-down" reasoning

Deemster

Type of Conrad's seamen.

Serious trouble, so to speak

Area of danger

Misappropriate the proceeds of facet deal

Embezzle

Defat

Like a retired seismologist (wordplay)

Indeed it's not 22 across

Indeed it's wrong not to have paid

Lienee, at times

One who fails to pay

He hasn't paid his bills

Defeater

Fed up with being fed with beating

Fed up with winning by wining and dining

Winning victory over

Pessimistic view fades with time maybe

Overeagerness to admit to failure

Pessimistic resignation

If date set (anagram)

Feed poorly, at first being hopeless

He's always expecting to be beaten

Overthrow; defeat.

Defecate

Defecate

Defect

The Berlin Wall's purpose was largely to prevent this

Drunk I've fed, etc is not working

Subject to a recall

Faulty iron, evicted, thrown outside

Kin of apostates

Political asylum seekers

Some exiles

One on trial

One is not to a c.c. 17 across

Plea bargaining party

Deferent

Stay and calm down (wordplay)

Delay of French Revolution's effect

Stay in midst of students' agitation

In rebellious way

Fed up and lacking 11 cent

Lacking in it, I fenced poorly

In depression ironclad company becomes inadequate

Pins, to balloons

Letting the air out

Fed up with the classics? Gee, that'll puncture you!

A real let-down!

Decline in general price level

Loss of air

Pessimists, often (wordplay)

Pins and needles (wordplay)

Air releasers

Redirected, perhaps inadvertently

Turned away from intended course

Turned or caused to turn aside

Shield in "Star Trek"

Furnace device

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

Converts to pastureland, say

Clears (land) of trees.

Builds an apartment complex in the Amazon, perhaps

Corruption of god's taking shape

Lack of proper shape

Imperfection or defect of the body

Readied for roasting, perhaps

A poet in action thawed out

Did freezer maintenance

Ice-melting device

Rear window grid

Ridder of ice

Degust

The man's tucked in - fit to burst!

Bursting: bot.

Emerging forcefully from hot Irish capital in fall

Dehort

Make heated and dry (wordplay)

Deprive of water

Remove moisture from, make dry

""Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.""

Deject

Low spirits of a number getting dismissal

Despondency

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

Same as Decaliter. Decaliter.

Same as Decameter. Decameter.

Delation

Took off one's plate

Assigned, as tasks

Assigned authority

Agent

Representatives or deputies

Assigns jobs to club representatives

Signers of the Declaration

LEGATOR one that {legates=v}

Crossings-out; cancellations

Files in a recycle bin

Nose around the tile for removals

Moved leftward, eastern pots

Blue-and-white pottery

Rotterdam pots

Washables requiring special care

Table treats, of old

Undies

So pleased to be in the dark, perhaps

Not longer lit up, glad to say

Very happy to be blonde indeed!

One who gives pleasure

Set the boundaries of

Tag at the beginning or end of computer data

Portray precisely - teen ideal (anagram)

Show by drawing

Explain in detail

Delist

English word

Deluster

One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.

""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.""

Establish escort eats whipped cream

Bound, as ground.

Mark boundaries.

Demast

DEMENTIA a mental illness

Losses of sharpness

Symptoms of a mad, mad world.

Mad conditions

Dement

Demerit

Moore's coffee cup (wordplay)

Pour out mug inside of French coffee

One may go with a saucer

Withdrawing from office

Demivolt

Their sights are set on '54

Certain party men.

US political party

They know hellish things

Military punishments

Rank reductions

March into conflict with squadron leader after positional losses

Demotist

Demount

Dempster

""Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent. as, oil is demulcent.""

Make easier to understand

Clear things up

Like alcohol that's unfit for drinking

Unfit to drink.

How a turn is twisted indeed for a change

Renders unfit to drink.

Doctors date nurse foolishly

Changes the character of area in false set

Dendrite

""DENDRITE a branched part of a nerve cell, also DENDRON""

NERVATE having veins

Say bad things of French granite pieces

Put down one jar after study

Blacken the name of.

""To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.""

Mass-to-volume ratios

Amount-per-unit sizes

Population statistics

""A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.""

Small teeth.

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

The filling field (wordplay)

Field of canines (wordplay)

Study of minor car accidents (wordplay)

Linda or Dale

Make a hole in it with one on for the teeth

I intend to manipulate development of teeth

Possessing teeth; toothed.

DENTURE a set of teeth

Denudate

Denudate

Sure thing (wordplay)

Underarm spray, perhaps

Secret stuff (wordplay)

Deorbit

Depaint

Departee

Taking a hike

It's just no go

It's just no go for the leaves

One of a sort of leaves (wordplay)

Going on leave

Leaving for something new

Dented pan? (anagram)

One's kept earring of Parisian seen first

One needs support ot kill the insect at last

Relying/contingent (on)

One kind of asset at income tax time

April 15th asset.

Depicter

Depict

Drawing EP, in a manner of speaking

Representation in art

Delivery contains record of picture

Depictor

Depilate

Strips down and regularly does gentle exercise

Taking away from

Causing to run out

Draining

Reduction in total value (of a resource)

Ozone layer issue

Reduction in quantity

Able or fitted to deplete.

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

Immoral act(s) - wickedness

Theological word for original sin

Moral corruption

Belittle tatty carpet kept by woman

Feel and express disapproval of

Express disapproval of

Plunder, old style.

Prey upon.

Rob and Pete dread being made to look silly

Having no depth; shallow.

Purified.

Depurate

Deputize

Authorizes as an official.

Pins a star on

Derat

Ones neglecting their duties

They've been abandoned by society

Skid Row people

Derivate

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

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any beetle of the family Dermestidae, whose members are destructive at both larval and adult stages to a wide range of stored organic materials such as wool, fur, feathers, and meat. They include the bacon ( or larder), cabinet, carpet, leather, and museum beetles [from New Latin dermestida, from Greek dermēstēs, from derma skin + esthiein to eat]""

Rate dodge made to seem disreputable

Lowered in rank

Detracted from French staff outside entrance

Runs down

Disparages

Desalter

Desalt

Descant

Seer acted badly to abuse sacred object

Defile, as something sacred

Harm a church

Clicks again, possibly

Cancels, as in an online order form

Cancels a choice

Front runners (wordplay)

The army wants them

Those spurning their outfits

Making it dry, perhaps, so abandoning it

Leaving it dry with gin

Leaving Sahara after Carol is beheaded

That's leaving things in a barren state

Grounds for divorce.

Don Revie was accused of this

Extra capsule in a pill bottle

Do not eat substance

Dryer found in freak accidents

Preserve by drying (eg coconut)

Preserve by removing all liquids from

Preserve by removing all liquids

Assign or appoint

Choose to throw giants' pants in river

Appoint gent with ideas, at work

Calling it quits

How I give pain to Desmond by the stoppage

That's the boy I give pain to, without going on with it

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!

Adept seer (anagram)

Extremely dangerous (situation)

Crazy speed and more speed? Reckless!

Despite

Do miss pet (anagram)

Tyranny makes its mark in religion

System espoused by tyrants