2-Letter Words Starting with F

Stink thereof bubbles up after he leaves

Foul smell

Awful smell

Five to ten, for example (wordplay)

Act for (anagram)

2 or 4, vis-a-vis 8

Hesitate, seeing female change

Hesitate as female tailor

Fail to remain steadfast

C'mon! Giddyap!

Quicker for one with no input

Jet setter's cry?

Time, for one

Daddy (but not, like, *daddy*)

That's never Mummy that's so overweight!

Comparatively like 15 across (wordplay)

Not so slim

More substantial, as a paycheck

Feat

Hairless uncle of film, TV, and cartoons

Rankle, as bad feelings

Go off right, pursuing clown

Ankle bracelet (wordplay)

Shackle for the ankle

Cuff for the ankle

Reduce a set, perhaps

It's a strain to do this

Remover of impurities

Pipe handler, maybe

In better shape

Mechanic less liable to 6

` ` Phil the ...'s ball ' ' (song)

Tool for making decorative grooves

One who makes ornamental grooves

Stench (var.)

Page identifier, perhaps

Bottom line (wordplay)

Bottom-of-the-page material

E. C. A. administrator

America's Troubador (1826-64).

One of the Dulleses

Brother making a mess in the monastery

A Latin brother

Monk's title

One that {fagots=v}

Not as distinct

More washed-out

Overwhelmed fan, sometimes

Loafer: dial

The extra mile, perhaps

Her raft (anagram)

Beyond; her raft (anagram)

Like rib eye, compared to sirloin

Less lean, as meats

With more suet

One who may have a lot to chew on

Guests of Lucullus

Holiday dinner diner

Afraid to grip the wedge (wordplay)

Bird dropping (wordplay)

Down with her earlier act!

One that {fetches=v}

Boxer, for one

Aircraft suitable for a boxer (wordplay)

One in a ring

Part of a freight train

Freight-train unit

Roller without sides

Lavish compliments on (someone)

Use oil on, you might say

Use soap and drier

Usain Bolt, vis-a-vis virtually everyone

Not so slow

More like gazelles

Skirt chaser

Dallier.

Coquette

Female children move like butterflies

Hummingbird, for example

Dart about unpredictably

Cork's undecided voter (wordplay)

Cork, for one

Workman who shifts from job to job.

One showing contempt

Loud yob turned on defiant person

Mocking one.

Make hot and flurried.

To make confused, yet restful

Cause one to fret

Fluty

Bet pound on leading filly, say

Bat, making fine half-century, say

Say this at last with the wings

A maker of fishing flies

Footy

Someone who footles

""A style of type, also FRAKTUR""

""A style of type, also FRACTUR""

One who worries excessively

Squander food (wordplay)

Waste which takes a battering (wordplay)

Deep-fried Southern treat

Someone who fronts an organisation? no -S [n pl.]

One who grows of sells fruit

One that {functions=v}

Give an impulse to

And what's more...

"And what's more . . ."

More stale-smelling

Moldier.

He who hesitates

Unsteady sort

One will hesitate to change things at last

Pin, popper or zip, perhaps

Brad, for one

Zipper, for one.

Calorie-laden item

Dieter's no-no

Faulty

Featly

More exuberant or quarrelsome

More excitable and fieriest criminal

More energetic iron is at that level

One that {fellates=v}

One who searches intensively

Persistent sleuth

One that {fetters=v}

Nervous Nellie

Green beetle of southern U. S.

Shiny beetle disliked by fruit growers

A groove in a window frame

Impurity remover

More soiled

More obscene

Disgustingly dirtier

Tube-like shape is artful (wordplay)

Hollow, as a pipe or reed

Tube-like fruit Sal rejected

Exhibitionist

Beaumont's collaborator

England skipper known as the Gnome

He plotted England's Ashes triumph

To flutter and quiver

More obdurate

Harder.

Flirty

Floaty

One who stirs up (strife)

One who makes trouble

Agitator

Last things (wordplay)

Shoes et al.

Mukluks and loafers

Pumps and clogs

That should cover 9 across, to boot

Boots and shoes

Pro cultivating trees (wordplay)

Ivory source (wordplay)

Woodwork for the steer (wordplay)

Nurturing sort

Promoter's backing from pilot about right

Encourager

Fretty

Cash or bombard (wordplay)

Border (not yet crossed?)

Bound for empty line, about to get in it

More unfriendly

More austere

Less friendly

Frothy

One who practices {frottage=n}

Richer but more eccentric

Grapes for one in hospital containing more juiciness than usual

""An apparatus for carrying out fermentation by a liquid suspension of microorganisms; a fermentation tank; as, an industrial fermenter.fermentation by a liquid suspension of microorganisms; a fermentation tank; as, an industrial fermenter.""

FERMENT to undergo a type of chemical reaction

Strong drink (two elements!)

Imbiber's intake

Order with an intimidating proof

FLATTEN to make {flat=adj}

Recent European in France is a sycophant

Toady uniform for Lawrence about right

One who praises somewhat dishonestly

Flaunty

Flighty

(Physics / General Physics) an instrument that measures the rate of flow of a liquid or gas within a pipe or tube

Word for a butterfly.

One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.

Meet the old man outside wild party being taken short!

In favour of returning label to his companion at rally

Convene

One who forgets; a heedless person.

Approving the subject, one that may organise the filing system

""One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.""

Dogged duo in the field (wordplay)

Person helped by hounds

"Tallyho!" shouter

Engineers aboard aircraft or ship

About to enter aircraft carrier

Cargo-carrying ship or plane

FRITTER to squander little by little

Rank by comparison of writer's novel

Two friers going wrong, smelling worse

Dealer in apples and pears (wordplay)

One charges for a date

Is this what you call a plum job for one who grows profits on trees (wordplay)

One who smokes out

Promoter to pelt the king and queen

Liar

FANTASIZE

Headgear fashionable to Africans

Knot a scarf into eye-catching headgear

Ladies' headdress

Source of diamond heat

Pitcher who doesn't rely on off-speed pitches

Feathery

Gardener's material

Garden center purchase

Garden enrichment

FICTION an invented or false story

Block the passage, so to speak

Delaying tactic to obstruct legislation

Intransigent senator's tactic

FILMSET to set by a process of typesetting

One from the prairie

Prairie resident

Corps of Engineers concern

Cause of inundation

Bank threat

Bird one's seen on the web (wordplay)

Winger tucking contract inside leaflet

Shrewd fielder in sticky leg trap

Buzzer beater (wordplay)

Thing causing a buzz kill (wordplay)

Low-tech pest-control device

Back (or forward?)

Otto Graham is one

Soccer player, abroad

G.I.'s small trunk

G.I.'s trunk

Soldier's stowage

Predicter (of, eg, weather)

Rain man (wordplay)

One predicting the future

He came earlier for the fancy feather

One very high up a tree given warning by priest

He's back on the line with new offer (change of heart)

Meet old boy being entertained by dad

A female ancestor.

One who predicts.

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

""An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.""

FOURTEEN a number

Person roaming for plunder

Someone living off plunder

Pirate before, at sea, tore off

One in a race, paddling steel ferry

Familiar face

Habitue.

Dude, nice triatomic molecule!

Like some fish (2 words)

Could it make ferret wash (wordplay)

A smoother of the way

Petty nagger

Nitpicker

FELICITATE Made very happy.

Hook and ladder rider

Hoser (wordplay)

Ladder company member

FLOCCULATE To aggregate into small lumps.

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Infantry soldier (on the march?)

Infantryman pays lumberjack

Infantry soldier

Front half of a side of meat

""One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market.""

Sinatra's wiener (wordplay)

Type of sausage

Former Supreme Court member.

One who fraternizes.

One having priceless ideas!

One who doesn't follow the crowd

He gets priceless ideas

Fruitful

FESTIVAL a time of celebration

One speaking at length to block legislation

Weapon used in heated dispute (wordplay)

Criticize a pitcher (wordplay)

Gun firing burning liquid

""FRACTIONATE To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.""