2-Letter Words Starting with I

Is nothing there? Surely the start of contour lines (wordplay)

Temperature lines on maps.

This is not the same manuscript in line

Hotlines to the Met Office

Uniform in all directions

Having the same properties irrespective of direction

People using Schedule A

Iterance

Saying over and over

Uttering repeatedly.

Repeating computer science with English tar

New software version

More of the same.

Performance a second time.

Word expressing repetition

Step-by-step, like a for-loop

Like 24/7 news channels

Tinker, for one, in olden days

Vagrant I entertain out East (wordplay)

Going around in circles (wordplay)

A going concern (wordplay)

Polo record, perhaps

Stop order (wordplay)

Travel on a circuit

Travel a circuit

Travel a regular circuit, as a judge

""A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivorycolored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States. Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivorycolored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.""

I tire and can go funny - caused by medical treatment (wordplay)

Cardinal-bishop, university professor and nurses supply drugs

Iceboater

"What's your sign?" perhaps

What's your sign? perhaps

Vacationer in Siberia (wordplay)

New location on-line for image-worship

Some dice, geometrically

Twenty-sided solids

20-faced solids

Idealizer

A person or thing that establishes the identity of someone or something

IDEOGRAM a type of written symbol

In Paris it's handsome to see a friend of Sartre

A prodigy he misled, writing in ?symbols

GPO diary he coded, writing in symbols

Idolatry

Showing excessive admiration.

Inappropriately worshipful

Worshipping images

A volcanic rock formed by the welding together of tuff material from an explosive volcanic eruption.

Ignorance

Not no wing this way (wordplay)

There's no knowing this way

In an unlearned way

The rate in U. S. is 2.7 per cent

Inability to read

Inability to read or write

I will say again one cannot read

Uneducated crook in Sydney? Say again

One who signs with an X, perhaps

""Produced by, based on, or having the nature of an illusion; deceptive: "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy" (Tom Wicker).""

Angry about student sensuality? Clarify!

Prepare drawings for a book

Show it's all true, strangely enough

Imbitter

Imbower

Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.

Imbricate

Messy situations

Confused situations

Spread round mob - girl is to provide sandwich and pickles

Getting inconspicuous, how a poet introduced himself (wordplay)

""A tricyclic compound, C 19 H 24 N 2 , used to treat depression and enuresis.""

Madonna's motto (wordplay)

Compiler's perhaps felt irrelevant

Of no significance.

In an immature manner.

Lack of development

Beyond recollection.

Indefinitely ancient.

Archaic museum rings Rome back for one before long

I'm terribly miserable without a waterproof

Semi-limber freestyle swimmer should be so

All-out baptisms

Baptismal acts

New arrivals, perhaps

They gave variety to the U.S.

DREAM Act children

""IMMIGRATE To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See Emigrate. Emigrate.""

Changes residency in a big way

Immixture

Immoderateness.

Speed on one motorway way too high

Unreasonable setter's style and class

Excessive organising made me riot

Immolator

IMMORAL promiscuous or unscrupulous

Gide opus, with "The"

Naughty Timmy and I have spoken of sinfulness

How gods live

Undyingly, imperishably

I, as in this everlasting flower

An everlasting.

""The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.""

Weakening, damage

The thing about politician high fliers is weakness

Injury suffered by 1000 pilots during exercise

Make perfectly happy

Enrapture

Imparity

Capable of being imparted or communicated.

""IMPART to communicate, also EMPART""

""The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed.""

Impearl

Sort of mood not to be ignored

One of the moods

Essential term in grammar

Imperator

Imperfect

This person's beautiful female, friend in a majestic sort of way

""IMPERIL to put in danger (pa t IMPERILED, IMPERILLED), also PERIL""

Imperil

Starchy prison meal's cooked

Male prison, dreadfully cold

Cold crime first found at end in drive

Incapable of being affected

High-handed, inwardly very resistant

Resistant and high-handed, very contained

Entreated.

Impetrate

Implanter

Allowed to come in, as foreign products

Like many foreign goods, I can be brought in as hand luggage (wordplay)

I am over the drink, can get it in and get able to carry it

Cameron swayed taking tip for power

The - of Being Earnest

Tip Cameron somehow to get power

Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important.

Begged persistently

What solicitor did, brought in to defend international group

Beseeched

Trafficker retains a French solicitor

International dealer retains a French pimp

Petitions to get resumption organised

Is a solicitor involved in resumption (wordplay)

Supplicates

Cheats and rogue start to make up stories

Deceptions.

Deceptions

Run to ruin

Ruin arch, crushing above

Mischievous maiden hiding in drain

Impower

Cursed devil, prowler in the grass

Cursed outburst of acid temper

Curses

Infertile announcement of expectations

Line from "Junior"

Saturate - permeating (anagram)

Saturate with a substance

Meagre pint served for soak

Impregn

P. T. Barnum, for one

One organising 21 had this in Oldham

Hurok or Bing.

I am urgent with the squeeze

The fact that I'm doing the ironing is making it seem important

Imitation (of a person)

Impact made by Rich Little (wordplay)

Sense in keeping promises for a change

Marvellous monkey revises, having failed

Permissive development is quite majestic

Like Eddie Van Halen

Dent; impression.

Licence in publishing

License to publish.

"Let it be printed."

Imprinter

Fixing indelibly, as on the memory

Logical claim of working press in learning process

What one might be for life (wordplay)

Put away for safety (wordplay)

MP inside or possibly doing bird

Unlikely to occur.

Tall child misbehaving with Nick Sharp

Doubtful that rascal Robert qualified

""IMPROBABLE Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event. as, an improbable story or event.""

Impromptu

Not according to Hoyle

In an unseemly manner

Suggest a rodeo competitor has entered wrongfully

Can be made better

Is outwardly better when played by ear

Is outwardly better when spontaneous

Spontaneously created

One winging it

Demon dog is bound to be one deviating imaginatively (wordplay)

One able to wing it is person getting better all round

Goes outside the lines (wordplay)

Ad-libs

Riffs

""IMPROVISE To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.""

Lack of discretion

Rashness and cheek? That's about right

That'll make one a rasher

The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.

Foreign parts (wordplay)

Base admixtures.

Results of fouling? Umpire is mad about it

Error seen in a key position of church

Lack of correctness

One's out in a cold clergyman's office

Wrong one can upset clergyman

Off the mark

Cain converted by a religious person? Wrong

Casanova's ladies

Don Juan's ladies.

Casanova's ladies

English word

Not arguable.

INARGUABLE

Lacking in drawing power (wordplay)

Lacking in taste

Lacking creative talent; intact iris (anagram)

Office addresses (wordplay)

Addresses I can finally predict too briefly

Introduce (a new system, etc)

Induct into office

A rug auntie made for launch

INBREATHE To infuse by breathing; to inspire.

Inbreathe

Developing within popular family in Gateshead

Bringing forth young of closely related animals

Fashionable manners producing a delicate strain (wordplay)

Invested with human form.

Embodied

Incarnate

In icy cavern Eddie explodes bomb

Likely to stir up trouble

Danny fiddled with one rice bomb

Completely destroy, perhaps

Destroy by burning

Burn to ashes

Inclosure

Rambling in rocky north-east? Nice!

Tossed coin, then ... er ... (not clear)

Difficult to understand

Incorpse

Increaser

End of the quip

Enhancing or heightening

Becoming more numerous.

Evoking oohs and aahs

Impossible to believe

Beyond one's comprehension

In an incredible manner.

Always arise with them

Growths of value, sometimes unearned.

Amounts by which something increases

Waxing, as the moon

Waxing

Incross

Incrust

Office-space providers for startups

Hatchery installations

Serving for incubation.

One who inculcates.

Incumber

Incurable

""The act of incurring, bringing on, or subjecting one's self to (something troublesome or burdensome); as, the incurrence of guilt, debt, responsibility, etc. as, the incurrence of guilt, debt, responsibility, etc.""

Incursion

INCURVATE Curved; bent; crooked.

Incurvate

Indagator

Indecent

Unseemly do on cruise trip

Unseemly.

Unseemly

Indecorum

Bound in service

Like many servants, once

Agreements to work wearing prostheses

Contracts among sets that may be false

Binds to service

Weather vanes

Pointers.

Signals

New dictionary is sort of revealing

In a roundabout manner.

In a roundabout way

Round about

1ac 1ac? Tactless!

Injudicious (anag of 6, 9 and 23)

Imprudent - 10 across (anagram)

Indurate

""The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.""

INDURATE to make {hard=adj}

Indian river test?

Inlaid rust (anagram)

Indian river test (wordplay)

Cosmetics and textiles, for two

Ancient civilisation taxes businesses

Business enterprises

Indweller

Inearth

Inebriant

I will get it with beer and whisky!

Tight in bar? I need it to unwind!

On a bender it turned out, one's drunk

Some skid-row denizens

They're stewed

Confounds completely

INERTIAL pertaining to {inertia=n}

Certain line a boxer takes (wordplay)

Harsh exile or ban possibly

Relentless smashing of Alex O"Brien

With single-minded determination

Hardly in a skillful way

Soldiers on foot, collectively

Ground armies

The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.

Subtle case crackers

Columbo's forte

Conclusions.

""In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.""

Signify Miss Duffy's time

Inferable.

Scorecard's 3, 4, 5 and 6

Silly men

Infighter

Do secret-agent work

Worm one's way into

Enter surreptitiously, as an organization

Inflicter

Inflictor

Advise colleague in casual fashion

Advise partner in a friendly way

Oh, this tuxedo? I just threw it on, Tom said...

Talking plants (wordplay)

Conveyers of news.

Tell the workers they'll split

INFORMED inform

Infract

Breach fashionable quarter (wordplay)

Infringement, for example

In part it's a violation

Of a lower order than humans; subhuman.

Having frequencies below those of audible sounds

Cars, if in no condition, cannot be heard

Few and far between

Uncommon

Rare

Infringer

Infringe

Hot, as an angry person

Extremely angered

Wearing animal product, I provoked date to be incensed

Infuriate

One of the Infusoria.

Harvested

Causing shame

Causing ignominy

Our lingo is rustic, like Gray's mute Milton

Ingraft

Ingrain

Get (oneself) into favour (with someone)

Bring (oneself) into favour by flattery

Get in good with