2-Letter Words Starting with L

Driving range (wordplay)

Express follower (wordplay)

Spare setting (wordplay)

I forgot what I'm supposed to say!

Letter that's dropped (wordplay)

Painter, perhaps, leaves ship unfinished

Single has mortgage, say

... left single (wordplay)

Single, as a Ranger (wordplay)

Moon over my ami (wordplay)

Crescent-shaped figure.

Symbol on Pakistan's flag

Battery charger, once (wordplay)

Boy - prick (a boil)

Knight stick (wordplay)

Optical part variable

Optical part var

Telescope part

'Once Upon a Time in America' director

Freetown money unit

Sign with direction for director

Tarzan's tropical transport, maybe

Tropical vine (var.)

Tarzans tropical transport maybe

Simile's end (wordplay)

Ultimate Miami sound (wordplay)

What opens easily (wordplay)

Rope encountered in fencing (wordplay)

Suddenly leap (at)

Running back's dive, say

""An empty space or missing part, also LACUNA""

Shallow channel variable

Covered in wool

Covered with wool

Having a wooly covering.

Francais, par exemple

French tongue.

Full of wool

Wool-covered

One about to throw in the towel: it's woolly

Like a seagull.

Like a sea gull.

Of sea gulls

Shakespearean clown

Servant to one of the "Gentlemen From Verona."

Servant to Proteus in Two Gentlemen of Verona.

""An avalanche, also LAUWINE""

Rib in Gothic vaulting

Gothic re-enforcing rib

Type of rib in Gothic vaulting.

Reporter's pay scale, perhaps

Measure of advertising copy

Magazine article payment

Lizard's hangout (wordplay)

Waste time - glue on (anagram)

Variety of lizard (wordplay)

Is Mooney in such good shape (wordplay)

Crescent-shaped, like the new moon

Shaped like a crescent

Turban cloth in India

Crescent-shaped mark on a fingernail

Whitish mark at base of a fingernail.

Half-moon at base of a fingernail.

Line up (anagram)

Welcome site (wordplay)

Wolfish line-up, perhaps

Amino acid that helps treat cold sores

Amino acid known as K

Important amino acid

Acid ester

Gaps girl found in fine material

Gaps; breaks.

Unfilled spaces

Thief, in the Southwest

Former name of the Marianas.

Former name of the Marianas Islands.

Thin layers of bone

Layers of tissue

English beast rolling around in sheets

Pasta dish (var.)

Way hosts give pasta (wordplay)

Pasta course - dip into it!

Military no-go area? On the contrary!

War potty (wordplay)

Army head (wordplay)

""An avalanche, also LAWINE""

Cat like Pope (wordplay)

How beastly the French 09 seems!

Beastly Leonard X (wordplay)

White amino acid

An essential amino acid

'Acid' in clue wrongly associated with 'drug' (wordplay)

Authority (or the lack of it!)

Authority - or freedom!

Authority - or lack of it (wordplay)

Grant formal permission (to)

Space to make art (wordplay)

To empower student, one needs logic, say

Sente

Fifty light for one that's lighted

Type of coal

It's lit, for example in stove

Lying in a straight line

An insecticide

Powerful insecticide

Agricultural pesticide

Descent using rope, perhaps, taking time

Descent (from an ancestor)

Where did you spring from (wordplay)

Like most writing pads

Marked with strokes.

Marked with lines.

Lingua

A king involved in The French Connection

Badly leaking connection

System of connections

Make fuss of (celebrity)

Treat as celebrity - like Leo (wordplay)

Treat as celebrity like Leo (wordplay)

Give a roar of approval (wordplay)

Treat as a VIP.

Really build up

Lesotho's coins

Lesotho coins

Cold comfort (wordplay)

Drop down one's throat (wordplay)

Tough pill to swallow (wordplay)

Spire dormer might be unclear

Dormer window

Spire dormer might be unclear - clue ran awkwardly (wordplay)

Brightness

City and lake in clover (wordplay)

Obvious place to buy Swiss fodder

William Tell's lake

Towing-ring; crescent shape

Moon-shaped ornament

Crescent-shaped object.

White nail crescents

Lazy, stupid person.

Dimwit, desperate sort taken in by enticement

Dull fellow no longer an enticement, inadequate European

Pertaining to {lacuna=n}

Marked by shallow depressions

Gratuity

A milky deposit on the surface of fresh concrete

Anti-male (anagram)

Cover with plastic, maybe

Separate into thin sheets.

Like plywood.

Airport area with unrestricted access

""A shot formerly used in naval warfare, also LANGREL""

'Auld ... ... ' (song for midnight)

Long time ago in Scotland

Auld ... ... (Burns)

English or Irish, say

The air's blue? This is bad!

Urdu, for one

Wool fat (var.)

What could be all-in-one fatty mixture

Wool fat.

Bring under Roman influence

Pertaining to an official envoy

Meal done (anagram)

Stand for a kid (wordplay)

Soft drink; Noel made (anagram)

""An ancient Roman festival, also LEMURIAN""

Like Edna Bell, in the opinion of a loan officer

No mercy's opposite

Soft-hearted bent

Quality that 'hanging judges' lack

Mitigating

Soothing

Soothing.

Resembling a rabbit

Like a hare

Resembling a horse

Holder of official permission

Suckers seen working for landlord

One with permit to sell alcoholic drinks

One holding official permission

Subject to a legal claim

Potential millionaire's aid (wordplay)

Essential support (read by palmists?)

Rope from a ship, say

""A flammable liquid, also LIGROIN""

Resembling a slug

A chemical compound

Brown mineral extractable from mine with toil

Lying in a straight line

Like a line

Gift for mother maybe

Gift for mother maybe

Stay, that is, stays perhaps

Narrow flat pasta

Variety of pasta

Pasta type

Able to be joined up

Akin to Simba

Very brave

Leonine

Like some bank money

Available for lending

Like some bank funds

Drug used to help stop smoking

Solitary (mainly US)

Solitary (chiefly US)

Are you - tonight (Elvis)

Ma Bell's concern

Shopper's annoyance

Tediously long

E on this (wordplay)

'I have missed you'

Of extended duration

Desire to get understanding horizontally (wordplay)

A twining herb

Crescent-shaped.

Colorant of tomatoes and watermelons

Chemical that gives tomatoes their red color

Fringed, as petals.

Jagged, as a leaf

Fringed

A sack of candy, maybe

Small gift strangely appealing

A little gift for the customer.

Inventor Edwin's cloak (or painting)

Plant trees and shrubs, say

Prospect of unbridled lap dances!

Dangerously large victory (wordplay)

Terrain picture (wordplay)

Runaway daughter in end is all upset

Reeling out, angles for seafood

It may be eaten roasted

Spiny lobster

Like good lessons for students

That can be studied when left to get fit

That can be taken in, or left with the listener to catch the French

English word

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) the first stage of the prophase of meiosis during which the nuclear material becomes resolved into slender single-stranded chromosomes [from lepto- + -tene, from Greek tainia band, filament]""

Don Juan, for one

Row about French composer, a philanderer

Sensually indulgent person

Certification for professional practice

Local Cockney actor poolside

Powerful local anaesthetic

A mineral prepared from fruit (sound)

Luray Caverns material

Tie lemons up in sedimentary rock

Long way to go (wordplay)

Long ride (wordplay)

A way to go by

Get into a row and rebel after treatment of alien

With frightful lies around, I mean to get into a row

Make straight

A salt of linoleic acid.

See Linnet.Linnet.

""A white pigment consisting of a mixture of zinc sulfide, zinc oxide, and barium sulfate.""

A stack of rock is magnetic

Magnetite possessing polarity.

It attracts lots to Tyneside

Lake poems with quality must be a magnet

Iron-attracting magnetite

It was used to make the first compass

Viking "mead hall," for example

Word often paired with latitude

A concern of mariners

Navigator's concern.

Eyeglasses with no letter 'g' (wordplay)

Pair of glasses with a handle

Specs on a stick

English word

Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina

Shine

Glow

One for when a meal is needed (wordplay)

Inlet much improved by midday (wordplay)

When midday meal is eaten

LUTEIN a yellow pigment

Like a cat's oniony dish (wordplay)

Like a cat's oniony dish?

Kind of potatoes for simba

Of Erie, Huron, etc.

Found in lakes

Far from fortunate

Awful food given to the French servants

Awful ballet with name cast

Tapering, as a leaf.

Tapering, as leaves

Rare-earth series

Washing establishment

Perverts enter adult establishment for dirty material (wordplay)

High street concern as a French doctor with little energy tucked into coffee

""A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.""

From one side to the other

Moving across

In the direction of the extent from end to end

Slowly, on sheet music

That can be licensed.

Certificate of competence holder

Certificate holder

Authorized practitioner.

Piper product

LISTEN to try to hear

""Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.""

Lushness

""Any of various substances released by T cells that have been activated by antigens. They function in the immune response through a variety of actions, including stimulating the production of nonsensitized lymphocytes and activating macrophages.""

LYSOGEN a type of {antigen=n}

LYSOGEN a type of {antigen=n}

""An evaporite mineral, K 2 Mg 2 (SO 4 ) 3 , used as a source of potassium sulfate for fertilizer.""

Norway lobster

Shellfish

Place for washing and drying clothes

Washing establishment

Coffee houses inferior to European shop that's cleaner

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze lecithin.

One GI in real trouble as a soldier

Member of an elite military unit

Form a line - ignore soldier

Adjective meaning resembling

""Any of several lipid compounds that contain 20 carbon atoms, are related to prostaglandins, and mediate the inflammatory response.""

Libertinism; license.

Describes The Maze complex

Like a maze

Highly convoluted

""An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image.""

Emission of light at cool temperatures

Jock's chimney basically said to produce light

US informal restaurant - unclothe teen (anagram)

Small cafe, revolutionary, getting on in crescent

English word

A combination of lignin and cellulose that strengthens woody plant cells.

LIGNOSULFONATE