2-Letter Words Starting with N

Ain't happenin'!

I'm gonna pass!

Maybe next time

Japanese theater (Var.)

Ezra Pound work

Drama with choral chants

Highest ordinal number (wordplay)

Highest degree (wordplay)

High power (wordplay)

Close to a poet (wordplay)

'She approaches; she is _' (Wilde)

Near (old use)

Fudge on one's diet (wordplay)

Chew on some chips, say

Bag of chips, maybe

Bite at a football game maybe

What might go for a dip (wordplay)

Bite at a football game, maybe

That goes without saying!

Wouldn't you know it!

But of course!

Below for Dylan Thomas perhaps in Wales

Below, to Byron

O'er's opposite

Ask for hay, say (wordplay)

Dobbin's denial?

"No" vote from a horse (wordplay)

Suitable place (wordplay)

Just the job for the corner-man!

Statue's place, perhaps

Nears, old-style

Nears oldstyle

Nears

Day nothing changed (wordplay)

What's near end of 31st (wordplay)

Day break (wordplay)

Zero for Nero (wordplay)

Gaius' goose egg (wordplay)

dicit he says nothing

Beethoven's last (wordplay)

Where scrubs bat (wordplay)

Half-way hole (wordplay)

Ain't happenin'!

Not on your life!

Positive negative (wordplay)

Heading up (wordplay)

Direction for a great run (wordplay)

Santa's way home (wordplay)

Nick to score!

Gunslinger's tally, perhaps

Lukewarm score (wordplay)

The back or nape of the neck

Nape of the neck, in anatomy.

Nape of the neck: Anat.

""To nag, also NOODGE""

Calypso, for one

Callisto, for one

Galatea, for one.

Joy and pride from one's children (Yiddish)

Nach

Bowl game bowlful, maybe

Fan fare (wordplay)

A nosh, see (wordplay)

Nothing to note in strange haunt

Failures come to this

Come to -; set at -

Indian girlie show

Indian dancing girls

Dancing exhibition, in India.

What the nags say offering broken hinges

Racetrack rejections (wordplay)

Horse laughs (wordplay)

One saying uncle (wordplay)

One crying uncle (wordplay)

Has a duty (to do something)

Bottom two numbers (wordplay)

The woman's chasing ultimate bottom!

Might 17 across get her down (wordplay)

Born craving mint? Not quite!

Relatively modern (informal)

Not yet showing signs of wear

Put in the corner

Put in a cubbyhole

Placed in a recess

Small parts of the market

Good spots in the marketplace

Where to place statuary

Nigh

Closer.

Closer

Dark times (wordplay)

When things go bump (wordplay)

Stoppage times (wordplay)

Woman's bed dress

Lingerie sleepwear

Thing unfolded with day's ending (wordplay)

Nihil

There are 7 of these parts in 63, say

Intervals of just over an octave

Innings, to games

The thorns of Ulster? (5'1)

Mr. and Mrs. of detection

Oliver, Jay, and Sheree

Ate - hens do (anagram)

Put away, outhouse gone (wordplay)

Ruined one's dinner, perhaps

One with a sweet tooth, perhaps

Knish eater, perhaps

Between-meals eater

Eats chips, say

Eats pretzels, say

Has a few Bagel Bites, maybe

Different

O, that's it as the North should be!

O, the North should be like this!

Zero (O, not A)

Napes Anat.

Napes: Anat.

An anatomical part near the neck

Nah! It's around Irish apple from ravine

That's a void; ah, but it may hold water

That's for water, of course, in India

A fold of the vulva

One who can't get out of bed (wordplay)

Insatiable lover, in slang

One who can't do it enough

Larvae of 18 down, perhaps

Oreads, naiads, etc.

Naiads and oreads

Inflammable distilled liquid

Flammable liquid mixture

Volatile petroleum distillate

""A chemical compound, also NAPHTHOL""

Portico at west end of a basilica

Access to a nave

Hurried up the unknown part of church

Warn off Harry - it may have a tusk!

Featured creature (four letters)

Creature with a 5'-plus-long tooth

The 2000s, with "the"

The 2000s, with 'the'

They mean nothing

Badly behaved, child say

Oy, that's not so good!

Disobedient, child perhaps

Timid, inept person

Woody Allen stereotype

Pitifully inept type

Acted like a nag (wordplay)

Complained like a nag (wordplay)

Called from a stall, say

Not one or the other in there, perhaps

Is there a third option (wordplay)

In three (anagram)

Stone Age implement.

Primitive stone implement

Stone tool from 10,000 B.C.

They may cry Uncle!

Ones who cry uncle (wordplay)

Brothers of nieces

{renal=adj}

A functional unit of the kidney

Kidney unit

Kidney component

Niche

Nearest: Dial.

Nearest Dial.

Nigh

Late shift perhaps in close connection

What to wear - after dark that is!

Attire for bed (colloq.)

Always before bed, say

(Done) every time it's dark

How Leander swam the Hellespont

""A large antelope, also NILGAI, NILGAU, NILGHAU, NYLGHAI, NYLGHAU""

""A large antelope, also NILGAI, NILGAU, NILGHAI, NYLGHAI, NYLGHAU""

Enumerator's adverb

Governor of a Greek province

Provincial ruler in Greece

Egyptian ruler wanting month off

Like in-kind donations

5 Like good will or depreciation

Not containing iron bound like heme

Willy Loman, for one

Not a brave man or a conqueror

One without courage

Not taking place in the home

Model of excellence, once (var.)

Former palace by Epsom

Former Tudor palace in Surrey

In Ventnor, there's a strong wind

Storm at sea.

Cold wind over Tex.

Snack food fans

They attack snacks

Boy goes round to girl's and they eat

Having chips, say

Eating (sl.)

Having a snack

Like a gunslinger's gun, perhaps

Made incisions in (something)

Made incisions in

One that {notches=v}

V-shaped slits

Nicks the cons getting banged up

Small v-shaped cuts

...zero or negative before night falls!

Love, to Venus (wordplay)

It's the least you could do!

O, O, one should be inside there!

Round figures (wordplay)

O, how one crosses with them!

Is that the hour to feed sin (wordplay)

Offer water and light, say

Give a bite (wordplay)

Two presents in place? Not at all!

Won Back Present (unplaced)

News from - (William Morris)

Nuchal

Nudzh

Nudzh

Drains in India

Nothing has changed these particular ravines

Heard nothing is hard as a sister

""A large antelope, also NILGAI, NILGAU, NILGHAI, NILGHAU, NYLGHAU""

Diving duck

For one buck, laugh after New York, initially

Might an ant elope with such an ugly H (wordplay)

Many hep changes for poetic young women

Beautiful maiden multiplies with Irish poet

Pertaining to a {nymph=n}

Lolita, for one

Dirty old man's obsession, perhaps

Sexually attractive young lady

Randy types

Lolitas

High and mighty.

{nothing=n}

Brad's topper

Hammer claw grabbee

Hammer's target

Petroleum-like liquids

Petroleum distillates

Antioxidant, causing little sleep and high tension on short break

A radical derived from naphthalene

Naphtol

Oriental water pipe for smoking.

Oriental smoking pipe.

Last of shag filling inhaler adapted as smoking pipe

""A hookah, also NARGHILE, NARGHILY, NARGILE, NARGILY""

Arctic marine mammal (Var.)

Mammal mentioned in "Moby Dick."

Tusked cetaceans

Tusked whales

Nevertheless

Refusal to include pollarded tree in mock sea battle

Dance acts in India

Indian dancing girls' performances

Stockman here and there, perhaps

A horse tender? Strangely not!

Cattle tender of yore

Fencing partner (wordplay)

Dennis, much to Mr. Wilson's dismay

Person living next-door

Perhaps no hoarse sound

Sound from the paddock.

Sounding hoarse sound

Ancient stone implement

Stone Age relics

Stone Age artifacts

A type of biological structure

One freshly converted to make war, say

Close combat, say, for raw recruit

A convert to join new fight, we hear

Drug for the Lotus-Eaters

Ancient relative of LSD.

Anything causing oblivion.

Ill health caused by kidney disease

Variety of jade

Jade and tire, hen party's starting to get drunk

A variety of jade, an old charm against kidney disease

Nurse returned after putting in quiet hour working in kidney units

Reporter in search of stories

Energetic reporter

Paper peddler.

The state of being {nigh=adj}

Hot toddy, for one

Parting shot (wordplay)

Drink taken before crashing (wordplay)

Loose-fitting sleepwear

Close to the knots in bed

Some Victoria's Secret buys

Winger's bedtime drink (wordplay)

Noct. bird (of harsh cry)

Bird gives one a shock after dark

Nothing to be concerned about (wordplay)

Rejection of established laws

Anarchist's belief

'Think nothing of it' sayer (wordplay)

Think nothing of it sayer (wordplay)

As a rule, nothing would suit him better

Nothingness

Nilghai

Nilghau

Kinda silly and stupid

Silly

Nomarch

""A province of modern Greece, also NOME""

Unchosen variety that is unrivalled

Something without parallel.

How the nun chose to be matchless

Not hardy

Like some "X-Files" extras

Like sci-fi aliens

Like creatures from outer space

Not measured in ohms

It contradicts what we know

Jittery win on the black (wordplay)

Asian, for example

From the Arctic, say

From Canada, say

Relating to Antrim, say

Winds of Texas.

Storms from the Arctic

Strong winds from Canada, e.g

New Brighton? Head off about the distance from equator given by grid reference

Notcher

Making a mark of a sort

Cutting V-shaped nicks.

Incising, as on a gunslinger's belt

Sweet sayings (wordplay)

Lover's sweet talk (wordplay)

They're often sweet

Unlocated Colloq.

Unlocated: Colloq.

Nudzh

A fish capable of emitting electric shocks

*Michelangelo's implement

Weapon consisting of two short sticks joined by a length of chain

Crank cap, say, and chain for bird

Bird - hunt chat (anagram)

Fruit to come from egg of songbird!

Place of chaos and crazy behaviour

Indelicate informal word for a mental hospital

It holds the kernel (or summary?)

Few words (wordplay)

Summary holder (wordplay)

Indian antelopes Var.

Indian antelopes variable

Nylghau

Relating to nature spirits

Not like the raw spirits

Barely Legal models, for example

Nubile maidens

Naething

Shun Blair (anagram)

Manicurist's tool

Item used in manicure

They may be hit by handymen

Hammers hit 'em

Hammer targets

A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

Naphthol

Naphthyl

Pipes that let the ash linger

Nargileh

Narthex

Narwhale

Archaic Nevertheless; notwithstanding.

Be having worse (wordplay)

More badly behaved

Less well behaved

Duck having bitten top off flower is in a bad way

Salamis as served at Roman spectacle (wordplay)

Salamis as offered at Roman circus (wordplay)

Naval occasion, said by Ovid to be a good place to meet girls

Littoral

Old-time cattle tenders

Keepers of cattle.

Old-time cattle tenders

Wimpy ones

Ohio et al., to W. Va.

John Belushi's last film

They live nearby

Huge Robin (anagram)

Fellow man mostly being rough at play

Whicker bowled our man next door

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae [New Latin, from Greek nemos a grove + philein to love]""

From the later stone age

Of the late Stone Age.

Period beginning about 8,000 B.C.

Neomorph

Liking for new things

Mobile phones, yet recently introduced

They're just getting started

Newcomers one prepared with scraps picked up

Forgetfulness potions

""A mineral of sodium-aluminum or potassium-aluminum silicate, occurring worldwide in igneous rocks and used in the manufacture of ceramics and enamels.""

""A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy hexagonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety el\'91olite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.""

""Pl. nephridia (- - ) A tubular excretory organ in many invertebrates, such as mollusks and earthworms.""

Nephrism

Nephrite

Describes Jade to writer returning to human resources and IT in charge

Obsolete word for medicine for the kidneys

Inflammation of the kidneys

Wrongly diagnosed Pinterish condition (wordplay)

First to notice Petri dish without lid is spreading disease

""Pl. nephroses (-s z) A disease of the kidneys marked by degenerative lesions, especially of the winding uriniferous tubules.""

""Pl. nephroses (-s z) A disease of the kidneys marked by degenerative lesions, especially of the winding uriniferous tubules.""

13, quarantined from relation, suggestive of kidney disease

Energetic reporter

Dog majoring in journalism (wordplay)

Nosey critter with long ears (wordplay)

Novel Hudson edited for reporter

Baseball fan's or sleepyhead's concerns?

Parting shots (wordplay)

Nips before tucks (wordplay)

A social beater for 27 across (wordplay)

Haunt dark wood (wordplay)

Policeman's cudgel (wordplay)

When Eve came (wordplay)

Nearly time to crash (wordplay)

Dark autumn evening

Airglow occurring at night.

Sleep number (wordplay)

Habit picked up by retired people

The late shift

Almost time to try to sell winger

What H. King designed for flier

Bird, strange thing, certainly not a dove!