2-Letter Words Starting with P

Put up beforehand

Build beforehand

Sex tripe (anagram)

Have a former life

Be there already

Like a boxer's weigh-in

Like some extremely heated interviews

Overseeing a child's development, say

Full of life (wordplay)

Ready to drop!

To limit beforehand

Occurring before planting

Advance portion of a book or magazine

Article issued in advance of publication

Early publication becomes late one

Like some English muffins

Signifying past time Gram.

Past tense in grammar

What's past could be prettier

Use Shout on, say

Put a stain remover on a garment before putting it in the wash, for example

Like top-shelf liquor

Hardest on the wallet

Setting one back the most

Most like a schoolmarm

Most stiffly proper

Most mannerly

Privy

Prosy

Go for the gold (wordplay)

Youngster who could find gold (wordplay)

A golden one, perhaps

Most delighted (with an achievement)

Most self-satisfied

Most self-respecting

Obscene play - interrupt endlessly

Given to lewd thoughts

Pruner, it aggravated itching

Pudgy

Most bloated, irritating one swallowing muffin's filling

Puggy

Pulpy

Engine type that thrusts intermittently

Buzz bomb engine

{pulsejet=n}

Punky

Punny

Purple

Pursy

Weeping priest to turn to line (part of Bible)

Let run up rubbish? That's bound to mean infection!

Most brash

Most insistent

Most assertive

Pussy

Painty

Like 1 cents, as costs go

Like 1, as costs go

Most insignificant.

Long job for Spinoza, say

Believer in many gods

Religious type converted in the past

Thirst, perhaps, makes one all skinny

Paper written by dry people on time

Paper's section describing church people

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a variant spelling of parakeet PASTITSIO (Cookery) a Greek dish consisting of minced meat and macaroni topped with béchamel sauce

Sketcher of a sort

Artist to glue one thing after another

Artist using crayons.

Most sporadic

Peachy

Most nacreous

Pebbly

Keen physical education entrant, perhaps

Sharp, acute insect

Piercing, sharp

Plant that's almost value for money (wordplay)

Same as Periblast. Periblast.

Coiffure that will endure (wordplay)

Standing wave (wordplay)

Every artist embraces New Wave of sorts

To the point

Fitting metal bearings in fresh cover

To the point

Eeyore, for one

Gloomy sort, retired teacher is in mood

Glass-half-empty type

I lent pets that were noxious

Likely to spread disease

Extremely destructive

and 24: A London slip road (wordplay)

Finish following, say, minor slip

Frilly underskirt of yore

Pimply

Pitchy

Employment bureau's business.

Employment agency's task.

Task for a personnel officer

I will enter factory with former partner first to translate unencoded writing

You can read this statement of grievance from former time

Plashy

Plotty

Most like Alger's Ragged Dick

Something to do with a turkey claiming 'e's least like a chicken (wordplay)

Plummy

Plushy

Poachy

Pointy

Most corpulent.

Superlatively stout

Most fat

Pouchy

Racing that really makes waves!

Swell racing (wordplay)

Fast vessel for racing or leisure

Previous instance (as justification)

Relevant earlier case in law

A court may set one

Precise

To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.

Before take-off

Before boarding, as an inspection

Kind of inspection

FORMAT to follow the style or manner of procedure

MARKET to offer for sale

Very powerful

Preppy

The awful creep isn't far-seeing

Prophetic spectre in play

Knowing of future events

Ordained by authority.

C.P.R. priest clumsily performed by decree

Old-style rule, prior to anything being written down (wordplay)

Choose in advance, as an in-flight meal

Pick beforehand

A soft living for one at the top

Magsaysay, for instance.

Head, of a republic say

SUMMIT to take part in a summit conference

Leave undone

Causing the most wolf whistles, perhaps

Nothing better in sight

Setter tip-off for the best looking

Frequent bar imbibing endless beer

Common pal never dances tango

Having a litre in bar is common

Pricky

A little royalty types the hindrance, by the sound of it

Most fussy.

Most fussy

Most prudish minister accepts one's heartless sins

Private

Cor! Parent in the making (wordplay)

""Flowing forward,""

Conspicuous or outstanding

Noticeable or notable

Conspicuous in position or importance

Prompt

Proper

Advocate (of a theory, etc)

Rotating proton pen champion

Advocate single bid by rugby player

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Just beginning sexual maturity

Starting to mature

Reaching sexual maturity to find local scene changing at last

Puddly

Punchy

Lakeshore rental, perhaps

Lake rental, maybe

Propel canoe or larger craft

Simple taps (anagram); a manuscript

Reworked parchment

Reused parchment

Eulogist

Panicky

""A substance exhibiting paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.""

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

""Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.""

Allowed fool to back up heel, an artist

Relate this artist's work is in the past

Patient

Fattest man/woman admits desire to eat, but starter's off

Variant of pediatrician .

Person who treats corns, bunions etc

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Prison warden

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Showing acute insight

Perfect

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

Unrelenting - prettiness (anagram)

Keeping at it

Prettiness that's rendered enduring

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Phlegmy

English word

Artful Dodger (wordplay)

Strikers going round pit take a dip

Light-fingered sneak

Had been, say, very well done

The 'more than past' tense

Tense with 'had' and past participle

One drawn to controversy

Adherent of widespread religious belief

Multivalent.

Positive

Ironically, the least likely way someone would say "most likely"

Superlative adjective

Most condescending, in a way

Maximally moralizing

Most moralistic member of clergy interrupted by a head

Chapter men adapted for sermon

To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

CONTACT to communicate with

Surpassing all others

Outstanding intern MEP trained while touring Spain

Peter with men in resort, having no match

""FASCIST a supporter of fascism, also FASCISTA""

Promotion before commotion

Promotion to higher office

Preliminary excitement at promotion (wordplay)

""HARVEST to gather in a crop, also HAIRST""

An early settlement

PRESENT to introduce

Anticipatory.

Model prices kilt - that's the most irritating thing!

A bout to remember (wordplay)

Boxing match (2 words)

Pro boxing match

""Lying down, or on the face; prone.""

Able to make money on nice make-up

Do well without turning nice and skilful

Competent, thoroughly qualified

Agent that sets off a rocket.

Launching-pad fuel

Fuel Rover's last foreign car in factory

Serving to propel; propelling.

One that protects: applied a protectant to the raw wood.

Calvinist, for one

Lutheran, for example

Lutheran, e.g

Very minutely downy.

Puckery

Penalty kick is hard, guys admitted

Penalty hit spun men around

Raskolnikov's was admittedly due

Decaying, rotting

Rotting

Crossword, for example

Perplexity

Mystification

Painful

Importance of an essay (wordplay)

Pet rock, maybe

Heavy desk object

Benevolent despot

Peacocky

""Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.""

1/20th of a troy ounce

Unit of twenty-four grains

One twentieth of an ounce troy

Having a valence of five; said of certain atoms and radicals.

""PERSONALISE PERSONAL a brief, private notice in a newspaper""

One versed in the study of rocks.

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Post historian (wordplay)

F.D.R.'s favorite avocation.

FIRST-day cover collector

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Person associated with (-ist)

Pitiful

Pleasant

Person associated with (-ist)

Having full power

English word

1982 film with a clown doll attack (#4)

Evidence of a reviving spirit (wordplay)

They're here!

English word

Superlative adjective

""Falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly, violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately.""

CONQUEST the act of {conquering=v}

Fine how-do-you-do

Spot decrepit man wandering about

Last word forecast about scrape

Rescue (ship) from loss

Providing the main element

Before celebration Amin changed new parliament's last ruling

EMERGENT a type of aquatic plant

Prior

Decision made before hearing evidence

Having a feeling of foreboding now one starts to experience nasty tremors

Foreboding I ignored for theatrical performance (wordplay)

Priestly

Princely

Purchasing agent's job

Buying of materials and equipment

Acquisition process

Profound

Marx brothers (wordplay)

The people; workers

Real patriot agitated working classes

(used with a sing. verb) The branch of medicine or surgery that deals with the production and application of artificial body parts.

(Astronomy) a planet in its early stages of evolution by the process of accretion

Sticking up for a potato insect (wordplay)

Proud diatribe in favour of the Underground

Bulging

""Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.""

Military order initiated by Washington.

Award for the courageous

US bravery award

Peaceful

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Specialized tooth care pro

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

One who practiced phlebotomy.

Person associated with (-ist)

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

The chemistry of plants.

English word

Superlative adjective

(Sociology) a person who believes in or advocates any of the ideas that have developed from the feminist movement

A shift to a later time

Playful knockers spread over page one? Time for delay

Deferment

""BREAKFAST The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.""