2-Letter Words Starting with P

Not as good-looking (wordplay)

More frightened, perhaps

More frightened perhaps

For Whom the Bell Tolls guerrilla

Hemingways fishing boat

Character in "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

Tradesman for one

Tradesman, for one

Buy-one-get-one-free item (wordplay)

One working diligently at a trade

Trades man, for example

One working a trade

Can you bear this?

Kind of cap (wordplay)

Of the Arctic, say

Boat propeller (wordplay)

Gondolier, e.g

One pushing a pirogue eg

He pours out whines

Whining child.

Whining one

Paly

Cast of "The Addams Family" (wordplay)

Mask of death

Feature of Dracula's face

Of a hand part

Coming from the middle of the hand

Situated in the hand.

Card cheat, maybe

Cheater or pilgrim

"Mercy Mercy Me" Robert

Speak with intent to deceive

Play false

Act insincerely

Guest spot (wordplay)

Beauty spot (wordplay)

Place for beauty (wordplay)

Itinerant trader, one using bike, say

That sounds like a cellar

He sounds like a wheeler-dealer

Street vendor Var.

Street vendor variable

Old policeman (useful for potatoes!)

Stripper in uniform (wordplay)

Old copper fruit-knife (wordplay)

Hailstorm, for example

Snowball fight participant

Throw things at

Pertaining to a {phylum=n}

Steal (cheap items)

Steal (little things)

Commit crime, giving judge backchat!

Establishment supporter (wordplay)

Tall vertical structure, of stone say

Column; admired member (of community)

One finishing second

Form of mining

Alluvial deposit containing gold.

On the level (wordplay)

Two-dimensional scheme by backing artist

Less than three-dimensional

Smooth carpenter (wordplay)

Small tree of the elm family

Power tool in woodworking

Inferior race horse

Inferior race horse.

Second-rate horse

The soft lamina is inside, perhaps

One that's inside (wordplay)

One competing (at golf?)

Hammer used to test reflexes

Doctor's small hammer

Doctor's rubber mallet

Kind of wading bird

One is softly amorous up in the air

Sandpiper's cousin

Man behind an ox, perhaps

A man behind his team (wordplay)

Farmer, at times

It's up to the ruddy cut for reclamation

Land reclaimed from the sea.

Piece of land enclosed by dikes

One taking a survey

Taker of opinions

Person with questions

Aspen, for one

Tall tree (which may tremble?)

Tulip tree, for one

Tug-of-war participant

Wood mill apparatus

Watch word (wordplay)

Celestial radio-wave source

Regularly radiating stellar object

Heartbeat control device

Throbbing thing

Pertaining to {pabulum=n}

Hiawatha, at times.

He goes barefoot in water, or by canoe

Walker in shallow water

Mate, say, making a fuss

China, say, making a fuss

Song and dance

A Greek soldier

Pally

More flourishing.

Pertaining to a {papule=n}

Beauty room (wordplay)

Shop etc, formerly front room

Mean to look dangerous, given room

Oyster bed diver

One going through valuable beds

One kind of oysterman.

Bike salesman (wordplay)

Door-to-door salesman

A wheeler-dealer by the sound of it

Inhabitant

Love potion on cigarette tip, say

Magic potion for Tristan and Isolde.

Love potion

One dawdling

Puttering person

Light-coloured flavoursome lager

Publicist covers new lines in lager

World's most popular beer

Pertaining to a {pilule=n}

One who {plagues=v}

Less like legalese

Simpler kind of praline

Easier to see

Certain hair stylist

Artful lock linker

Cornrow maker

Century starter (wordplay)

Designer calendar (wordplay)

One looking to the future

Relating to the sole

Pertaining to the sole of the foot

Podiatrist's adjective

Fern's home (wordplay)

Box for phlox

Pot factory on the outskirts of Exeter

One that {plashes=v}

Smear something on a wound (wordplay)

Substance for coating walls

Wall finish - protection for cut

Platy

Dish for fish, perhaps

Dish from Portugal (second of two)

Not the former piano, and that's flat!

One on bended knee, maybe

Pale red (anagram)

One before a tribunal, maybe

One who makes a crowd happy

Word with "people" or "crowd"

One who does what people want them to do

Sewing machine attachment.

Sewing machine part.

Sewing-machine attachment

One showing promise (wordplay)

Pawn book voucher

One who gives collateral

Legal term akin to promisor.

Doctor's soft hammer.

Hammer with a rubber head, used in percussion.

One who {plinks=v}

Place stranger finds tortoise (wordplay)

Slow-but-sure one

Slow dull worker

Guy Fawkes, for one

Person making a graph, say

One who schemes

One who {plucks=v}

One doing endorsements

One with a snake in their bag (wordplay)

Snake handler (wordplay)

Repairer of pipes

Having more feathers

One who feathers arrows

Covered in feathers

More fleshy fruit (not a pear)

More well-fed, say

Choice for each is more generous

Sack - and what may be put in it!

Sack - or what might be put in one!

Steal goods (in time of war)

Help for a draining job (wordplay)

Plumber's helper

Rubber device for clearing blocked pipes

One that {plunks=v}

Like velvet compared to denim

Smarter drug supplier carrying little

More deeply piled

More well-bred

Comparatively civilized

Better mannered

Vinyl, for one

Plexiglas, for one

Nylon, for one

This is in tree enclosing nut's kernel

Much sought-after

Easy to understand.

Old dealer in game, maybe Texas hold'em, blowing a thousand in the last cut

Masked man, maybe

Person who roams about stealthily

One sneaks about

Empty pews? Revise hymn book!

Hymnbook of sorts

Part of a prayer book

One who converts pig-iron to wrought-iron

Pulpy

Of an eye part

Purple

Crossword solver (wordplay)

Particularly baffling problem

Something that perplexes

One that {palpates=v}

Trifling haggler.

Equivocator gets change through being put out

Equivocator

More miserable friend, one having a go

Smaller, as a sum

More trifling

Pertaining to a {papilla=n}

Conferee, for example

Negotiating team member

Of the knee

Involving the kneecap

Another name for a knee jerk

Rear pile (anagram)

Ripe earl (anagram)

More like heaven's gates (wordplay)

Rougher, as some roads

Strange clue - 'Pair off'!

The odd funny clue I mean to include

I clear up, being odd

A type of soil

The pedal keyboard of an organ

Eyebrow toucher-up

Swinging back and forth.

Like part of a grandfather clock

Like a grandfather clock

Attached to a stalk, in botany.

Of a leaf stem.

Atoning

Type of column.

Columnlike architectural piece

Screed about Italy's leader in column

Thief who steals in small quantities

A thief of small items as from shops

A petty thief

Looter having the cheek to return drink

Medicinal ball starts the plunderer

Looter's flipping cheek over beer

Premium beer word (var.)

Beer glass (var.)

Type of lager beer

Pimply

Relating to a pinnula

One who pacifies

Conciliator

To {plaster=v}

An organism that is an element of plankton

Pertaining to a {planula=n}

Plashy

First-nighter, for one

Theater fan (2 words)

Rent attendee, for example

Tennis outfits and such

Healthtex line

""One who pledges something, also PLEDGER, PLEDGOR""

One who {plights=v}

Plotty

Tractor operator.

Plucky

Plummy

Pertaining to a {plumule=n}

Plushy

Lech Walesa, for one (wordplay)

The heavenly 25 down (wordplay)

Top Warsaw athlete (wordplay)

Shoe brush, for example.

Buffer state head meets East European

Craftsman finishing as European monarch

Scott Rasmussen's occupation

Two pounds included in bill for sampler

Harris, for example

One who doesn't give a hoot

E.P.A. target

Ecologically, the one who should pay

Less slender

More corpulent and porky right after drink

Stouter.

What a talkative, soft, snake!

Person who talks idly or volubly

One talking nonsense

To clear beforehand

One that {preludes=v}

Tooth - real romp (anagram)

Type of tooth

Tooth next to a canine

Serial crime investigator

TV crime drama

Criminal Minds investigator

Like Cesar Chavez

On the side of unions, for example

Like a Populist, quite possibly

Puddly

Worn after rowing (wordplay)

Traffic cop's sweater (wordplay)

Stop the car to put on jersey (wordplay)

Lifesaving apparatus

It beats pal's tour round

Vibrating piece of machinery

This beats Paul's cryptic rubbish standing on its head!

A knob on the brain by the optic nerve

Covered with pimples

Of skin eruptions

PALLIATE to cloak or disguise

""PARALYZE to render incapable of movement, also PARALYSE""

Cop on the beat

Guard Irishman's posh car

Mobile guard

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

Receptacle on a desk, perhaps

Calligrapher's need

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Lemur-like creature

Possum's Australian cousin

King Henry in pain over Queen, the beast!

Royal couple to flirt (wordplay)

Royal couple make love (wordplay)

Risk scandal, in a way

Phlegmy

Wild Bill Hickok, notably

""One who, or that which, planishes.""

Art repels crude artisan

User of Keene's cement

Worker in stuccompany

Strategic team athlete

Point guard, for example

Point guard, e.g

One who benefits from a sacking (wordplay)

At the place under the hospital he's fond of the sack

Suit material, perhaps

This material goes out to Presley

Tennis racket string material

""WATER to sprinkle with a transparent, odourless, tasteless liquid""

Possible

Stoner's pulp fiction (wordplay)

Book hastily written for gain

Hack's novel

He's game to supply you

Dealer in fowl

Leo and Rupert nobbled dealer in game

Prickly

""One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.""

Screw (on a boat)

Jack's screwdriver (wordplay)

Fit retaining 45-inch screw

PROPEL to drive forward

Eg Jonathan Cape or Hamish Hamilton

Bookmaker in bar spilled relish

Budding author's pursuit

Cleaner hides meat from thief

Cleaner hiding joint she's stolen

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Painful

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance

One carrying a coffin

One approaching a hearse

Principal lamenter may be seen as such

PALLETIZE

Freestone ring wearer (wordplay)

Chef, at times (wordplay)

Help ran, and upset cook (wordplay)

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

PELLETIZE

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

Pitiful

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

Print-shop employee

Pleasant

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

Bee, at times

POLLINIZE

One versed in various learning.

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

Priestly

Princely

One who proclaims.

One who speaks for another.

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

""One who, or that which, pulverizes.""

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Publicity agent of yore

Peaceful

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""