2-Letter Words Starting with P

Man in the mirror perhaps twisting ropes

One pretending to like trendy music, say

Cover girl, for one

One breaking down in school (wordplay)

Grammarian, at times

One analyzing a sentence

Buck expert (wordplay)

Spares for one going by

Quarterback, for one.

Type of label

Slip of gummed paper.

Collagist, perhaps

Previous or current father (wordplay)

One with a flock (of people)

A sport (anagram)

Look-before-you-leap disciple

One who hesitates

One who stops to think.

Annoy by upsetting Streep (wordplay)

Annoy with frequent requests

Be a nuisance to

Balancer

Dude with a 'tude (wordplay)

Exhibitionist very big in Peru, perhaps

The Great Impostor, for one

More uptown (wordplay)

More elegant puzzle, internally hard

Like hotel suites, compared to rooms

Notice blogger (wordplay)

Bill for advertising (wordplay)

Bill the blogger (wordplay)

Bore of a sort

Bore on the dais

Writer of tedious style.

Battle of wits (wordplay)

Hearts and minds operation

Propaganda against enemy

Watch word (wordplay)

Celestial radio-wave source

Regularly radiating stellar object

Heartbeat control device

Throbbing thing

Marine money man (wordplay)

Ship's officer

Only on board for the money

Crack salesman (wordplay)

Junk dealer (wordplay)

Narc's target

More doughy-looking.

Looking less healthy

More like glue.

A soldier carrying a pavis

A {writer=n}

He's looked over by an employer

Many a bookstore shopper

Bibliophile, at times

More annoying, as a gnat

Causing more irritation

More annoying

Egyptian bread (wordplay)

Part of an Egyptian pound (Var.)

The kurus of Turkey

Light-coloured flavoursome lager

Publicist covers new lines in lager

World's most popular beer

A public urinal

One that {plashes=v}

Smear something on a wound (wordplay)

Substance for coating walls

Wall finish - protection for cut

One who makes a crowd happy

Word with "people" or "crowd"

One who does what people want them to do

Doctor's soft hammer.

Hammer with a rubber head, used in percussion.

Like velvet compared to denim

Smarter drug supplier carrying little

More deeply piled

After 1918 or 1945 (wordplay)

Like the late '40s, say

Terrible row past!

One who approves increase in advertising

Repairs (anagram)

Kudos bestower

Iron-pumping person (wordplay)

Iron worker (wordplay)

Iron man (wordplay)

Blood pressure-raising substance

Blood vessel-constricting drug

Elusive royal minister, followed by John (John Buchan) . . .

More matter-offact

More commonplace

Less interesting supporters? That is right

Live long partner, in a Vulcan saying

Correct to accept son is to succeed

Adepts get by and succeed

Empty pews? Revise hymn book!

Hymnbook of sorts

Part of a prayer book

Edgar Nye for one

Bennett Cerf, for one

Whirred play lover (wordplay)

Pursy

One after another (wordplay)

One after another!

Seeker of sorts

More aggressive: Colloq.

More aggressive Colloq.

Less apt to wait one's turn

Pussy

Festival bridge (wordplay)

The feast of unleavened bread

Jewish feast day

One who pastures livestock

Persistently bothersome person

Nuisance.

Nudnik

Coating of a cathode-ray tube

Computer screen coating

Small trace; clue

Type of column.

Columnlike architectural piece

Screed about Italy's leader in column

Premium beer word (var.)

Beer glass (var.)

Type of lager beer

Mediterranean evergreen.

Pyramidal tree

Thief has grabbed second dog

Medium-sized dog

Thief fences small dog

An angler

Fisherman

To {plaster=v}

Plashy

Plushy

""One who poetises, also POETIZER""

Arsenic user, maybe

Christie culprit, perhaps

Dr Crippen, perhaps

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

Attitudinizer

Poser

Precise

Forecaster

Chairman, at a board meeting

Chairperson, for example

Wielder of the gavel.

Sir Henry M. Stanley, notably

Impertinent one

Brash one

One who {previses=v}

Person doing porridge (wordplay)

Joint tenant (wordplay)

Person in irons perhaps or vice versa

More like a schoolmarm

More puritanical

More finicky.

One who says "I do"

One who gives his word

One making a vow

Guarantor

Model, by trade (wordplay)

Future benedict (wordplay)

One moving for one sitting

It beats pal's tour round

Vibrating piece of machinery

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

Role in "Marvel's Daredevil"

Spanker, for example

Vigilante, maybe

Piece of cake turned up? Keep mum on!

Something easily done

Easily defeated type

Covered with pimples

Of skin eruptions

One on a train perhaps

15 across may have one

He's taken for a ride.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Dispenser of wages

Dispenser of soldiers' salaries

Official dealing with wages

Perhaps one ripens as retiree (wordplay)

Late worker (wordplay)

Old Chelsea player, perhaps

PERSIST to continue resolutely

One convincing; gun

Bowling alley machine.

Bowling alley apparatus

Bowling-alley machinery

Wild Bill Hickok, notably

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

Art repels crude artisan

User of Keene's cement

Worker in stuccompany

Bad versifier; operettas (anagram)

Operettas ruined by his dire lyrics

Writer of contemptible verse

Suit material, perhaps

This material goes out to Presley

Tennis racket string material

Positive

Might one have an alternative (wordplay)

One's one of the haves

One of the haves

Possible

Toward the back

Silly tries let in by inadequate back

Later in time.

One who postpones.

Practical joker Colloq.

Practical joker: Colloq.

Person playing tricks on people

CENSOR to delete a word or passage

Before the computer age (wordplay)

Cusp error responsible for omen

Something going in advance of another

span>Minister from cabinet

Church elder

Church minister

Awards show host, perhaps

Here she rules over us, the shower!

Perhaps do nor as one for the show

Thing on a big boat (with "life")

He keeps quiet about the waiter

A keeper before a waiter

Teacher, or friend of Gilligan

Issuer of legal writs.

Computer hardware item

Four-time role for Patrick Stewart

Member of an academic faculty

University department head

English word

""One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.""

Person in a sit-in, say

Member of the mob (wordplay)

SAT administrator, by trade (wordplay)

Placard carrier, maybe

Member of the mob (wordplay)

One who disagrees Var.

Concept in cosmology

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

Eg Jonathan Cape or Hamish Hamilton

Bookmaker in bar spilled relish

Budding author's pursuit

Patron has ship's officer storing tea

Tea break for cashier and buyer

One who buys something

Promote president to pram

Reportedly pedal president's buggy

Baby transport

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

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

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

One who personates.

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pleasant

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

One versed in various learning.

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

""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.""

One who prescribes.

Priestly

A prophet.

""One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.""

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

""A course of study for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a college or university, conducted in the manner of a seminar.""

He's disclaimed (wordplay)

One with a miner role (wordplay)

49er, for example

One who paraphrases.

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Dairy apparatus.

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

One who personifies.

23 with a stone (wordplay)

Eg, Kant or Plato

One as Socrates, Wittgenstein

PHOTOSET to prepare for printing by photographic means

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

PLASTICIZE

Person in post before the current holder

One there before

Jobholder before the present one

Choose classes early

Preschool

PRESSURIZE

Of a Roman official

""One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes.""

English word

Provision

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

Wary one

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Inflected form of PROCESSOR Inflected form of PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

One who proselytes.

""An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.""

Tropical climbing plant (granadilla)

Climbing plant, Passiflora

Wasp flies on or off climbing plant

One who philosophizes.

PHOTOCOMPOSE

Jockey's other job (wordplay)

""Geography the systematic classification and description of nature. See also geography ; geology . ; physiographer , ; physiographic, physiographical , adj . Classification""

""One who predestinates, or foreordains.""

PSYCHOBABBLE

Part 2 of remark

Negligent one

Artisan stupidly interrupting university official, off-putting type

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.

PHOTOSENSITIZE

PHOTOTYPESET

Shell-game operator, for one

Thurston or Mulholland

Trickster realises God is tripartite