2-Letter Words Starting with P

Host's place

It's under the Host

Plate for Pius

""A plate, also PATEN""

In top (anagram)

Alp-climbing gear

Spike to support a climber

Don, as apparel (2 words)

Don down? On the contrary!

Claim to have a brass magnet, say

An edible crab

Dolly who sang "9 to 5"

'Two Doors Down' singer

Dolly who sang 'Here You Come Again'

No part in play for angel (wordplay)

Customer apt to dither? Right on!

Sponsor of sorts

The last governor of Hong Kong

Shoe with a wooden sole.

That'll clog Petrick X

Scorpion's comblike appendage

A bivalve mollusk; scallop

Scallop

Jam-setting agent

Fruit-jelly substance

Smucker's ingredient

A little light (wordplay)

Particle that is its own antiparticle

Kind of "Star Trek" torpedo

A structural unit of a plant

Jerry Stackhouse, for one

Grant Hill, for one

Found in cylinder and brake caliper

Collier's shorthand

Inventor of phonetic shorthand system.

Miner's shorthand

Members of U. M. W.

Coal extractors

Coal miners

Plane-tree

Roller on a typewriter

Writer's roller

Roller for the Underwood

Igneous rock beneath the earth's surface

Underground mass of igneous rock

Mass of crystallized magma

A float: Army term.

A float Army term.

""An Afghan sheepskin coat, also POSTEEN, POSHTEEN""

Illicit whiskey (Irish)

On the stove, even if it's so spirited!

Alcohol from potatoes

Drink, maybe medicinal

Drink for a spell (wordplay)

Drink, maybe philtre

A snooker player at the bar (wordplay)

Does he, perhaps, work at the wheel or at the Bar (wordplay)

'Not quite empty!': no work for them

*In support of a huge weight (wordplay)

Professional weight is of little matter

It's composed of three quarks

Substance occurring as pigment in butterfly wings

Medicinal drink; pintas (anagram)

Medicinal drink made from barley

Barley water

Big name in circuses (wordplay)

Boa, for one

Kipling's Kaa, for one

To {agree=v}

'The knee of an horse' (Johnson)

Daddy's bird on the hoof (7).

Daddy's bird is on the hoof

Landholder in New Amsterdam

Landholder under Peter Minuet.

Colonial Dutch landowner

Is ten part of the model (wordplay)

Arrangement of decorative motifs

Design to gently stroke seabird

Be related or applicable (to something)

Painter (anagram) - relate (to)

Be relevant (to)

Carriage churning up one path

The sound of fate on a carriage

Light four-wheeled carriage

Best Picture of 1986 (Charlie Sheen)

Best Picture of 1986

Oscar-winner of 1986

21 across over this, perhaps

A game of bridge (wordplay)

Card game - bridge!

Left one on allotment

Serving last of lager in brew

The wine gets charged, just a bit

""An Afghan sheepskin coat, also POSHTEEN, POSTIN""

Advertisement on new gate

Rear door or gate.

Notice small number on the back door

No stamp irritated this worker!

One pushing the envelope (wordplay)

U.S. male (wordplay)

Ones who are lettered (wordplay)

G. P. O. carriers

Important civil service employes.

""Irish whiskey distilled unlawfully, also POTEEN, POTTEEN, POITIN""

""Irish whiskey distilled unlawfully, also POTEEN, POTHEEN, POITIN""

12-year-old, say

Middle schooler, for one

Adjective for a 12-year-old

Plant name is inconstant

Readily assuming different shapes.

Changeable in shape

Enzyme, for one

Albumin, for one

A body chemical; pointer (anagram)

Disease (var)

Class of organic alkaloids.

Poisonous alkaloid.

Salivary enzyme

Salivary enzyme

Train up (anagram)

Cromwell, for one

Increase Mather, for example

""The hard covering of the kernel of certain fruits, also PYRENE""

A chemical compound

Special Olympians (wordplay)

Hall of fame

The gods of a people

Shared a good round of golf (wordplay)

Had a share (in)

Eaten some (of food/drink)

In Sparta (anagram)

Arts pain (anagram)

Prejudiced to one side

""An adherent of a person, party or cause, also PARTISAN""

Heptagon (anagram)

Disease-causing agent

Disease-causing micro-organism

Summer squash variety

Baking container.

Squash variety

Brass container (wordplay)

It holds a lot of brass (wordplay)

Brass building (wordplay)

Plant substance

Amendment impetus, maybe

Request (often by many)

Request, maybe signed by many

A chemical compound

Certain major leaguer in ads (wordplay)

Jim Palmer in TV ads (wordplay)

Billy Mays, notably

Pitchman

Basketball center, for example

Basketball center, at times

One playing under the hoop, often

Pivotman

Food for whales (wordplay)

Board not up for school food (wordplay)

Board weight (wordplay)

Pal at inn (anagram)

A hollow nut found in ordinary fruit

Firmly fix one in fruit

Turtle's bottom shell.

Torso-protecting armor

Doctor patrols with new pad to protect chest

""A small pointed object for plucking guitar strings, also PLECTRUM, PLECTRE""

Aquatic vegetation

A type of vacuum tube

Soldier at the head of a patrol

Go-to person

Forefront figure

Pointman

Having cut back course, one's afraid

No, L Troop does not want such a coward

Utter coward

It for one has a place in a broken spoon

Is it one place in the spoon (wordplay)

With it I have a place in 16 across

Sub-atomic particle

Particle one found in smashing protons

Antiparticle of the electron

Following a burn

Occurring after one's teenage years [adj] / a young adult

Bartender's product

One can swig a pint, too

Drink - a magical one ensnaring volunteers

Discipline beforehand.

A simple protein

Punishment

The act of {pupating=v}

""PALMATE resembling an open hand, also PALMATED""

'Feeling' in a laptop programme

Stock comic character

Man's sixth age

On to a plan about Columbine's father

English word

PANTRY a small storage room

Insecticide containing phosphorus and sulphur

In the house in Ireland in pieces

Bit it to start with with a border

Office cubicle divider

Paper used to line a book's inside cover

Affix securely

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

One keeping a beat (wordplay)

One who keeps a beat (wordplay)

Chap on the beat is an American cop

Parking upset Montreal traffic police

Beat keepers

Step on men, strangely, to get to the flower

Hell or ruin

There's no tripe I'd ruin like this

Reckless ode I print producing ruin

""An anticonvulsant drug, C 15 H 12 N 2 O 2 , used most commonly in the treatment of epilepsy. Also called diphenylhydantoin .""

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

Geologic process of erosion

""One, such as a horticulturist, who collects or grows plants.""

PLANTS plant

Fold.

Plutonic.

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

Guide who rides a coach horse.

Rider of near-side coach horse

After one beast goes rider when there is no coachman

The preying of one animal on another

Plundering pirate on day-shift

Sounds like praying that isn't prayer

An idea arrived at beforehand.

RETURN to go back

Citizen of Transvaal's capital.

A state without essentials of life

Hardship from lack of essentials

Absence of essentials

Period of trial.

Testing time pain with robot misbehaving

Test elastic bra and top on one running

Birth control hormone

Hormone treatment for top singer

Stop finger becoming malformed with absence of female hormone

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

Faulty foot posture

PRORATE to divide proportionately

""Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae.""

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Animalcule

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

""A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; called also Pyrethrum camphor. Pyrethrum camphor.""

Sequencing of a book's sections

One space to the left, country marking numbers on documents

Alleviation (of a disease's symptoms)

""One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.""

""PATINATE to give a patina to, also PATINISE, PATINIZE""

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Contest that involves epees and pistols

Its events include fencing and shooting

Five-part athletic event

Shut up and check on this bloomer!

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

A mere point about saturation

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

See acetophenetidin .

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

""A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.""

English word

English word

Technique for making people appear as animations

Tara, for one.

Growing business (wordplay)

Twelve Oaks, for example

Pork source (wordplay)

Wooer of voters

Butler or Hall.

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

Rider of leading horse drawing carriage

Rider on a carriage horse.

One riding coach horse

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

English word

So one's past playing - now (wordplay)

When sports awards are given, usually

Elway was there in '97 and '98

""Pl -trymen , -terers 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Also called chicken farmer a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat""

POULTRY farmyard fowls collectively

Like a Roman emperor's bodyguard

Magistrate's to arrange reparation

Julius Caesar, once

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

An antibody that reacts with a specific soluble antigen to produce a precipitate.

Weatherman's job.

*'Here's what I think'll happen...'

*"Here's what I think'll happen..."

EMPTION the act of {buying=v}

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

PORTION to divide into shares for distribution

SWEETEN to make {sweet=adj}

A claim or aspiration (to something)

Show anxiety before changing places

Claim tin-openers had been damaged

It's better than cure, they say

It follows fire

Action said to be better than cure

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip

Bump kin (wordplay)

Estimate of future possibilities

Certain linear transformation

Part voting aye (wordplay)

Fit for serving

Supporting part share

Body guard, for example

Bribe Johnny Cash

Rotten cop I fancy extorting money

Early ancestor (wordplay)

""The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.""

Beta carotene, since it can become A

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)

PUNCTATE covered with dots

Rapid irregular heartbeat

Irregular heartbeat

Fluttering.

Birth

PASSIVATE PASSIVE a verb form

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

""The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

Gradual filtration

PERENNATE

Ace in the hole (wordplay)

It's useful to those in a tearing hurry

Holes picked in closing remarks about French leader

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

Act of mimicry

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany any of a group of substances produced by plants that inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi that infect them [from phyto- + Greek alexein to ward off]

See stonefly .

Country where flowers are fertilized (wordplay)

Flower fertilisation

What bees help to accomplish by flying from flower to flower

Noun (-sion)

""The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic

ELECTION the act of {electing=v}

Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.

""A. tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss. as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.""

Feeling something is about to happen

Sandra Bullock film

Presentiment, forewarning

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.

Iron parapet (anagram)

Specially made up medicine

Preliminary measure

Word like after or for (grammar)

'Before' or 'after', say

One could be across or down