2-Letter Words Starting with P

Chase start (wordplay)

Contented sound Var.

Big water filter brand

Transfer liquid, say

Freshen someone's glass, perhaps

Share a cab (wordplay)

Siamese for "Ni-i-ice!" (wordplay)

Be catty (wordplay)

Make a catty remark (wordplay)

He pours out whines

Whining child.

Whining one

More like Simon (wordplay)

Freer from defects

Closer to perfect

Poor soul (wordplay)

Person without means

Mark Twain character, Tom Canty.

Look-before-you-leap disciple

One who hesitates

One who stops to think.

Dude with a 'tude (wordplay)

Exhibitionist very big in Peru, perhaps

The Great Impostor, for one

Bacchus, for one

Waiter with water, say

Hostess at tea

Sulking pigeon (wordplay)

Obviously unhappy person

Type of pigeon

Trimmer plum recipe

Tree surgeon, at times

One shaping a rosebush

Prepare to kiss (with "up")

Ape fish (wordplay)

Gather into bulge, say lips

Smoker in front of train (wordplay)

Globefish - steam train (wordplay)

Railway blower that was

Tug-of-war participant

Wood mill apparatus

Watch word (wordplay)

Celestial radio-wave source

Regularly radiating stellar object

Heartbeat control device

Throbbing thing

Eg, a compressor user

Fire truck

Heart, essentially

Of lesser size

Not as big

Not nearly as strong

Sex Pistols fan, e.g

Sex Pistols fan, for example

Certain type of rock musician

Puzzle editor, at times

New York Post headline writer, often

Waggish verbalist

Professional gambler; client (inf.)

Customer for boatman (wordplay)

Boatman could be one better (wordplay)

One that {purges=v}

Marine money man (wordplay)

Ship's officer

Only on board for the money

Crack salesman (wordplay)

Junk dealer (wordplay)

Narc's target

Golf club with parking, say

But soft! Say, that's one club

No driver to do the placing, perhaps

Pertaining to {pabulum=n}

""A marauding soldier, also PANDOOR""

Pertaining to a {papule=n}

Beauty room (wordplay)

Shop etc, formerly front room

Mean to look dangerous, given room

Stone for walking on

Stoneworker's assistant taking five for debt to court number 4

He's looked over by an employer

Many a bookstore shopper

Bibliophile, at times

Pertaining to a {pilule=n}

One who {plagues=v}

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

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

One that {pounces=v}

16 ounce can of beer

Mallet, for example

Fast food burger, with "quarter"

Less of a good sport

More sullen

Sulking more

With head held higher

With a bigger head

More like a peacock

One who converts pig-iron to wrought-iron

More short and plump

More plump

Less slim

With a new leader, huffier and more pompous

Bird loses right wing, American casualty of bigger gusts

Puggy

Pulpy

One that {pumices=v}

Cow follower (wordplay)

Ending with cow or hole

Provider of hit joke on opening of French letter

Punky

Containing more wordplay

Edgar Nye for one

Bennett Cerf, for one

Whirred play lover (wordplay)

Of an eye part

Purple

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

One who {putties=v}

Crossword solver (wordplay)

Particularly baffling problem

Something that perplexes

Significant other (wordplay)

A lover, illicit perhaps

Kept woman in standard affair

One who pastures livestock

Strange clue - 'Pair off'!

The odd funny clue I mean to include

I clear up, being odd

Swinging back and forth.

Like part of a grandfather clock

Like a grandfather clock

Person who makes scents

It makes scents

Storyteller in court

One lying on oath

Person who lies under oath

Atoning

Relating to a pinnula

Pertaining to a {planula=n}

Tractor operator.

Plucky

Plummy

Pertaining to a {plumule=n}

Plushy

One who doesn't give a hoot

E.P.A. target

Ecologically, the one who should pay

Attitudinizer

Poser

Pouchy

One that {preludes=v}

Sir Henry M. Stanley, notably

Impertinent one

Brash one

Doctor, by trade (wordplay)

One who obtains something

Solicitor for doctor

Makes film of The Field (wordplay)

Max Bialystock, for one

Creator; supervisor (of programme, play)

One that {puckers=v}

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

Dig that is right for having the most impact

Role in "Marvel's Daredevil"

Spanker, for example

Vigilante, maybe

Device for cleansing thoroughly

Cleanser

Supplier (of food, etc)

Provider (of goods)

Sounds as if there's a cellar here

Piece of cake turned up? Keep mum on!

Something easily done

Easily defeated type

Covered with pimples

Of skin eruptions

A golfer at home (wordplay)

A golfer at home?

Casual workman

Paunchy

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

One convincing; gun

One who benefits from a sacking (wordplay)

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

Not for the catwalk, our hairstyle

18th century women's hairstyle

Display a grim hairstyle? Hardly

Person interested in winning prizes

Vainglorious competitor uses drug - horse (wordplay)

He's game to supply you

Dealer in fowl

Leo and Rupert nobbled dealer in game

Before the computer age (wordplay)

Cusp error responsible for omen

Something going in advance of another

JUDGER one who {judges=v}

NUMBER to {count=v}

English word

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

Puckery

He pulls the strings.

A dog always welcomes favourite

Burr Tillstrom, for example

Patron has ship's officer storing tea

Tea break for cashier and buyer

One who buys something

Cleaner hides meat from thief

Cleaner hiding joint she's stolen

Promote president to pram

Reportedly pedal president's buggy

Baby transport

Painful

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

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

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

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

Pitiful

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

""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

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

One who speaks for another.

Spelling bee official

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

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

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

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

Dairy apparatus.

Peaceful

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Containing many nuclei.

One making a subject accessible*

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

PRESSURIZE

Of a Roman official

One who promulgates or publishes.

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

English word

An agent provocateur.

Cloth used in Holy Communion services

Cloth used in celebrating the Eucharist

Wary one

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

At right angles

Apple incurred difficulties? Straight up

Style of English architecture

An electronic sensing device used to detect electromagnetic energy of a wide range of frequencies and intensity levels.