2-Letter Words Starting with P

Serial crime investigator

TV crime drama

Criminal Minds investigator

He gains

Like Cesar Chavez

On the side of unions, for example

Like a Populist, quite possibly

One who says "I do"

One who gives his word

One making a vow

Guarantor

Tex Rickard, for one

Don King, for one

One staging a fight (wordplay)

Quicker to give a reminder (wordplay)

Provider of cues

Offstage V.I.P.

A forearm or forelimb muscle

Proper

Model, by trade (wordplay)

Future benedict (wordplay)

One moving for one sitting

Michael Bolton will be your "Soul" one

That's the one that makes the 25 down

Supporter for Verdi in performance

One who {provokes=v}

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

One in the lead.

Are pack, perhaps, keeping me back? Certainly not!

Producer of artificial rhythms

""PAGANIZE to make irreligious, also PAGANISE""

PALLIATE to cloak or disguise

Panicky

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

Factor defining limits

Variable disciple, a beast inside

Figure in a math function

One on a train perhaps

15 across may have one

He's taken for a ride.

Patient

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Cop on the beat

Guard Irishman's posh car

Mobile guard

Paunchy

Dispenser of wages

Dispenser of soldiers' salaries

Official dealing with wages

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

Tread a measure (wordplay)

Tom peered (anagram)

Gadget for walkers.

Receptacle on a desk, perhaps

Calligrapher's need

Perhaps one ripens as retiree (wordplay)

Late worker (wordplay)

Old Chelsea player, perhaps

Seer, of a sort

Perfect

A retired actor (wordplay)

Salesman turns up with past actor

One putting on an act

Outer limits (wordplay)

Prime tree (anagram)

Place for a fence, perhaps

One who permits.

PERSIST to continue resolutely

One convincing; gun

One who perverts (a person or thing).

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

Person eating a meal in the open-air

Type of celebrator on 7 Down

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

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

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

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

Not for the catwalk, our hairstyle

18th century women's hairstyle

Display a grim hairstyle? Hardly

Child's bowl.

Child's bowl

Small dish for Spanish campanologist

Artist needs beer to have inner spark

Actor, for example

Artist wants Guinness maybe when eating fish

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.

Stoner's pulp fiction (wordplay)

Book hastily written for gain

Hack's novel

Person interested in winning prizes

Vainglorious competitor uses drug - horse (wordplay)

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) an apparatus that measures the rate of water uptake by a plant or plant part [from Latin pōtāre to drink + -meter ]

He's game to supply you

Dealer in fowl

Leo and Rupert nobbled dealer in game

""One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.""

Practical joker Colloq.

Practical joker: Colloq.

Person playing tricks on people

More tediously moralising

More self-righteous support stifles influence

CENSOR to delete a word or passage

Choir leader

Queen Anne died despite Johnson's 'most universal genius'

Teacher or principal

Teacher, of old

Teacher

Before the computer age (wordplay)

Cusp error responsible for omen

Something going in advance of another

Jeane Dixon, for one

Weather man's role.

Someone who foretells events

Like an aperitif

PREEMPT to acquire by prior right

One who prefers.

HEATER an apparatus for heating

JUDGER one who {judges=v}

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

NUMBER to {count=v}

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

James Stuart, for one

Not a genuine claimant (wordplay)

Claimant (to a throne)

What Smokey wants you to be, re forest fires

Obviator

Online photo album feature

Prickly

Ship quietly corroded in stream

Vessel's solitary lug pronounced

Type of armed ship.

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

Will he make too much of it (wordplay)

Scalp tickets, for example

Charge too much

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Plan alternative cinema equipment

Slide-showing device

Film-showing machine

""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

""A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province.""

English word

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

Expert + sleuth + peak

Knight, to a damsel

Guard for Commonwealth head of state

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

Not an amateur food seller (wordplay)

Dry food for beasts

Supplies spin round seller in US

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

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

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

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)

The process or craft of making paper.

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

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

Indian pipe smoker (wordplay)

Indian pipe smoker?

Keep camera rolling for arbitrator

Peacocky

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

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

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

A fine speaker? One may be boring

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

One who personates.

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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.

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.""

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

""One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.""

One who prescribes.

""THEATER a building for dramatic presentations, also THEATRE""

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish prettification   n""

Priestly

Princely

Currier or Ives

One who proclaims.

One producing young

Progenitor

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

Father, for good measure, organised riot

Originator, as of a musical style

One standing in for man or father

Writer of computer code

Scott Adams job before "Dilbert"

Computer coder

One who speaks for another.

Royal Albert Hall regular

Walker - concert goer

Square dancer, at times

Spelling bee official

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

Decorous reptile

Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary!

Diffuser

A prophet.

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

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

""An ancient Roman official, appointed to be the chief administrator of a province after serving his term of office as praetor.""

Owner (of a business)

Titleholder is Perot, prior to change

Name on the door, often

""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

Yes to farm aid!

Like John Deere (wordplay)

Angling gear (wordplay)

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

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

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

""One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.""

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ..

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ...

Publicity agent of yore

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

Writer of news items for newspapers

One who paraphrases.