2-Letter Words Starting with S

Is she an object for cover (wordplay)

Blab about former PM covering up

Covering of grass around open country

Bird that female navigator found on lake

Duck captured by dissolute rakes

Diving duck with serrated bill

Defeats decisively

The Ancient Mariner

The woman will sponsor old sailor

Island group NE of the Orkneys.

Some ponies or sheepdogs

Small, stocky ponies

See Showbread. Showbread.

Admitting of being shifted.

Shigella

Shigella

Shiitake

Shikaree

Shikar

Cudgel Var.

Cudgel variable

Shillala

Shinleaf

Type of romance (on an ocean liner)

Like some short-lived romances

Shipload

Set with mishap at sea? They hope not!

Ishmael and Starbuck, for two

Crew rescued from damaged steamship

A. A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

Proper wicked hash pipes!

Very trim - and proud of it, we hear!

Ready to sail; also, neat and clean

Where to set sails (wordplay)

Where some subs are fixed

Liner builders

Young and immature

It may stick out of one's pants

It's usually tucked in

Shivaree

Comic serenades for newlyweds.

Noisy mock serenades to newlyweds

Shmaltz

Shoaly

Capable of being upset by sudden occurrences

Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma

Boot shiner (wordplay)

One who gives you a shine

Person whose work shines

Tongue twisters (wordplay)

They're often tied up

Breakers at the most inopportune times

One working at court (wordplay)

Oxford man (wordplay)

Oxford's last worker (wordplay)

Shoepack

Former Japanese government

Shoptalk

Heading to land

Toward land

Drawers accept years with deficits

Date in trousers causing supply problems

Runs may cause them

Sweet biscuit - rat chokes (anagram)

Diminutive dessert (wordplay)

Rate shock (anagram)

Want a little snow (wordplay)

What's missing from shower (wordplay)

Deficiency in whisky, perhaps a drop

Pet that doesn't need much brushing, say

Feature of a crew cut.

Result of a buzz cut

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

What a flashy exhibitionist does in the ring

""Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.""

Put on exhibit

Exhibited, as one's talent

Displayed to best advantage

Places for trophies

Display cabinets.

Displays what Latin teacher may do to class

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

Process of becoming less

A gherkin's pickled, getting smaller

Asking her out is withering experience

Shtetl

Shwanpan

Sialidan

Hissing bird upset pike

Hissing quality

S's, pronouncedly so

Sounds like S for the sound of the girl with insects under her

Sibilate

Sibilate

Sickle cell anemia or sickle cell trait.

Sideband

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

Distract (from big issue)

Distract (from an issue)

Follow team's first draw away

Where al fresco diners sit

Where to "trip the light fantastic."

Cafe locales, often

Some tires have white ones

They come into play in squash

White gangster-tire features

Crab's progress.

Laterally

Like some growth curves

Signaler

Indicating by gestures

Giving a cue

Cuing

Mark, notably a single, is desperate

To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Gestured behind the stumps (wordplay)

Shown design fault, set about everyone

Flagged down variable

Without exception resign, upset about the railwayman

He sent 'England expects...' to the fleet; an indication to go for the French

Main slang (anagram)

Military communications expert

Conspicuous chap, possibly a flasher

Communicators are remarkable people

Railroad employees

Semaphore pros

John Hancock, famously

Indicate a politician's one in agreement

Hire a conservative for proclamation party

Is over Midge Ure's autograph!

Button Gwinnett's claim to fame.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph

One place for advertising

Advertiser's medium

Where business name may be displayed

Miss Italy (wordplay)

Miss cue on air - sorry!

Young lady from Rome (wordplay)

Silicate

Silicula

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a fine smooth cotton fabric used for linings, etc. [from silk + -aline, from -oline as in crinoline ]""

Sillabub

Siloxane

A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay.

Simaruba

Simazine

In like manner

In the same vein

Likewise.

Ecclesiastical traffickers

Likeable, easy to get on with

On the same page

Of like mind

Simplex

Representations (of someone/something)

Kind of light chemical is raising images

Curve on mineral is coming up in images

Archaic A simulacrum.

Simulant

Feigned, imitated

Pretended to be excited with temperature dropping

Must I deal with one that's so pretending (wordplay)

Resembles a slum site perhaps

Miss around you of late in no original manner

Feigns.

Machine for training, eg, pilots

Device replicating external conditions

Flight training equipment

Program on radio and TV at same time.

It's carried by radio and TV

Concurrent program airing

Sinapism

Foreheads

Individuals

Opposite of dextral

Left-handed.

Left-handed

Sinuate

Sirenian

Indian lute players

Finding a spot for.

Putting into context

It was critical for Ultra Nate

It might be sticky

It's a job to get one into a suit

Sitzmark

""SJAMBOK in South Africa to strike with a whip, also JAMBOK""

Kelvin, journalist in charge? Run away!

Run off hurriedly (colloq.)

See instructions (nonverbal)

Having one's doubts

American's dubious arrangement of kilt with capes

Doubtful

Skewback

Brown-and-white horses

Skiagram

They like close shaves

Subculture influenced by Jamaican rude boys

Those not shocked as youths rudely kiss hand holding tablet

Certain fish... or sailboats

Certain fish ... or sailboats

Cold weather Transportation

Crafts that can land in the snow

Vehicles in cold conditions avoid roads

""A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.""

Beanies and yarmulkes

Brimless headwear

Religious wear

Skyjack

Person who highjacks an aeroplane

Modern pirate

Modern pirate runs after sailor within island

Frolicked

SKYLARK to {frolic=v}

Slabber

Let up

Eased

Laxity

Slaggy

Going on one ski

Zigzagging through the course

Zigzag activity

Dragged through the mud, maybe

What Mrs. Slipslop did.

Attacked the good name of

Owner of a bad tongue.

One who defames another

One's words may lead to action

Most addicted to jive.

Least formal

Shoptalk, for example

Hybrid term for colorful vocabulary

Colorful vocabulary

Obliquely

Obliquely.

Discontented social worker knowing one's inclined to appear thus

Oblique

Whack a dwarf (wordplay)

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller?

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller (wordplay)

Slapjack

Staff going on strike? It's Ludicrous!

Sennett proceedings (wordplay)

Humour based on clumsiness

Forest debris

Adjective meaning resembling

Put on lavishly

Laid on thick

Used wastefully

Untidy women mislaid Len's tarts

Promiscuous women

Materials for venetians

Killing (of farm animals)

Start to shake with mirth that's killing

Fall about in almost relentless defeat

Slaverer

Slavery

Group of serfs, drooling (wordplay)

In need of a bib, maybe

Oppressed person on phone exuding drivel

Foxy Liberal secured for Strictly

In the manner of a servant that's wasteful, cloaked in cunning

Unprincipled man (slang)

Contemptible type

Real creep

Most flimsy.

Most lowbrow

Go out when you've gone out (wordplay)

One way to travel at night (wordplay)

Travel at night, perhaps

Here are Le Pew's pajamas

Retirement attire

Like deli meats

Odious creatures dressed in black may well be cut

Slideway

Despicable sort

Repulsive person - slippery sphere (wordplay)

Sleazy weasel

Like some fine books

Book holders

Slippage

Slipware

A coiner of catchphrases

Ad agency specialist

Speaker of trite phrases

SLOGAN a motto adopted by a group

Offensive football players

Lazy ones

Sluggard

Artificial channel for water

Smallage

Diminutive condition

Insignificance.

Smaltine

Smaltite

Smaragde

Least sincere

Most unctuous

Most ingratiating

Made neater by tradesmen

Wised (up)

Got wise, with "up"

Clean and tidy quality

Bright cape shows style

Chic to irritate the head

Would this elude a gardener (wordplay)

Would this elude a gardener?

Learned superficially

Dabbled in

Dabbled

One with superficial knowledge

Cottage cheese, to some

Cottage cheese

Cottage cheese.

Most messy, as makeup

Least waterproof, as mascara

Most bedaubed.

English word

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

Taking supporters back with cast

Snaggy

Very slow, as a pace

Very slow

Sluggish

Long-necked bird allied to cormorant

Slithering Racer X song (wordplay)

Drink (dangerous if given by 18!)

Poisonous drink (wordplay)

Twisting

Ophidian

Reputed rattler bite remedy [2001]

Rattler-bite remedy, supposedly

Medicinal plant.

Rattler's relatives (wordplay)

Small-scale stuff

Expensive leather from reptiles

Plant used as an astringent

Informal name for bistort, also describing its twisted roots

Snapback

Making inept pass, gets most irascible

Most like Dorothy Parker's comebacks

Like the one speaking most irritably

Get pictures at a bar (wordplay)

Cellphone creations, sometimes

Photo album collection

Snapweed

Snarky

Snarly

Sci-fi villains in a '56 film

Takers

Snatchy

Pickpocket's activity

Chants getting their hands on the gin

Grasping eagerly

Maximally chi-chi

Flashier than all others

SNEAKER one that {sneaks=v}

Least trustworthy

Most indirect

Drinks made from mushrooms (wordplay)

Increases at an accelerating rate

Rockets currently do within ship

White masses

Roadside accumulations for Hank and Tyra (wordplay)

Go downhill fast (wordplay)

Treasury Department panel (wordplay)

Way to go... downhill

Snowfall

Canadian crystal (wordplay)

It can't be cloned

Hexagonal sign of winter