2-Letter Words Starting with S

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

""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

Sibilate

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

Gestured behind the stumps (wordplay)

Shown design fault, set about everyone

Flagged down variable

One place for advertising

Advertiser's medium

Where business name may be displayed

Feigned, imitated

Pretended to be excited with temperature dropping

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

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

Skyjack

Frolicked

Slabber

Let up

Eased

Dragged through the mud, maybe

What Mrs. Slipslop did.

Attacked the good name of

Put on lavishly

Laid on thick

Used wastefully

Like some fine books

Made neater by tradesmen

Wised (up)

Got wise, with "up"

Would this elude a gardener (wordplay)

Would this elude a gardener?

Learned superficially

Dabbled in

Dabbled

Long-necked bird allied to cormorant

Plant used as an astringent

Informal name for bistort, also describing its twisted roots

SNEAKER one that {sneaks=v}

Go downhill fast (wordplay)

Treasury Department panel (wordplay)

Way to go... downhill

Solarise

Solarize

Sonicate

Soothsay

Dixie

In the direction of Cork, say

In the direction of Waterford, say

In the direction of Spain

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing a device on a linecaster for evening up the spaces between words""

""; adj. Toward, to, or in outer space.""

Spancel

Spotted by a mudslinger (wordplay)

Trap steed (anagram)

Small talk on journalist's spread

Lead (a military attack)

Lead (an attack)

Lead (an attack or movement)

Speciate

Spectate

Any of the four haploid cells formed by meiosis in a male organism that develop into spermatozoa without further division.

Plant of the ginseng family

Aromatic East Indian plant.

Aromatic root

Grew, like some churches, welcoming everybody

Pillaged

Spraddle

Sprattle

English word

Had words

Had words with most of team with British having drawn blood

When they fought, the little bird was bleeding by the end of it

He may convey properties

Person moving theatre props

Theater crew member

The buck began to fall over greed

Hit with a haymaker

The buck nearly fell for greed

British armed reconnaissance car.

One whose quarry is sought and abused (wordplay)

Hunting dog

Got stuck in a rut

Was in a rut

Hit the doldrums

Wasn't confident, say

Emulated Mel Tillis

Spoke like Bob Newhart

Ran wildly, as a buffalo herd

Ran wild, as cattle

Made off frightfully fast

That's right!

Right light on ship (wordplay)

Right (at sea)

Used a telescope

Looked raptly

Daydreamed

For Hawaii and Alaska (wordplay)

Territory's future, perhaps

For Hawaii and Alaska?

Placed where the 28 across are perhaps

Posted there online, perhaps

Posted in a position

How Edward the loyal stopped the flow

Arrested resolute pressman

Traveled in a certain kind of ship

The rainbow trout

Rainbow trout

Trout variety

Three metal feet to scale (wordplay)

Three metal feet with scales (wordplay)

Pittsburgh work area

To the rear

Supervised, as a kitchen.

Managed

Stockade

Locale in Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Place having many pens

Feature of Chicago.

Put up with

Most upset having hurt bore

Stood

Was on both sides!

Took an equivocal position Colloq.

Took an equivocal position: Colloq.

Wandered from the direct course

Wandered off.

Leader of tour intercepting hapless laggers who'd ultimately wandered from group

Choked to death

What Othello did to Desdemona

Choked and killed

Stravage

It holds water

It holds running water

Rock locale

Let by a letter

Subpena

Sufflate

Sulphate

Sunbathe

Brown junior soundly beaten (wordplay)

Like many bikini models

Bronzed, in a way

English word

Supinate

Came to an end

Drew to a close

Discontinued

On which to have a swell time (wordplay)

On which to make waves (wordplay)

On which to rule the waves (wordplay)

Did better than

Did better to dress up as arranged

Idiot introduced to silly prudes excelled

Long drawn-out

Kept going, supported

Supported; kept going

Sashayed or strutted

Did Ed swear and boast about the horse (wordplay)

Walked pompously

Perhaps swiftly got it down

Accepted without question: Colloq.

Accepted without question Colloq.

Waterlogged area

E.g. bloody weapon put over wardrobe

Curse deterioration in a weapon

Censor's target

Strip of fabric to absorb perspiration

It encircles an athlete's forehead

Bit of workout gear

Terrific leader (wordplay)

Vain or conceited person.

Conceited sort

Uttered: poet

Furnished with little sacs.

Given up for the greater good

Acted unselfishly

Gave up

SADDLE to put a leather seat for a rider on a horse

SAILPLANE

Consecrated

Being converted, dies in fact as a saint (wordplay)

Holy.

Permitted or penalized

Imposed punishment of a kind that's permitted

Permissible

Clog material (wordplay)

Huarache material (wordplay)

Tree used for making footwear (wordplay)

Played down, say

Used crude force

Obstructed, outmanoeuvred

Inserted between.

Was hidden plastic, encasing canine opening, like a filling (wordplay)

Converted (a fat) into soap

Scabbard

(Of a building) encased for repairs in a temporary framework

Scandal

Conductor's stand (wordplay)

Jazz performance display (wordplay)

Ball park feature.

""Of or belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidei, which includes the scorpion fishes and rockfishes.""

The movie industry; Hollywood.

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

Not new - part of watch!

Watch! It goes around (wordplay)

Used to be found on watch (wordplay)

Thus kept a part as one

Gets agreed damages set aside

Gets agreed alternative set aside

""SEMAPHORE A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.""

SACRED consecrated or holy

Top player pocketing Arab cash is in parts

SERIALIZE

Turned blue (wordplay)

Like many pop culture images

Very modest, bashful

Showing guilty embarrassment

Red, perhaps

Impressed a sailor without his knowing!

Eastern city editor may be impressed

Coerced into crewmanship

""A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, ∨ Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Archosargus, ∨ Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.""

Finished, in a way

High-speed option on the East Coast

Defeated soundly

Bobby's favorite snack (wordplay)

Rich crumbly biscuit

Lorna Doone makeup

Showboat

Perforated part of a bathroom fitting

Certain water dispenser

Bathtub fixture

SIGNALISE

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

Participate in the X Games, perhaps

Teen's transportation, perhaps

Rage created in "Back to the Future"

Made oneself scarce

Ran off hurriedly

Hightailed it

One nodding off (2 words)

Yawning child (wordplay)

Slacker ground he'd ply with ease

SLOGANIZE

""A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.""

Got out of hand

Got out of control

Expanded rapidly.

Like some tall mountains

Like a white peak

Tired about absence of throne, like some in high places (wordplay)

SOCIALISE

Converted to public ownership

Simpleminded or lamebrained

Simpleminded

Afflicted with migraine.

A soundingboard.

Spancel

Marked beast, much loved, taken round Britain on display

Put one's thinking cap on

Took risks

Considered options, then played the market

Made a mess, maybe

Splashed (all over the place)

Sloshed water on.

SPORULATE

A fountain or source.

Spurgall

Formed defense groups, of a sort

Played ducks and drakes with

Frittered away

Recklessly wasted

Squatter

STABILIZE

Stablish

Took Tal to a tie

Brought to a standstill.

At an impasse

Let us admit becoming excited

Provoked the senses

Psyched up

Required platitudes to be inventive!

Details put out as specified

Specified as a condition

A mantis shrimp, for example

Plot device (wordplay)

Director's device

Lie on table to make an outline

Straight

Distressed when pressed to accept a note

Like some circumstances

Characterized by poverty

Stranger

Formed in layers

Arranged in layers

Stone cut, formally approved, and arranged in layers

Stravaig

Subclass

""SUBJUGATE To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.""

Purified

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

Summoned as a witness

SUBROGATE To put in the place of another; to substitute.

SAMPLED sample

Subtotal

Journalist's taken leaflet away

Paper is after loan before editor's removed

FARMED OUT WORK

It's taken away from rough brute's hand

SUFFOCATE Suffocated; choked.

SULFONATE

Put briefly, tot gets angry when about to get out of bed

Did a quick recap of

Digested

Superadd

English word

Supplant

""SUPPURATE To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates. as, a boil or abscess suppurates.""

""SURCHARGE To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.""

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

""Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; said of horses and other animals.""

Sugar-loaf (wordplay)

Pancreas (as food)

Baked thymus (wordplay)

Power-station area

Offbeat (wordplay)

Cut short, as rhythm

Unusually stressed church council welcomes chapter and head (slightly later)

Sold to several publications

Like a lot of crosswords? Cryptic, yes - addict tackles any number

Protected

Cleaned, in a way

Cleaned but good

Smoothed, as a wooden surface

Got ready to put on a new coat

Smoothed, as wood

SCANDALISE

""SCANDALIZE To offend the feelings of the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.""

Put the blame on

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Scrimshaw

""Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.""

SECULARISE

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

""SENSUALIZE To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

English word

Having several parts or members.

Didn't really hit

Like some cats

In need of stenographers

Not having enough staff

Without enough staff

Diverted from the main issue.

Thrown off course

Shunted (wordplay)

Simulcast