2-Letter Words Starting with S

Sword found in BEARS (wordplay)

Light weapon (wordplay)

Rattled weapon (wordplay)

French-based pidgin language

Frenchbased pidgin language

Lingua franca

Having slept it off maybe

Not lit (wordplay)

Like a judge, according to a saying

Outer bark of the cork oak

Cork-oak bark

Cork: Latin.

Large Asiatic deer

Indian lentil and vegetable soup

Deer with three-pointed antlers

Large Asiatic deer

Sad person, perhaps

Mourning person, perhaps

Mournful one, often

Dark and dull.

Like a funeral, or an ex's nuptials

Not at all sunny

Poor, or incredibly good (wordplay)

Below normal level.

Poor, as a performance

""A large Asian deer, also SAMBAR, SAMBHUR, SAMBUR""

""A large Asian deer, also SAMBAR, SAMBHAR, SAMBUR""

Surfin' turf (wordplay)

Play area during low tide, perhaps

Land line (wordplay)

""An annual herb, also SANDBURR, SANDSPUR""

Tool for marking wood

Wood-marking tool.

Wood-marking tool

Hearing at a hearing (wordplay)

Bistro for a contesting team (wordplay)

Bistro for a contesting team?

Drivel

One crying must get left inside? Drivel!

Blobs spattered on Queen? That's drivel!

Kiss like a dog, perhaps

To stain or dirty

Result of getting sacked (wordplay)

Start to saw logs (wordplay)

Undercover activity (wordplay)

He brushes you off

Cold-shoulder specialist

Shock absorber.

More judgmental (wordplay)

Less likely to fall over

More serious in tone

Brutus, for one

Brutus, vis-a-vis Caesar

Caesarean assassin

Mine host not so tipsy (wordplay)

Winning quarterback in Super Bowl XI

He puts up ponies

""A governor of a subah, also SUBAHDAR, SUBEDAR""

Under the wing

Control freak (wordplay)

One who makes one give in

One who pacifies

More able to make fine distinctions

Somewhat less crying

Not so obvious

Hand, at times

Deck cleaner.

Deck toiler

""One that swabs, also SWABBER""

Vandal could wreck boat, sure!

Wrecker (of hunts?)

Monkey wrench wielder (wordplay)

""An annual herb, also SANDBUR, SANDSPUR""

Scabby

Wire brush, perhaps

With which to purify floozie (wordplay)

User of elbow grease.

More run-down

More in need of a makeover

More moth-eaten

Less common (wordplay)

More hoity-toity

More condescending

Snubby

Bishop in Beirut's possibly more stocky

Tab for holding up those who are late is shorter than most

Fall guy (wordplay)

One who trips

One walking unsteadily

""A governor of a subah, also SUBADAR, SUBEDAR""

It's under the hardwood

More empyreal

More awe-inspiring warship British sailor docked on river

Under the moon.

Beneath the Sea of Tranquility, for example

Terrestrial

Thing taken at a deli (wordplay)

It's bigger than family

Taxonomic category above family

Payola offerer

Just outside the Arctic Circle

Of the region just north of the Antarctic Circle

One that {subsides=v}

Situated directly beneath the sun

Subtil

A subordinate vicar

Superb

Comparative adjective or agent noun

SCRABBLE to {scramble=v}

Motor cyclist egged on (wordplay)

Phone tap foiler

Phone security device

One jotting quickly, say

Pen for this

Writer of a sort

Scrubby

Sensible

Shrubby

SKIBOB to travel in a sleigh-type vehicle over snow

One who slobbers.

One who slumbers; a sleeper.

In the USA, farmer who works the soil

Plow, for example

Farmer who works the soil

Squabby

Bickering pigeon (wordplay)

One having spats

Bickering pigeon?

Stubbly

Underground room.

CENTER to place at the middle point

CHASER one that {chases=v}

Deskman scattered doubters around Italy

One proof-reads writers' copy

Newspaper checker

SECTOR to divide into sections

SUBSOIL to plow the layer of earth below the surface

Underminer of principles

WRITER one who {writes=v}

Tehran bus broken down on the beach

Burns with heat, if silly, as this

Person lying falsifed heat burns

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

One gaining an edge by deceit

Deceitful one

Gangs bred a mongrel as surprise attacker

Scrabbly

Successor to the shovel.

Winter road machine

Blizzard cleanup machine

SOFTBALL a type of ball

STABILIZE

Section of a body of laws

CLUSTER to form into groups

DIVIDER one that {divides=v}

One who subjugates; a conqueror.

Deputy grabbed by Tuareg, an ambush backfired

Member of the U.S.N.

Member of the navy

One's business is taking a dive

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

Underwriter (wordplay)

One with lots of Time on his hands (wordplay)

Contributor returned puzzle, including small copy

""SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

Take away the queen by computer (wordplay)

Wild rose also called eglantine

Virginia women's college

Eglantine - fragrant rose

Mild cheese right from the plant

Rose with pink flowers

One who symbolizes.

Paper tool (wordplay)

Surface-cleaning tool

High-pressure abrasive tool

Constructor of forty nine down perhaps

One using only a half pipe (wordplay)

One flipping out on slopes (wordplay)

Half-pipe performer

SNOWMOBILE

Labor Day orator, perhaps

A dynamic speaker, for example

Big hit on the lecture circuit

Relative by marriage

Relative to walk with hassle round river

Upset Herbert's top relative

Wholesale plant grower or cattleman?

Dealer with bulls and bears.

Cher (wordplay)

Former finance worker

CAPSULAR enclosed and compact

CELLULAR pertaining to a cell

DIRECTOR one that {directs=v}

To supply; to afford.

Superbomb

Waves rider

Wave rider

SURREBUT to reply to a rebutter

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

The breeding and raising of livestock.

ORBICULAR Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.

""SUBORDINATE Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.""

Errol Flynn kind of role

Dare-devil takes second to clean shield

One given to derring-do

Picket line crosser, maybe

Hit by wave, one labours on regardless

Scab caused by blow wave

Construction project bidder

Firm undertaking part of another's agreement

MANDIBULAR Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.

Inflected form of MILLIMETER Inflected form of MILLIME a coin of Tunisia