2-Letter Words Starting with S

Hurriedly took flight when beaten

Wandered at last to get eggs like this

Eggs whisked and stirred

Scored or was withdrawn (wordplay)

Slightly damaged, so withdrawn

Withdrew, slightly injured

Made like an owl

Cried in a strident voice

Sounded shrill one of the longest one-syllable words (nonverbal)

Wrote, as a signature on a receipt

Written carelessly

Wrote informally

Scrooch

Did some foraging

Monosyllabic word meaning "cadged"

Co-eds rung up and cadged

Uncultivated area

Made a deep-in-concentration face

Crushed noisily

Compacted

Scunner

When Dec's up about the up part, that has you down

One at the bar higher with the editor and sank the lot

Scutter

Put in the bin!

Roped off, perhaps

Cut up at being forcibly treated

Given life, perhaps

Judged the merits of.

Making scene, tend to be condemned

In all the right places

In order

Put on exhibit

Exhibited, as one's talent

Displayed to best advantage

Shylock

Sinicize

Skyjack

Let up

Eased

Like some fine books

Laughed, in a way.

Laughed in undignified fashion.

Queen in Dickens novel laughed

Solecise

Solecize

Begged for it in legal form, perhaps

Sought by petition

Consequently legal, journalist made advances

Sonicate

""(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

Speciate

Named in detail

Stated in detail

Gave details

Spectate

Spotted, splashed

'Boldly spotted the third allotment': penned by Guardian setter

*Stained

Monosyllabic word meaning "sat on"

Sat on

Suppressed

Squinch

How Edward the loyal stopped the flow

Arrested resolute pressman

Like letters on a crate, maybe

Like sign letters, perhaps

Lettered with a form.

Marriage acquisition, maybe

Second mate's kid (wordplay)

Offspring of spouse

""A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets. Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.""

STICK to support with slender pieces of wood

Stockade

Locale in Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Place having many pens

Feature of Chicago.

Put up with

Most upset having hurt bore

Stood

Extended, one's limbs perhaps

Like some truths

Extended in time or space

Strickle

Subcool

Subduct

Citizen Edward was made liable

Came first or came after (wordplay)

Came into a title

Managed to have taken over

Comforted, having been duped by The Voice

Sounds as if one has helped to have removed shoots on the side

Yielded (to pressure)

Succuss

Suction

Came to an end

Drew to a close

Discontinued

Doubted the truth of (something)

Imagined to be true

Thought son cut speed round the bend

Furnished with little sacs.

Given up for the greater good

Acted unselfishly

Gave up

Consecrated

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

Holy.

Permitted or penalized

Imposed punishment of a kind that's permitted

Permissible

Inserted between.

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

Scabbard

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

Scandal

SCIENTIZE

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.""

Scouther

The movie industry; Hollywood.

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

Scrootch

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

With fine and regular features, son grew to assume power

Carved

Chiseled

Not new - part of watch!

Watch! It goes around (wordplay)

Used to be found on watch (wordplay)

SACRED consecrated or holy

""SEPULCHRE The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.""

Very modest, bashful

Showing guilty embarrassment

Red, perhaps

Finished, in a way

High-speed option on the East Coast

Defeated soundly

Silicify

Like some tall mountains

Like a white peak

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

SOCIALISE

Converted to public ownership

Spancel

Marked beast, much loved, taken round Britain on display

Put one's thinking cap on

Took risks

Considered options, then played the market

Written using a cut out mask

Depicted horse carrying knight about poorly

STOCKING a covering for the foot and leg

Put away in reserve

Put away for a rainy day

Spoilt deck shuffled and put in store

Built up

Made up

Organized

Subclass

Gave money (to a project)

Contributed money

Journalist's taken leaflet away

Paper is after loan before editor's removed

FARMED OUT WORK

SUFFOCATE Suffocated; choked.

SUPERCEDE

""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.""

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

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

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.

Schnorkel

First grader, for example

First grader, e.g

SCLEROTIZE

Scrimshaw

SCRUTINISE

""SCRUTINIZE To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.""

""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.""

SECURITIZE

Sepulcher

Stranded, in a way

Mainly ruined

Diverted from the main issue.

Thrown off course

Shunted (wordplay)

SILICONE a silicon compound

Simulcast

Firework, limited edition, rose high and fast

In Scottish island, plant density shot up

Spacewalk

Concentrating on one subject

Blend of spices ideal for a particular purpose

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) to make a speech or speeches""

Stanchion

Like a bluenose.

Having strict morals

Prudish and appallingly clad artiste

CULTURED culture

LICENSED license

Sweetened (as a pill)

Made easier to swallow

Made more palatable

Supercoil

Supercool

Supplicat

Suspicion

Operator's post, once

Manual telephone exchange

Where telephones are connected

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

""-fies , -fying , -fied (Chemistry) (tr) to convert (starch) into sugar saccharification  , saccharization , saccharisation n""

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Scintillate

A drawing board coated with white clay and a surface layer of black ink that is scratched or scraped away to produce an effect similar to engraving. Also called scraperboard .

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

SHARECROP

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

Stickhandle

ARACHNOID Resembling a spider's web; cobweblike.

VOCALIZED vocalize

Very quick, huge car sped round corner, finally

""SUPERINDUCE To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something.""

""SUPERSCRIBE To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter. as, to superscribe a letter.""

SWASHBUCKLE

Switchback

SYLLABICATE To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

Drenching my own missis, ridiculous sport

SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

SECTARIANIZE To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

CIVILIZED civilize

SEXTUPLICATE

Shuttlecock

Advanced cash? Deposit it, perhaps

Possessed of culture, refinement and 24

Ditches patois, turning suave

Done up in a prudish sort of way

Extremely proper

Puritanically corseted

CLASSIFIED classify

Player on bench that's got diminished is farmed out elsewhere

Past tense or past participle

SUBJECTIVISE

SUBJECTIVIZE

Superinfect

Disorganised spread knocked on the head

Incapable of concentration

Disorganised and unable to concentrate

SPLENECTOMIZE

Straitjacket

STRUCTURALIZE

CATEGORIZED placed in a category.

Inflected form of SPECIALIZED Inflected form of SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Past tense or past participle

Superconduct

Supercalender