2-Letter Words Starting with S

Cut down to size (wordplay)

Tenor performing in hut gets cut

Condensed thus, or the ends may be off

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

They ought to start to be armed, perhaps

They ought to begin to be armed

End of sobriquet

Shall

Cleared the driveway, perhaps

Hole in Amundsen's equipment gets dug

How crude shelter carried by sleigh was shifted (wordplay)

""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

Perhaps Annie drinks quickly, leading to clashes

Decisive confrontations

Moments of truth for downhearted performances

CIA document destroyers

Document destruction devices

They end paper trails

Completely destroying (secret papers)

Tearing into thin strips

Cutting into strips.

Most crafty and calculating

Most astute or calculating

Most astute

Shrewdie

Withered

Covering

Shivered in fear or revulsion

Trembled violently as with horror

Trembled, shivered

Shunpike

Permanent business closings

Closings

Quiet-spoken, like some windows

(Of windows) shut up

Like some windows

Shylock

Sialidan

Sibilate

Sideband

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

Offstage George (wordplay)

Some facial hair right, perhaps, on poet

Pain in the hip for Bobby (wordplay)

SIDED side

Apply fertilizer around the plants

Place fertiliser near the roots of a crop

Place plant nutrients near the roots of a growing crop

Sidehill

Striking team-mates!

Possible theme for this puzzle

Robin and others

Small illumination (on car)

Not light in the head in the car

Incidental information in window by door

Left on the bench, perhaps

Out of action, say

Kept from active participation

Footballer out of the game: Colloq.

Footballer out of the game Colloq.

Nonparticipant vessel

Card's edges (wordplay)

Touch out of them

Is in Leeds in order to get further work

Mistress, in slang

Disrespected mistress, in slang

The other woman, in somewhat objectifying slang

Siderite

Carnival attractions

Circus additions

Circus attractions

Skids laterally

Rotary motions

Ducks, out of the water (wordplay)

What the jinking wing does

Avoids backing favourites in teams

Dating app for adulterers (wordplay)

Facelift after cut and blow (wordplay)

Passing critical remark

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

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

Meant

Silicide

Silkweed

Siluroid

Polished with wax

Feigned, imitated

Pretended to be excited with temperature dropping

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

Sinicize

Waves with regular curves

What Arnold isn't

Cowardly

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

Kelvin, journalist in charge? Run away!

Run off hurriedly (colloq.)

See instructions (nonverbal)

Skelter

Brown-and-white horses

Skiddy

Skiddoo

Skidoo

Non-slip surface of skateboard's child-resistant

They like close shaves

Subculture influenced by Jamaican rude boys

Those not shocked as youths rudely kiss hand holding tablet

Led on the bowling green (wordplay)

Led the team on the green

Was the captain of a ship

Ran like an iguana

The kit's got treed, having scuttled off

Skipped, as a fishing lure

Skreegh

Skreigh

Long jumpers (wordplay)

People jumping extremely high (wordplay)

High jump aficionados (wordplay)

Sport for high jumpers (wordplay)

Advice, last part

End of the quip

Skyjack

Frolicked

Slabber

Let up

Eased

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

Put on lavishly

Laid on thick

Used wastefully

Sledding

Made glossy

Smoothed.

Series about banker, not so fat

Thinner line in poster engineers put up (wordplay)

Less robust.

In a gracefully thin manner

In a thin fashion

Slightly cunning about someone who might help with money (wordplay)

Slideway

Like some fine books

Beaten with indoor shoe

Like Cinderella

Emulated a snake

Moved like a snake

Moved like a snake.

Acted like a baby, in a way

Talked like a toper

Licked, like a dog does

Certain labor protests

Economic declines

Delays

Slubber

Sludgy

Lazy ones

Sluggard

Logged Z's

Burdened dragging pole, so rested

Son, given heavy responsibility, slept

Some inner city property owners

Owners of substandard properties

Reviled property owners

Smaragde

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

Biter lurking in boy's bits

Informally, very small amounts

Displayed suppressed anger

Didn't flare

Did a slow burn

Drenched in sauce

Her modest fancy will get stifled

Stifled, he stormed out

Burns slowly (var.)

Burns rot on board ship

Smokes, British style.

Smudgy

Long-necked bird allied to cormorant

Plant used as an astringent

Informal name for bistort, also describing its twisted roots

Snapweed

SNEAKER one that {sneaks=v}

Laughed, in a way.

Laughed in undignified fashion.

Queen in Dickens novel laughed

Snob's attribute

Giggled, British style.

Laughed disrespectfully.

Laughed derisively

Snivel

Blocked at The Crucible (wordplay)

Restricted by O'Sullivan (wordplay)

In a real pickle

Engaged in some ecotourism, maybe

Swam with the fishes, say

Went finswimming, maybe

Canadian aerobatic team, with "The"

They flock to Florida in February

They winter in Florida

Go downhill fast (wordplay)

Treasury Department panel (wordplay)

Way to go... downhill

Stuck at home, maybe

Stuck home, perhaps

Ski jump from Whittier (wordplay)

Winter storm consequence

Bunch of flakes

Road blocker after a winter storm

Wood anemones.

White flowers

An obvious statement about precipitation needed for plants

White expanse

Snowland

Snowmold

Snowshed

Walked at a ski resort

An avalanche of snow.

Soberize

Sodalist

Sodalite

Sodamide

In the USA, farmer who works the soil

Plow, for example

Farmer who works the soil

Like an unexpected thunderstorm

Sodomist

Sodomite

""SODOMITE one who practices sodomy, also SODOMIST""

Sodomize

Sodomize

Like later printings, often

Softhead

Pine and cedar

Onerous DJ (anagram)

Visited awhile

Al departed, therefore newspaper editor stayed temporarily

Map cases

Solarise

Solarize

They bring metals together

Workers using irons

Job for an electrician.

Metal-shop activity

Joining senior in chorus

Idler does need to be beaten (shirked)

Joined keeping unit and served in the army

Malingered.

Like fighters possibly making Doris yell

Solecise

Solecize

Experimenter's electromagnets

Begged for it in legal form, perhaps

Sought by petition

Consequently legal, journalist made advances

Solidago

Reliability

Soliquid

States of seclusion

Nightingales and wrens

Music-making fliers

Flighty vocalists

Sonicate

Sonnet

Soothsay

Easily angered folks

Easily offended people

Hot-tempered ones

SOUFFLE a light baked dish

Capable of being sounded.

How deep they are, by the sound of them

Sounds as if they may be deep

Perhaps the noises made by swinging the lead

Perhaps without the noise of th herd

That's the S I lent

So unless the daughter is in, it will be quiet

The strength of the noise

Stability.

Mutes on trumpets.

Old-time prospector

For being sulky, use...

Leaven for making bread

Sourwood

Dixie

In the direction of Cork, say

In the direction of Waterford, say

In the direction of Spain

Sowbread

""(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.""

""An American market fish (Ch\'91todipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy. Ch\'91todipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.""

Spadeful

Preparatory labour (in the garden?)

Preparation for excavation (wordplay)

Preliminary data gathering, perhaps

Spadille

Spancel

Spandex

Narrow mats for pictures

Architectural features above arches

Spandril

Done in short bursts

Done in brief irregular bursts

Faulty compass I'd disconnected

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

Named in detail

Stated in detail

Gave details

Spectate

Dangerous cocktail

Launch full of drugs (wordplay)

One making waves

High-speed vessel

Least time-wasting.

'Oh yeah ... uh-huh'

Exceeding all in expedition

Speeding

Jensen, perhaps: a car for the fleet

Fast car (or driver)

'50s Porsche 356 roadster variant

Speedway

Veronica in a hurry (wordplay)

Veronica (plant)

Despatch spring flower

Entrance, as through oratory

Having put on tie, shift grip

Fascinate

Spelunk

Like notes ready to be blown (wordplay)

Kind of income

Like money, there for using - hang staying in the black!

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

Genus to which the tuatara, a New Zealand lizard-like reptile belongs

Sphenoid

Egg yolks, for example

Some round shapes

Geometric solids

Sphingid