2-Letter Words Starting with S

Spidery

SPIDER a type of {arachnid=n}

Black Widow's creation (2 words)

Bed wipers (anagram)

Clue 'ego', perhaps for pastoral poem

Plant of the ginseng family

Aromatic East Indian plant.

Aromatic root

Spindler

Built more like Ichabod Crane

Longer and thinner

More thin and frail

Lean and lanky.

Lean and lanky

Slender.

Fine snow driven by the wind

Spray blown along surface of sea

Spray blown from the crests of waves

Grew, like some churches, welcoming everybody

Illustrious.

Splashed out having received loan! That's brilliant!

Shining

Breathtaking features

Brilliancies

Odds on usurer heard to show richness

Show way to spend our pound inside

Half-hearted hostility and dismal dazzle

Splodge

Spotted, splashed

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

*Stained

""A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emeraldgreen color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite. Hiddenite.""

Pillaged

Spondaic

Brought to you (by)

Was an angel

Like Web "articles" that are really ads

A substance used to kill spores.

Spraddle

Spraddle

Sprattle

Some farm machines

Some farm machinery

Lawn fertilizer devices

English city in stretching

Afterthought about county town expanding

Opening out

English word

Rained a bit

Caused umbrellas to open

Made umbrellas necessary

Hurried around state, spoke excitedly

Spoke incoherently

Bumbled verbally

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

Squad

Squadron

Squalid

In a squalid manner.

Spends thoughtlessly

Wastes

Cleaned a windshield

Wiped clean, in a way

Monosyllabic word meaning "sat on"

Sat on

Suppressed

Squid

Squiggle

Squilgee

Squinch

Squinny

Squoosh

He may convey properties

Person moving theatre props

Theater crew member

Staggard

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

There's nothing exciting for Des's saint

Tarnish, with bit of dirt, symbol of Superman's composure

Sober quality of Thames-side town restricting daughter and son

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

Calgary rodeo rider, perhaps

Panicker of steers.

When Peter's mad he panics

Horse races (wordplay)

Wild headlong rushes of animals

Annual Calgary events

Are moral principles flagging (wordplay)

Exemplary colours (wordplay)

Norms in flags (wordplay)

Keep clear of one of 11 across

Hooperatings, for instance

Sports-page feature

Sports-page listings

Ties, in ball games.

Things conspicuous for their excellence

Recalcitrant members of a group.

Preeminent examples

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

Of or pertaining to stapes.

That's right!

Right light on ship (wordplay)

Right (at sea)

Stardust

Used a telescope

Looked raptly

Daydreamed

For Hawaii and Alaska (wordplay)

Territory's future, perhaps

For Hawaii and Alaska?

Team, say, leading in America

Hawaiian's destination, perhaps

Desist, Tea Party, in America!

Like many lotteries

Throughout one of the Forty-eight.

Across all counties

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

Tight on dates perhaps, but unwavering

Firm dates fixed before Lent, perhaps

Firm date's changed going on diet

Steadier

Still the most (wordplay)

Best-balanced - it's sedate (anagram)

Best on the balance beam, maybe

Steading

Stopping from pitching

Controlling, in a way

Small drink failing to be calming

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

Increased in price

Made a higher grade

More inclined to be made like this

Stegodon

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

Stepdame

To the rear

Such as many hormones

Ideal sort for exercising, enhancing performance

Allen's scale notes (wordplay)

He likes to put on a performance

Dock-worker loads and unloads ships

Supervised, as a kitchen.

Managed

""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

Finds feet somehow, given support

Added starch to

Got more formal

How the actor playing the giant spoke (wordplay)

Stinkard

""Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura. Jamestown weed, and Datura.""

""A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata. F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.""

Stoccado

Stockade

Barriers of stakes

Enclosures of wooden posts

Prisons of a sort

Locale in Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Place having many pens

Feature of Chicago.

Stodgy

""The space, or any of the spaces, in front of the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.""

Terribly stilted, so most uninspiring

Doctor so stilted and most unemotional

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.

Put up with

Most upset having hurt bore

Stood

Pl. stomodea also stomodaea (-d ) The anterior or oral portion of the alimentary canal of an embryo.

STOMODEA stomodeum

An embryonic oral cavity

Stonish

With a plug

One of today's leading playwrights reportedly blocked at the opening

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

Stound

Stouten

Was on both sides!

Took an equivocal position Colloq.

Took an equivocal position: Colloq.

Man on the fence.

Person on both sides of an issue

One on the fence

Plays both sides

Sits on the fence

Takes an attitude over something that's beneath you

Wandered from the direct course

Wandered off.

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

Cable-making machines.

Being a ground (wordplay)

Leaving helpless redhead in station

Running aground in position across river

Choked to death

What Othello did to Desdemona

Choked and killed

In past, drop with a jerk

Eunuch drinking gin - it's a painful experience

Party whip takes lead, grabbing secretary for excruciating punishment

Stravage

It holds water

It holds running water

Rock locale

Extended, one's limbs perhaps

Like some truths

Extended in time or space

Strickle

Quality of being harsh or shrill.

Harsh quality

Shrillness

Harshness of voice.

Loud and harsh quality

Quality of a shrill sound

Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.

Had difficulty (with)

Found the going tough

Made violent efforts.

Studbook

Groups of bosses

Stable father figure (wordplay)

Stallion, taking its head thus, rode off

Former Derby winner, often

In deliberate and premeditated manner

In deliberate or contrived manner

Duly edits in intentionally contrived manner

Studly

Studwork

Stunned with astonishment

Dulled the wits or senses

Rendered speechless

Least likely Mensa candidate

Most moronic

Superlatively dense

Lack of intelligence

Second part of the quote

Simple Simon's strong point.

Most strongly built

Most robust

Best built

Sang 'My Generation,' say

Sang "My Generation," say

Good man spoke - with hesitation!

ACIDLY {sourly=adv}

Subadult

Subahdar

Subbreed

Subcool

Junior minister abused working party

Bacon used rashly by minister

Expectant father in boat with daughter beside broken canoe

Subdepot

DERMAL relating to the derm

Make pieces of pieces (wordplay)

Break into smaller units

Break into smaller sections

Subduce

Subduct

SUBDUED subdue

Subedit

Deskman scattered doubters around Italy

One proof-reads writers' copy

Newspaper checker

Suberise

Suberize

Subfield

Subgrade

Citizen Edward was made liable

Added at the end

Journalist became a member and was added afterwards

Let by a letter

Underwater mud grebes churned up

Completely covered by liquid

Under water

Developing buds seem to have resistance under water

Yielded (to a superior force)

Presented, as evidence

Gave in and proposed

Suborder

Suboxide

Subpena

PERIOD to put an end to

Subserve

Subsider

One coming in settles public grants

Government grants

Grants

Settling U-boat on track (wordplay)

Sinking to a lower level

Very minor railway is sinking

Support through grants

Pay a grant towards

Give a grant towards

Back with bucks

Got by (on)

Made ends meet

Lived (on), as food

Subsoil

Extended under or opposite to

With captions below

Like many foreign films

Subtrend

Undermined

Subworld

""(intr) to accomplish an aim, esp in the manner desired he succeeded in winning""

Came first or came after (wordplay)

Came into a title

Managed to have taken over

One who comes later, archaically

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

Sudation

""Pl. sudatoria (-tôr - , -t r - ) A hot-air room used for sweat baths. Also called sudatory .""

Singular bubble with incomplete opening will make one sweat

Sufflate

Gave the impression it had been mooted

Made a proposal

Proposed, recommended

Suicide

Any of various organic compounds that contain a sulfinyl group.

Sulphate

Sulphide

Stop man at newspaper being fumigated

Summons

Sumpweed

Sunbathe

Red from rays

Bright red in summer

Suffering from overexposure to the source of light

Sunderer

Breakage below the inside of the last of 30 across

Sing about what's below and coming to bits

Tramp (Australian) - drink (British)

Star needs relaxant - a timely drink

Drink that's the opposite of 5, on paper

Sunscald