2-Letter Words Starting with S

Old sailor chases catfish (wordplay)

Dogfish and salt for him (wordplay)

Seasoned salt (wordplay)

Line taken by partisans (wordplay)

5's clue's not main line

Only one way traffic by rail

Dr Roffey's mad pet (Coward suggests)

Luminous halo in the sky

Bright halo caused by ice crystals

Bank protector (wordplay)

Flood barrier builder

Temporary flood stopper

He works under rivers.

Underwater-tunnel digger

Tunnel worker: Slang.

Tending to an icy road, maybe

Tending to an icy road

Polishing, in a way.

Starting a vineyard, for example

Preparing a garden

John Chapman's task

Transmitting (a message)

What usually makes a plural thrilling

Ham's activity

Chiaroscuro, for example

Gradations of tone; screening

Slight variation of color

Party on board, maybe

Big lively party (colloq.)

Lively celebration (informal)

Acting sneakily, maybe

Moving like a crab

Crab's movement

On the skids (wordplay)

On the skids

Like some doors or scales

Covering with turf

Laying down the lawn

Covering ground

Gardener's task

Turning the soil

Preparing the garden

Lathering up

Suede

Pole getting muddled while lumbering

Sling the harness on around a divine

Sounds as it the fish is sorry for putting it all on a horse

""A wild ox, also SELADANG, SLADANG""

A marine fish

Very hot day climbing outside

Very hot and going up over day

Injuring with hot water or steam

Scend

Telling-off, catching chill in grass

Produce notes about indifferent rating

Tell about bitter rebuke

Scud

Busting up a union (wordplay)

Withdrawing from a union

Withdrawing from a group.

Putting out (wordplay)

Putting out, in a way

Nurse's work, at times

Doing a strip tease, say

Leading sexually astray

Activity for Casanova

Babe in a nursery (wordplay)

Baby tree for example

Super young plant

""A wild ox, also SALADANG, SLADANG""

Pet peeve, perhaps

Releasing, tears or skin say

Periodic activity of snakes

Border collie, for one

Animal twofer (wordplay)

What Bo Peep could have used (wordplay)

Shend

Sloping

Like some glances

Like indirect glances

Furtive, perhaps

Problem on an icy road

Result of hitting the brakes too hard

Making a joke at last of making a slip

Snow-day activity

Fun on a snow day

Winter fun

Going downhill fast (wordplay)

Using a toboggan

Tobogganing; abusing batsman

Dragging a finger through, perhaps

Muggins raving about old Penny streaking

Marking with dirty streaks

Sned

Snood

Plumbing making noises (wordplay)

Finding how deep the noise is (wordplay)

Finding how deep the noise of 5 down is

Activity of some demons

Going too fast

Travelling over the limit

'Nothing, save for the last at last (8)'

Laying out time or money

Laying out money for second hanging

The process of starting to drill

Reputation's up!

On line, maybe

Reputation on feet (wordplay)

Small farm

Stodge

Stepping out free is admitted by cheat

The way up means taking steps

Taking bold steps

Material used to form wall or partition

Kind of sail.

Putting decorative buttons on

Saint, you dying from work (wordplay)

Cracking the books

Doing what a student should

Overpowering and bringing under control

A unit of time

Sward

Making one sorrowful

Like bad news

Depressing design and function

Equestrian's pouch

Rider's large carrier

Container of a kind

SANDAL to dress in light open shoes

Screed

Seclude

Supporting the motion

Fish is on one's tail (wordplay)

Tailing

Tailing.

Protecting

Completely destroying (secret papers)

Tearing into thin strips

Cutting into strips.

Covering

Skidoo

Sport for high jumpers (wordplay)

Advice, last part

End of the quip

Like an unexpected thunderstorm

Job for an electrician.

Metal-shop activity

Joining senior in chorus

Lean and lanky.

Lean and lanky

Slender.

Splodge

English city in stretching

Afterthought about county town expanding

Opening out

Squad

Squid

Stopping from pitching

Controlling, in a way

Small drink failing to be calming

Stound

Being a ground (wordplay)

Leaving helpless redhead in station

Running aground in position across river

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

Subduce

Settling U-boat on track (wordplay)

Sinking to a lower level

Very minor railway is sinking

Suicide

Breakage below the inside of the last of 30 across

Sing about what's below and coming to bits

Snug wrap for a tot

Wrapping tightly

Taking for a ride

Depriving of by deceit

Shark's skill

Swound

Sandal

Rubber plant found by the shore

Defamation gets student sent down for flier

SCANDAL to {defame=v}

Schedule

Scowder

DRYING the act of drying

Playing in attempt to win hand

Playing to win hand

Romantic singing orchestrated in Eastern gardens

His drug den is shaky!

The source of the milk in the inside of the shake

Sideline

Skiddoo

Slander

Like some fires

Like the eyes of a Casanova

Sodomize

Soldier

Spraddle

Surging like stallions

Start to put your foot down to be getting away with it

Steward

Stockade

Standing on both sides of (something)

Noncommittal on an issue

Being noncommittal.

Subduct

Working on newspaper and fitting sleep in

Sonar datum (wordplay)

Subtend

Winning, or following (wordplay)

Confused puss dying by being hanged, perhaps

Swinging time for shaggy cat before closing

Putting off carrying out capital punishment

Part of being a pool shark

Sandwich

Scabbard

Metal framework used when 4 down

Temporary structure for building workers

Tubular structure erected round building

Scandal

Sediment

Shepherd

Assuming sweetheart ought to call round

Driving recklessly, in a way

Making tracks

Clearing out desk when sacked, then going off

Slowly burning

Having repressed emotions? That gives Sigmund role for sorting out

Solidify

Squadron

Wasting recklessly

STEVEDORE One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

DIVIDING separation

SUBSIDISE

""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.""

Superadd

SUPERCEDE

""SUPERSEDE To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.""

Ruins ground thrown all about

Encircling

""SYNDICATE The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.""

Protecting

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

Process for cleaning or engraving

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Making smooth

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.""

Semideify

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

""A person who herds sheep, especially on an open range; a shepherd.""

Type of construction at, eg, Govan, Barrow

Sideslip

Evading, in a way

Desist moving forest as evasive action

Avoidance behaviour that is seen in South Essex town

Creating distraction, wrongly directs a monarch

Holding persons in slavery.

Dieter's aim.

Mini-farm, perhaps

Modest farming concern

Agricultural area, but less than a farm

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

Speedball

Speedboat

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest

Starboard

""STRIDULATE To make a shrill, creaking noise""

Surfboard

. . . on a battlefield

Climbing down to give up gin cocktail

... on a battlefield

Face getting divorced? Hilarious!

Very funny team breaking up

Extremely amusing team parting company

Activity enjoyed on the street

Pastime on wheels

Part of an active lifestyle, for some

Preventing transmission of noise

That'll keep things quiet all over the house at last

All the same, that's making it

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

The act of manoeuvring (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Storyboard

ORDINATING ordinate

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

CONDUCTING conduct

Present participle or gerund

SUBINFEUDATE

Superabound

Superharden

Police officer meaning to be controlling

Sledgehammer

Having zero electrical resistance