2-Letter Words Starting with S

Meal that is often questioned (wordplay)

Matzo meal (wordplay)

Rite of spring (wordplay)

The sweat of Caesars brow

The sweat of Caesar's brow

Sweat technically

More unhappy (but hopefully 1 down)

Deeper blue (wordplay)

Wiser partner (wordplay)

One helping to finish a floor, maybe

Tool used in the evening (wordplay)

Smooth operator (wordplay)

Native chief of India Var.

Native chief of India variable

Indian military officer variable

One who plants cedar, say

Lawn-starting aid

Planter's tool

Get plastered on one knee, perhaps

Recipient of undelivered mail, say

E-mailer, for one

Animator's rendering program

Beach umbrella, e.g

Computer graphics program

A Jewish prayer book

One moving furtively

One who acts with indirectness.

Crablike mover

Indian military leader

Native chief, in India.

Indian military chief

Perfect pitch, maybe

Kind of breaking ball

Control such as on a mixing desk

Duke of Flatbush

Duke of baseball.

Dodgers' all-time h.r. leader

Join unit lost by commando, say

Metal band, perhaps

Fusible jointing alloy

Racing-yacht class

Refuse

James of "sex, lies and videotape"

Boston Legal actor James

Pretty in Pink actor

Tarantula, say (wordplay)

Critter with a web site (wordplay)

Brown recluse, for one

Soap opera, to some

Soap opera, in slang

Soap opera, informally

Beneath going after small part

Break in pieces

Split second to meet below

One who backs horses (wordplay)

For lower pound, admitted craftsman

Maker of seats for riders

Surfin' turf (wordplay)

Play area during low tide, perhaps

Land line (wordplay)

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

Having more grit, perhaps

More yellow-red in color.

Like some picnic edibles

Giver of lectures

Chiding mother, for short

Parent, at times

""To scorch, also SCOUTHER""

South Carolina in 1860, for one

Jeff Davis, for one

One that formally withdraws

Less ruffled, dearest (wordplay)

Morphine, for example

Morphine administrant, for example

More marshy

Don Juan, for one

Doctor rescued flirt

Femme fatale, often

Feeling worse: Colloq.

More down-at-heel

More shabbily dressed

More out of the sun

Like some fast deals

More underhand Colloq.

Molting snake, for example

Cat, for example

Molting animal, e.g

How horrible! (nonverbal)

Quake and shake

Tremble with fear

Hearing at a hearing (wordplay)

Bistro for a contesting team (wordplay)

Bistro for a contesting team?

Biker's favorite cocktail (wordplay)

Cocktail - cedar is (anagram)

Is raced (anagram)

One without snow tires (wordplay)

Downhill racer at times

One out of control

Smear with mud, say

Trash, to say the least

Speak ill of topless Lesbian (wordplay)

Person heading downhill fast, perhaps

Person on a slippery slope (wordplay)

Cool Runnings athlete

Barely sufficient (means)

Slightly in debt to the South (wordplay)

Remote South Bank (wordplay)

Burn without flaming

Show suppressed anger

Barely contain one's anger

One leading a private life (wordplay)

Company man (wordplay)

Tommy Atkins or GI Joe (wordplay)

Less likely to break

Not so tenuous

On a firmer foundation.

Echo device that's more reliable

Cicely Tyson film of 1972

Classic Cicely Tyson film

Racy type (wordplay)

Ticket taker (wordplay)

Driver doing 90, say

Profligate poet (wordplay)

No mean writer!

Poet inclined to blue (wordplay)

A tool for removing bark from trees

Astride, being more conventional

More solemn

More sedate

Upright citizen (wordplay)

Parade watcher, often

Gravelly-voiced film actor

Long-stepping walkist.

One proceeding confidently

Walker stirred into action

Harsh, rasping sound

Harsh, shrill noise

Harsh noise

One making final preparations (wordplay)

One hitting the books

Scholarly one

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

Control freak (wordplay)

One who makes one give in

One who pacifies

More foamy, as soap

More like a bubble bath

Having a bigger head

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

Grass with prickly burs

Bur grass

One who say "Amen"

Ones who say "Amen"

One supporting distribution of seed-corn

Private eye on the job

Private eye, often

Stalker sees Bill in the rain

Ozone layer, for example

Guardian angel

Protector.

More imperfectly made.

More imperfectly made

More trashy

Ought to get 'er armed, perhaps

Oughter be armed (wordplay)

'Ought to get 'er armed, perhaps (8)'

Red herds (anagram)

Machine for destroying documents

Important tool in insider trading

Not so dumb

More calculating or crafty

More astute

Skiddy

One ready to take a fall (wordplay)

One taking the fall (wordplay)

High jumper (wordplay)

Sludgy

Burn drum and lose, perhaps

Do a slow burn

Burn slowly without flame

Smudgy

A box for library materials

Jack-of-all-trades at times, perhaps

Fixer who betrayed King Edward twice

Person using an iron on metal

More like Alka-Seltzer (wordplay)

Not as likely to waste time

At a faster rate.

One that {spindles=v}

Display of grandeur

Magnificent show.

Grand display

Butter knife, e.g

Butter knife, for example

Eastern Canadian prov.

6 down note introduced to band (Queen)

Square one is in under 'blue'

Blue is smoother, without question

More reliable diets are free

More regular or constant

Diets are becoming more balanced

More old-fashioned

Bulkier soldier in Dorset running amok

More heavy-set.

Closer to impassive

Old rites analysed as less exciting

Less emotional

Cable-making machine

Not so bright

More inane

Less intelligent

Stronger, more solidly built

Not as fragile

Better put together

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

Thing taken at a deli (wordplay)

It's bigger than family

Taxonomic category above family

One that {subsides=v}

One that {sunders=v}

Expert with a racket

One looking for a mark

Pro who cons

Alternative to a plane (wordplay)

Abrasive sheet (DIY)

Wood-smoothing aid

Desert musician (wordplay)

Snipe's cousin

Small wading bird

One planning timetable

Wild cheers engulf mostly boring planner

Timetable honcho

Finch, for one

Practically any bird, for example

Bird feeder feeder

One playing to the balcony (wordplay)

Guitar player outside window

Wooer, perhaps

Shadowy

Footballer out of the game: Colloq.

Footballer out of the game Colloq.

Nonparticipant vessel

Owner of a bad tongue.

One who defames another

One's words may lead to action

Series about banker, not so fat

Thinner line in poster engineers put up (wordplay)

Less robust.

In the USA, farmer who works the soil

Plow, for example

Farmer who works the soil

Jensen, perhaps: a car for the fleet

Fast car (or driver)

'50s Porsche 356 roadster variant

Spidery

Built more like Ichabod Crane

Longer and thinner

More thin and frail

Odds on usurer heard to show richness

Show way to spend our pound inside

Half-hearted hostility and dismal dazzle

Squalid

Calgary rodeo rider, perhaps

Panicker of steers.

When Peter's mad he panics

Man on the fence.

Person on both sides of an issue

One on the fence

Deskman scattered doubters around Italy

One proof-reads writers' copy

Newspaper checker

One who comes later, archaically

Tramp (Australian) - drink (British)

Star needs relaxant - a timely drink

Drink that's the opposite of 5, on paper

Submit (to an opponent)

Abandon the resistance (wordplay)

Giving-up Presley song 1961

Buy-one-get-one-free item (wordplay)

He puts off getting a hanger (wordplay)

This hold up could bring up redness

Tailed amphibian related to the newt

Lizard-like amphibian

Mythical fire lizard

One gaining an edge by deceit

Deceitful one

Gangs bred a mongrel as surprise attacker

Kid who plays neighborhood baseball

See title (wordplay)

Rattlesnake or missile

Rattlesnake - air-to-air missile

""SKEDADDLE To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.""

Splendid

One who squanders.

Domestic climbing aid

Decorator's platform

Ceiling painter's need

DIVIDER one that {divides=v}

""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.""

A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.

Excellent material for furniture

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

Paper tool (wordplay)

Surface-cleaning tool

High-pressure abrasive tool

Cocktail (vodka and 4 down juice)

Carpenter's libation (wordplay)

Carpenter's favorite drink (wordplay)

Eric, give some to us!

One with a stake in a company

Ploughman as investor

Job for one in a pasture

He keeps his bucks in a fold

Constructor of forty nine down perhaps

SIDESTEP to step to one side

One who holds slaves.

Farmer who's short-handed (wordplay)

Minor farmer

Briefcase for an agriculturalist (wordplay)

One using only a half pipe (wordplay)

One flipping out on slopes (wordplay)

Half-pipe performer

Knockout blow: Slang

Knockout blow Slang.

Slang A conclusive blow or remark.

Travelling clock (wordplay)

Sonata instrument (wordplay)

It displays the going rate

Labor Day orator, perhaps

A dynamic speaker, for example

Big hit on the lecture circuit

""Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

One with an interest in (say) society

One with an interest (in something)

Part-owner, say

Tradesman may be a theatre-goer

Tolerate a sideshow barker (wordplay)

Opponent of change in policy.

Conservative Colloq

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

DIRECTOR one that {directs=v}

Waves rider

Wave rider

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

One who carves scrimshaw.

""Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.""

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

R&B/rap duo Percy & MC (wordplay)

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

STICKHANDLE

The breeding and raising of livestock.

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

The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

Destroyer of reputation

Purveyor of dirt about others

Person spreading malicious gossip

No CID customer (anagram)

Rattle cut in half by silicon (wordplay)

Apprentice in an orchestra (wordplay)

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

A calender with a number of rollers for giving a high finish or gloss to paper.

Powerful particle accelerator

Terrific orchestra leader (wordplay)

It offers little resistance

Orchestra leader who can leap tall music stands in a single bound (wordplay)