2-Letter Words Starting with S

Robber holding up store (wordplay)

One needing a fence (wordplay)

Criminal (in a retail context)

SHOTGUN to shoot with a type of gun

See title (wordplay)

Rattlesnake or missile

Rattlesnake - air-to-air missile

SIMPLE to gather medicinal plants

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

Light infantry member

Skittery

Picture on a big-city postcard, perhaps

High-rise building (wordplay)

*Chicago's Sears Tower, for one

Slippery

Slovenly

Snippety

Successor to the shovel.

Winter road machine

Blizzard cleanup machine

SOCIALIZE To render social.

SOFTBALL a type of ball

She's decomposed (wordplay)

Porter, perhaps, bending strong wire

Producer of music/lyrics

One who sees the future

One who warned Caesar

Expert on the future

Risky market trader, ponderous type

Second embezzler is better

Adirondack ski center.

One discovers how much inspiration there has been

Splendid

Splotchy

One who splutters.

Strip for action!

Tracksuit perhaps fits uphill runner

Exhibits flower with spikes, say

One who squanders.

Squelchy

More wavy and twisting

Squooshy

STABILIZE

Plant of primrose family

Bloomer in the primrose family

Less likely to be caught

The realist contrived to be more secretive

→ sidérurgiste m steel mill

STENCIL to produce by means of a perforated sheet of material

Faux pa (wordplay)

Onassis to Caroline Kennedy

Mother's new husband

Domestic climbing aid

Decorator's platform

Ceiling painter's need

Non-blood relation

A relation by marriage

Stereotypically wicked member of 3

Fairy tale meanie

Fairy tale meany

One of Cinderella's taunters

""One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for sterilizing equipment or an organic fluid.""

STOCKPILE

Straggly

This grater works better!

Mad Hatter's rig is more respectable

Second rat reported and more in order

Unlikely rich setter will be giving more

More flexible

More flexible cat tries to scratch outside

*Sign of a typing mistake

Sloppy typing correction

Typing correction

Section of a body of laws

CLUSTER to form into groups

DIVIDER one that {divides=v}

Deputy grabbed by Tuareg, an ambush backfired

Member of the U.S.N.

Member of the navy

One's business is taking a dive

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

Underwriter (wordplay)

One with lots of Time on his hands (wordplay)

Contributor returned puzzle, including small copy

""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.""

Take away the queen by computer (wordplay)

Succinct

Recap writer, for example

Recap giver

SUPERLIE to lie above

Celestial; heavenly

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

Country militarily supreme

U.S.S.R. or U.S.A.

The United States, for example

Excellent material for furniture

Terrific sun blocker (wordplay)

One over you, perhaps

Headwear for a building chief (wordplay)

One who supplants.

Ignition-related radio-noise reducer

Eat iron and gold; it will stop interference

Wild rose also called eglantine

Virginia women's college

Eglantine - fragrant rose

Mild cheese right from the plant

Rose with pink flowers

One who symbolizes.

Crook who doesn't need the combination

Thief of a sort

Fingernail filer, among criminals

A salimeter.

Paper tool (wordplay)

Surface-cleaning tool

High-pressure abrasive tool

An alarming person

One spreading worrying rumours

Spreader of frightening rumours

Shmaltzy

An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.

Ball-game official

Summer (wordplay)

Game official

Tonto's equestrian role (wordplay)

Irregular must escort a troop leader

Organiser of a 5 of boys

Cocktail (vodka and 4 down juice)

Carpenter's libation (wordplay)

Carpenter's favorite drink (wordplay)

One who scrutinizes.

""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.""

Device recording our planet's movements

Measurer of earthquakes

Earthquake detector

POPULAR something pleasing

It only moves when towed

Vintage Tonka toy

Cab attachment

Serigraph

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

""Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.""

Constructor of forty nine down perhaps

Almost any Merman number.

Big Broadway number

Kind of act or song.

SIDESTEP to step to one side

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

One who slaughters.

One who holds slaves.

Clint at 300 A.M.?

Clint at 3:00 A.M. (wordplay)

We paler elks (anagram)

Farmer who's short-handed (wordplay)

Minor farmer

Briefcase for an agriculturalist (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One using only a half pipe (wordplay)

One flipping out on slopes (wordplay)

Half-pipe performer

SNOWMOBILE

Knockout blow: Slang

Knockout blow Slang.

Slang A conclusive blow or remark.

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

""A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

Blow one's top in it (wordplay)

Spacewalk

Like an elaborate display, perhaps

Show clears up act for broadcasting

One kind of TV show

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

""An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.""

Spiteful

More animated.

Southern prude, dictatorial type, demoting one relatively active

Perils at sea crossing starboard make you more nimble

Clear quaff

Cooler drink

Perrier product

""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

""One who installs and repairs heating, ventilating, refrigerating, and air-conditioning systems.""

Overwhelming power, as used in politics

Political machine of a sort.

Crush opposition, politically speaking.

Man in Bethlehem (wordplay)

Bridge builder

Relative by marriage

Relative to walk with hassle round river

Upset Herbert's top relative

""One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.""

""A substance that irritates the nasal and respiratory passages and causes coughing, sneezing, lacrimation, and sometimes vomiting.""

Wholesale plant grower or cattleman?

Dealer with bulls and bears.

Cher (wordplay)

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

Former finance worker

Warehouse worker

Secret society member in an episode of "The Simpsons"

Secret society member in an episode of 'The Simpsons'

One playing for time

One who is continually evasive to block progress

Defensive batsman, one playing for time with one wicket in hand

Local retailer, maybe

* Mom or Pop, maybe

Stockholder (wordplay)

Librarian, for one.

Narrator (possibly a liar?)

What is a talesman (wordplay)

Foot-weary citizen.

Type of passenger.

Subway rider without a seat

Soda jerk's boutonniere (wordplay)

Soda jerk's boutonniere?

Ship that's up a creek (wordplay)

Covering for a river bed

TGV, for instance

Questionable nightclub performer

Demi Moore played one in 1996

CELLULAR pertaining to a cell

DIRECTOR one that {directs=v}

To supply; to afford.

Superbomb

Comparative adjective or agent noun

An apparatus for superheating steam.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Supersell

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Exxon Valdez, for one

Nature's perk (anagram) - vessel

Large oil-carrying vessel

Waves rider

Wave rider

SURREBUT to reply to a rebutter

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

Supporter

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

Theatre stage worker

Stage worker

Theatre worker

""The art of representing objects in perspective, especially as applied in the design and painting of theatrical scenery.""

The classroom (anagram)

Teacher of fish (wordplay)

Instructor at Eton, say

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Film script author

One creating film script

Monitor hack who produced The Script (wordplay)

One who carves scrimshaw.

Wordsmith in cursive (nonverbal)

Ms may be my baby!

Wordsmith in cursive (nonverbal)

Junk mail a trucker might get (wordplay)

Form of estate agent's brochure (wordplay)

Advertising flier at a truck stop (wordplay)

""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.""

""An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.""

Of muscular response to nervous stimuli

Small-time farmer (2 words)

Type of tenant farmer in the USA

Landworker's allotment failure

Marksman pointed gun (wordplay)

Annie Oakley, for one

Sniper, e.g

One gathering wool

He cuts inside the fold

Fleece cutter

Comparative adjective or agent noun

SHORTCHANGE

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

""Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the appleleaf skeletonizer. as, the appleleaf skeletonizer.""

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

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

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

""Slang One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.""

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

Apparatus measuring wavelengths

Scientific instrument

Instrument for measuring refractive indices

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

Schenkel, for one

Masters consultant, say

One who knows the score

Newspaper man.

Specialist reporter

One of those in the media talking about the club - the one reporting the fights

Copier of a dictator's words

One versed in shorthand

Court employee

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

One of a set of isomers whose molecules have the same atoms bonded to each other but differ in the way these atoms are arranged in space.

STICKHANDLE

The breeding and raising of livestock.

Hair care item

Pedestrian way reversed by solicitor

Solicitor on march in Somerset town (wordplay)

Something making less weak

Power changed Rene into a strong supporter

SUPERCAR a superior car

Feature of many a dragster (NFL)

Power booster on '98 Buick Regal 3.8 V6

Mall goer, to the extreme

A group of neighboring clusters of galaxies.

Supplement

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

Errol Flynn kind of role

Dare-devil takes second to clean shield

One given to derring-do

Camera device.

One who systematizes.

""An instrument for ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts.""

A saccharimeter.

Destroyer of reputation

Purveyor of dirt about others

Person spreading malicious gossip

In-form professional (wordplay)

Her chocolates embarrassed young tutor

The young director

Earthquake measurer

Scientist whose work is on shaky ground (wordplay)

No CID customer (anagram)

Rattle cut in half by silicon (wordplay)

Apprentice in an orchestra (wordplay)

Man in charge at Waterloo (wordplay)

Man in command at Waterloo (wordplay)

He has training in being the boss

Horse in an obstacle race

Horse that jumps

Horse for jump races

English word

Picket line crosser, maybe

Hit by wave, one labours on regardless

Scab caused by blow wave

Inflected form of MILLIMETER Inflected form of MILLIME a coin of Tunisia

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

Powerful particle accelerator

Powerful mainframe hardware

Very powerful calculator

Powerful data processor

SUPERMINIS supermini