2-Letter Words Starting with S

Rex and Fly, in "Babe"

Wool protection of a sort

Border collies, notably

Hope's fled for the pound

Pen for lambs, ewes, etc

Pound worth every penny to Bo Peep (wordplay)

Goats and antelopes (wordplay)

College paper (wordplay)

Ram's relatives (wordplay)

Hoisting device variable

Perpendicularity; Isle of Sheppey town

Vertical headland in Kent

Reported cut head in Kent town

Bedding materials

Adjective meaning resembling

Sheikdom

Arab chief's territory

Reportedly, disturb stupid Arab leader's territory

Husband in rebuilt home with kids, in part of Arabia

Bird that female navigator found on lake

Duck captured by dissolute rakes

Diving duck with serrated bill

Shelduck

Informal store-inventory units

Adjective meaning resembling

Defeats decisively

The Ancient Mariner

The woman will sponsor old sailor

Egotishtical seafood (wordplay)

Lobsters, cockles, mussels etc

Clams and oysters

Shelly

""Work composed of shells, or adorned with them.""

Her eldest becomes withdrawn

Protected from the weather

Covered loan with warden

SHELTER to provide cover or protection

Shelvy

Shelving

Mince pie men (wordplay)

A part of every Xmas pageant.

& 28 Weed in countryman's bag

Sherbert

Sherlock

Sherris

Island group NE of the Orkneys.

Some ponies or sheepdogs

Small, stocky ponies

See Showbread. Showbread.

Shielder

Protecting

Shieling

Admitting of being shifted.

Shifty

... like a factory worker (wordplay)

Lazy, and lacking a work pattern

Still a layabout and still not dressed

Shigella

Shigella

Shiitake

Shikaree

Shikar

Cudgel Var.

Cudgel variable

Shillala

Bob's worthless now

Former coins, twenty in a pound

Old British coins

Made a flash

Shone fitfully

Gleamed faintly.

Doing a certain dance move

Soccer players often guard them

Tibias

Shingler

Shingle

Brilliance

Luster

Shinleaf

Shinney

Climbing a rope, in a way

Type of romance (on an ocean liner)

Like some short-lived romances

Transported by ship.

Shipload

Set with mishap at sea? They hope not!

Ishmael and Starbuck, for two

Crew rescued from damaged steamship

Seat under E. C. A

Things in transit

Hemp isn't assembled on small payloads

Onassis, perhaps, captive in the sun (wordplay)

Transport magnate's shown ripe bananas

At sea, person with less time to find big fish in the main (wordplay)

A. A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

Shipping

Proper wicked hash pipes!

Very trim - and proud of it, we hear!

Ready to sail; also, neat and clean

Shipside

Marine clams, destructive to wharves and boats

Rowed-to ruin (wordplay)

It may mean junk ends up as junk!

Event in "The Tempest."

Where to set sails (wordplay)

Where some subs are fixed

Liner builders

Shirring

Shirty

Shirting

Not having or wearing a shirt.

Young and immature

It may stick out of one's pants

It's usually tucked in

Shivaree

Comic serenades for newlyweds.

Noisy mock serenades to newlyweds

Shiverer

Shaking (with the cold)

Shaking (with cold)

Not still feeling cold

English word

Shlemiel

Shlepp

Shlump

Shmaltz

Shmooze

Shoaly

Capable of being upset by sudden occurrences

Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma

Most likely to collapse

Most carelessly done

Least workmanlike

Wading birds.

Nile birds

Boot shiner (wordplay)

One who gives you a shine

Person whose work shines

Squeezes (into)

Tongue twisters (wordplay)

They're often tied up

Breakers at the most inopportune times

One working at court (wordplay)

Oxford man (wordplay)

Oxford's last worker (wordplay)

Shoepack

Shape-saving inserts

Shape-saving footwear inserts

Closet accessories

Former Japanese government

Shoofly

Events for the police blotter

Filmmaking activities

Criminal activities

Shouts about very regressive gunfights

Soccer game tie-breakers

Staples of Westerns

Sales ladies.

Shophar

Gets a five-finger discount

Pockets at the mall

Helps oneself, in a way.

Shopping

Shoptalk

Stilt, for example

Stilt, e.g

Dinah and Larry

Water's edge.

Where the sea meets land

Area subject to erosion

The area near the shore

Heading to land

Toward land

Drawers accept years with deficits

Date in trousers causing supply problems

Runs may cause them

Sweet biscuit - rat chokes (anagram)

Diminutive dessert (wordplay)

Rate shock (anagram)

More direct ways.

Drivers' local knowledge

Expeditious ways to produce crops

Cut down to size (wordplay)

Tenor performing in hut gets cut

Condensed thus, or the ends may be off

In gambling one who causes the odds to become less

Abridger

Want a little snow (wordplay)

What's missing from shower (wordplay)

Deficiency in whisky, perhaps a drop

Pet that doesn't need much brushing, say

Feature of a crew cut.

Result of a buzz cut

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

English breed of cattle.

Deity enters tonsured cow

Durham cattle breed

List of final candidates

Place for a select group

Applicants selected from a larger group

Occasional quality of breath or stature

Characteristic of LaGuardia, Napoleon, etc.

Brevity

Ozzie Smith, for one

T-shirt (wordplay)

Brief pause (wordplay)

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

They ought to start to be armed, perhaps

They ought to begin to be armed

End of sobriquet

Shall

Winter emergency brigade.

Earth movers

Winter workers

One scoop of snow

Spade's capacity

Activity after a snowstorm

Winter-time chore

Digging out after a snowstorm

Cleared the driveway, perhaps

Hole in Amundsen's equipment gets dug

How crude shelter carried by sleigh was shifted (wordplay)

Duck person doing spadework

Duck swimming over shell

He clears the way while getting over shell shock

SHOWBIZ show business

What a flashy exhibitionist does in the ring

""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

Places for trophies

Display cabinets.

Displays what Latin teacher may do to class

Perhaps Annie drinks quickly, leading to clashes

Decisive confrontations

Moments of truth for downhearted performances

Some bathers

Criminal whose gang is getting clean

Post-game activity

Washing elephant's head in circus arena (wordplay)

Las Vegas entertainers

Whose sins could produce extravagance (wordplay)

Exhibitionism

Flamboyance

Prove knight maybe is a fine specimen

Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say

Example of excellence

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

Showring

Places for displaying wares

Places to check out new models

Retail display areas

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Vocal feminine fans.

Shrieky

Ubiquitous Halloween sounds

Screeching.

Screeching

Shrieve

Often sexist superlative

Shrill

Some Gulf trawling vessels

Shrimpy

Gulf industry

Process of becoming less

A gherkin's pickled, getting smaller

Asking her out is withering experience

They make things get smaller

Analyst in good 1 across one reserved

Like some violets.

Kind of violet

Withered

Shroff

Covering

Area of small bushes

Bushy part of garden

Games pitch out in the garden

Shrubby

Shrug

Shtetl

Shucking

Shivered in fear or revulsion

Trembled violently as with horror

Trembled, shivered

Shuffler

Card game task

Evasively preparing to offer new deal

Shunpike

SHUNPIKE to travel on sideroads to avoid expressways

Shunpike

Permanent business closings

Closings

Quiet-spoken, like some windows

(Of windows) shut up

Like some windows

Close the fish up for Badminton (wordplay)

Shwanpan

Shylock

Shyness

SICKISH somewhat sick

Sidehill

Small illumination (on car)

Not light in the head in the car

Incidental information in window by door

Carnival attractions

Circus additions

Circus attractions

Sounds like the things I got

UFO reports

UFOs, say

Not C like this, by the sound of it

Like baby rabbits

Like Milton after age 43

More comely.

More attractive

Sightsee

He visits places, say, always ancient

Tourist spot fortune teller

Visitor to famous locations

Acts the tourist

Plays the tourist, and a hint to the puzzle's theme

They might swallow structures

Water-created depressions

Natural depressions

Stealing, as gasoline

Drawing: Seurat's and Ingres's first calling

6 1/4% is the next problem

Half of an eighth

Important birthday, to some

Sixtieth

Sketcher

Vaguer in outline - stick here (anagram)

Less elaborated sportsman's clothing cut

Less clearly drawn

Just roughly, in an artistic manner

In a manner lacking details

The vessel I got roughly drawn into this in a sly manner

However far North, it's mostly green

Produce notes about sailboat drawing

Drawing the ship in in here

They like close shaves

Subculture influenced by Jamaican rude boys

Those not shocked as youths rudely kiss hand holding tablet

Clingy, in a way (wordplay)

Very close-fitting

(Of garment) very close-fitting

Skreegh

Skreigh

Stars in the roof (wordplay)

Features of some bright rooms

How the stars might go through the roof

Whack a dwarf (wordplay)

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller?

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller (wordplay)

Forest debris

Put on lavishly

Laid on thick

Used wastefully

Killing (of farm animals)

Start to shake with mirth that's killing

Fall about in almost relentless defeat