2-Letter Words Starting with S

Organism in a relationship (wordplay)

A type of rock formation

See note (nonverbal)

Money lost in selling if car ices over

Offering to a god

Theft from a temple, say

Misuse of something sacred

Violation of a holy thing

Red fabric dye.

Shaped like an arrowhead

Aircraft transaction simple, they say

Glider of a sort

Sound transaction straightforward for aircraft

Very innocent shot in talkies

Newly descriptive of Sir Clive (wordplay)

Newly descriptive of the Redknapps (wordplay)

""Soft, thoroughly decomposed rock rich in clay and remaining in its original place.""

Explorer, for one.

Latest lie broadcast from the moon, say

Orbiter of planet

As, perhaps, in E it's so gloomy

Rested funerary vessel in earth grave

Gloomy heavenly body in the east

Strawberry geranium, for one

Rosette-shaped flower

Plant such as London pride

""A. One of the many small platelike dermal or epidermal structures that characteristically form the external covering of fishes, reptiles, and certain mammals.""

A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.

""Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.""

""Any of various medium-grained to coarse-grained metamorphic rocks composed of laminated, often flaky parallel layers of chiefly micaceous minerals.""

Make systematic

A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and lime. Called also lime mesotype. lime mesotype.

Adjective meaning resembling

Disorderly struggle (on sports field)

Game that's just for practice

Noisy brawl or struggle

Daily reading, for some

It may be quoted in church

Sacred writings as of Christians

Disposed to solitude

Tight-lipped, reticent

Tending to hide things

Close drip, stopping leak

Know about Channel 4? It's tempting!

Like Salome

Charming Spanish golfer interrupted by Channel 1

Choosy about who plays (wordplay)

Part of SSS

Type of service

Whole note, to a British composer

Note equal to two minims

Note equivalent to four crotchets

""MATTE to produce a dull finish on, also MATT""

Sensilla

Make more responsive

Suspect it's injected to prepare for a reaction

Responsive to physical stimuli

Steve is in trouble, being easily upset

Quick to respond

Make responsive to others' feelings

To make emotionally receptive

Attune

Consciousness - ten nieces (anagram)

What Data had, but a toaster does not

Robot's lack

Meerschaum. See Meerschaum. Meerschaum.

SERIAL a publication presented in instalments

Publish, in a way.

Publish in a certain way.

Broadcast in regular installments

Perform a clerical task

It's more to the North in size the way you deliver it, in a manner of speaking

Preach

Diner's linen item

Setter out about to compete with wiper

Table napkin at Buckingham palace

That's legal slavery

State of slavery

I've rudest torment in slavery

To attribute sex to.

Resembling a porbeagle

Adjective meaning resembling

Adjective meaning resembling

Adjective meaning resembling

Admitting of being shifted.

Shigella

Transported by ship.

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

Proper wicked hash pipes!

Very trim - and proud of it, we hear!

Ready to sail; also, neat and clean

Water's edge.

Where the sea meets land

Area subject to erosion

The area near the shore

Prove knight maybe is a fine specimen

Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say

Example of excellence

Adjective meaning resembling

Process of becoming less

A gherkin's pickled, getting smaller

Asking her out is withering experience

Hissing bird upset pike

Hissing quality

""Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.""

Mistress, in slang

Disrespected mistress, in slang

The other woman, in somewhat objectifying slang

Dating app for adulterers (wordplay)

Facelift after cut and blow (wordplay)

Passing critical remark

Mark, notably a single, is desperate

To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph!

Button Gwinnett's claim to fame.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph

""Pl. signorine (-n , -n ) or signorinas Used as a courtesy title for an unmarried woman in an Italian-speaking area, equivalent to Miss.""

Silicula

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a fine smooth cotton fabric used for linings, etc. [from silk + -aline, from -oline as in crinoline ]""

English word

Certain sedimentary rock

Type of sedimentary rock

Archaic A simulacrum.

He knows China

Mountain patrol vehicle

Winter transport

""A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.""

Obliquely.

Discontented social worker knowing one's inclined to appear thus

Oblique

Adjective meaning resembling

Resembling hypnosis

Like deli meats

Odious creatures dressed in black may well be cut

SLOGAN a motto adopted by a group

English word

Adjective meaning resembling

Very slow, as a pace

Very slow

Sluggish

Slithering Racer X song (wordplay)

Drink (dangerous if given by 18!)

Poisonous drink (wordplay)

Twisting

Ophidian

An avalanche of snow.

""SOCIAL a friendly gathering, also SOCIABLE""

Park Avenue resident.

Claudia Cohen, for example

Prominent attendee at fashionable events

Mix at a party

Convert to public ownership, as industry

English word

Observe with dignity

Game for one

Diamond; game for one

*Diamond in an engagement ring, perhaps*

Divination by drawing lots

Fortune-telling

Divine drawing of lots of egrets smeared with oil

Put under the hammer and sickle

Convert to Stalinism

Render communistic.

""A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste. Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste.""

Adjective meaning resembling

SPILL to overflow from a container

Adjective meaning resembling

Having spinules; minutely spiny.

Likely to decay.

A substance used to kill spores.

Get under control

Eliminate fluctuations in

Thwart political unrest abroad, in hegemonic parlance

Adjective meaning resembling

Like white dresses and unfinished wood

Steps up (wordplay)

Way down in a well (wordplay)

Connecting flight (wordplay)

Designating pollen-bearing flowers.

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

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

Pass through fire, perhaps

Make safe for use, in a way

Boil, perhaps

""A long slender piece of wood, especially: a. A branch or stem cut from a tree or shrub.""

Fan fire (wordplay)

Stir up trouble? I must after hours!

Opposite of "bore."

Ray having a whiplike tail.

Whip-tailed ray.

Fish with whiplike tail.

Specify as a condition or requirement

Specify, as in a contract

Specify as an essential part

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)

Limitation or hostile criticism

Sternly critical remark

Restriction or stern criticism

Quality of being harsh or shrill.

Harsh quality

Shrillness

Strobila

Beyond the foothills

Just below the treeline

Below the treeline

Make pieces of pieces (wordplay)

Break into smaller units

Break into smaller sections

Redirect (feelings) into safer channels

Purify, in a way

Transform into a purer form

Nautilus, for one

The Sea Wolf

Jules Verne's dream come true.

Pay money regularly for, say, magazine

Apply (to receive an issue of shares)

Apply (for an issue of shares)

Support through grants

Pay a grant towards

Give a grant towards

Back with bucks

To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

A salt of succinic acid.

SUFFUSE to spread throughout

Any of various organic compounds that contain a sulfinyl group.

SULFUR a non metallic element

GIve main points briefly, condense( 9)

State concisely

Whole armies unexpectedly present, briefly

Put in a nutshell

Recapitulate

SUMMATE to add together

Exceptionally good.

Adjective for sandpaper with very high grit numbers

Overnice

2004 documentary film title (with "Me")

McDonald's verb

Increase, as one's order

Criminal uses Viper as guide

Oversee, superintend

Oversee people.

English word

English word

Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor

Saddle girth.

Strap for holding saddle on animal's back

Like the English Channel, for some endurance athletes

Adjective meaning resembling

To reason by means of syllogisms.

Graceful and slender

Graceful, shy elk with lip trembling

""A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steelgray, silverwhite, or brassyellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. graphic tellurium.""

Represent, stand for

Represent or be a sign of

Represent

Uncle Sam's retinae (wordplay)

Represent by a marking, for example

Stand for

Group working to a common aim

Business group supplied by CIE dynast

Combine to make Disney cat twitchy

SYNOPSIZE

Bring order to

English word

""Any of a series of compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in which the atoms of the latter two elements are in the ratio of 2:1, especially those containing the group C 6 H 10 O 5 .""

China cares (anagram)

Sickly son fidgeting in each car

Overly sentimental

A salt of salicylic acid.

""A rare mineral having a velvetblack color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.""

""Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.""

Adjective meaning resembling

""Small, thinly sliced pieces of meat, especially veal, dredged in flour, sautéed, and served in a sauce.""

Shock as canal sides crumble

Shock by impropriety

View Surrealist works by European producing shock

Shock.

To form a scheme or schemes.

Dog for lively king in Kent

Small, black watchdog from Belgium

Small black tailless dog of a breed with a ruff of fur round its neck

English word

Slightest bits

Slightest traces

Examine closely - runs cities (anagram)

Examine closely tailoring of nicer suits

Examine the tailoring of nicer suits

Look at critically or searchingly

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

False clues crop up to sideline belief

Disengage from the faithful? Awful clues result

Make less ecclesiastical

Make worldly

SECURE to make safe or certain

Seecatch

""Revenue or a profit taken from the minting of coins, usually the difference between the value of the bullion used and the face value of the coin.""

Array of trucks (wordplay)

The result of making a CD (wordplay)

Half a ring (wordplay)

Somewhat angelic

Like some gemstones

Cloudy

""To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

Pl. sententiae (-sh - ) An adage or aphorism.

""Causing, or being to cause, separation.""

Winding, twisting; mineral

Mineral; like a snake

Where Londoners go boating in Hyde Park.

Adjective meaning resembling

An arch support inserted into the shank of a shoe.

Adjective meaning resembling

SHRINK to contract or draw back

A drug or other agent that increases the flow of saliva.

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite. Meteorite.

Like a lady up but not over (wordplay)

One way to ride a horse.

Teams go off riding in unorthodox manner

Swimmer's skill.

Relative of the crawl

Style of swimming

Side line for the artist (wordplay)

Dark art (wordplay)

It can be a relief

Joint team coming second (wordplay)

Meat for Olympic runners-up (wordplay)

Joint Argentine XI

Prizes for runners-up (wordplay)

Articles stashed by vacationers

This puzzle's theme

Nearly identical quality

Resemblance or semblance

Lack of distinction limited us, I recollected

Assuming an appearance.

Bar to which traces are fastened.

Bar on a wagon

Lone family chart found with harness

Remove excess fat

Reduce in size

Final word of 1961: 'emerald-green'

Final word of 1961: "emerald-green"

""A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.""

Vehicle with skilike runners

Vehicle with runners

Sleigh for today's grandma

Expressed concern about idiot's clue!

Concern of many in a lonely place

Care, concern

SOLUBILISE

SOLUBILIZE

Musical impersonator at MoMA (wordplay)

What homonyms do

Train in a particular area requiring less pace, one twice derailed

Concentrate on expertise in unique island with endless sunshine finally

Work in a limited field.

Major in

Team swallowing one short, misguided empiric's contraceptive

""An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tinwhite color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.""