2-Letter Words Starting with S

SHUNPIKE to travel on sideroads to avoid expressways

Footballer out of the game: Colloq.

Footballer out of the game Colloq.

Nonparticipant vessel

More comely.

More attractive

He visits places, say, always ancient

Tourist spot fortune teller

Visitor to famous locations

Without exception resign, upset about the railwayman

He sent 'England expects...' to the fleet; an indication to go for the French

One that signifies.

Machine for training, eg, pilots

Device replicating external conditions

Flight training equipment

Vaguer in outline - stick here (anagram)

Less elaborated sportsman's clothing cut

Less clearly drawn

SKIBOB to travel in a sleigh-type vehicle over snow

Educated plane (wordplay)

One with big ideas (wordplay)

Airborne ad maker

Slimpsy

False alibi (wordplay)

Chair upholstery item

False alibi?

Slouchy

Sloughy

Smutchy

Snatchy

SNICKER to utter a partly stifled giggle

Giggler.

Snuffly

No particular beggar this law officer!

Lawyer, oldest professional (wordplay)

Advocate very legal alternative

Wine steward in restaurant or hotel

Smile more fake, as wine waiter

The wine expert-server in a hotel

Spangly

Sparkly

Special

One setting down requirements

Riddler endlessly chattering, loathing lost muscle

Muscle inclined to pinch with rest - stopped up

Body part in a "Wayne's World" joke used to get the other guy to say "What?"

Spidery

Unexpected by-product

Go past the rim

Unexpected consequence

Built more like Ichabod Crane

Longer and thinner

More thin and frail

Sail suited to Shane Warne (wordplay)

Racing yacht's large triangular sail.

Sail that looks kinda like a parachute

More ostentatious

Mountains (spelled backward) + Less bold = (wordplay)

Spleeny

Splurgy

1989's word: Plunderer

Sprawly

Spriggy

A spaniel without one is more resilient

More elastic

More likely to bounce back, more like May might you say (wordplay)

Device for lawn owners.

Device for watering

"Let-us-spray" device

Squabby

Squalid

Squally

Squashy

Squatty

More in need of oil

Squiffy

Squinny

Squinty

Squirmy

Squishy

More rigid

More stiff and formal - like collar (wordplay)

More pompous part of 7's workshop

More statuesque

More magnificent

Radio DJ's other job (wordplay)

Paper pusher (wordplay)

Pencil pusher (wordplay)

Stenchy

Sign maker, perhaps

Person of letters (wordplay)

Many a street artist

Strong drink - starch (wordplay)

Fortifying alcoholic drink (slang)

Starch, as a laundry agent

Not as clean

More variable.

Less consistent

Streamy

Less voluminous, as hair

More argumentative

More bad tempered and argumentative (colloq.)

With pressure involved, running Tories' PR gets more difficult to handle

Stubbly

Deskman scattered doubters around Italy

One proof-reads writers' copy

Newspaper checker

SUBSOIL to plow the layer of earth below the surface

WRITER one who {writes=v}

Summery

SUMMIT to take part in a summit conference

A muscle which produces the motion of supination.

One who surfeits.

Giver of a certain party

Unsponsored radio program

One supporting and backing American composer

Darker of complexion

Second husband's outwardly more blemished, darker

Sweltry

One who sacrifices.

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

SAILPLANE

""One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit.""

That which saponifies; any reagent used to cause saponification.

Schmalzy

Scrabbly

Scraggly

Scratchy

Screechy

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

Scroungy

Cross-examiner (wordplay)

Someone who checks electoral votes

Current head of English is new examiner

Note house tremble

Sixteenth note

Musical note

An agent that sensitizes.

He exhorts

Impresser of seamen

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A man in control of his craft (wordplay)

One i/c vessel - tramp is she, perhaps (wordplay)

Skipper

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""SHMALTZ excessive sentimentality, also SCHMALTZ, SCHMALZ""

Robber holding up store (wordplay)

One needing a fence (wordplay)

Criminal (in a retail context)

See title (wordplay)

Rattlesnake or missile

Rattlesnake - air-to-air missile

SIMPLE to gather medicinal plants

Light infantry member

Skittery

Slippery

Slovenly

Snippety

SOCIALIZE To render social.

She's decomposed (wordplay)

Porter, perhaps, bending strong wire

Producer of music/lyrics

Of or pertaining to a spiracle.

One discovers how much inspiration there has been

Splendid

Splotchy

Squelchy

More wavy and twisting

Squooshy

STABILIZE

Less likely to be caught

The realist contrived to be more secretive

STENCIL to produce by means of a perforated sheet of material

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.""

Time in training device may be encouraging man

Maker of terms or conditions.

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

DIVIDER one that {divides=v}

Member of the U.S.N.

Member of the navy

One's business is taking a dive

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.""

Succinct

Recap writer, for example

Recap giver

SUPERLIE to lie above

Terrific sun blocker (wordplay)

One over you, perhaps

Headwear for a building chief (wordplay)

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.

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

A salimeter.

Shmaltzy

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

""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

SIDESTEP to step to one side

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

SNOWMOBILE

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

Labor Day orator, perhaps

A dynamic speaker, for example

Big hit on the lecture circuit

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

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

Ship that's up a creek (wordplay)

Covering for a river bed

TGV, for instance

Questionable nightclub performer

Demi Moore played one in 1996

DIRECTOR one that {directs=v}

To supply; to afford.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Supporter

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

Theatre stage worker

Stage worker

Theatre worker

""SCINTILLATE To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.""

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

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

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

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

Newspaper man.

Specialist reporter

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

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

Hair care item

ORBICULAR Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.

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

SUPERCAR a superior car

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

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.""

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

Picket line crosser, maybe

Hit by wave, one labours on regardless

Scab caused by blow wave

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

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

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Powerful particle accelerator

SUPERMINIS supermini

Comparative adjective or agent noun

(Physics / General Physics) Physics a device for observing ionizing radiation by the scintillations it produces in a suitable material

Comparative adjective or agent noun