2-Letter Words Starting with S

Eye chart eyers, at times

Squint

Squinty

Looking with partly closed eyes

One way to be looking cross

Involved in fraud, one in five not looking straight (wordplay)

Squireen

Moving in a twisting or contorted motion

Wriggling uncomfortably

Squirt

Making a walking-in-mud sound

Squush

Groom, for example

Ostler, groom etc

'Blast, mane needs grooming!' is what he often thinks

Chaps looking after beasts in detestable menagerie

Country workers in firm facing threat, not half

Country workers seen as steady and reliable chaps (wordplay)

Horse houses

He may convey properties

Person moving theatre props

Theater crew member

British armed reconnaissance car.

One whose quarry is sought and abused (wordplay)

Hunting dog

The theatrical behaviour of 11 across (wordplay)

One buck in the start of what's theatrical

Only for blokes, girl shows sluggishness

Lack of flow

Given one buck, she is still bad

Got stuck in a rut

Was in a rut

Hit the doldrums

Ceases to flow

Rump of venison possibly festers

Lacks activity

There's nothing exciting for Des's saint

Tarnish, with bit of dirt, symbol of Superman's composure

Sober quality of Thames-side town restricting daughter and son

Like white dresses and unfinished wood

Lest a sin's done without it (wordplay)

This steel contains chromium

Kind of steel

Lack of originality.

Quality of old bread

Lack of being fresh

Megan's namesakes (wordplay)

The last equine felines at last

Horses named for their enclosures

Designating pollen-bearing flowers.

Stancher

Stanch

Stanch

Upright bar or beam

Vertical support post

Chain's not unhooked from post

Are moral principles flagging (wordplay)

Exemplary colours (wordplay)

Norms in flags (wordplay)

Keep clear of one of 11 across

Hooperatings, for instance

Sports-page feature

Sports-page listings

Ties, in ball games.

Things conspicuous for their excellence

Recalcitrant members of a group.

Preeminent examples

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

Horse-drawn carriages

One-seat carriages

Horse-drawn high-seaters

Stannite

What's in the tail is about to be overhead to make it stiff

Bald head can be severe condition

Desolation

Beginning in the heavens, there's nothing elaborate with this

Birds the seaman chucks outside

Sailor hangs around for birds

Al strings the birds along

Starnose

What a surprise to begin with the fish!

Begin with fish? Amazing!

Cast drinking bitter, and staggering!

Saint was cannibal? Time for disclosure!

New Testament revelation (wordplay)

Announcement, issued by the bank say

Top politico? Says he!

Politician says piece

Lincoln, for one

'They're from the USA, says they (9)'

Famous politicians of the USA (wordplay)

Abraham Lincoln, for one of them

Of or pertaining to a station.

Placed where the 28 across are perhaps

Posted there online, perhaps

Posted in a position

Radio DJ's other job (wordplay)

Paper pusher (wordplay)

Pencil pusher (wordplay)

How Edward the loyal stopped the flow

Arrested resolute pressman

Firmer cane hurts badly

Firmer.

Stops the flow of

In a loyal way

Without ambivalence

Steading

Stopping from pitching

Controlling, in a way

Small drink failing to be calming

Stealing

Steapsin

Solid fats

Steenbok

Increased in price

Made a higher grade

More inclined to be made like this

Quality of steps seen to develop

What gradeability is a measure of

Mountaineer's concern

Cowboy on board (wordplay)

Is the cowboy at the helm (wordplay)

One at ship's helm

Cowboys at the wheel (wordplay)

How cowboys work with tillers (wordplay)

Cowboys on board (wordplay)

Steeving

Stegodon

Animals' skins to be treated

STENCH to cause to stink

Stenchy

Like letters on a crate, maybe

Like sign letters, perhaps

Lettered with a form.

Sign maker, perhaps

Person of letters (wordplay)

Many a street artist

Stenoky

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

STENO a stenographer

Stereo

A sterilizing agent.

Old English pennies

Sternite

Furthest back on a ship

Craft storm sent farthest back

Farthest aft

Rear admiral's trait (wordplay)

Back head of uncompromising nature

Severity not in the bows to start with

Rudder support, harsh job

Holding up rudder is a hard position

Ship's timber aft from keel to deck.

Sternson

To the rear

Sternway

Stibnite

Stickle

Jewelry items worn with cravats

They might secure ties

Stiction

Finds feet somehow, given support

Added starch to

Got more formal

Strong drink - starch (wordplay)

Fortifying alcoholic drink (slang)

Starch, as a laundry agent

Stretching may relieve it

Taut feeling

That could save you from going round the bend

Stilbene

Having died in the womb

Rest with case of scarlet fever, perhaps

Tranquil silence, calmness

Tells sins in motionless silence

Viagra perhaps, man with lust it excited

Pick-me-up

Most likely an illegal influence

Ray having a whiplike tail.

Whip-tailed ray.

Fish with whiplike tail.

Most tight

Most closefisted

Most Scroogelike

Pasting without Pa would leave one without defence like this

Some 1960s Corvettes

Bane of shellfish

Swimmers with whiplike tails

Stinkard

Garden pests with a malodorous defense

Insects with an olfactory weapon

Pan's little chum in cropped fungus

Malodorous mushroom

8 gives way to ancient scribe's equipment

Maximally malodorous

Most mephitic

Most foul

Motorboats, to sailing fans

Powerboats

""Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura. Jamestown weed, and Datura.""

""A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata. F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.""

Marking with small dots

Seurat technique

Fasten by sewing

Using needle and thread

Cowboy boot decoration

Stithy

Elastic knitted fabric

Store at home with film material

Material traditional in film

Having things on shelves over the legs

They're hung before Christmas

Women's garments

""(Engineering / Automotive Engineering) US and Canadian a type of sleigh used for moving rocks from fields, for hauling milk cans, etc.""

Little bird worried cat. Honest!

Rabbit's pelt on bird

Small heathland bird

Wall-growing plant; soon crept (anagram)

Plant of rocks and walls

Mosslike wall-growing plant

It resembles a rock in the water

Spiny swimmer

Gritty defence (wordplay)

Oliver's divider (wordplay)

Use delay-ing tactics

Caveman's cooking tools (wordplay)

Pottery has novel article in stock

Heavy, nonporous pottery

'Lust for Life' (wordplay)

Lust for Life (wordplay)

Mason's task

Seaweed-type plant.

Being a bit rocky (wordplay)

Lack of pity

Lack of compassion

Stonish

Stonish

Stopbank

Stopple

Stound

Stouten

Guiness quality (wordplay)

Beer with head providing strength

Beer with a head on shows strength

They'll never hold water

Spaghetti makers' implements

Food filters

Greyhounds on the leash (wordplay)

Trying hard when riddling like this!

Exerting much effort or energy

Puts into difficulty

Restricts; hampers

Pinches

Cable-making machines.

Being a ground (wordplay)

Leaving helpless redhead in station

Running aground in position across river

Play golf the Curtis way (wordplay)

In an odd manner

In a weird way...

Whom kids are taught to avoid

Sometimes they're perfect

Those one doesn't know

Most foreign streets are out of line

Most unusual oven, in two ways

In two ways, compass is most unorthodox

Choked to death

What Othello did to Desdemona

Choked and killed

Tree or fig

Nickname of wrestler Lewis.

1960s Boston killer

Does in with a rope

Throttles to death

So many corners half-way along the street, it leaves one quite breathless

Gurn stupidly, probing vagrant's waterworks problem

Hold on in bus or train

Stand on a bus or train

Commute, stereotypically

English word

Muscular weakness - ultimately catching

Big equipment, small changes to opening

Big and strong.

Running with indecent haste (wordplay)

On the run with problem skin - great!

Shifting out of investments

On the run because it's cold

Like some Web videos

In a steady onrush

Streek

Streel

Longest English word with just one vowel

Degrees of intensity.

What interviewees try to convey

Needing much effort

Small and weak admitting run's gruelling

Requiring great exertion

Feeling pressure (about)

Laying emphasis on, say a syllable

Hair in the inside leads to a strain

""Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration.""

Striate

Marking with streaks

Markedly like a zebra

Arrangement of parallel bands

Quality of being harsh or shrill.

Harsh quality

Shrillness

Harshness of voice.

Loud and harsh quality

Quality of a shrill sound

Severe, rigorous, attention to rules say

Of rule, say strict and precise

As a rule there's cord over the net

Part-time reporters

Horizontal timbers.

Newspaper freelancers

Less voluminous, as hair

String

Striping

Hitting close to home (wordplay)

Young enough to skin the fish (wordplay)

Shy hosts outing young man

Removing paint layers

Edges of signpost tearing and peeling

Walking leisurely with no apparent aim

Activity on a boardwalk

Go round in pain, walking slowly

Place to keep important documents

Case for storing valuables

Container for valuables

The most of 27 across

Most physically powerful

Having the greatest strength

Somewhat strong.

Samson or Hercules

Sam's on to be one of them

Mr. Universe, for example

Brawny circus performers

Some circus performers

Dictators

Parasitic threadworm

Strongyl

Strontia

Soft metallic element

One of 15's cooked mutton, sir

Element number 38

Not going on getting the edge on about R

Maintaining, as a razor

Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.

Playing chords, perhaps

Playing chords, say

Playing the guitar

Strunt

Proud as a peacock

That shows that one is proud during March

Are you, a teetotaller, proud to be walking in such a painful way (wordplay)

Cuts back the money - Gee, when it's all on the outside

How one carves up the money? Gee, that's the finish of it

Groups of bosses

Stuffing

Kind of block

Walking with two left feet

Evidence of klutziness

They give a ship increased speed

Operators keep time to fish

Large fish valued for their roe

Sources of caviar and isinglass

Stylise

Stylize

Baffling

Amount of charm

Feature of James Bond

Urbanity.

A subordinate agency.

Subagent

Beyond the foothills

Just below the treeline

Below the treeline

Officer ordering vessel to change course

Army officer below captain

Officer below captain

Subbasin

""BRANCH to spread like a tree branch, also BRAUNCH""

CENTER to place at the middle point

COLONY a settlement of emigrants in a new land

COUNTY an administrative division of a state

Junior minister abused working party

Bacon used rashly by minister

Expectant father in boat with daughter beside broken canoe

Subduce

Second bungee-jumping artist from the lower orders

Bear genus could be broken down into these groups

Doctor begs nurse for classes

Subhuman

Of a rock having no perceptible base

Added at the end

Journalist became a member and was added afterwards

Sublate