2-Letter Words Starting with S

Anti-capitalist movement thus is ousting North America from Asian country

Very old soldier is crossing Italy crushing mass communist principles

Put under the hammer and sickle

Convert to Stalinism

Render communistic.

Sovkhoz

Sowbread

Mos Eisley, for one

Opening scene of many sci-fi flicks

Sci-fi traveler's stop

Preparatory labour (in the garden?)

Preparation for excavation (wordplay)

Preliminary data gathering, perhaps

Spanworm

Done in short bursts

Done in brief irregular bursts

Faulty compass I'd disconnected

A name given to several species of crowfoot (Ranunculus) which have spearshaped leaves. Ranunculus) which have spearshaped leaves.

A model inspector at cricket, say ...

Playing to the crowd (wordplay)

One to watch!

Launch full of drugs (wordplay)

One making waves

High-speed vessel

""Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss. Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss.""

Genus to which the tuatara, a New Zealand lizard-like reptile belongs

Sphenoid

Egg yolks, for example

Some round shapes

Geometric solids

Spiccato

Unexpected by-product

Go past the rim

Unexpected consequence

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

Having spinules; minutely spiny.

Lively liquor (old standing order)

In music, to be played in an animated way

Trip I arranged in pretty average surroundings - but in an animated way

Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure.

Freshwater algae genus

Freshwater algae

Receptacles for tobacco chewers

Loogie containers

Napa buckets

A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.

Breathtaking features

Brilliancies

Odds on usurer heard to show richness

Show way to spend our pound inside

Half-hearted hostility and dismal dazzle

Splodge

Splosh

Spotted, splashed

'Boldly spotted the third allotment': penned by Guardian setter

*Stained

Figures in Pollock paintings (wordplay)

Irregular marks

Stains

""A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emeraldgreen color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite. Hiddenite.""

Likely to decay.

Spoilage

""One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.""

SPOILS spoil

Wheelwright's representative (wordplay)

Official voice of the cyclist (wordplay)

Representative at press conference

Representatives of groups.

Some spin doctors

Party leaders.

Pillaged

Ravages

Plunders

1989's word: Plunderer

Spondaic

Most moist and soft

Sponsion

Brought to you (by)

Was an angel

Like Web "articles" that are really ads

Spontoon

Most hair-raising

Most eerie

Spooling

Charge for a snog with a bird (wordplay)

Large wading bird

One may be roseate

Spoonful

Spoony

Spoonful

""Pl. sporangia (-j - ) A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, as in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns. Also called spore case .""

A substance used to kill spores.

A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

Saclike larval stage of some flatworms

The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

""Any of numerous parasitic protozoans of the class Sporozoa, most of which reproduce sexually and asexually in alternate generations by means of spores. They are frequently transmitted by bloodsucking insects to different hosts, where they cause many serious diseases, such as malaria and coccidiosis.""

A parasitic one-celled animal

Most dapper

Superlatively stylish

Rower perhaps left in ship by crew

He is active

He engages in physical games

Guys who fish or hunt, say

Club members, maybe

Hunters and anglers.

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

It brightens up a performance

Stage actor may be in it

Flimsy blouse held up in public eye

""Made, paid, or delivered immediately: a spot sale.""

Most uneven, as a performance

Most erratic

South African symbol

A jumper for the South African side

South African animal

Film projector teeth

Some of a bicycle's wheels

Ten-speed components

In season, blossoming (wordplay)

Growing rapidly.

Fresh growth.

Squadron

""Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone as, the squamosal bone""

A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; called also cancer root. Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; called also cancer root.

Squoosh

Squoosh

Abrupt speech patterns

Detached musical notes

Pets rejected famous Roman's clipped bits

British armed reconnaissance car.

One whose quarry is sought and abused (wordplay)

Hunting dog

Observances of the law

Surveillances in anticipation of crime

Surveillance jobs

Megan's namesakes (wordplay)

The last equine felines at last

Horses named for their enclosures

Brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent.

Upright bar or beam

Vertical support post

Chain's not unhooked from post

Ties, in ball games.

Things conspicuous for their excellence

Recalcitrant members of a group.

Preeminent examples

Horse-drawn carriages

One-seat carriages

Horse-drawn high-seaters

That's right!

Right light on ship (wordplay)

Right (at sea)

Starnose

Chickweeds

For Hawaii and Alaska (wordplay)

Territory's future, perhaps

For Hawaii and Alaska?

Private cabin, say, with berth put up

Passengers's private compartment on ship

Cruise ship accommodation

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)

Plant cell contain- ing starch grains

Is that lot differential calculus (wordplay)

Of written law as to a trusty

Authorised by law

Try-outs at being required by law

The African Queen, for one

The Belle of Louisville, for one

"Fulton's Folly," for one

Crush, as an opponent

Brook no opposition

Suppress ruthlessly

Something made of steel.

Steenbok

Stegodon

Jurassic Park resident (wordplay)

Ex-herbivore with bony plates

Large, extinct herbivore

Animals' skins to be treated

Stenoky

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

STENO a stenographer

Stereo

Furthest back on a ship

Craft storm sent farthest back

Farthest aft

Rudder support, harsh job

Holding up rudder is a hard position

Ship's timber aft from keel to deck.

Sternson

Such as many hormones

Ideal sort for exercising, enhancing performance

Allen's scale notes (wordplay)

He likes to put on a performance

Dock-worker loads and unloads ships

Stickout

English word

Stiction

Sharp-looking footwear (wordplay)

Sharp-looking heels (wordplay)

Assassins' sharp daggers

Having died in the womb

Unfilled vacancy in pantry (wordplay)

Not yet a full house near the kitchen

Pantry's such a quiet place

Pan's little chum in cropped fungus

Malodorous mushroom

8 gives way to ancient scribe's equipment

Motorboats, to sailing fans

Powerboats

""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.""

""A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.""

Stoccado

Stoccata

Stockade

Barriers of stakes

Enclosures of wooden posts

Prisons of a sort

Racy items (wordplay)

Auto agency items.

Daytona 500 entries

What the fishmonger must do to have them cured

Stocky

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

Dealers left out of catalogues

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Soup kitchen collection

North-west town's lost rare items in soup kitchen

Soup kitchen (wordplay)

Where goods are stored

Has the goods on the farm in 13 across

Locale in Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Place having many pens

Feature of Chicago.

Stodgy

By way of resignation

With a poker face

With fortitude

Stoicism

""The space, or any of the spaces, in front of the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.""

Stokesia

Terribly stilted, so most uninspiring

Doctor so stilted and most unemotional

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.

Stolport

Put up with

Most upset having hurt bore

Stood

Former article of dress

Decoration worn to marches

Decorative panel on front of gown or bodice

Digestive medicine for cat in African country is fashionable

Pl. stomodea also stomodaea (-d ) The anterior or oral portion of the alimentary canal of an embryo.

STOMODEA stomodeum

An embryonic oral cavity

""(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

Urban kids' game

Street game

Stopbank

Pipe valves

Don't go there!

Part of the street scene.

Device on rear of motor vehicle.

Traveler's concern.

Breaks on the road

Places visited briefly

Unlike a juggernaut

Closures, say, shut down the presses

Red light over the leaves

Halts and interruptions.

With a plug

One of today's leading playwrights reportedly blocked at the opening

Stopple

Keeps time in no time if you do this!

Call off a police stakeout (wordplay)

Timepiece for timing, a race perhaps

Storable

Rising sculptor decays in cellar perhaps

Holder of many records

English jumper in charge for vault

Naval vessel for carrying supplies

Supply vessel.

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

Tries most (anagram)

Sort items out, most foul

Sort items out, as most rough

Tot's reading material

Type of happy ending

Collection of children's tales

Stound

Stouten

Guiness quality (wordplay)

Beer with head providing strength

Beer with a head on shows strength

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)

They didn't pay

The Marxes, in "Monkey Business"

Some fare-beaters

In past, drop with a jerk

Eunuch drinking gin - it's a painful experience

Party whip takes lead, grabbing secretary for excruciating punishment

Needing much effort

Small and weak admitting run's gruelling

Requiring great exertion

They can turn your hair gray

Sources of anxiety

Therapy topics

Marking with streaks

Markedly like a zebra

Arrangement of parallel bands

Delete in the ball park (wordplay)

Erase the baseball batter!

Go down swinging

Strobila

Strobile

""STROBILE the conical, multiple fruit of certain trees, also STROBIL""

Walker's Rest (rolls over)

What babies are pushed around in

Baby transports

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

Stropper

More argumentative

More bad tempered and argumentative (colloq.)

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