2-Letter Words Starting with S

Sprig

Bound to come up after 10 across, perhaps

Summers are bound to follow this with the gin

At top speed.

Action at a track

Going full tilt

Spritz

In season, blossoming (wordplay)

Growing rapidly.

Fresh growth.

Moving in a twisting or contorted motion

Wriggling uncomfortably

Squirt

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

What a surprise to begin with the fish!

Begin with fish? Amazing!

Cast drinking bitter, and staggering!

Stereo

Greyhounds on the leash (wordplay)

Trying hard when riddling like this!

Exerting much effort or energy

Being a ground (wordplay)

Leaving helpless redhead in station

Running aground in position across river

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

Feeling pressure (about)

Laying emphasis on, say a syllable

Hair in the inside leads to a strain

Striate

String

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

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)

Suborn

Comforting (var)

Sucker

Enduring endless bother over iron girdle

Allowing real distress

Permitting the existence of pain

Sulfur

Estival sojourn.

Estivating

Breakage below the inside of the last of 30 across

Sing about what's below and coming to bits

Submarine maneuver.

Conjecturing

Surname

Surtax

Measuring (an area) for mapping

Survive

Suspire

Sypher

Syringe

Rubber plant found by the shore

Defamation gets student sent down for flier

Making fun of giant, sir, is silly

Lampooning

Firefighters' activity

So a king is altogether getting to be like this

After the start of Saturday a metal G is never drying

Moving slowly

Running or skipping about briskly

Carol goes round van, scurrying

Like kids in a playground

Scarify

Scarper

Throwing in various directions

Tedder's chore

Small number

Scepter

Schmeer

Cutting I sign with cross, perhaps

Eliminating from a text

Cutting along dotted lines

Sclerose

Scorify

Scowder

Desperately trying to get a handhold

Scraich

Scraigh

Break-up gift (wordplay)

Get out jewellery for outdoor pursuit

Off-road racing that is circuitous

Companion of beat juggling

Tearing with the nails

Purpose of a pet post

Noise from boobooks

Scribble

Scrooch

Scrounge

Squeezing (together)

Scunner

Sin, king, on purpose

Scutter

DRYING the act of drying

Divorcing pairs get an arrangement

Confess about end of marriage, moving apart thus

Dividing

Playing in attempt to win hand

Playing to win hand

Romantic singing orchestrated in Eastern gardens

Sharpen

Revised 'the ratings' (wordplay)

Revised "the ratings" (wordplay)

Breaking up the ratings going berserk

Giving refuge to.

Giving protection to

Protecting

Shikar

With a flickery glow

Cheaply produced lace (wordplay)

Small sum of money Slang.

Minimal amount of money

Cutting down fat

Reducing fat used for cooking

Pie baker's need

SHRIVEL to contract into wrinkles

His drug den is shaky!

The source of the milk in the inside of the shake

One on a shooting spree (wordplay)

One who's constantly snapping (wordplay)

One who's constantly snapping

Closing tightly

Skelter

Almost missed call, being captain

Acting as captain

Being leader, having to hide hesitation, prancing around

Gliding lilghtly

Skreegh

Skreigh

Having a heavenly frolic (wordplay)

Playing pranks

Monkeyshines

Message from heaven (wordplay)

Messages created by planes

Vapour trail messages

Slabber

Slander

Slather

Moving like a mamba

Slobber

Slubber

Out like a light

Being inattentive, leaving junk in grass

Sawing logs, so to speak

Smarten

Bit of stuff in chorus perhaps

Tiny amount (of knowledge)

Bit of stuff found in immorality? Grand!

Like some fires

Like the eyes of a Casanova

More than just doting on

Stifling Mama's kept in Carol

Concealing and disguising things more

Snicker

For example drinks upset on band, producing scornful reaction

Snooker

SNORKEL a mouthpiece used by an underwater swimmer

Soberize

Sojourn

Solarise

Solarize

Soldier

Strewing about in little drops

Splashing

Spiral

Sponsor

Spraddle

Sprattle

Springe

Occasionally super idea shows dash

Cast about to dress up and dash

A little shy around groom

Celebrate outside club, jabbering

Speaking while flurried

Fitful

Inebriate movement beyond comprehension

Incredible male with ginger snap

Rocking and rolling

Halting in words.

Speaking with involuntary pauses

With involuntary hesitation in speech

Having astronomical vision (wordplay)

Some late-night viewing

Working at Mt. Palomar.

Athens tailor (AMND)

Dawn's gaunt rider

Character in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Steamer

Steward

... doing as one does, Carol securing hat

Standing on both sides of (something)

Noncommittal on an issue

Being noncommittal.

Straggle

Taking another person's life in one's hands

Stravage

Reaching out to engrave in chain

Pulling out twine wrapped around chisel (wordplay)

Exaggerating time spent in 21 in heart of Bangkok

Strickle

Fighting

S-speaking, tense inside (wordplay)

Talking, by the way, of bumbling!

Speaking with initial difficulty

Suberise

Suberize

Submerge

Submerse

Subserve

Undermining

Overthrowing

Succour

Sulphur

Lasting three hot months

Sunburn

Present participle or gerund

Fair as player, holding up pro

and 26: Those apart from leads trip up with songs and act poorly

Surcease

Surfeit

Being better than

Mildly astonishing

Causing astonishment

Small rebellion keeps Republican staggering

Surprize

Devil-MAY-care

Confident pipe will go round dog's tail (wordplay)

Walking arrogantly

Sing mass being imprisoned, very hot

Carol holds mixed-up mass for baking

Carol carries jumble and gets direly hot

Swither

Killing an offering to a deity

Ritually slaughtering

Bunting.

Scabbard

Scouther

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

Scrootch

SCRUMMAGE See Scrimmage. Scrimmage.

""SCULPTURE The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.""

""An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated. Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.""

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

""SEMAPHORE A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.""

""SEPULCHRE The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.""

SERIALISE

SERIALIZE

Preaching the Word

Shepherd

Shivaree

Cramming

Character flaw, say

Defect in aspirin (wordplay)

A fault not long showing up

Assuming sweetheart ought to call round

Wrinkling and contracting

Breaking out into fights

Scrapping briefly, risk rough Russian fighter holding part of leg

Slipform

Slowly burning

Having repressed emotions? That gives Sigmund role for sorting out

""SOMERSET to somersault, to roll the body in a circle, head over heels""

""One who writes lyrics or tunes, or both, for songs. Also called songsmith , songster .""

Splatter

When breaking up, maybe slept in before call

Fragmenting

Spitting explosively

SPORULATE

Spurgall

Squadron

Wasting recklessly

Squatter

SQUIRREL to store up for future use

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

STEVEDORE One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Straight

Straiten

Stranger

Forming layers

Stravaig

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.