2-Letter Words Starting with S

Shotgun

Showboat

Marked with roadside pointers

Women with similar habits (wordplay)

Kinship between women

Community of nuns

Participate in the X Games, perhaps

Teen's transportation, perhaps

Rage created in "Back to the Future"

SKYLIGHT a window in the ceiling

Eliminated rough edges

Simpleminded or lamebrained

Simpleminded

Somerset

Going from the Bronx to Brooklyn

Headed to Dixie - or stuck there (wordplay)

SOVIETIZE

Marked beast, much loved, taken round Britain on display

Put one's thinking cap on

Took risks

Considered options, then played the market

Made a mess, maybe

Splashed (all over the place)

Sloshed water on.

Cracked lips, tender perhaps

Broke into small, sharp pieces

Fragmented

Records spinning, said remarks thus indistinct (wordplay)

Struggled to get words out when rushed to grasp line, say

SPORULATE

Squatter

STABILIZE

Stablish

Took Tal to a tie

Brought to a standstill.

At an impasse

Stellify

Written using a cut out mask

Depicted horse carrying knight about poorly

STENOTYPE

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

Worked the docks

Stiletto

Let us admit becoming excited

Provoked the senses

Psyched up

Required platitudes to be inventive!

Details put out as specified

Specified as a condition

STOCKING a covering for the foot and leg

Put away in reserve

Put away for a rainy day

Spoilt deck shuffled and put in store

A mantis shrimp, for example

Cut off, in a way

Held up by weather.

Cut off by the elements.

Plot device (wordplay)

Director's device

Lie on table to make an outline

Straight

Distressed when pressed to accept a note

Like some circumstances

Characterized by poverty

Stranger

Formed in layers

Arranged in layers

Stone cut, formally approved, and arranged in layers

Stravaig

Keep firm grip

Defensive position taken by a wrestler

Fastness of dogs left North exhausted

Built up

Made up

Organized

Stultify

""SUBJUGATE To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.""

Purified

SUBROGATE To put in the place of another; to substitute.

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

Subtotal

Journalist's taken leaflet away

Paper is after loan before editor's removed

FARMED OUT WORK

It's taken away from rough brute's hand

SUFFOCATE Suffocated; choked.

SULFONATE

""SULFURET to treat with sulfur, also SULPHURET""

Supplant

""SUPPURATE To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates. as, a boil or abscess suppurates.""

Like a mountain goat

Like mountain goats

Descriptive of certain walkers

Overcame (an obstacle)

Overcame

Surprint

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Sugar-loaf (wordplay)

Pancreas (as food)

Baked thymus (wordplay)

Power-station area

Offbeat (wordplay)

Cut short, as rhythm

Unusually stressed church council welcomes chapter and head (slightly later)

Sold to several publications

Like a lot of crosswords? Cryptic, yes - addict tackles any number

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

Cleaned, in a way

Cleaned but good

Put the blame on

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

SCLEROTIZE

SCRUTINISE

""SCRUTINIZE To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.""

""Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.""

SECURITIZE

Not quite out to pasture

Like many senior part-timers

Like some seniors in the workplace

Sentinel

In seclusion

Isolated flare up disrupted by expedition

Secluded

English word

The wood of the shittah tree.

Like some cats

In need of stenographers

Not having enough staff

Without enough staff

Avoided the issue

Circumvented

Avoided

Diverted from the main issue.

Thrown off course

Shunted (wordplay)

Seen as a shape against a light background

Simulcast

Firework, limited edition, rose high and fast

In Scottish island, plant density shot up

Killed

Hammer or Spade

Sherlock, for instance.

Detective with a nose for crime fighting

Snapshot

Too compassionate (wordplay)

A bunch of pseuds of the art editor kind

Daftest hero becomes compassionate

Somerset

Splayfoot

With all eyes watching

Stanchion

Any rove beetle.

Starboard

Defeated and then some

Whupped and then some

Conforming to stock idea

Conforming to a stock image

Tired Tory with deep-set disorder

""STIGMATIZE To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.""

Used delaying tactics

Held things up

Hindered big-time

Like once-popular jeans

Like a bluenose.

Having strict morals

Prudish and appallingly clad artiste

STRATEGIZE

Up-to-date

Efficient when dealing with derailments

Efficient way to sort out derailments

Made a shrill sound, as katydids, crickets, etc.

Paralysed by industrial action

Affected by industrial action

CULTURED culture

Not good enough!

Inferior underwater vehicle ideal

Falling short of some prescribed norm

Stood in

Subtotal

Sweetened (as a pill)

Made easier to swallow

Made more palatable

Sulfuret

Past tense or past participle

With temperature raised to excess

Be responsible for the management of

Manage when turnips need cooking

Control, manage

Supplicat

Operator's post, once

Manual telephone exchange

Where telephones are connected

SYMMETRIZE To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

Shared an understanding with shyest maid, trembling, keeping quiet

Shared a sentiment

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

Like some computer voices

Made from parts

Put together

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Scintillate

A drawing board coated with white clay and a surface layer of black ink that is scratched or scraped away to produce an effect similar to engraving. Also called scraperboard .

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

""Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.""

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

SHIRTSLEEVE

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

Heedless of the future.

Like the grasshopper of fable

Limited in one's outlook

SKELETONISE

""SKELETONIZE To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

Slipstream

Flipped

A shrub for the huntress

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""

Being single could make person do this

""Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trottinghorse Breeders.""

STANDARDISE

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Stickhandle

Unfeeling - like Olive (wordplay)

Devoid of feeling for others

Feeling callous? Then destroy a settlement

Storyboard

Upset due to threats, but resolute

Courageous, resolute

Courageous

STRAIGHT to make {straight=adj}

Put in order

Way of presenting gender that is not kinky

Hulk Hogan's choker (wordplay)

Force that menaces freedom.

Complete power over a situation

""Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia. as, a strangulated hernia.""

Made more robust

Reinforced

Stringhalt

IRRIGATED irrigate

OPTIMIZED optimize

ORDINATED ordinate

SATURATED saturate

""THRESHOLD The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.""

Supplement

Switchback

SYLLABICATE To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

SYSTEMATISE

""SYSTEMATIZE To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""

SECTARIANIZE To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

SEXTUPLICATE

Shuttlecock

As guilty woman dramatically did, walked out

Advanced cash? Deposit it, perhaps

Possessed of culture, refinement and 24

Ditches patois, turning suave

""A southeastward direction, point, or region.""

""A southwestward direction, point, or region.""

""SPIRITUALIZE To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Solderer worked with metal forced through

Crushed or pushed through with overpowering force

Folly, in essence, with intricately remastered edging, overwhelmed

Stereograph

Done up in a prudish sort of way

Extremely proper

Puritanically corseted

Player on bench that's got diminished is farmed out elsewhere

Past tense or past participle

SUBINFEUDATE

SUBJECTIVISE

SUBJECTIVIZE

Confirmed

Summersault

Past it - pensioned off

A1 to the south, Aunt Edna rambles past it

Great girl, you hear, with a boy that's passe

SUPERELEVATE

Superinfect

Superintend

SUPEROVULATE

Disorganised spread knocked on the head

Incapable of concentration

Disorganised and unable to concentrate

Snaggletooth

SPLENECTOMIZE

Straitjacket

STRUCTURALIZE

CATEGORIZED placed in a category.

""SUBSTANTIVIZE To convert into a substantive; as, to substantivize an adjective. as, to substantivize an adjective.""

Superconduct

Past tense or past participle

""SUPERSATURATE To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution. as, to supersaturate a solution.""

SENSATIONALISE sensational

SENSATIONALIZE

SENTIMENTALISE sentimental

""SENTIMENTALIZE To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject. as, to sentimentalize a subject.""

Upright basketball player (wordplay)

Honest direction (wordplay)

Undemanding, unlike a hooker!

SUPERSTIMULATE