2-Letter Words Starting with S

Get to be so a king (wordplay)

Oversupply a market

Use attar to make thoroughly wet

Wine thus to go sour, they say

Semisweet golden table wine

Chateau d'Yquem.

""A heraldic design, also SALTIRE, SALTIER, SAUTOIR""

Growing among rocks

A hard skeletal plate or spicule

Shaped like a cup

Fellow chairperson (wordplay)

Next one in a row

Competitor for an armrest

Valium, for one

Downer's Home Counties case (wordplay)

Number perhaps deviates oddly

When oats are sown.

Spring, for example

When to sow

Drafted G.I.

Young man in a draft.

Young man in a draft

Chemical salt

Inhabitant of the moon.

Type of gypsum

Variety of gypsum

Having partially lost the faculty of speech

Maybe note is me (wordplay)

X up one, from B to C, say

B to C, for example

Life, for one

Stretch in a cell (wordplay)

Punishment (in court)

Keep a part of this (wordplay)

In Kent perhaps, Norm dined apart

Become Renovated (wordplay)

Group of seven (var.)

Composition for seven

Seven-piece band

Make two into fourteen, say

35 to 5, say

Go from 10 to 70, for example

Italian love songs

Designating late-flowering plants.

Late in flowering

Blood bank concern

Transfusion topic

Group of viruses sharing specific antigens

Money Cato, gave to seers, etc

Roman silver coin

Coin for Cato

""Covered with seta, also SETULOUS""

Number in "Lucia"

Mae West's final film

Mae West's swan song

Increase from 5 to 30, say

Multiply by six

Increase many times

Fellow on board

Fellow sailor provided the maps I fold

Officer in the same boat

Where loafers hang out (wordplay)

Arrange to see her in Oxford, perhaps

Oxfords stretcher, perhaps

Her goats (anagram)

Horse tag (anagram)

Need little time (wordplay)

Pronounce in a certain way.

The wading bird turns hot to make a hiss

Ssspeak like thisss

Valuable iron ore

Valuable ore of iron

Valuable ore of iron.

Tour in a double-decker bus, perhaps

Go touring, maybe

Visit interesting places

Quartz, mica or talc

Quartz, for example

Beryl or garnet

Imitate (an appearance or character)

Create a model of

Put on fire dropping temperature

A satirical medieval song or poem

{since=adv}

Put up an ad, say

Get high for a spell (wordplay)

Use a plane for a pencil (wordplay)

Used lofty words (wordplay)

""A mineral, also SMALTITE""

Cobalt-nickel arsenide

Moose hit in crash? That's the drink!

Polished individual (wordplay)

Even, that is, for one that's a charmer

Translucent mineral resembling marble

Mineral in rock strangely isolated

Transparent mineral

Lot, for example

Worse fat (anagram)

Suites designed by architects, say

Programs that drive computer, not hard

Vacationer's quest, perhaps

Isolated state - slide out (anagram)

The absence of company

21 June or 22 December (wordplay)

Time of highest or lowest noon sun

Midsummer or midwinter point

A while in prison - I'm not saying when

Former; occasional (US)

At an unknown moment

Short musical compositions Ital.

Short musical compositions: Ital.

Piece of music, as by Ravel.

To disrupt with sound waves

The marriage of a man with his dead wife's sister

Capable of sorption

Fit for classifying

Like mail in the P.O.

Like mail in the P.O

Decorative braid

German noodle

Egg noodle associated with Baden-Wurttemberg

SIDE DISH

Relating to a spathe

Evolve, as into a new organism

Watch (eg, a game)

Be a viewer, at a sports event perhaps

Watch (at sports event)

Say furiously 'Attack the plane'

Say with venom 'Shoot at the WW2 plane'

Hot-tempered high-flier (wordplay)

Plunder and pillage the strange paste oil

Pillage

Plunder

Play full of sound

It proves playing is playful

Second drink I have makes me frisky

To {struggle=v}

Scaly young rook loses its tail sitting on holly

Do nothing, say, about a gun unloaded

Become inactive (and malodorous)

Do nothing, say, to protect a good name

Precipitate stock issue (wordplay)

Panicked rush (of cattle)

Steer out of control (wordplay)

Vehicle taking Laurel and Bob maybe

Horse-drawn carriage for one

Phaeton's rebuilt as a carriage for one

An ore of tin

Source of Etna's tin

Mineral situation - pub's about to probe it

Daydream on the red carpet (wordplay)

Wander around Hollywood, maybe

Use a telescope, maybe

Five-pointed, say

Describing certain flowers.

Heavenly, in a way

Feature of a certain mole

American mole, having prominent nostrils

That can be expressed

Good person on a list that can be made known

{theft=n}

An ester used in some ointments

Type of salt or ester

An ester used in ointments

Candlemaker's need (Var.)

Candlemaker's need

Solid portion of a fat

Almost eat items containing soapstone

Ties this into the state of 28 across

Tea I test with greyish talc

How old a bovine is (wordplay)

How old and stern the beast is on board!

Low class (wordplay)

Like 50 Seattle stars

Like a starfish

Arranged like rays or radii

Peduncular

Stop fighting egghead in glasses!

Wedding gift, perhaps

Collection of goblets

Second mother, of old

Resembling a {stair=n}

Upward by degrees

From one tone to the next, in music

How some melodies move

Insect's ventral plate

Soft greyish antimony sulphide mineral

Native antimony trisulphide

Mineral of antimony

Crystalline hydrocarbon used in manufacture of dyes

A mineral

Standard drink in ranch area (wordplay)

Cod steak (anagram)

Defensive or confining enclosure

Able to be stoned

Prevent attendant going on strike

Sit-down, for example

Cessation of activity

Easily stacked, perhaps

Like canned food

Like many root vegetables for the winter

Like carry-ons

Not pick sides (wordplay)

Favor both sides of (an issue)

Sit heartlessly on fence (wordplay)

Wander off course

String out new alerts about horse

Wander from line of march.

Suppress (an impulse)

Stifle learner in alien environment

Suppress line in novel

""To stroll, also STRAVAIG""

To shape grain with an instrument

Marked with grooves

Covered with bristles

Pine cone, for example

Pine cone

Not 2, no (wordplay)

Jockey and horse perhaps in fixed result

Labour contest (wordplay)

Having a struma

Uncut marketable timber

Somewhat acute

A subdivision of a caste

Nearly ovate

A part of a microscope for supporting accessories

A subdivision of a state

A subordinate theme

Caption on foreign film

Sex described by discreet text on screen

Foreign-flick feature

Mindanao's Tasadays, for example

Long and tapering to a point

To {inflate=v}

Apt or appropriate

Right for or appropriate

Right or appropriate

Carousel rider (wordplay)

Maybe sauciest luggage item

Travel item (two legal terms!)

Like a suit

Repel and be repelled by salt, perhaps

Salt can't stand and is back first

It might be copper till all is blue

""A chemical salt, also SULFITE""

Lie on the beach, perhaps

Catch a few rays

Bash tune out to attract some heat

A variety of quartz

Rotate face-up, as one's palm

Rotate palm-upward

Turn up for palmist set up in seat specially

Mongoose-like mammal

Mongoose kin

Hedonist of sorts

Voluptuary disturbed by satire

In classy bar I tempted bon vivant

Organism in a relationship (wordplay)

""SACCULE a small sac, also SACCULUS""

Shaped like an arrowhead

Very innocent shot in talkies

Newly descriptive of Sir Clive (wordplay)

Newly descriptive of the Redknapps (wordplay)

The hard sound of S with S (wordplay)

The way one supports smooth rock!

Sound quality for George (wordplay)

""Soft, thoroughly decomposed rock rich in clay and remaining in its original place.""

Explorer, for one.

Latest lie broadcast from the moon, say

Orbiter of planet

Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation.

As, perhaps, in E it's so gloomy

Rested funerary vessel in earth grave

Gloomy heavenly body in the east

A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.

""Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.""

""Any of various medium-grained to coarse-grained metamorphic rocks composed of laminated, often flaky parallel layers of chiefly micaceous minerals.""

Make systematic

A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and lime. Called also lime mesotype. lime mesotype.

Daily reading, for some

It may be quoted in church

Sacred writings as of Christians

Easy to get

Art, figuratively speaking (wordplay)

The sort of art that may give one relief

Art in three dimensions

Tight-lipped, reticent

Tending to hide things

Close drip, stopping leak

Know about Channel 4? It's tempting!

Like Salome

Charming Spanish golfer interrupted by Channel 1

Easter-egg (anagram)

Separate by race or religion

Part is for Easter egg production

Choosy about who plays (wordplay)

Part of SSS

Type of service

""MATTE to produce a dull finish on, also MATT""

Make more responsive

Suspect it's injected to prepare for a reaction

Responsive to physical stimuli

Steve is in trouble, being easily upset

Quick to respond

Make responsive to others' feelings

To make emotionally receptive

Attune

Consciousness - ten nieces (anagram)

What Data had, but a toaster does not

Robot's lack

Meerschaum. See Meerschaum. Meerschaum.

The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.

Diner's linen item

Setter out about to compete with wiper

Table napkin at Buckingham palace

That's legal slavery

State of slavery

I've rudest torment in slavery

Sounds like a woolly jacket for 17 across for the night

Enclosure for farm animals or duck, almost Dickensian inside

Adjective meaning resembling

Admitting of being shifted.

Former Japanese government

Sweet biscuit - rat chokes (anagram)

Diminutive dessert (wordplay)

Rate shock (anagram)

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

Is over Midge Ure's autograph!

Button Gwinnett's claim to fame.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph

Certain sedimentary rock

Type of sedimentary rock

Obliquely.

Discontented social worker knowing one's inclined to appear thus

Oblique

Adjective meaning resembling

Slithering Racer X song (wordplay)

Drink (dangerous if given by 18!)

Poisonous drink (wordplay)

Marker for style of TV serial (wordplay)

Teaspoons made of steatite (wordplay)

Soft form of rock

Park Avenue resident.

Claudia Cohen, for example

Prominent attendee at fashionable events

Bottom of a flatiron

Iron's base

Game for one

Diamond; game for one

*Diamond in an engagement ring, perhaps*

Divination by drawing lots

Fortune-telling

Divine drawing of lots of egrets smeared with oil

Actress taking lighter roles

A pert little part for a girl

Coquettish female comedy role

Put under the hammer and sickle

Convert to Stalinism

Render communistic.

""A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste. Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste.""

Spoon-shaped

Was spitting at you of late? That's a bit thick

Expectorated before you get dead and thickened

Pat Eccles recovers sight

Select cap randomly from display

Visually striking performance

Gamble on investments

A gambler will do it to accumulate

Deliberate risk on the markets

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

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

Get under control

Eliminate fluctuations in

Thwart political unrest abroad, in hegemonic parlance

Type of desk tray

STAGE to produce for public viewing

Adjective meaning resembling

Like white dresses and unfinished wood

Steps up (wordplay)

Way down in a well (wordplay)

Connecting flight (wordplay)

Reason for marital breakup (wordplay)

Old fellow's tie (wordplay)

Reason for marital breakup?

Designating pollen-bearing flowers.

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

That can be asserted Var.

That can be asserted variable

Team, say, leading in America

Hawaiian's destination, perhaps

Desist, Tea Party, in America!

Like many lotteries

Throughout one of the Forty-eight.

Across all counties

Oscar, for one.

Oscar, for one

Model by the minute (wordplay)

STEALE a handle

Can the beast answer the helm (wordplay)

Equipped with a rudder and wheel, say

Capable of turning

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

Pass through fire, perhaps

Make safe for use, in a way

Boil, perhaps

Allen's scale notes (wordplay)

He likes to put on a performance

Dock-worker loads and unloads ships

""A long slender piece of wood, especially: a. A branch or stem cut from a tree or shrub.""

Fan fire (wordplay)

Stir up trouble? I must after hours!

Opposite of "bore."

Ray having a whiplike tail.

Whip-tailed ray.

Fish with whiplike tail.

Specify as a condition or requirement

Specify, as in a contract

Specify as an essential part

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Caveman's cooking tools (wordplay)

Pottery has novel article in stock

Heavy, nonporous pottery

Unlike a juggernaut

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)