2-Letter Words Starting with S

SHRIVEL to contract into wrinkles

I have two lines in small part as an old man (wordplay)

Primate needing two seconds (wordplay)

Head gorilla, with distinctive coloring

Adult male gorilla

Bug found in metal perch (wordplay)

Mirrored tarpon (wordplay)

Long John Dory (wordplay)

Joint team coming second (wordplay)

Meat for Olympic runners-up (wordplay)

Joint Argentine XI

Prizes for runners-up (wordplay)

Articles stashed by vacationers

This puzzle's theme

A perennial rosaceous herb (Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath. Potentilla Anserina) having the leaves silvery white beneath.

Assuming an appearance.

Skydiving

""The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.""

Weekend night events, usually

Some kids' parties

Pajama parties

Un-armed (wordplay)

Like certain dresses.

Type of sweater.

Sleevelet

They're fitted for furniture

Upholsterer's project

They may be on your chairs

Slivovic

Slovenly

Snivel

Beach books, often

Solvation

Solvency

Plural or third person singular

A chemical reaction in which the solute and solvent react to form a new compound.

A chemical reaction in which the solute and solvent react to form a new compound.

Souvlakia

Old gold coins

Kings, but not aces

Kings and queens

Sovietism

SOVIETIZE

Sovietize

Sovranty

They slop out of buckets

Plane for shaping curved surfaces

Tool said to have succeeded getting in

Tool said to cut closely

In fun

Cost of zero fare (wordplay)

Hunger for a bible in the depot

To save, I grant, was difficult with these

Athens tailor (AMND)

Dawn's gaunt rider

Character in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Southern European larkspur; at crevasse (anagram)

Worked the docks

Hold hands (wordplay)

Longshoremen's bosses

Ship-to-shore figures

Tall silk hats

High toppers

Hats.

Stravage

Stravaig

*Sign of a typing mistake

Sloppy typing correction

Typing correction

AVERAGE to calculate the arithmetical mean value of

""Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries. as, the subclavian arteries.""

Being split into smaller pieces

DIVIDER one that {divides=v}

Subdivide

Of or pertaining to a subject.

Meekly obedient

Writing 'Yours obediently' under a letter (wordplay)

Communication on warship that's prepared to surrender

Subserve

""A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.""

Subvassal

The act of coming under.

Subject of current controversy.

Design of a navy vessel with different features (wordplay)

Seeking to undermine

Revolutionary

Subverter

Undermining

Overthrowing

VISIBLE something that can be seen

VOCALLY with the voice

Win I have running

Hit I have in a regular series

Following one another

Tending to imply

Implying something rude

hinting at something indecent

(Physics / General Physics) Physics denoting or relating to elements of high atomic number (above 109) postulated to exist with special stability as a consequence of the shell model of the nucleus

Starbursts (wordplay)

Star bursts

Exploding stars

Fireworks in the sky make Penny nervous, excited - even gassy

SUPERVENE To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

Follows

""SUPERVISE To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.""

Supervise

Terrific sun blocker (wordplay)

One over you, perhaps

Headwear for a building chief (wordplay)

Superwave

Plural or third person singular

SUPPLE to make {pliant=adj}

Providing help

Playful, keeping up with helpful intentions

Frisky about being at university, maintaining a loyal interest

""Of, relating to, or capable of staining living cells after their removal from a living or recently dead organism: a supravital dye.""

Mathematics A function that is onto.

Surveil

Surveying

SURVIVE to remain in existence

Noun (-ance)

Susceptible.

""Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful.""

SVELTE gracefully slender

A change of direction in this suggests one is blubbering doing this in the chair

Sylvanite

Salivation

Like some sunken ships

""SALVATION The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.""

Mother-in-law's tongue

Cocktail (vodka and 4 down juice)

Carpenter's libation (wordplay)

Carpenter's favorite drink (wordplay)

Seclusive

Secretive

In a seductive manner.

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

Selective

Discrimination

DWARVES dwarf

Like some hospital service

Like two-bed hospital rooms

Certain notes

""A genus of fleshyleaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species. Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.""

With respect for feelings

Sympathy

English word

SERVANT to {subject=v}

In working order

Fit for use

Functional

SERVICE to {repair=v}

Quality of being servile; servility.

Servility

Servomotor

Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.

Seventieth

Having several parts or members.

Severalty

Kind of diplomacy

Tugged-on thing

An ace may be up it

Shivaree

Shovelnose

Wrinkling and contracting

Silverback

A tree or shrub (El\'91agnus argentea) with silvery foliage and fruit. El\'91agnus argentea) with silvery foliage and fruit.

The state of being silvery.

A technique of drawing on specially prepared paper with a silver-tipped instrument.

Cuts of beef; small fish

Small marine fish

Paul Revere, for one

Paul Revere profession

Fine metal worker

Silverware

Silverweed

One who holds slaves.

SLAVISH pertaining to a slave

Slivovitz

Slovenly

Feature of this crossword, if you're good

SOLVENT a substance capable of dissolving others

How independent nations function

Governs, yet somehow holds one dominion

It's signified by a crown

Pre-eminence

SOVIETIZE

Conjecturing - high-risk

Based on conjecture

Disagreement I have about iffy clue involving guesswork

Spokeshave

SPORULATE

Starvation

Starveling

Stavesacre

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

Invigorating.

Stravaig

Strikeover

SUASIVE persuasive

Suaveness

Subclavian

CURATIVE something that cures

Subdivider

DIVIDING separation

Relief rupture unit

Suburban neighborhood, often

Smaller section

INTERVAL a space of time between periods or events

Subjective

Mood of verbs

Ben's virtues misconstrued as slavish

Prepared to obey others unquestioningly

Obsequious.

(Of rank) permanent

Having a firm basis in reality

Important, meaningful

""Tending, or having power, to subtract.""

Subvention

Subversion

Subversive

""VOCALIZE to produce with the voice, also VOCALISE""

Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Plural or third person singular

Highest in quality

Of the highest degree or quality

Of the highest degree

SUPERVENE To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

English word

Directing (workers)

Kent's gift or management (wordplay)

Man of Steel ability (wordplay)

Guardian's job

Ones in charge

""Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers. as, supervisory powers.""

News media first raised matter Nutmeg's aiming to cover up

Tending to stop drink with reporters I have cut short

Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.

One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.

Surveil

Person planning for the apocalypse

One looking to preserve their own existence

Survivance

""SYNCOPATE To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."""

Synovitis

""SALVATION The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.""

Army officer, like 10's major

Sansevieria

Savageness

Savoriness

Drinks for assembly workers (wordplay)

Vodka drinks

Sounds like Philip's orange juice and vodka drinks

Scurviness

Sempervivum

(In blood test) showing no virus present

Showing a positive reaction to a test on blood serum for a disease; exhibiting seroconversion.

Servanthood

The shadbush or one of its fruit.

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

A man who is a member of the armed forces.

Fractions of number in choppers to put on uniform on board

""Capable of being severed or separated; separable into legally distinct rights or obligations, as a contract.""

Severeness

SHIRTSLEEVE

(In) jacketless state

Symbol of informality.

Being in these one has no jacket on

Shrievalty

Silverfish

Silverpoint

Some metalworkers

See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.