2-Letter Words Starting with S

Swoosh

Fencer's favorite entree (wordplay)

Catch of the day, perhaps

Steak from the sea

Adjective meaning resembling

Foiling son by clever verbal repartee!

Fencing - 's my sport (wordplay)

One of D'Artagnan's fortes.

Cyrano de Bergerac, for one

Athos, for one

For the fence one ends like Crosaire

The Three Musketeers

They might be fencing, in a manner of speaking, at last

Saber fish (wordplay)

Fish used in genetic research

Popular aquarium fish

Swound

Saddlebow

Safflower

Like Loman, but no Willy!

Lingerie clerk, perhaps

She flogs males now, as ordered

Avon peddlers, traditionally

Some clerks

Business personnel

The quality or condition of being sallow.

Clog material (wordplay)

Huarache material (wordplay)

Tree used for making footwear (wordplay)

Inserted between.

Was hidden plastic, encasing canine opening, like a filling (wordplay)

Some culinary heroes (wordplay)

Lunch-counter orders

Heroes, for example

Satinwood

Sawbones

Sawtimber

Excursion transporting a hundred female partners to watch men? Rascals!

Stuffed shirts (wordplay)

Field agents (wordplay)

They keep birds away from crops

Student's chore.

Taking notes, studying, etc

Taking notes, studying, etc.

Scowder

In a disapproving manner

Scrawly

Most waif-like, as a runway model

Most undernourished, unprepared to bite into dodgy insects

What snooker players do, mad folk!

Eccentric fellows Slang.

Eccentric fellows: Slang.

Screwbean

""Screwier , screwiest Slang Eccentric; crazy.""

Screwworm

Ivory carvings

Ornamental designs

Ornamentation.

A woman hired to clean.

A woman hired to clean.

Semidwarf

Semivowel

""Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip.""

Abstract noun (-ity)

Most mysterious

In full light.

Legendary sword: may yours never grow so!

Adjective meaning resembling

Thug's threats

Extortions through blackmail

Extortions

Shallow

Losing depth

Run-down urban area

Area with crude dwellings

Deprived area of very poor housing

Shareware

Petrel's cousin

Cropper takes Tyler for a seabird

Long-winged bird that skims the ocean

Shellwork

Shewbread

Shipowner

Some contain treasure

Such as 5 down lost 9 down

Hatteras occurrences

Skilled craftsman (wordplay)

A worker who knows his craft (wordplay)

Craftsman cracking whip's not mistaken

American word for a woman's blouse

Place for a mannequin

It shows what's in store for outsiders

Where things are shown to advantage

Shoreward

Shortwave

SHOWBIZ show business

Showboat

Showbread

Displaying, exhibiting

Who's mess jacket for exhibition (wordplay)

Highlighting

Perforated part of a bathroom fitting

Certain water dispenser

Bathtub fixture

Rainless; freo from showers.

Showpiece

Theatres (wordplay)

Properties on display

Group of apes

Clever business sense

Yankee trait.

SHREWISH ill-tempered

Went door to door (wordplay)

Struck a glancing blow

Hits, as a car.

Hits with a glancing blow

Glancing bows

See title (wordplay)

Rattlesnake or missile

Rattlesnake - air-to-air missile

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.

Skewness

Ones who get high at work (wordplay)

Heavenly broadcasters.

Message from heaven (wordplay)

Messages created by planes

Vapour trail messages

Skywrite

Is out and about (wordplay)

Emulates Lady Macbeth

Somnambulates.

Slowness

Sluiceway

""A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.""

Smartweed

Snakeweed

Yellow-flowered North American plant of the daisy family

Got out of hand

Got out of control

Expanded rapidly.

Successor to the shovel.

Winter road machine

Blizzard cleanup machine

Alternatives to skis

Snowbush

Like some tall mountains

Like a white peak

Tired about absence of throne, like some in high places (wordplay)

Deposits frozen in banks

Winter storm occurrences ... and a hint to the theme of this puzzle

Currently meaning to board ship, they pile up after a heavy fall

Snowfield

Breakfast cereal for skiers (wordplay)

They come down to Earth

2001 Toni Braxton Christmas album

Snowmaker

Activity involving cannons on hills

Vehicle with skilike runners

Vehicle with runners

Sleigh for today's grandma

Snowplow

Snowscape

Snowshoer

Snowslide

Winter effects (wordplay)

Small present wife returns, about to end in acrimonious, bitter blows

In an undetermined place, in dialect

She's decomposed (wordplay)

Porter, perhaps, bending strong wire

Producer of music/lyrics

How this entry appears in the grid

Southwest

Sowbelly

Certain tethered strolls

Spadework

Spearwort

Plants make water to live on board

Hurry to small city to see flowering plants

Intricate designs in nature

""An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus. Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.""

A drop in the ocean

Flight ending for some

Certain Apollo landing

Small fern once used medicinally

Small fern that grows in rosettes on rocks and walls

English word

Strip for action!

Tracksuit perhaps fits uphill runner

Exhibits flower with spikes, say

Sprawly

""Young, usually soft wood that lies directly beneath the bark and develops in early spring.""

Squawroot

Shafts for flights

They handle flights and landings

Certain compartments in buildings

In a steadfast way

Resolutely.

Stalworth

Plant of primrose family

Bloomer in the primrose family

Factory where fishwife feeds birds

Their 1950 production was highest in history.

Birds eat fish, and worms initially, in industrial site

Severe ward sister's first to the rear

To back the result of a martinet matron (wordplay)

Back demanding youngsters taken into custody

Woman waiting up (wordplay)

Air line employe.

She provides flying courses

Steward

Stickweed

Stickwork

Plants with foul smells

Stinkwood

Wild plant with small white flowers

Two chits - right? - required for the plant

Herb as son, little chap with endless merit

Takes the fifth, perhaps

Blocks or stalls intentionally

Fends off the press for example

Stoneware

Hangout for some chiselers

Green algae.

Darryl's choice (wordplay)

Fruit for Darryl (wordplay)

Fruit for Darryl?

Is setter, we fancy, wily (wordplay)

Well adapted to urban life

Smart in a worldly sense

Strewment

Some wall finishes

Superhero who flips out (wordplay)

Bonsai gardener's other job (wordplay)

She's a daredevil in movies

Some action film employees

NETWORK to form a structure like a net

Subwriter

Wood that is produced during the latter part of the growing season and is harder and less porous than springwood.

Drinks now mixed in sections

Drifters, down under

Symbols of happiness, to Van Gogh

Repeated bloomers by Van Gogh

Van Gogh still-life series

Country militarily supreme

U.S.S.R. or U.S.A.

The United States, for example

Supershow

English word

Superwave

Plural or third person singular

Extremely able female

Alter ego of Kristin Wells

Gifted female.

""A woman who performs all the duties typically associated with several different full-time roles, such as wage earner, graduate student, mother, and wife.""

Swaggerer

Devil-MAY-care

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

Walking arrogantly

Swallower

To chant about glory is believing

Consent to hang about drinking

Gulping down

A. A seasonally flooded bottomland with more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog.

Everglades, for example

Wet tracts

First to see exotic palm wands in marshes

""SWANKIE one who shows off, also SWANKER, SWANKEY, SWANKPOT""

Swannery

Swansdown

Swarajist

Wearing sweatshirt that's most black

Darkest-complexioned and least confident, having blemish

""Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; said of horses and other animals.""

Outgrowths of a barked shin

They often fly out during an explosion

Don overwhelmed by weapons and oaths

Athlete's headpieces

Poor working conditions

Quality or state of being sweaty.

S&P stock for gym rats (wordplay)

Bottom of a gym (wordplay)

Part of a gym rat's outfit

Wears t-this loosely? Exactly!

Track cover-up (wordplay)

Long-sleeved top worn by athletes

Factories with low pay

Cheap factories

Tough workplaces

Sweepback

Wholesale or singly stocking pipe

One by one is full of blubber without exception

Sugar-loaf (wordplay)

Pancreas (as food)

Baked thymus (wordplay)

Wild rose also called eglantine

Virginia women's college

Eglantine - fragrant rose

Mild cheese right from the plant

Rose with pink flowers

French press packets (wordplay)

Aids in closing deals

Sugar and others

Adding sugar to

Give voice about small number adding sugar

Make less painful in Government by sugar-coating

E, my love (wordplay)

Wee darling (wordplay)

Favourite soft centre (wordplay)

SWEETISH somewhat sweet

Sugar-covered nuts, bonbons, etc.

A choice of courses or delicacies

Candy and the like

Sweetshop

Swellhead

Sing mass being imprisoned, very hot

Carol holds mixed-up mass for baking

Carol carries jumble and gets direly hot

Sweltry

Swimmeret

Doing so well in water

With great ease

How Mark Spitz gets along

Workers handling pigs

Pig tenders

Swinepox

SWINGING the practise of swapping sex partners

SWIRLING swirl

SWISHING the act of swishing

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

*Sinuous mountain road

Up and down (rail) ride

Return to the original winding track

Trick like Rickrolling

Oreo (wordplay)

Unexpected reversal, in slang

Power-station area

Swither

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

SWOONING the act of swooning

See Sweepstake. Sweepstake.

Swordplay