2-Letter Words Starting with S

Spleeny

Odds on usurer heard to show richness

Show way to spend our pound inside

Half-hearted hostility and dismal dazzle

Splurgy

1989's word: Plunderer

Sprawly

Spriggy

A spaniel without one is more resilient

More elastic

More likely to bounce back, more like May might you say (wordplay)

Device for lawn owners.

Device for watering

"Let-us-spray" device

One who explodes vocally

Bridge player at club showing hesitation to one who speaks incoherently

Messy part (anagram) - M (wordplay)

Bond's M, perhaps

George Smiley, for one

Squabby

Bickering pigeon (wordplay)

One having spats

Bickering pigeon?

Squalid

Squally

Squashy

Squatty

More in need of oil

Certain retort

Squiffy

Squinny

Squinty

Squirmy

Squishy

Surprising statement: Colloq

Surprising statement Colloq.

Person with a speech problem

Speaker with a stutter

He hems and haws

Calgary rodeo rider, perhaps

Panicker of steers.

When Peter's mad he panics

More rigid

More stiff and formal - like collar (wordplay)

Galileo, for one

Galileo, for one.

Copernicus, for one

More pompous part of 7's workshop

More statuesque

More magnificent

Radio DJ's other job (wordplay)

Paper pusher (wordplay)

Pencil pusher (wordplay)

Firmer cane hurts badly

Firmer.

Jurassic Park resident (wordplay)

Ex-herbivore with bony plates

Large, extinct herbivore

Stenchy

Sign maker, perhaps

Person of letters (wordplay)

Many a street artist

Strong drink - starch (wordplay)

Fortifying alcoholic drink (slang)

Starch, as a laundry agent

Former article of dress

Decoration worn to marches

Decorative panel on front of gown or bodice

Man on the fence.

Person on both sides of an issue

One on the fence

Someone falling behind

Sailor absent for 73 hours

Sheep separated from the flock.

Tree or fig

Nickname of wrestler Lewis.

1960s Boston killer

Not as clean

More variable.

Less consistent

Streamy

Desire transport (wordplay)

Desire, for one

Vehicle for Mason's gal (wordplay)

Support for the NHS (wordplay)

Lie here if injured by brick (wordplay)

It carries the wounded

Less voluminous, as hair

More argumentative

More bad tempered and argumentative (colloq.)

With pressure involved, running Tories' PR gets more difficult to handle

One who struggles.

Stubbly

One with a speech defect

Speech therapy candidate

Defective talker

Underground room.

CENTER to place at the middle point

CHASER one that {chases=v}

Deskman scattered doubters around Italy

One proof-reads writers' copy

Newspaper checker

SECTOR to divide into sections

SUBSOIL to plow the layer of earth below the surface

Underminer of principles

WRITER one who {writes=v}

One who comes later, archaically

Hit men - one coming after you!

Follower (in post)

Eisenhower to Truman.

One who suggests.

Summery

SUMMIT to take part in a summit conference

Tehran bus broken down on the beach

Burns with heat, if silly, as this

Person lying falsifed heat burns

Tramp (Australian) - drink (British)

Star needs relaxant - a timely drink

Drink that's the opposite of 5, on paper

Star bloomer (wordplay)

Symbol of Kansas

Symbol of Kansas.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

What the champ may become

Exalted rank of Rooney, for instance

*The Carpenters vs. Lupe Fiasco

A muscle which produces the motion of supination.

May help to keep the team up!

Fan of champion (wordplay)

A fan of drink (beer)

One who surfeits.

Giver of a certain party

Submit (to an opponent)

Abandon the resistance (wordplay)

Giving-up Presley song 1961

Buy-one-get-one-free item (wordplay)

He puts off getting a hanger (wordplay)

This hold up could bring up redness

SUSPENSE a state of mental uncertainty or excitement

A suspensory.

Unsponsored radio program

One supporting and backing American composer

""One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow.""

Performer with a sword

Darker of complexion

Second husband's outwardly more blemished, darker

Bribe a substitute (wordplay)

Aspartame, for one

Dash of sugar (wordplay)

Sweltry

One who sacrifices.

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

SAILPLANE

Tailed amphibian related to the newt

Lizard-like amphibian

Mythical fire lizard

Small table dish

Diner's sprinkler

Part of a table setting

Condiment holder on the table (2 words)

It's turned upside down when used

Half a dinner table duo

""One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit.""

One gaining an edge by deceit

Deceitful one

Gangs bred a mongrel as surprise attacker

Kid who plays neighborhood baseball

That which saponifies; any reagent used to cause saponification.

Schmalzy

Scrabbly

Scraggly

Scratchy

Screechy

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

Scroungy

Cross-examiner (wordplay)

Someone who checks electoral votes

Current head of English is new examiner

Fortune teller's lollipop (wordplay)

Someone looking a fool at the draper's

Cloth that's small for top of beer mug

Note house tremble

Sixteenth note

Musical note

An agent that sensitizes.

He exhorts

A relay apparatus;

Impresser of seamen

Petrel's cousin

Cropper takes Tyler for a seabird

Long-winged bird that skims the ocean

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A man in control of his craft (wordplay)

One i/c vessel - tramp is she, perhaps (wordplay)

Skipper

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""SHMALTZ excessive sentimentality, also SCHMALTZ, SCHMALZ""

E.g. newsagent

Irish operator is such a person in trade

Little Nell's Grandfather, for example

Robber holding up store (wordplay)

One needing a fence (wordplay)

Criminal (in a retail context)

SHOTGUN to shoot with a type of gun

See title (wordplay)

Rattlesnake or missile

Rattlesnake - air-to-air missile

SIMPLE to gather medicinal plants

""SKEDADDLE To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.""

Light infantry member

Skittery

Picture on a big-city postcard, perhaps

High-rise building (wordplay)

*Chicago's Sears Tower, for one

Slippery

Slovenly

Snippety

Successor to the shovel.

Winter road machine

Blizzard cleanup machine

SOCIALIZE To render social.

SOFTBALL a type of ball

She's decomposed (wordplay)

Porter, perhaps, bending strong wire

Producer of music/lyrics

One who sees the future

One who warned Caesar

Expert on the future

Risky market trader, ponderous type

Second embezzler is better

Adirondack ski center.

Of or pertaining to a spiracle.

One discovers how much inspiration there has been

Splendid

Splotchy

One who splutters.

Strip for action!

Tracksuit perhaps fits uphill runner

Exhibits flower with spikes, say

One who squanders.

Squelchy

More wavy and twisting

Squooshy

STABILIZE

Plant of primrose family

Bloomer in the primrose family

Less likely to be caught

The realist contrived to be more secretive

→ sidérurgiste m steel mill

STENCIL to produce by means of a perforated sheet of material

Faux pa (wordplay)

Onassis to Caroline Kennedy

Mother's new husband

Domestic climbing aid

Decorator's platform

Ceiling painter's need

Non-blood relation

A relation by marriage

Stereotypically wicked member of 3

Fairy tale meanie

Fairy tale meany

One of Cinderella's taunters

""One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for sterilizing equipment or an organic fluid.""

Time in training device may be encouraging man

Maker of terms or conditions.

STOCKPILE

Straggly

This grater works better!

Mad Hatter's rig is more respectable

Second rat reported and more in order

Unlikely rich setter will be giving more

More flexible

More flexible cat tries to scratch outside

*Sign of a typing mistake

Sloppy typing correction

Typing correction

Section of a body of laws

CLUSTER to form into groups

DIVIDER one that {divides=v}

One who subjugates; a conqueror.

Deputy grabbed by Tuareg, an ambush backfired

Member of the U.S.N.

Member of the navy

One's business is taking a dive

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

Underwriter (wordplay)

One with lots of Time on his hands (wordplay)

Contributor returned puzzle, including small copy

""SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

Take away the queen by computer (wordplay)

Succinct

Recap writer, for example

Recap giver

SUPERLIE to lie above

Celestial; heavenly

A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.

Country militarily supreme

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

The United States, for example

Excellent material for furniture

Terrific sun blocker (wordplay)

One over you, perhaps

Headwear for a building chief (wordplay)

One who supplants.

Ignition-related radio-noise reducer

Eat iron and gold; it will stop interference

Wild rose also called eglantine

Virginia women's college

Eglantine - fragrant rose

Mild cheese right from the plant

Rose with pink flowers

One who symbolizes.

Jazz addict.

""SYNDICATE The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.""

Crook who doesn't need the combination

Thief of a sort

Fingernail filer, among criminals

A salimeter.

Paper tool (wordplay)

Surface-cleaning tool

High-pressure abrasive tool

An alarming person

One spreading worrying rumours

Spreader of frightening rumours

Shmaltzy

An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.

Ball-game official

Summer (wordplay)

Game official

Tonto's equestrian role (wordplay)

Irregular must escort a troop leader

Organiser of a 5 of boys

Cocktail (vodka and 4 down juice)

Carpenter's libation (wordplay)

Carpenter's favorite drink (wordplay)

One who scrutinizes.

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

Device recording our planet's movements

Measurer of earthquakes

Earthquake detector

POPULAR something pleasing

It only moves when towed

Vintage Tonka toy

Cab attachment

Serigraph

Eric, give some to us!

One with a stake in a company

Ploughman as investor

Job for one in a pasture

He keeps his bucks in a fold

""Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.""

Constructor of forty nine down perhaps

Almost any Merman number.

Big Broadway number

Kind of act or song.

SIDESTEP to step to one side