2-Letter Words Starting with W

Wasterie

Wasteway

(Of TV programme) moderately enjoyable

Observe Aerosmith (wordplay)

Jewelry item

Timepiece attachment

Monitor assignment for a detective providing timely protection (wordplay)

Providing protection for valuable item? It's what gallery attendants do

Home security units that eat

They bark when strangers enter the house

Protectors of public interest

Watcheye

Watchout

Maxim of the spectator (wordplay)

Guard what one says - a good maxim

Signal to take care with message

Waterage

Furniture for floatation sleep

Liquid assets of a sort

People use them only when they're full

Such as a duck or swan

Duck, for example

Crane, e.g

*Antelope stem a flood

Drink ready for American antelope

*Antelope: stem a flood

Waterdog

Bridal Veil, for one.

The ebbing tide (wordplay)

Drop of liquid (wordplay)

Aquatic game birds

Duck this when it sounds unfit to drink

Swimming birds

Most diluted

Wettest

Drainage ditches

A plant, or a tree, with flaw growing wild

Needing irrigation.

Arid

Bank limit (wordplay)

Mark in paper gets excited by winter ale

Plimsoll mark.

Completely saturates

Saturates.

Crushing defeats

Decisive defeats

Routs

Grade in swimming class (wordplay)

Feature of expensive paper

Paper manufacturer's identification

The Great Divide is one

TV transition saw three-D broadcast

Event marking a turning point

Planning a rest in extensive riverbank

That could be a bank

Abnormal tides wear the river bank

Rivers and canals

Canals, rivers etc

Canals and creeks

See Anacharis. Anacharis.

Having been smoothed, as a stone in a riverbed

English word

Watthour

It shows you the power

Electrical room device

Electric gauge

Waucht

Waught

Waxplant

Weakly

Get richer working with real energy

More well-off

In a higher bracket.

In a wealthy manner; richly.

Worn by wind

Survived a storm

Successfully endured exposure

""Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship. as, a weatherly ship.""

Good time to retire early (wordplay)

Sir Shorty (wordplay)

Tiny paladin (or Monday evening)

Weensy

Weighter

More meaningful

Not lightly cunning about 8

Heavily hanging around, by the sound of it

Sounds as if one ate, hanging heavily around in the wing

Not, by the sound of it, a lady in this and not making light of it

Weldment

WELFARE general well-being

Wellsite

Wallowing

Like Sol after sunrise

Like NYC-to-New Jersey traffic

Wester

With the setting sun

49ers' headings

Wetness

What about Icke's broadcast? Most odd

Inuit's transport

The Pequod in "Moby Dick," for example

Harpooner's vessel

Whatsis

Do little birds get a grain of sound (wordplay)

Wheezy

Whelky

Quaint conjunction

For what purpose

Position accompanied by what (wordplay)

By means of which

It gives an edge to the news broadcast

He sent two bucks for sharpener

Agent for getting an edge on

Whinchat

Whinny

""A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of darkcolored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. for example, to masses of chert. Whindikes, and whinsills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt. Whindikes, and whinsills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.""

Whippy

The rod or handle to which the lash of a whip is fastened.

Whiptail

Whirly

Whisht

Refs, at times

Wolf's action (wordplay)

Game fish blowing the gaff

Making music through pursed lips

Bread used for catching fish (wordplay)

Young of herrings

Fish pasty temptation

Headwear for Vanna (wordplay)

Wind-whipped waves

Sign of rough seas

Clown's cover-up

Lake Placid's impressive mountain.

Hereford

Cod, whiting, etc

Plaice or cod etc.

Angler's catch in the Great Lakes

Hoary mathematician (wordplay)

Dermatologist's concern

Colson whose 2019 "The Nickel Boys" is based on a true horror story

Certain shoe polishes

Toothpaste additives

Toothpaste ingredients

Quality of new-fallen snow

New thesis about anaemic look

Innocence.

Claim for many a toothpaste

Whiteout

Deer feature, perhaps

Virginia deer.

Tire on the road

Tire type with two-tone sidewall

Well, I thaw out tire

Milk bath (wordplay)

Betty's laundry (wordplay)

A very clean sweep (wordplay)

Part of a dove (wordplay)

""The soft and easilyworked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc. Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.""

Whitrack

Rural wood workers

Whittle

Whittret

Some mystery stories

Detective stories

Christie creations

Quite possibly the butler (wordplay)

Mystery rogue I hunt down

Mystery perplexed Hindu town

WHOLIST a believer of holism

Sweet kid unfortunately catching cold most foul

Describes the man downstairs reporting what has been taken at Lord's set dance

Describes someone down below to Desmond taken in by what's found at 3 down

Tuesday about one I set off, which is most easy to manage

Wifely

Wiggly

""A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals (troostite) containing manganese.""

An exceedingly strong gust of wind.

Windburn

Haboob, for one

Turns to marines during rough weather

Weather feature encircles male on peak

Unkempt having suffered blow (wordplay)

Exposed orchestra members cried

Bleak and exposed

English word

Most likely to turn heads and secure certain empty seat

Some seasonal Florida residents

Writer in residence's last novel is more gloomy

Wing around Ireland after tea to escape the cold

Add chains, snow tires, etc.

Prepare for bad weather

Prepare for colder days

Coldest.

AP shot, say

A.P. transmission

Wisely

Caribbean celebrity, ace surrounded by island plants

Flowering vines

Trees recently associated with Helen Hayes

WISTFUL longing

Most like a hag

Witching

Adjective meaning resembling

WITCH to {bewitch=v}

Discontinued; shunning social contact

More than just reserved

Wingers under Sir Alf Ramsey

Bows out, as from a tournament

It sounds as if a tall boy always is when he leaves your presence

Gets money out of 6 across, assisted by grass up there

Witherer

Dying to be thin, I grew monstrously

In the company of Ireland - gee, it's dying!

In the company of Ireland, Gee, it has a drought!

""Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray sixsided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.""

Keeps (from)

Keeps back what 17 downs are

Takes out taxes, etc.

Bear displayed on a pedestal (wordplay)

Using empty shed to trap brown bear

Resist having to get up

Braved this awful time in the forest

Bore up.

Bore

WITLESS lacking intelligence

Saw that the West End is sinful

Saw comic on loch with journalist

Legally attested

Sees sense maybe, within reason

They're in a box

They may be called in court

Clever remark

Sparkling remark

One with judgment getting no credit over time

Banter from spectator either side of half-time

Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.

Wobbly

Woodchat

Carpenter's art (wordplay)

Skill that made the ships at Trafalgar

Turner's skill with work of Art Deco (not English)

Most awkward.

Woodnote

Woodsy

Pioneer's heater

Appliance certified by the EPA

Rustic warmer

Woolly

Crossword puzzle constructor, for one

Writer with flair

Writer in news given by forger

Workboat

Firm friends (wordplay)

Collaborators make worst bombs

Fellow employees

Graph of employment figures (wordplay)

Craftsman's item

One may be found in the garage

Wormroot

Anxiety

Worrit

Fretter, slangy style.

Pessimistic one

*Nervous Nellie

This tower to a new design is most noble

Best time to hurry when caught in crush (wordplay)

Contemptible ("King Henry VI, Part III")

Of no value

Having no value

Wrastle

Wrathy

Wreathe

They sometimes get pinned

Hulk Hogan and Triple H

Such men resist holding on

Struggling to earn a living (wordplay)

Sport with a welcoming mat (wordplay)

Girls went mad performing in The Ring

Watch site (wordplay)

Hospital gown go-with

Hospital patient's wear

Wristy

Wristlet

Wrestler's ploy

Wrestling hold

""Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orangeyellow to red, gray, or brown color; also called yellow lead ore. yellow lead ore.""

Heights in BrontO novel

Book by Emily Bronte

YN. Sounds foul!

Suburb of Detroit

American breed of domestic fowl

English word

Wadsett

Wagonette

Wainscot

Expert in the carriage trade (wordplay)

The hero whose nickname was "Skinny."

General at Bataan

Elastic settings

Tailor awaits cost for garments

Oxford vests

Vests

Tailor's measurements

Middle measures*

Latins wise to take care of vital statistics

Restaurant order-taker

Took orders, in a way

Servers with first-class locks

Hash house servers

They clean tables with excellent mops

Walkabout

Walkathon

That open-road feeling.

An urge to stray wasn't ruled out

Marco Polo had it

Moral looseness

Miss appearing before head for reckless behaviour

Wapentake

Warbonnet

Warrantee

Warranter

Battle over tirade that is the first to shatter bonds

Justifying fighting and yelling

In conflict

Justifying armed conflict, speaking in belligerent manner

Warrantor

Launderette

Laundromat

Washcloth

Launderette

Washstand

WASTEFUL tending to waste

Barren expanses

Deserts

Moors

Be a litterbug in stationery (wordplay)

Office trash resign (nonverbal)

Office or domestic bin

Manufacturing plant expulsion

Watchable

View a parade (wordplay)

Watchcase

Watchcry

WATCHFUL closely alert

Rolex, for example

Horologist to keep eye on manufacturer

He has time on his hands