9-Letter Words

""ARMOR to dress with defensive covering, also ARMOUR""

Makers of weapons, in Britain.

They were once responsible for the mail

The house that Rosemary Sutcliff built

Troops will impound our weapons

Stores of weapons

Armour

Crop-killing caterpillars

Crop-threatening caterpillars

Aroint

Sweet-smelling things

Fragrant plants

Spices

Impart fragrance to

Aroynt

Part of a warm-up

Broken chords

Some notes coming up are provided for exercises

Got a charge out of (wordplay)

Charged at the bench

Charged, in court.

Adapters of music.

VIP's in music.

Musical adaptation specialists

Putting in order.

Putting into order

Putting in order

State of indebtedness

Something held in reserve.

Bookkeeping category.

English word

People hauled in

They're charged

Rioters that wake in the slammer

Stoppers for 6s (wordplay)

They make collars

Cops, at times

Unusual police function

Nicking a ring when the others go inside

Lovely job of a police officer

Seizers.

A striver, I fancy (wordplay)

Ambitious and self-seeking person

Ambitious self-seeker

A grocer with an outrageous conceit

Too much pride in exotic orange car

An "offspring of riches," to Twain

Appropriated without right.

Helped oneself to

Appropriated without warrant

Claims without right

Takes upon one's self.

Assumes presumptuously.

The point of a quarrel (wordplay)

What's the point of a quarrel (wordplay)

Game sticker (wordplay)

Missile base or plant

Starch-yielding plant

Take a bow to such starch underground

Tree once associated with bow wielders

Disputes either way accep-ted by member that's spine-less and transparent

Certain salts or esters.

Poisonous compounds

Clean air's unlikely to be poisonous

Like some poisoning

In charge in club, liable to prove poisonous

Poisonous chemical compounds.

Compounds run in when in seed cultivation

Of a certain poison.

Nears confusion over promises to pay may make it poisonous

Arsenite

Lighting specialists (wordplay)

Illegal heaters (wordplay)

Ones with incendiary ideas

Relics, to Brits

Best cafe trattoria boxing up handmade products

Aromatic plant related to wormwood

Genus of herbaceous perennial plants

Bitter tasting plant

Highways

Small blood vessel

Very small blood vessel

Blood vessel connected to a capillary

Inflammation irritates badly

Doctor treats iris mostly for inflammation

With inflamed joints

Suffering from stiff joints

In need of joint relief

Inflammation of joints

Disease of joints

Common elderly affliction

Centipede, e.g

Animal with a segmented body

Crab or spider

Pl. arthroses (-s z) An articulation or a joint between bones.

Articulation.

After 'Jerusalem' maybe choir take break

Plant with a heart (wordplay)

Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps

Article

Pertaining to the joints

Pertaining to joints

Relating to a joint

Ruins things (wordplay)

Objects made by humans

Products of primitive man.

Mechanic in the armed forces

A terrific oily mechanic

A terrific construction worker

Clever tricks

The tricks of painting, if they're so cold

Strategems

Weapons in Welsh town, be gone!

Carney's cannons (wordplay)

Large guns for use on land

Like some cheese

Made by traditional methods

In a naive way

In a crude way

In an unsophisticated manner

Aruspex

""Ladleshaped; applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.""

Arythmia

Smelly gum resin from the Orient.

Ascaris

Get-upping (wordplay)

Rising man penetrating a series of clues

Where the Star was in

Tending upward (var.)

Get up over the ant on the up and up

Rising; predominant

More than half of adulthood (wordplay)

Mountain climbers, for example

Ones on the way up

Is counsel at last up to it (wordplay)

Up with a dying counsel!

Is counsel finishing up (wordplay)

The Easter Rising (wordplay)

Canonises, being on the way up

Island of St. Helena.

""Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.""

Establish (the facts)

'Find out to assure me, perhaps (9)'

Find assure out (wordplay)

Like the lifestyle of many a monk

Rigorously abstinent

Austere.

Ascidian

""A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.""

Ascocarp

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

ASCORBATE

One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.] Illust. of Ascus.]

Attributing (to) - giving credit (to)

Crediting (to)

Putting it down to one as it's in writing

Vote dividing European Union in a journey that's without intimacy in partnership

With a feeling of guilt

By way of being sheepish

No pride in it this way

Ashlar

Ashler

Ashplant

Idiotically fighting, I slay nine

In a stupid way

Like a moron

Is it in any way absurd (wordplay)

Foolishness as of donkey

As it has no limit, no end of folly

ASKEW awry

Spear on a fork (wordplay)

It has tips for good dining.

Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable

What NutraSweet is a brand of

After a dispute, subdue with sweetener

It's sweet to take me to a Greek city

ASPARTATE

ASPECT to look at

Made rough by way of an Edward

Asperate

Asperser

Asperse

It's slander, like the old Iranian said

It's cast in a derogatory manner

This may be cast like one in one

Aspersor

Snake stopped on the surface of the road

Like many driveways

It stopped the serpent when the road was covered.

""Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous.""

""Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.""

Do L shapes make lilies (wordplay)

Lily family members

Lily flowers

Asphyxia

Asphyxy

Partisans of those with high ambitions

Ambitious people

Hopefuls, wannabees

Aspirata

Containing the sound of "h."

Pronounced the letter "h"

Unlike the H in H-hour

They're pronouncedly like sea crooks

They're pronouncedly like criminals

Pronounces an initial H

Medical device removing fluid

Suction pump.

Suction pump

Assagai

Goon at work

Attacker using wild Alsatians

Hit man, for example

Pack on the attack

Sick donkey (wordplay)

Silly to get sick as you're on a yacht

Like being on the sea if it's storming

Professional offers (wordplay)

They'll make a killing

Lee Harvey Oswald and others

Pickled in a violent way (wordplay)

A pickled sound is 19 down

Came to blows with a seasoned sound

One making violent attack (on another person)

Attacker.

Assegai

Gathered together in one place

Gathered to make male's beds

Came together or put together

Constructor, of a sort

Person piecing something together

Code-converting computer program

Gathers together in a group

See lambs going round in flocks together

Meets bewildered males with Bess

Ones going along

They agree

Seems they're agreeable the way the fool rushes in

Yes man's daily activity

Yes, it's a sniffy-sounding matter

Saying yes

Yea sayers

Those who concur

Asserter

Sticking up for (oneself)

Claiming to sting and sear this

Claiming it's made of sea string

How silly to start to make such a claim!

Senator is about to make a statement

Claim first son has trouble in store

A lock up? I have to be forceful

Bold and confident

Far from reticent.

Trees in a sort of people making a claim

Rating, for taxation say

Finding how much 17 down becomes vocal

Mokes making music

Taxing individuals (wordplay)

Local tax authorities

Often-reviled tax professionals

""Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.""

Showing great care and perseverance

Marked by care and persistent effort

Hard-working

In France, note how revolutionary they were

Delegation targets

Appointed persons

They are recipients when Genesis is revised

Assigner

Like giving your name to it (wordplay)

Like giving your autograph away

Giving out by way of giving your autograph

Assignor

Malamud novel (with "The")

Golf club apprentice (wordplay)

Help worker to find a mate (wordplay)

They help as nuns

Helpful ones

Acting as right hand

Helpful to the fool if I cause him pain

The silly one I give pain to with help

Assistor

Hang out (with)

Not yet a principal

Rub shoulders of teammate

Assoil

Resemblance of sound (in nearby words)

Can season (anagram)

Resemblance of sound

Assonant

Ones engaged in separation

They classify

Selectors

Classifying.

Alleviating, allaying

Alleviating, appeasing

Bringing relief to, as a guilty conscience

Soothing

Like some obligations

Like some mortgages

By way of assumption.

""A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied.""

Confidence (in abilities)

Uses car with an awful confidence

Freedom from doubt.

Without a doubt

Without a doubt.

With confidence

Rising

Asswage

Astatine

Record-book marks, maybe

"M*A*S*H" stars (wordplay)

Stars of "M*A*S*H" (wordplay)

Star clusters

Classic Atari game

Small planets orbiting the sun

Space Invaders alternative

Asthenia

Asthenic

Astheny

Of a respiratory disease

German cathedral city

That's enough to make short of 27 down

Astigmia

Astony

Amazed by odd aunts round about the east

Shocked when a good man's 'arrassed

Amazed at the date, by the sound of it

With a leg on either side of (something)

Riding, in a way

On the fence.

Beads for starlets (wordplay)

Convex moldings.

Small circular mouldings, on round columns,say

Hark Satan (anagram)

Hark, Santa is in Russian wool

Fur - city on Volga

Astrict

Astringe

Astringe

Star-shaped glial cell

Spot for celestial navigation

Stadium for almost 68,000

Park that opened in April 1965

A sort able to produce old instrument

Sextant's predecessor

Predecessor of the sextant.

Dixon line (wordplay)

How stars can make a fortune, perhaps

A house study (wordplay)

A nut roast served for one on rocket

One making use of space (wordplay)

One making good use of space (wordplay)

Celestial sphere (wordplay)

Roman toys (anagram)

Tory moans (anagram)

Imbalance between two sides

Feature of much modern architecture

Difference between two sides

Line near a hyperbola

Almost a sign to note near tangent

Line that a curve infinitely approaches

Pl. asynapses (-s z) The failure of homologous chromosomes to pair during meiosis.

Pl. asynapses (-s z) The failure of homologous chromosomes to pair during meiosis.

Of a sentence in which conjunctions are omitted

I came, I saw, I conquered, for example

Atamasco

Of or relating to a drug or other agent that has a tranquilizing effect.

Ataraxia

Ataraxic

Ataraxy

Resembling remote ancestors

Reverting to something ancient

Involving reversion to an earlier type

A secretary, vocal, unaffected by time

Without regard for time

Timeless ruins at Palermo

Rejecting higher authority (wordplay)

Eschewing a higher calling (wordplay)

Not believing the man is in Greek mode

Atheling

Club menu the AA had changed (wordplay)

Inclusive book on wheels (wordplay)

Articles on a menu arranged by club

Reading rooms

Atheroma

Sports - cheat list (anagram)

His cattle wandering off track, perhaps

Lithe acts (anagram)

English word

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer.

Atomiser

Atomise

Less than molecular

Composed of simple elements

A cat is twitching, completely broken down (wordplay)

Scent spreaders

Atomize

ATONAL lacking tonality

ATONAL lacking tonality

Quality of Bartok's music

Feature of the 1925 opera "Wozzeck"

Lack of a key center, in music