Cryptic crossword abbreviations

Setters swap words for short letter groups all the time. A word in the clue might contribute only one or two letters to the answer.

Word in the clue	Can mean
about	C, CA, RE
account	AC
ace	A, I
afternoon	PM
against	V, VS, CON
age	ERA, EON, AEON
agent	SPY, REP
american	A, AM, US
and	N
anger	IRE
answer	A, ANS
article	A, AN, THE
artillery	RA
artist	RA
bachelor	B, BA
ball	O
bishop	B, RR
black	B
book	B, VOL, TOME
born	B, NEE
bowled	B
boy	SON, LAD
british	B, BR
carbon	C
castle	R, ROOK
cat	TOM, PUSS
caught	C, CT
century	C, TON
church	CH, CE
circle	O, RING
city	EC
clubs	C
cold	C
commanding officer	CO
communist	RED
company	CO, CIE, FIRM
conservative	C, CON, TORY
copper	CU, D, P
couple	PAIR, DUO
daughter	D
day	D
dead	D, LATE
degree	D, BA, MA
diamonds	D, ICE, ROCKS
direction	N, S, E, W
doctor	DR, MO, MB, GP, MD, DOC
duck	O
duke	D
east	E
editor	ED
egg	O
eight	VIII
energy	E
engineers	RE
english	E, ENG
european	E
fashionable	IN
fellow	F
female	F
fifty	L
fine	F, OK
five	V
five hundred	D
following	F
force	F
former	EX
four	IV
french	F, FR
frequency	F
friend	PAL, ALLY, MATE, CHUM
gallery	TATE
gentleman	GENT, SIR
german	G, GER
girl	GAL, MISS
gold	AU, OR
good	G, PI
graduate	BA, MA
gram	G
grand	G, K
hard	H
heroin	H, HORSE
hospital	H
hot	H
hotel	H
hour	H, HR
hundred	C, TON
husband	H
hydrogen	H
i am	IM
iron	FE
island	I, IS, ISLE
italian	I, IT
kilo	K
king	K, R, REX
kiss	X
knight	K, N, SIR
lake	L
large	L
latin	L, LAT
learner	L
left	L
liberal	L, LIB
line	L
litre	L
love	O, NIL
maiden	M
male	M, HE
man	HE
married	M, WED
master	M, MA
medium	M
member	MP, LEG, ARM
metre	M
mile	M
minute	M, MIN, MO
monsieur	M
month	M, MO
mother	MA, MUM, DAM
motorway	M, MI
name	N
navy	RN
new	N
nine	IX
north	N
note	A, B, C, D, E, F, G, DO, RE, MI, FA, SO, SOH, LA, TI, TE
nothing	O, NIL
number	N, NO
officer	CO, OC, LT, GEN
old	O, EX
one	I, A, AN, ACE
ordinary	O
ordinary seaman	OS
oxygen	O
page	P
parking	P
party	DO
penny	P, D
piano	P
pole	N, S
politician	MP, POL
pound	L, LB, QUID
power	P
priest	ELI, FR
prince	P
queen	Q, R, ER
question	Q, QU
quiet	P, SH
railway	RY, RLY, BR
record	EP, LP
religious education	RE
resistance	R
right	R, RT
river	R
road	RD
rook	R
round	O
run	R
sailor	AB, TAR, SALT, OS, JACK
saint	S, ST
second	S, SEC, MO
seven	VII
ship	SS
silver	AG
six	VI
small	S
society	S
soldier	GI, PARA
soldiers	OR, RE, TA, MEN
son	S
south	S
spades	S
street	ST
student	L
sun	S
supporter	FAN, BRA
tea	CHA, CHAR
team	SIDE, XI
ten	X
the french	LE, LA, LES
the german	DER, DIE, DAS
the italian	IL
the spanish	EL, LA, LOS
thousand	K, M
time	T
tin	SN
ton	T, C
two	II
universal	U
university	U, UNI
unknown	X, Y, Z
upper-class	U
very	V
victory	V
volume	V, VOL
vote	X
west	W
wicket	W
wife	W
with	W
woman	W
worker	ANT, BEE, HAND
yard	Y, YD
year	Y, YR
zero	O, NIL