2-Letter Words Ending in R

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}

Take away the queen by computer (wordplay)

Recap writer, for example

Recap giver

Celestial; heavenly

One who supplants.

Wild rose also called eglantine

Virginia women's college

Jazz addict.

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

Recorder of speed? Move me to the car!

Teacher Tom (anagram)

Device for measuring speed

He's unpopular in school.

Mole or Rat relate about carrying Pooh

Source of gossip

Tease

One in charge of jobs (usually hard)

Imposer of hard work

Slave-driver teacher after a job

Fashion authority (see letters 3-6)

Fashion arbiter

Fashion VIP

Moving-picture (wordplay)

Picture of sorrow (wordplay)

Moving picture (wordplay)

Golfer figuring his score?

Sober C.P.A. golfer (wordplay)

One who passes the bar (wordplay)

Axe handle (wordplay)

Man on the air.

Newsman, for example.

Like an octopus's limbs

Like an octopus's arms

He finishes off James Cameron character

Traitor involved with men becomes killer

Iron matter turned into cyborg

Ballsy experiment by hospital ward: remove Mr. Gable's extremities

Four-footed form of vehicle to wobble about

One has four feet, is encountered in wild retreat

Move unsteadily around vehicle in a sort of line

From then 'e comes into it in the roof

From then on

From that time on

Menacing character

Third game, perhaps

Sound of Asian wave? It's decisive

This may decide a Seles match

One riding a coaster

Of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabecul\'91; composed of trabecul\'91.

""One of the fine branching tubes of the trachea of an insect, which penetrates the tissues to provide oxygen.""

Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place.

Dealer in illegal goods

Tranquil

Buyer or seller.

One who does business.

He carries through negotiations.

The South-East

Converter of physical quantity to electric signal

One who parts with property legally strikes fans with terror

Tiny power device.

Part of a pocket radio.

Mighty electronic midget.

U.N. employee

U.N. employe.

United Nations employee

Crossing the Arctic Circle

One has no right to be on land

Guard dog's quarry

One found guilty on the wrong grounds

Like some sails

Like sides of pyramids

Shape of a lateen sail.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) of or relating to a binocular microscope having a lens for photographic recording while direct visual observation is taking place [from tri- + ( bi ) nocular ]

""TRITURATE To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.""

""One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter. great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.""

Our bard out to reform lyrical poet

French medieval lyric poet

Strolling singer of the Middle Ages

Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

""TYRANNIZE To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices. as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.""

One managing stiff ceremonies (wordplay)

One doing for the done for (wordplay)

One working on a plot

In a cabin, say

Where to find Neptune (wordplay)

Sin, King, down there!

Fun novel about airmail novel

Foreign or strange

Strange, regularly funny friend

Win following one up North - both sides admitting that is more awkward

""Having one cell or cavity only; as, a unilocular capsule or shell. as, a unilocular capsule or shell.""

Building under a site is more rickety

One taking off, maybe

One away (wordplay)

One enjoying a respite

Syringe user

VACILLATE To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.

""Pl. valleculae (-l ) A shallow groove, depression, or furrow, as between the hemispheres of the brain.""

""One who, or that which, vanquishes.""

""VARIEGATE To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors.""

""An instrument for comparing magnetic forces, esp. in the earth's magnetic field.""

Fan of sickness benefit (wordplay)

Contrivance bringing fresh air

Device to help breathing

VERBALIZE To convert into a verb; to verbify.

""Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic. as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic.""

Language of the man in the street

One's mother tongue.

Ordinary, everyday language

Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.

Like some entrances

Licensed purveyor of spirits

One justifies V-sign

One who visualizes or is proficient in visualization;

""One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.""

""VULGARIZE To make vulgar, or common.""

A wage earner.

Cousin of a shrinking violet (wordplay)

She can't find a blooming partner!

Shy plant (wordplay)

""WAREHOUSE A storehouse for wares, or goods.""

Be a litterbug in stationery (wordplay)

Office trash resign (nonverbal)

Office or domestic bin

Manufacturing plant expulsion

Rolex, for example

Horologist to keep eye on manufacturer

He has time on his hands

Viewing that's a draw for Barbican

Sentinel's perch

Guard's post

Medium used by Whistler.

Medium for Cezanne

Artist's medium

Type of energy

Energy of a kind

T.V.A. largess

Sporting dog from Germany.

German hunting dog

Sporting dog from Germany

""A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.""

Save the row (anagram)

At all others, wave frantically

We harvest nothing organic at all

Invalid's transport

Transport for the handicapped

It helps the handicapped get around

Trader cheers in the Pequod perhaps

Ahab hooking fishy sole trader

Supplier to the trade

Oil man of sorts.

One in search of oil

Oil prospector

Large sailing vessel

Large merchant sailing-ship

A large merchant sailing ship

One who draws metal into wire.

One who bugs others (wordplay)

Person of intelligence (wordplay)

Expert on bugs

Power in terms of the women available to a particular group or required for a particular task.

A dweller in a woodland.

Railroad supervisor

Railroad boss

Top British policeman looks after those setting things in train perhaps

Terry eyes a revolution in the past

Not too long ago

Days gone by

Creator of short sentences (wordplay)

Part of an auto.

Driver's foot pedal

Cycling race, clear to pedal

Bet; large battery cell

Battery - type of bet

Electric cell; bet

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

He has decisive qualities

Settler of disagreement

Arbitrator

One who adulterates or corrupts.

Part of a jet engine increasing thrust

Pollution-control device

Jet power booster

""One who aggrandizes, or makes great.""

""An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.""

""One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.""

""One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.""

One who ameliorates.

""One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. as, a fire annihilator.""

""One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.""

Small room leading to a larger room

Lobby one college with sign of caution

Small entrance room

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

Expectant one.

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

POPULAR something pleasing

Antitrust

One who values

Exploiter of market differences

Exploiter of stock market differences

Trader offers designer's latest little piece with passion in a very old city

""One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

ASSIMILATE To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

""Any of various rod-shaped, nonpathogenic, nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the genus Azotobacter, found in soil and water.""

MP without office

Rank and file MP

MP not holding office

Straw, to a camel (wordplay)

The last straw

Extremely strenuous task

SCATTER to disperse in all directions

Effusively friendly person

Cousin of a hail-fellow-well-met.

Hail-fellow-well-met.

False friend (Medical)

Treacherous person posing as a friend

Poor choice for a friend

*Airline for Lucille (wordplay)

Boat for fullbacks (wordplay)

Grange for one

Many an early aviator.

Many an early aviator

Itinerant actor.

Metal detector user, maybe

Shore patroller (wordplay)

One with a metal detector

Substitute player: Slang.

Seldom-used substitute

*Sub in the dugout

Excessive adherence to a literal interpretation of the Bible.

""Pertaining to, involving, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).""

Pacific slave ship

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Blacklist

Perry Mason's prey.

Criminal with dirt on someone

So the unions would ban Norman? That's criminal!

See windsurfing .

Noah was one

He made a bluebird to perform for Sir Donald!

Beer-and-whiskey cocktail

Whiskey with a beer chaser

Whiskey-beer combo

It may call for lateral thinking

Puzzle requiring thought

New artisan beer is a puzzle

Genius spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Cult leader, in a way

Person who supports a family

Family's main earner

Source of family funds

Breakfast

CBS, for one

Radio/TV provider

Radio or TV journalist

Of or pertaining to a bronchiole.

Broomball

Mayor in Germany, Austria, etc

Mayor, in Mainz

Mayor.

Oater villain who attacks from hiding

Western baddie

Oater ambusher

Heat measuring device

Heat-measuring device

Apparatus to measure quantity of heat

One who calumniates.

""Pl. canaliculi (-l ) A small canal or duct in the body, such as the minute channels in compact bone.""

Measure of light emitted

CP, to a physicist

Measure of luminosity

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

CARBURET to combine chemically with carbon

Part of car engine

Part of internal combustion engine

Car's petrol/air-mixing device

Amusing person, not so sweet as a cheat

He often makes money from crooked deals

Cheater at the gaming table

Cartwheel

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Larva with a pet in it (wordplay)

A future monarch (wordplay)

Provide post for leaf dweller

Variety of cabbage

It has an Orange Bouquet variety

It has a big head

""CENTRALIZE To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.""

CHANSON a {song=n}

Rooster in medieval tales.

Proper name for a bird.

Archetypal name for a rooster

Charbroil

Split personality (wordplay)

During the game, she's no reserve!

Root for the frontrunner (wordplay)

Palm reader

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Sweet maker/seller

Specialist confectioner

Sweet maker

Man of music.

Church music leader

Lifter of voices

Revolving about or surrounding the moon.

""About the pole; applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars. as, circumpolar stars.""

Percolator, machine for making hot drinks

""GENERATOR One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.""

Sports match reporter

One who reports on sports event

Broadcaster describing sports events

""One who, or that which, compensates; a name applied to various mechanical devices.""

""One who bears testimony or swears to the veracity or innocence of another. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.""

One who mediates

One acting as mediator

One who confiscates.

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.

One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.

Member of a cabal.

Planner in secret

Person who secretly plots with others

CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

""One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer.""

One who contravenes.

Person who prepares deeds for transference of property

Harmonizer.

""Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.""

Shrub in bed with a single flower

Garden shrub related to the hawthorn

Seen in the garden bed, a single flower

Crapshoot

Like twilight

Of twilight.

A contemptible or vicious critic.

One who carries a Christian symbol

Religious procession VIP

Like letters in SOS and COUSCOUS

ACTIVATOR any agency bringing about activation; (Biol.) a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription.

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

Brake

Cloth cap (for a hunter?)

Voice of Bambi (wordplay)

Sherlock Holmes accessory

""An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.""

""The study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.""

MORALIZER One who moralizes.

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

""A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.""

Disparager

Salt remover