2-Letter Words Ending in R

One carrying a coffin

One approaching a hearse

Principal lamenter may be seen as such

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

One who prescribes.

""One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.""

One who remembers.

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

One gaining an edge by deceit

Deceitful one

Gangs bred a mongrel as surprise attacker

Scrabbly

Successor to the shovel.

Winter road machine

Blizzard cleanup machine

SOFTBALL a type of ball

STABILIZE

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)

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.

He's unpopular in school.

Mole or Rat relate about carrying Pooh

Source of gossip

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.

Our bard out to reform lyrical poet

French medieval lyric poet

Strolling singer of the Middle Ages

Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

Linnaeus's opening sentence dissecting brown herbaceous plant

1 Ac. not prepared to give credit

Evangelist's target

Heretic

VERBALIZE To convert into a verb; to verbify.

Like some entrances

Creator of short sentences (wordplay)

Part of a jet engine increasing thrust

Pollution-control device

Jet power booster

Small room leading to a larger room

Lobby one college with sign of caution

Small entrance room

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

Exploiter of market differences

Exploiter of stock market differences

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

""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).""

Jean (wordplay)

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!

Big character (wordplay)

Popular film? Ban one about train robber

House wrecker's big brother

Clouds broke over Dracula, for one

Extortioner, one who sponges on another

Leech is one

See windsurfing .

Noah was one

He made a bluebird to perform for Sir Donald!

One doing serious physical exercise

One developing muscles through exercise

Mr. Olympia, e.g

Beer-and-whiskey cocktail

Whiskey with a beer chaser

Whiskey-beer combo

""BOONDOGGLE a braided cord made by hand by young scouts, used for various purposes, such as a hat cord or a key chain.""

""BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

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

Spanish athlete in a ring

Waver of a red cape

Suit of lights wearer

Breed of dog

Breed developed in England

English dog breed

Mayor in Germany, Austria, etc

Mayor, in Mainz

Mayor.

Oater villain who attacks from hiding

Western baddie

Oater ambusher

Butterfly

BUTTONHOLE The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

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

Charbroil

One sending in articles for publication

One writing for, eg, magazine

Donor, giver

Copublish

One who carries a Christian symbol

Religious procession VIP

One with severe doubts

Free from busmen drunk with cider

To fail to remember; to forget.

Car-engine part

Supplier of goods to retailers

Where to get discounts

Dumbfound

Decorator, for example

One who embroiders.

One who establishes.

Organ beneath the liver

It stores bile

Organ attached to the liver

Expert in see-through design (wordplay)

Chihuly, for one

Artisan with strong lungs

Ranunculaceous plant of the genus Trollius

""One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.""

Brimstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Dealer in sewing items etc

Shop frequented by dressmakers

Houseboat

""IMMOBILIZE To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.""

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

Sweet gum

""MASTURBATE To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.""

Microbrew

This puzzle's theme

Monkeyshines

One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.

Call to mind wrongly

Recall wrongly

Sailing eschewer

Comparative adjective or agent noun

BELIEVER one who {believes=v}

""OBLITERATE To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.""

Tester of a person's conduct

One on trial in post

Offender on conditional release

""EMBROIDER To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf. as, to embroider a scarf.""

Refurbish

One who republishes.

Paper tool (wordplay)

Surface-cleaning tool

High-pressure abrasive tool

Constructor of forty nine down perhaps

One using only a half pipe (wordplay)

One flipping out on slopes (wordplay)

Half-pipe performer

SNOWMOBILE

Labor Day orator, perhaps

A dynamic speaker, for example

Big hit on the lecture circuit

Relative by marriage

Relative to walk with hassle round river

Upset Herbert's top relative

Wholesale plant grower or cattleman?

Dealer with bulls and bears.

Cher (wordplay)

Former finance worker

CAPSULAR enclosed and compact

CELLULAR pertaining to a cell

DIRECTOR one that {directs=v}

To supply; to afford.

Superbomb

Waves rider

Wave rider

SURREBUT to reply to a rebutter

Idol worshiper (wordplay)

Bubblegum fan (wordplay)

Idol worshipper (wordplay)

Columbia picture (wordplay)

Outstanding acolyte in love (wordplay)

Champion who opens Olympics (wordplay)

Hiker's sports jacket (wordplay)

Daniel Boone, for one

Daniel Boone was one

Attendant in ceremonial procession

Following page in the marriage service

Bride or queen's assistant

""One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.""

Rely on comic Keaton (wordplay)

Teddy Roosevelt sobriquet

Theodore Roosevelt's moniker

BIDDER one who {bids=v}

SCRAMBLER One who scrambles; one who climbs on all fours.

Saxophonist's jacket (wordplay)

Chilly-weather wear

Sailor's jacket

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Background

""A sensory nerve ending that is stimulated by changes in pressure, especially one in the walls of blood vessels such as the carotid sinus.""

English word

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; sometimes called simply clabber. clabber.

Member of the smart set.

Man-about-town in Paris

Brainstorm

A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

Type of ranch hand

Tamer of wild horses

Cowboy, at times

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

Corrupt Northerner of 1865.

Scalawag's confederate

Non-local candidate

Fast food - begs cure here (anagram)

Lunch-counter specialty.

Fast food product

One working jointly

Fellow worker

Cream perhaps no longer in favour of Australian novelist

Conversationalist

""CORROBORATE To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.""

""He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.""

Back-to-back baseball games

July 4th tradition.

Marathon at Camden Yards

Same as Incumbrancer. Incumbrancer.

""EQUILIBRATE To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.""

University student in demonstration before the queen

One speaking at length to block legislation

An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.

Harquebusie

Fickle lover having courage to wave

One who causes overwhelming distress

Narrow defeat, for example

Demolition worker who shows criminal intent

Burglar

""Pl. infundibula (-l ) Any of various funnel-shaped bodily passages, openings, structures, or parts, especially: a. The stalk of the pituitary gland.""

""Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein. as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.""

""Any of the proteinaceous cylindrical hollow structures that are distributed throughout the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells, providing structural support and assisting in cellular locomotion and transport.""

""Any of various fishes, especially of the genera Haplochromis and Tilapia, that carry their eggs and young in the mouth.""

English word

Hot spot regular

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

""One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder.""

""RHABDOME a rodlike structure in the retinula, also RHABDOM""

Traffic-accident gawker

One gawking at traffic

Motoring menace

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

The breeding and raising of livestock.

ORBICULAR Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.

""SUBORDINATE Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.""

Errol Flynn kind of role

Dare-devil takes second to clean shield

One given to derring-do

""Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.""

Blazer of a pioneer

"Blazer" of a pioneer

Someone putting a do together (wordplay)

Deliberate causer of problems

Inciter of unrest

""Water an instrument for measuring the turbidity of water or other fluids. ; turbidimetric ,""

Device giving engine extra efficiency

Mechanism increasing an engine's power - brought racer (anagram)

Modifying racer brought extra speed with this (wordplay)

Certain scholarly person

Academic press worker

Compiler of a list of books on a particular subject or by a single author

The study of the geographic distribution of organisms.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

See Brailler .

BREASTSTROKE

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis [from Greek kampulos bent + bacter ( ium )]

Medical device for stabilising the heart

Device applying current to the chest or heart

Electronic device for restoring normal heart rhythm

Doublespeak

""Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; opposed to cellular. cellular.""

Innovative type

BEHAVIOR conduct

OBSERVER one that {observes=v}

East Coast hoopster

Senator Bradley, once

Sen. Bradley was one

Phil Niekro, for one

PSYCHOBABBLE