2-Letter Words Ending in R

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

One who prescribes.

Princely

One who proclaims.

One producing young

Progenitor

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

One who speaks for another.

Spelling bee official

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

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

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

He's disclaimed (wordplay)

One with a miner role (wordplay)

49er, for example

Yes to farm aid!

Like John Deere (wordplay)

Angling gear (wordplay)

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

20km Summer Olympian

One who tries to keep a step ahead (wordplay)

One who recognizes; a recognizor.

Marriage counselor, at times

Don't do it!

Nice orders ( anag.)

Think it over (wordplay)

Find the ruddy lid again

Learn about in a new way

You'll find the lid's crimson once more

""REINFORCE See Re\'89nforce, v. t. Re\'89nforce, v. t.""

REMINISCE

Hostile contest

PACKAGER one that {packages=v}

Judge, at times

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

Library frequenter, perhaps

Her career's damaged by investigator

Her career's ruined as analyst

SURFACER one that {surfaces=v}

One who regards with reverence.

""1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a small penguin, Eudyptes crestatus , of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and New Zealand, with a yellow crest on each side of its head""

Funambulist

Equilibrist

Acrobat

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

RUSTICATE To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.

One who sacrifices.

Small table dish

Diner's sprinkler

Part of a table setting

""One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit.""

Schmalzy

Scrabbly

Scraggly

Scratchy

Screechy

""SCRIMMAGE Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.""

Scroungy

Cross-examiner (wordplay)

Someone who checks electoral votes

Current head of English is new examiner

Fortune teller's lollipop (wordplay)

Someone looking a fool at the draper's

Cloth that's small for top of beer mug

Picture on a big-city postcard, perhaps

High-rise building (wordplay)

*Chicago's Sears Tower, for one

SOCIALIZE To render social.

Risky market trader, ponderous type

Second embezzler is better

Adirondack ski center.

Of or pertaining to a spiracle.

Splotchy

Squelchy

STENCIL to produce by means of a perforated sheet of material

STOCKPILE

Unlikely rich setter will be giving more

More flexible

More flexible cat tries to scratch outside

Section of a body of laws

CLUSTER to form into groups

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

Underwriter (wordplay)

One with lots of Time on his hands (wordplay)

Contributor returned puzzle, including small copy

Take away the queen by computer (wordplay)

Succinct

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

Axe handle (wordplay)

Man on the air.

Newsman, for example.

Like an octopus's limbs

Like an octopus's arms

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

First-rate fellow.

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

Buyer or seller.

One who does business.

He carries through negotiations.

The South-East

Converter of physical quantity to electric signal

(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 ]

""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.""

Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

Uncommon

Hush-hush when in bed (wordplay)

Kind of agent.

Carried out in secret

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

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.""

""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.

Cheat

Licensed purveyor of spirits

One justifies V-sign

An instrument used to measure viscosity. Also called viscosimeter .

A vivisectionist.

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

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

Invalid's transport

Transport for the handicapped

It helps the handicapped get around

Oil man of sorts.

One in search of oil

Oil prospector

Saw Victoria about to speak (wordplay)

One felling trees

Paul Bunyan, for example

Boring thing to hear (wordplay)

Club member getting birdie (wordplay)

Woody, e.g

Wretched

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 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

Expectant one.

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

One who values

""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.""

""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

Metal detector user, maybe

Shore patroller (wordplay)

One with a metal detector

Substitute player: Slang.

Seldom-used substitute

*Sub in the dugout

""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!

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

CBS, for one

Radio/TV provider

Radio or TV journalist

Of or pertaining to a bronchiole.

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

Cheerful

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

Same as Chronologist. Chronologist.

Metal casing on timer? No, I'm timer

Instrument measuring time

Watch to find the enemy's position

One who performs circumcision.

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.""

Codevelop

Percolator, machine for making hot drinks

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

""An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.""

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 compromises.

Financial official's title

(Generally) financial officer

New York office held by Fillmore when he was elected U.S. vice president

""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.""

Eg, prommer

One in stalls possibly put Queen on to sure thing in African republic

Banker entering African country: I'm doubtful he likes live music

One who mediates

One acting as mediator

Hair improver

Hair application

Salon item

One who confiscates.

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

One who hypothesizes

He goes to galleries.

Knowledgeable art-lover

Expert judge of taste

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

""That which constricts, draws together, or contracts.""

David Alfred Bywaters, as to this crossword

Builder

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.

One sending in articles for publication

One writing for, eg, magazine

Donor, giver

Person who prepares deeds for transference of property

Harmonizer.

Inflected form of PROCESSOR Inflected form of PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Copublish

REPRESSOR

""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.