2-Letter Words Ending in R

Jack-of-all-trades at times, perhaps

Fixer who betrayed King Edward twice

Person using an iron on metal

More like Alka-Seltzer (wordplay)

Not as likely to waste time

At a faster rate.

One that {spindles=v}

Display of grandeur

Magnificent show.

Grand display

Butter knife, e.g

Butter knife, for example

Eastern Canadian prov.

6 down note introduced to band (Queen)

Square one is in under 'blue'

Blue is smoother, without question

More reliable diets are free

More regular or constant

Diets are becoming more balanced

More old-fashioned

Bulkier soldier in Dorset running amok

More heavy-set.

Closer to impassive

Old rites analysed as less exciting

Less emotional

Cable-making machine

Not so bright

More inane

Less intelligent

Stronger, more solidly built

Not as fragile

Better put together

""A governor of a subah, also SUBADAR, SUBEDAR""

Thing taken at a deli (wordplay)

It's bigger than family

Taxonomic category above family

One that {subsides=v}

One that {sunders=v}

Expert with a racket

One looking for a mark

Pro who cons

More tastelessly showy

Tired war becoming more tasteless

More gaudy

Not so hard

One who offers

He makes an offer more loving and gentle

Sewing kit device.

Needle-woman's need.

Sewing kit device

Shoe with a nonskid sole

Brand of boat shoe

Sailor's sneaker

Escamillo, for one.

Bull artist (wordplay)

Bullish fellow (wordplay)

More fervent or more impassioned

More scorching

Early Christian informer

One who tells lies (about another)

He denounces dealer holding copper back

'Slanderer, defamer (8)'

Hidden way out, maybe

Opening in the theater, maybe

Theatrical opening (wordplay)

Pedal pusher

More fashionable and up to date

More stylish, up-to-the-minute

More in vogue

Cricket bowler.

Politico with his mouth open

One who prates

More outdoorsy, as fashion

One who is busy with trifles.

Thumb rotator

A rain gauge.

Rain gauge

Beaver.s coat layer

One who {unfolds=v}

More pitiless

More horrible German children after French one

More cruel , but perhaps not quite as cruel as Brutus' dagger blow

Stevedore, for one

Person discharging freight

Dump truck, at times

Disunite

More of a mess

More of a slob

More cluttered

One that {unwinds=v}

Champion to successfully defend position in Peru, perhaps

I provide maintenance for previous winner that doesn't start

Champion - the one who has the trophy having lost lead

Chevrolet mini-SUV model

Network of pipes and cables carrying water and electricity in permafrost regions

Royal forest official

Back about the revolutionary cleric turned woodworker

""An officer in charge of the royal forests in England, also VERDERER""

A blue or green pigment

Odysseus, for one

Errand we entrust to one who roams

Errand we run for rover

A doer of good deeds

User of artful persuasion

Apple-polisher

Cajoling coaxer

Wicked

Wieldy

Thoughtful soul (wordplay)

Thoughtful soul

Wooden

More like a forest

Off-peak caller

Singer using falsetto

He may give you an off-peak call

""A tax collector in India, also ZEMINDAR""

Native landlord of Bengal.

Deserter

Deserter.

Edward VIII in 1936

He's giving up

King Edward VIII, for example

Person on the run

Band score rewritten for The Fugitive

Fugitive running Bond's race

""A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.""

One on a podium, perhaps

Speech-maker

Business machine.

Who later rued straying (wordplay)

Durer tale (anagram)

One's business affairs (wordplay)

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Author of stepquote (first name)

A great Greek ruler (wordplay)

Any of three Russian emperors

Stealthy (wordplay)

Like some hard-to-detect missiles

One who applauds.

Loss of civil rights.

Loss of all civil rights, in law

Get the German punishment for treason

A foreigner.

More inept

Less comfortable as a Mon-Sun prison officer

Singer makes a buck perhaps after party

Allan-a-Dale, for one

One putting a tale in the air (wordplay)

Soldier's over-the-shoulder belt

Ammunition belt

Cartridge belt.

Lad in robe fixed with special belt

Shoulder belt for carrying bullets

Shoulder belt for cartridges

Courtroom judge (wordplay)

Jailer's other job (wordplay)

Gym assistant (wordplay)

Blessed

Fleet, at times

One making stupid mistake

Incompetent conservative Republican houses rejected Communist name

Bungler.

Incarcerate Bambi (wordplay)

*Latvian colonel's superior

British military rank

David Bell, for example.

One who coerces animal to sleep by river

Farm animal, sleepy type in tractor

Beast that's 13 is a pushy one

Innocent one (wordplay)

Onlooker (often innocent)

One in the crowd

One offering curbside pickup (wordplay)

Hailstone ring wearer (wordplay)

A meter reader

Videographer's buy

Portable video taker

Portable audio-video device

Childly

Assistant to a diocesan bishop

Jobs at Apple, say

Rank below captain in the Navy

Captain's subordinate

One in authority

One who commends or praises.

A kind of steward or agent.

One who concludes.

Judge, at times

CONDEMN to judge unfavourably

Part of a radio.

Another name for a capacitor

Study more compact radio part

Moonlighting electrician (wordplay)

*Score keeper (wordplay)

Tour director (wordplay)

Prison guard (wordplay)

One fighting others (for something)

No red cent (anagram)

Herb no good for dog and its owner!

An aromatic seed; carried on (anagram)

Spice-rack item

Crooked

A strainer. See Colander. Colander.

Purplish bloom

Boiler maintenance apparatus

""One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.""

DECAL a design made to be transferred

Metric length

393.70 inches, metric

32 feet, 9 inches

About 3.38 fluid ounces

DECIME an old French coin

Speech-maker got back, having switched ends

Orator

Tradesman handing out medals (wordplay)

Authority on interiors.

Hiree after a move

""One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.""

Type of Conrad's seamen.

Serious trouble, so to speak

Area of danger

Lienee, at times

One who fails to pay

He hasn't paid his bills

Shield in "Star Trek"

Furnace device

One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.

Ice-melting device

Rear window grid

Ridder of ice

DEGAUSS to demagnetize

Cleaning material, for example Gunk

Engine treatment

An apparatus used to remove ions from a solution; a common variant contains a mixture of cation exchange resin in the acid form and anion exchange resin in the hydroxyl form inside a replaceable cartridge; ions in aqueous solution are exchanged for the elements of water by passing the solution through the mixed resin.

Same as Decaliter. Decaliter.

Same as Decameter. Decameter.

LEGATOR one that {legates=v}

One who gives pleasure

Tag at the beginning or end of computer data

Paperboy, for one

One with redeeming qualities (wordplay)

One with redeeming qualities?

Energy low inside gloomy carriage

Unusually enamoured by one's appearance

Manner of behaving towards others

One making a public accusation

One condemns squalid quarters used by wild cat, right (wordplay)

Saver made half the penniless sit inside

Bank account holder

One putting money into a bank account

Doctor's instrument

Muscle of a certain kind.

Instrument for the tongue

Short-barrelled American pistol

Short-barreled pistol.

Making a mistake in the German gun

Line below the main part of type.

Orpheus, in search of Eurydice

Lowercase-letter part

Writer interrupting the German reporter

Ravager

Volunteers misplace gun without retreating. One's devastated!

Hopeless one.

Sherman at Atlanta

Thief.

Thief

The Caine, for one

Noaj for one

Does Terry turn killer (wordplay)

One in three-D version: King Stephen, say

Do not tear off to get a primer!

Fuse, for example

Set off with this

Brooklyn trailer hauler (wordplay)

One who is critical

One disparages or belittles

One with lots to talk about

Photo lab chemical

Real estate speculator

WATERER one that {waters=v}

""DIGITIZE to put into digital form, also DIGITISE""

Said paper has to go (wordplay)

Sink from sight

Vanish from view

One who disburses money.

Bridge player, at times.

Rummy player, often

""One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong. as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.""

Breaker of secret recording failure

One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.

One who disgraces.

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

Dirty washing-up liquid (wordplay)

What might be filled with Joy (wordplay)

Weak or soiled liquid

Divide up (organisation)

Gee, Peel might make ground this way!

Tear limb from limb

Rebel

Paper-cup container for vending machines

Little girl meets poet in the chemist

It delivers if I press end roughly

Scattering agent - rips reeds (anagram)

Sorry state of ruin (wordplay)

Duke is to retire in ruin

Dilapidated state is hell to put right

Troublemaker.

Be rude about 'Arry, chap with scalpel

""SEISOR one that takes seizing, also SEIZOR""

One not agreeing

One who differs among residents

Sen. Morse's GOP status.

""One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.""

One who seeks to deter

Complaint affecting setter (wordplay)

Confounding me, striped paint!

Fido's upset the paint!

Hiram Walker, for one

Spirited producer (wordplay)

His spirits make a woman more sedate

Twist dancer (wordplay)

Fisheye lens, for example

One who misrepresents.

""One who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler.""

Person who takes pointers from others (wordplay)

Alpha male, for example

With "the," nickname of NHL goalie Hacek

America's mightiest bomber.

DONNE a given piece of data

Pessimist is more so, with day going wrong

During exit, May's wrangling with European alarmist

Device measuring absorbed radiation

Radiation detection device

New G. I. "dog tag" warning of radiation

Doughty

Stock market irritant (wordplay)

He steers, taking hold, towards the sea

From source to mouth

Admit into golf club closer to the sea

Drizzly

Drouthy

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Dealer in kippered herring, etc. Eng.

Was it his business not to get soaked, but just pickled (wordplay)

""An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.""

Paper jacket for a book

Removable part of a book

Jacket on a book

My trade: in explosive

Demolition expert

Trade in my model for one of those with an explosive edge

Electrical machine with two armature windings

Embellish (with needlework?)

Do decorative needlework

Ornament with needlework.

Try to finish always as you might say

How trying this is!

Do one's best around Eve Cook (wordplay)

ESCALADE to scale by means of a ladder

Dispatcher

Facilitator

One facilitating export almost died at sea

One dispatches journalist supporting one-time president

Former boxer (wordplay)

Show sedated one giving details

Old money about to be taken up to interpreter

""FLUIDIZE to make fluid, also FLUIDIFY, FLUIDISE""

One who forbids.

One who forebodes.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

More ready for a screw (wordplay)

Shipping agent

Ron Popeil, for example

One with the latest gizmos

One who loves clever ingenious devices

Heard logs (anagram) - fuel store

Tank, relatively ancient - support for cut (wordplay)

Plant of the mint family

A blooming Teutonic ruddy turn-up

Herb, continental turned a bright colour

Prizefighter of sorts.

Spartacus, for one

Gold tiara (anagram)

Gladsome

Type of fever

Of the endocrine system

Sort of fever gradually spreading May 3rd/June 3rd

GLISSADE to perform a gliding dance step

Mafioso as sponsor (wordplay)

Mafia boss (wordplay)

Religious duty for the Mafia

Character in "Cinderella."

Member of the christening.

She carries a wand in "Cinderella"