2-Letter Words Ending in R

Venetian in a striped shirt, perhaps

Driver in pole position (wordplay)

Boatman from old region (wordplay)

Duck with orange? Sod off!

Muck on smoother bird

Male bird pecking duck, very large duck

A dividing engine.

Soldier - in red gear (anagram)

Infantryman - in red gear (anagram)

One in regiment collapsing near ridge

Explosive mixture (of tea?)

It's used in gunnery and fireworks

Explosive magazine article

Extinct duck-billed beast

Cyclist's mustache (wordplay)

Properly manage the pub or on your bike!

Kind of moustache (for a cyclist?)

More substantial, as a profit

Better formed.

Comelier

Describing a paperback's dearer relative

First printing, often

Paperback alternative

Star inside of a hat (wordplay)

Cast her in lead (wordplay)

Inside of a hat (wordplay)

Source of a river

Source of a stream

Beginning of a river~~Bed part

As covered by this contract

In accordance with this document...

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Ski show-off

Showoff on the slopes

Showoff

Sound a bell - for a knockout (wordplay)

Excellent person or thing (colloq)

Something really good

HUSBAND to be a thrifty manager

An idealist.

Describing muscular action evoked by an idea

A searcher; an explorer; an investigator.

Station information board

Economist's figure

Car's flashing light

Being kind, we'll erect a section for the occupier

Resident's home with Dickens's leader and servant

Base fellow (wordplay)

Man on a diamond.

Fired Neil for upsetting cricketer

INUNDATE to fill with overflowing abundance

Breadwinner

Sleeping goat (wordplay)

Ransom-note writer

Child sent to head as criminal

Possessor of real estate

Squire left one bad news

One with much property

Cleaner (of clothes, linen)

One cleaning up filthy habits

One cleans material turning round less

High living is not for him

Scot who touched down in the valley (wordplay)

Flat dweller

One who maunders.

T.M. adherent

One who thinks deeply

Reflective person

""MELODIZE to compose a melody, also MELODISE""

The - Marriage (Tippett)

Time of madness (wordplay)

Perhaps 24/06/2000 is seen here (wordplay)

Bleakest time of year (wordplay)

Very cold time, for many

Coldest time, often

GUIDER one that {guides=v}

Intentional deceiver

One wrongly advising niggard to hoard metal

Fooler.

To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.

Presiding officer of town meeting.

Panel-show host

One presides over a forum or debate

Radio tube.

Telecommunications device

Comparative adjective or agent noun

DANCER one that {dances=v}

DOCTOR to treat medically

DOLLAR a monetary unit of the U.S.A.

Rear-seat occupant

One with no wheels, still to be tested (wordplay)

Illiterate person

Should one engage with errand to attend literacy class (wordplay)

Person with a line (wordplay)

One working on lines

One might create a spread

Foreigner finding new land-route

'03 Mitsubishi mid-size SUV

Rule provides eponymous alien

Tread a measure (wordplay)

Tom peered (anagram)

Gadget for walkers.

Receptacle on a desk, perhaps

Calligrapher's need

One convincing; gun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Royal couple to flirt (wordplay)

Royal couple make love (wordplay)

Risk scandal, in a way

One who benefits from a sacking (wordplay)

At the place under the hospital he's fond of the sack

Not for the catwalk, our hairstyle

18th century women's hairstyle

Display a grim hairstyle? Hardly

Jeane Dixon, for one

Weather man's role.

Someone who foretells events

Like an aperitif

JUDGER one who {judges=v}

James Stuart, for one

Not a genuine claimant (wordplay)

Claimant (to a throne)

Not an amateur food seller (wordplay)

Dry food for beasts

Supplies spin round seller in US

""Of or performance to roots, or the root of a plant.""

Olajuwon, for example

Hoopster, at times

Correct a FedEx mistake

Once again serve raw meat injected with drug

Give back

Maker of amends.

Writing about some furniture restorer

He's put right concerning a theatre worker

About to connect the German answer

Quick, witty reply

Sharp or witty reply

Rest of book left behind (wordplay)

Book rest (wordplay)

It's left? Right!

""A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again.""

RESCIND to {annul=v}

One replying or reacting

Pen pal, at times

First one on the scene

Scoffing person.

Alternative to a plane (wordplay)

Abrasive sheet (DIY)

Wood-smoothing aid

Desert musician (wordplay)

Snipe's cousin

Small wading bird

One planning timetable

Wild cheers engulf mostly boring planner

Timetable honcho

Finch, for one

Practically any bird, for example

Bird feeder feeder

One playing to the balcony (wordplay)

Guitar player outside window

Wooer, perhaps

Shadowy

Footballer out of the game: Colloq.

Footballer out of the game Colloq.

Nonparticipant vessel

Owner of a bad tongue.

One who defames another

One's words may lead to action

Series about banker, not so fat

Thinner line in poster engineers put up (wordplay)

Less robust.

In the USA, farmer who works the soil

Plow, for example

Farmer who works the soil

Jensen, perhaps: a car for the fleet

Fast car (or driver)

'50s Porsche 356 roadster variant

Spidery

Built more like Ichabod Crane

Longer and thinner

More thin and frail

Odds on usurer heard to show richness

Show way to spend our pound inside

Half-hearted hostility and dismal dazzle

Squalid

Calgary rodeo rider, perhaps

Panicker of steers.

When Peter's mad he panics

Man on the fence.

Person on both sides of an issue

One on the fence

Deskman scattered doubters around Italy

One proof-reads writers' copy

Newspaper checker

One who comes later, archaically

Tramp (Australian) - drink (British)

Star needs relaxant - a timely drink

Drink that's the opposite of 5, on paper

Submit (to an opponent)

Abandon the resistance (wordplay)

Giving-up Presley song 1961

Buy-one-get-one-free item (wordplay)

He puts off getting a hanger (wordplay)

This hold up could bring up redness

Minor batsman kind to harbour trouble

Relative of a cellar dweller.

Last-place finisher

Thready

Epithet for Jupiter.

Epithet for Zeus.

The Times used to sound like lightning

Coastal region of Virginia

Moisture mainly brought in twice a day

The eastern part of Virginia.

""A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady.""

Twiddly

Invest in this, perhaps

Invest in this (wordplay)

Pants, perhaps, at bottom of river

Ungodly

Unhandy

Less prepared to find one immersed in a French textbook

Unsound

UPBRAID to reproach severely

Person on a quick vacation, maybe

Guest of a sort.

Bag for a short trip

""The kestrel; called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner. windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner.""

More sophisticated

As clue for 'rode', it's a bad 'un!

Red gown or shift for malefactor

Possible clue to 'erod being a sinner

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

One who admonishes.

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

David K. E. Bruce, for one

Bunker, for one.

One who's goodwill hunting (wordplay)

""AMBUSCADE A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.""

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

One who must face the music (wordplay)

Arm or rubber (wordplay)

Glenn or Mitch Miller

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

Shakespearean fan

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

One who uses blandishments.

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h

Winter Olympics competitor

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h.

Wave catcher

NCO arranged raid in Lancaster, maybe

Canadian snowmobile inventor

Crowd round pub ride off with soldier

Promise to take case, as tends to be fireproof in this country!

Union offers support to one that never gets burned in this place (wordplay)

Investor

He wraps leaves up (wordplay)

Printing-shop employe

Bird, one moving round capital

Popular cage-bird

Bird commonly kept as a pet

BULLDOG to wrestle and throw a steer

""Wood A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazelbrown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood. Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.""

CALENDER to smooth by pressing between rollers

Name on a Visa

Place to keep your 'plastic'

Place to keep your "plastic"

One who wants in on the deal

One holds hands during the game

World Series participant

Lighting up (wordplay)

Is it involving candle hire (wordplay)

The light fantastic (wordplay)

Hold copper (anagram)

Clumsy person (wearing heavy shoes?)

Ultralight balloon (wordplay)

One who helps call the shots

""DISCOVER to find out, also DISCOURE, DISCURE""

Take by force

Take by force.

Forcibly take mad McEnroe away

""One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines. as, a compounder of medicines.""

One who confounds.

PRODUCER one that {produces=v}

Keeps the paper united with impression of custodian

An editor who prepares text for publication.

Catholic sect keeps wagon for shoemaker

Old shoemaker in business with change in drawer

One wandering through school (wordplay)

Visionary, but not at night (wordplay)

Fantasizer, when the sun's up (wordplay)

DEADPAN to act without emotion

One who deciphers.

COMPOSER one who writes music

Embezzler.

Embezzler

See Deflourer. Deflourer.

Jungle warfare weapon

HYDRATOR one that {hydrates=v}

""One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.""

""One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns. as, a demolisher of towns.""

One who defames

Character assassin

It gets the funk out

""That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer. as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.""

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

Bicycle gear-changing mechanism

BICYCLE PART

""Computer Science A word, phrase, or alphanumeric character used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system.""

One who desecrates; a profaner.

Profaner

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

He nominates doctor, one Greats don

One who classifies or defines

One allocating tasks, for example

Something decisive to put off man in pit

Decision maker

One concluding check on underground worker

One who lays waste, for example

He lays waste

Destroyer turned back, having sunk vessel

""One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.""

Denial of responsibility

Medic rails about refusal to take responsibility

Refusal to admit detective worked miracles

One's out to make reductions

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.

Talent scout, perhaps

Marie Curie, for radium and polonium

U. S. satellite.

Discreet

ENDOWER one who {endows=v}

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity.

Soapstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Appliance used after dinner

Menial role of aerial nut and bolt ring (wordplay)

One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

One who blames or dispraises.

Phoney heartless Blair messed about

Nothing like this

Not like Iris, dismal when drunk

Contradictory girl I had rejected - naughty liar!

Wasteful father (wordplay)

Distinct

Same as Distrainor. Distrainor.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Longshoreman

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Tabby's friend (wordplay)

Tabby's friend?

Pound worker (wordplay)

Doggoned

One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.

Susan Butcher, notably

Mush! shouter

"Mush!" shouter

Doleful

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Guard of sorts

Reluctant car dealer (wordplay)

One on duty at building's entrance

DOWNHILL a downward slope

DOWNSTATE

DOWNTOWN the business district of a city

Letting in more air

Having more wind? Hardier gut possibly wanted!

King and I separately welcomed by child needing more protection from blows

Couturier or seamstress, perhaps

Fabric-cutting job

Jenny Wren was one.

Pigskin specialist of yore

Field goal attempter, once