2-Letter Words Ending in R

DROUGHT a dry period

Figuratively, a publicity man.

A little lift for Manuel, maybe

High-rise convenience, perhaps

Inept eatery server (wordplay)

Business machine.

One who makes clear

He explains cryptic clue to arid characters

A creator? I'd set out to be different!

Rot and acid are sent back for one to exterminate

An instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases; so named because frequently used to determine the purity of the air.

Medicine-cabinet gadget

Liquid dispenser

Pipette kin

""A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope.""

One from the prairie

Prairie resident

Corps of Engineers concern

Cause of inundation

Bank threat

Case supporting idle property owner

One enjoying permanent tenure of a property

Someone with permanent and absolute tenure of land

Nonpaying party-goer Slang.

One who mooches

Sponge of a sort

More favorable.

More amicable

Drunk diner, one moving quickly around, becoming more affectionate (wordplay)

A great boaster; a blusterer.

Patrick Roy for one

Patrick Roy for one

Guidance counselor (wordplay)

HANDWORK manual labor

Headachy

Job for Edith and Kim (wordplay)

Lettuce-picker's other job (wordplay)

Executive searcher (wordplay)

Big fish in a school (wordplay)

Education wallah read them as ordered

Prep-school V.I.P.

Service chief (wordplay)

Restaurant employee, perhaps

He orders those who take orders

Amphibian in box by shelter

Large salamander

Confidence man

Native of north or west Scotland, a Gael

Scot's exam covering state of Germany

Classy boat for a mountain sailor (wordplay)

Con artist

Deceptive one

Heating system attachment.

Mister in the bedroom

One who hybridizes.

Health spa putting limit on rule for lab equipment

Radiator-coolant & battery-electrolyte tester

Hydroelectric power.

A person or thing that establishes the identity of someone or something

Indecent

One who intercedes; an intercessor; a mediator.

He makes acquaintances

Variety show emcee, for example

IRRADIATE To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.

Essential lodger, type who can type

Data-input pro

Noble dessert (wordplay)

Tirami su cake

Common item in a trifle's cake layer

One who takes the field (wordplay)

Man of property

One with a lot

Not a seafaring type!

Sea fearer (wordplay)

One with no experience of the sea

Moe (wordplay)

Job that involves cutting

He may make the earth move

Settler of an estate.

Property settler.

An aircraft crew member in charge of loading and unloading cargo or heavy weapons.

Kind of fern

Fern - girl getting shock

This goes on ahead of a girl in Ferns

Beijing resident, in Taipei

Californian, to a Hawaiian

Many a Hawaiian tourist

Lower jaw-related

Of the lower jaw

Relating to the jaw featured in bird manual

Central football player

World Cup player positioned halfway between the goals

Bush supports ascendant though unintelligent player

Astounding occurrence

Fantastic movie

Something astounding

""An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.""

One who modernizes.

Goby sometimes found on the beach

Goby that might be found on the beach

Damaging allegations by captain bringing fish

Coffeehouse employee (wordplay)

One making accusations

Campaigner of a sort

Urban streetcorner fixture

A man airing his intelligence (wordplay)

Snow? Unusually answered with hesitation

TV current affairs presenter

ADMIRER one who {admires=v}

BREEDER one who {breeds=v}

One avoiding spirits

Dry sort of northern 1 Euros note across the sea

Stays away from the locals as has no interest in 14 down

""The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined.""

Ordinary

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Strawberry, for one

Cricketer a long way off perhaps

DiMaggio was one

Freestone ring wearer (wordplay)

Chef, at times (wordplay)

Help ran, and upset cook (wordplay)

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

Royal Albert Hall regular

Walker - concert goer

Square dancer, at times

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

English word

Measurer of, eg, X-rays

Electromagnetic energy measurer

It measures intensity of radiant energy.

Switch hitter (wordplay)

Conductor, for example

Conductor, for example.

RANDOMIZE

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

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

One who repudiates.

Boxer's referee (wordplay)

Boss at the jewelry store (wordplay)

Sting target, maybe

Bird in bar holding a nose (wordplay)

Predigital beeper (wordplay)

Speedy bird travelled, say, over river (wordplay)

Funambulist

Equilibrist

Acrobat

Harsh jockey (wordplay)

Teddy Roosevelt, for one

Epithet for one of the Roosevelts.

Tailed amphibian related to the newt

Lizard-like amphibian

Mythical fire lizard

One gaining an edge by deceit

Deceitful one

Gangs bred a mongrel as surprise attacker

Kid who plays neighborhood baseball

See title (wordplay)

Rattlesnake or missile

Rattlesnake - air-to-air missile

""SKEDADDLE To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.""

Splendid

One who squanders.

Domestic climbing aid

Decorator's platform

Ceiling painter's need

DIVIDER one that {divides=v}

""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.""

A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.

Excellent material for furniture

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

Type of mallet

A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait. Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.

In accordance with the thing mentioned

The display involving uranium is beneath that

It's beneath that, shortly before interrupting the stormy noise

Comparative adjective or agent noun

The South-East

Converter of physical quantity to electric signal

Our bard out to reform lyrical poet

French medieval lyric poet

Strolling singer of the Middle Ages

Hush-hush when in bed (wordplay)

Kind of agent.

Carried out in secret

Rancher's driving problem (wordplay)

Automotive handling problem

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!

Unkindly

Building under a site is more rickety

Unwieldy

Market researcher on camera

Camera device.

One justifies V-sign

Oil man of sorts.

One in search of oil

Oil prospector

Raging river (wordplay)

River in a flash flood (wordplay)

Sign of spring

WILDFOWL a wild game bird

Quilt block with fourfold symmetry

The wood anemone

Anemone

Large sailing vessel

Large merchant sailing-ship

A large merchant sailing ship

One who draws metal into wire.

One who withholds.

Saw Victoria about to speak (wordplay)

One felling trees

Paul Bunyan, for example

A dweller in a woodland.

Boring thing to hear (wordplay)

Club member getting birdie (wordplay)

Woody, e.g

Golfer with good club control (wordplay)

Furniture maker, for example

Furniture maker, e.g

A writer or speaker who uses language pretentiously or carelessly.

Wretched

Railroad supervisor

Railroad boss

Top British policeman looks after those setting things in train perhaps

He has decisive qualities

Settler of disagreement

Arbitrator

One who adulterates or corrupts.

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

Pacific slave ship

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

""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.""

Person who supports a family

Family's main earner

Source of family funds

CBS, for one

Radio/TV provider

Radio or TV journalist

Measure of light emitted

CP, to a physicist

Measure of luminosity

Amusing person, not so sweet as a cheat

He often makes money from crooked deals

Cheater at the gaming table

Split personality (wordplay)

During the game, she's no reserve!

Root for the frontrunner (wordplay)

Codevelop

Hair improver

Hair application

Salon item

Harmonizer.

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

""Inflected form of COLORIZER Inflected form of COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

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.

NITRIFIER An agent employed in nitrification.

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

""An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.""

One who disapproves.

One with severe doubts

Punishment imposer

One who discourages.

Free from busmen drunk with cider

To fail to remember; to forget.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.

Car-engine part

Supplier of goods to retailers

Where to get discounts

Worker in the trenches (wordplay)

Employee with a pick and shovel

His work may take him underground

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

Ace in the hole business (wordplay)

Person who barks (wordplay)

Overseer of private practice

Dumbfound

Power-measuring instrument

Instrument for measuring force

Engine output measuring machine

One who embroiders.

Petty nagger

Nitpicker

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A machine used in making paper; so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

Organ beneath the liver

It stores bile

Organ attached to the liver

Rig vote in plant across railway

*Rearrange electoral districts

He seeks a political advantage

She may have a "relative" with a wand

Drew Barrymore to Steven Spielberg

Sponsored one, often

""A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.""

Napoleonic family name

An old-timer (wordplay)

Relative U clock

Clock or clause

Rose Kennedy to John Jr.

Rose Kennedy to John Jr.

Proverbially competent egg sucker

Moisture found in rocks or soil

Spring source

Aquifer contents

Brimstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Dealer in sewing items etc

Shop frequented by dressmakers

He shares drier, perhaps

Locksmith who must make cuts (wordplay)

One providing shock treatment (wordplay)

One who deals with books

Job involving prediction

Race-track habitue

""Clasping and squeezing of the hands, often in distress.""

Informal chiefly US to place in or establish as headquarters

Low-flying plane

Crop-dusting plane

Crop sprayer

Heroic operatic voice

Wagnerian male voice

Sirloin's section

Butcher's order, sometimes

Butcher's order

Back-to-the-land practitioner

Back-to-the-land movement practitioner

Settler type

Head of family.

Census taker's target

Resident champion follows the crowd

""A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor of water; in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc. pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomena of the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc.""

One who compensates (another) for harm or loss

Interdeal

""INTERDICT To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.""

Bully

""INVALIDATE To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument. as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.""

I can occupy the House for a term!

Person with property rights

One renting a property

Sweet gum

Part of hi-fi system

Part of a sound system

Sound projector

One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised.

""A device for reading materials in microform, such as microfilm and microfiche.""

Driving at a very high speed, perhaps

Minor crime

Ms. Behavior

Generous magazine subscriber (wordplay)

One with a special interest (wordplay)

Shylock, for example