2-Letter Words Ending in R

ATTENDER one who is attentive

Overspend

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Person in post before the current holder

One there before

Jobholder before the present one

Bottle examiner (wordplay)

He shouldn't leave any wrong impressions

One looking for trouble, in a way

A radioactive tracer.

""DECORATOR One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.""

Redevelop

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

Paper tool (wordplay)

Surface-cleaning tool

High-pressure abrasive tool

Cocktail (vodka and 4 down juice)

Carpenter's libation (wordplay)

Carpenter's favorite drink (wordplay)

Eric, give some to us!

One with a stake in a company

Ploughman as investor

Job for one in a pasture

He keeps his bucks in a fold

Constructor of forty nine down perhaps

SIDESTEP to step to one side

One who holds slaves.

Farmer who's short-handed (wordplay)

Minor farmer

Briefcase for an agriculturalist (wordplay)

One using only a half pipe (wordplay)

One flipping out on slopes (wordplay)

Half-pipe performer

Knockout blow: Slang

Knockout blow Slang.

Slang A conclusive blow or remark.

Travelling clock (wordplay)

Sonata instrument (wordplay)

It displays the going rate

Labor Day orator, perhaps

A dynamic speaker, for example

Big hit on the lecture circuit

""Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

One with an interest in (say) society

One with an interest (in something)

Part-owner, say

Tradesman may be a theatre-goer

Tolerate a sideshow barker (wordplay)

Opponent of change in policy.

Conservative Colloq

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

DIRECTOR one that {directs=v}

Waves rider

Wave rider

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

Noble champion (wordplay)

Champion of the aristocracy

Man of property

Device carried by aircraft

Electronic toll device

Aircraft's tracking device

Fashionable doggy (wordplay)

Fashionable canine (wordplay)

One held responsible for rage (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

BIDDER one who {bids=v}

One in the insurance business

Person in the insurance business

Financial guarantor

""Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasoinhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest. as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasoinhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest.""

Grape cultivator.

Volkslied

Saxophonist's jacket (wordplay)

Chilly-weather wear

Sailor's jacket

Helicopter made of hickory (wordplay)

Feller in the forest

""He who, or that which, accommodates.""

PREDATOR one that {plunders=v}

Relating to an appendicle; appendiculate.

Background

Member of the smart set.

Man-about-town in Paris

A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

Support for burning light

MENORAH

Codiscover

Spanish adventurer of the 16th century

Pizarro or Cortes

16th-century Spanish invader of Peru

CONSOLIDATE Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

Gainsayer.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

""A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.""

Device for reducing moisture content of the atmosphere

""MAGNETIZER One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Dealer's test drive vehicle

Car wearing dealer plates, often

Participant in a public protest

""An instrument for determining optical or photographic density. A variety capable of measuring optical density of a sample at a number of different wavelengths, is called a spectrophotometer.spectrophotometer.""

""Inflected form of PROGRAMMER Inflected form of PROGRAMME That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.""

SENSITIZER An agent that sensitizes.

One who determines.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Phonograph Records

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

One who dispossesses.

One who spreads (something) widely

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

Ghostly double of a live person

Living person's double

Ghostly lookalike of a human

Back-to-back baseball games

July 4th tradition.

Marathon at Camden Yards

Reproved apes (anagram)

Wiretapper, for example

Secret listener

Foreshadow

Show-off (1975-80)

*Showboating type

Show-off

Handicraft

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Certain analyst, slangily

Travel agent perhaps is taking a break

Tourist in rank beset by wild blow

Feast day for God and tourist

Hydrocrack

""One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.""

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

""One who meddles with, or intrudes into, the affairs of others.""

One who interpleads.

A trader.

MOLLYCODDLE a pampered darling; an effeminate man; a milksop.

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

One doing embroidery

Seamstress

Material such as glass or porcelain

LANDOWNER An owner of land.

Inflected form of RESPONDER Inflected form of RESPOND to {answer=v}

President, for one.

Functionary from ticket endings

Last year's winner not skating - he's got a job

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

Inflected form of MEDITATOR Inflected form of MEDITATE to consider thoughtfully

Four-sided

""One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.""

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

One who carves scrimshaw.

""Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.""

A berserk toad (anagram)

Someone on a short plank with wheels

Ray the lodger's a sportsman

Unsuitable nutcracker (wordplay)

R&B/rap duo Percy & MC (wordplay)

Big hitter trimmed hedge in prison

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

STICKHANDLE

The breeding and raising of livestock.

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

The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

The art or practice of using a video camera.

Phenoms

Runner or dramatist in play

One managing business affairs

Overseer of a sort

Candlelight

""An implement with a bell-shaped cup and often a long slender handle, used to extinguish the flame of a candle.""

CONSTRUCTOR A constructer.

Medical device for stabilising the heart

Device applying current to the chest or heart

Electronic device for restoring normal heart rhythm

""MINERALIZER An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer. mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.""

MULTIPLEXER multiplex

DOCTRINAIRISM (anagram)

A distinguishing characteristic

A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

Doublespeak

EDITORIALIZE to write an opinion in an editorial in a publication.

Your dad's girl to your dad's dad

Bridget, to Henry

Young relative seeing old king and the changing of the guard

Innovative type

Coffee filter (wordplay)

Infield manicurist

PRODUCER one that {produces=v}

""INDOCTRINATE To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue with, principles or doctrines; to teach; often followed by in. in.""

Player in a sandbox

Sort of teacher who could be more helpful and good, terrible ranter

Trim ladies' man, possibly, to bungle things

Badly run trains, dilemma needing to be sorted out

Old lady and son, clergyman, manage badly

At right angles

Apple incurred difficulties? Straight up

Style of English architecture

Agent noun (-or)

""One who predestinates, or foreordains.""

""DETERMINER One who, or that which, determines or decides.""

PROPAGANDIZE

Destroyer of reputation

Purveyor of dirt about others

Person spreading malicious gossip

No CID customer (anagram)

Rattle cut in half by silicon (wordplay)

Apprentice in an orchestra (wordplay)

MANDIBULAR Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.

A calender with a number of rollers for giving a high finish or gloss to paper.

Powerful particle accelerator

Short electrical disturbance with rain

It has drops and bolts

Severe storm

One doing less well than expected

Person not reaching their potential

Hear I've tangled with dunce? Right, he could do better

Underground

A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.

A drug that widens the air passages of the lungs and eases breathing by relaxing bronchial smooth muscle.

Relating to the heart and blood-vessels

Relating to the heart and blood vessels

""Inflected form of CONTAMINATOR Inflected form of CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

Quick note from Edward Elgar (wordplay)

Note death, note tremble!

Brief note (wordplay)

""MYTHOLOGIZER One who, or that which, mythologizes.""

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics an instrument used in studying diffraction, as in the determination of crystal structure by diffraction of X-rays""

Teacher in a nursery school

One who engages in finger painting

Agent noun (-or)

Terrific orchestra leader (wordplay)

It offers little resistance

Orchestra leader who can leap tall music stands in a single bound (wordplay)

""(Chemistry) Chem a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer""

Agent noun (-or)

Shell-game operator, for one

Thurston or Mulholland

Trickster realises God is tripartite

man precedes death in operatic heroine with trill, very little music! (18)