2-Letter Words Ending in R

Onassis, perhaps, captive in the sun (wordplay)

Transport magnate's shown ripe bananas

At sea, person with less time to find big fish in the main (wordplay)

One working at court (wordplay)

Oxford man (wordplay)

Oxford's last worker (wordplay)

In gambling one who causes the odds to become less

Abridger

Pet that doesn't need much brushing, say

Feature of a crew cut.

Result of a buzz cut

Duck person doing spadework

Duck swimming over shell

He clears the way while getting over shell shock

Shrieky

Shrimpy

Shrubby

SHUNPIKE to travel on sideroads to avoid expressways

More comely.

More attractive

He visits places, say, always ancient

Tourist spot fortune teller

Visitor to famous locations

Vaguer in outline - stick here (anagram)

Less elaborated sportsman's clothing cut

Less clearly drawn

Killing (of farm animals)

Start to shake with mirth that's killing

Fall about in almost relentless defeat

Slouchy

Sloughy

Smutchy

Snatchy

One who travels on snowshoes; an expert in using snowshoes.

Riddler endlessly chattering, loathing lost muscle

Muscle inclined to pinch with rest - stopped up

Body part in a "Wayne's World" joke used to get the other guy to say "What?"

More ostentatious

Mountains (spelled backward) + Less bold = (wordplay)

Squashy

Certain retort

Squishy

More rigid

More stiff and formal - like collar (wordplay)

Firmer cane hurts badly

Firmer.

Stenchy

Former article of dress

Decoration worn to marches

Decorative panel on front of gown or bodice

Support for the NHS (wordplay)

Lie here if injured by brick (wordplay)

It carries the wounded

CHASER one that {chases=v}

Tehran bus broken down on the beach

Burns with heat, if silly, as this

Person lying falsifed heat burns

Darker of complexion

Second husband's outwardly more blemished, darker

Thatchy

Scientist, at times

Cornstarch, for example

Such as cornflour in cooking

Flour, for example.

More avid, as for knowledge

Shirt tumbling with pinnie in US drier

More in need of a drink

Thistly

Thready

More frugal

Comparatively frugal

More sparing

Other art, I suspect, is rougher

More guttural

Tailless dog with weirdo half ignored by strangler

One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.

Thrummy

Epithet for Jupiter.

Epithet for Zeus.

The Times used to sound like lightning

Semiconductor device; I try short (anagram)

Semiconductor device

One who is turning the screw (wordplay)

Wrench or screwdriver, often

One applying pressure to eight mixed up in back rent (wordplay)

""Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye. as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye.""

More nervous or jerky

Unhandy

Not as content

Sadder, more miserable

More bummed

Give padding and cover (wordplay)

Build a sofa, say

Work on chair, say, with higher armrest

One applying a gloss to wood and nails

Relating to cars, trucks, etc

Concerning the car, I've a lurch (wobble)

Automotive

Get richer working with real energy

More well-off

In a higher bracket.

More meaningful

Eh, any one is fine

Any one that

Hushed speaker

London colonel carries fashionable weight

Any body (wordplay)

Legalistic pronoun

Anyone.

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

One in a congregation

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

One who admonishes.

Later, he got drunk (completely)

Entirely in the natural state (wordplay)

Great hotel renovated completely

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c\'best. c\'best.""

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

Where there may be a four-poster

Room for sleeping

Sleeping quarters

V.I.P. among sheep

Leader of the flock

Leading sheep; trendsetter

Ring sailor? No time, he complains

Faultfinding type

Creator of life in a bookshop (wordplay)

A life's work for him

One who can tell your story

One who uses blandishments.

Rebel MP has reformed, so he swears!

One who reviles

Impious one

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

""BRACHIATE Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.""

BRIGHTEN to make {bright=adj}

Pit viper; sham brutes (anagram)

Top horticulturist (wordplay)

Venomous pit viper

Backwoodsman in awful rush in clapped-out car

So two heads of state spoke across the Atlantic? That's criminal!

Former US president meeting forest officer, backwoodsman

Name on a Visa

Place to keep your 'plastic'

Place to keep your "plastic"

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

Daring sportsman (wordplay)

U.S. space shuttle

Professor in Doyle novels.

Lucky rollover for 20 (wordplay)

Govt. finance minister

German head's luck with press spin

Lighting up (wordplay)

Is it involving candle hire (wordplay)

The light fantastic (wordplay)

When tennis players meet in transition

Shifting of position.

Workplace activity, sometimes

Her erotica (anagram)

Ben Hur, for one

Ben Hur (wordplay)

CHARMING charm

Working hard with officer in Cabinet

Ornamental cabinet.

Setter keeps fine rosebowl initially in a cabinet

Account king gives to historian

One has The Times ordered

One who records important events

One who enters the services

Regular worshipper

A pious type, Winston, fit to move the queen

Churchly

Full-dress coat, colloquially

Basic part of a tool kit

Puller or pounder

Hold copper (anagram)

Clumsy person (wearing heavy shoes?)

Ultralight balloon (wordplay)

Large beetle

Large beetle destructive of vegetation - frock cache (anagram)

Keeps the paper united with impression of custodian

Ranch hand (wordplay)

Lasso in front of train (wordplay)

Lasso part of train (wordplay)

Ranch worker to show fear taking blow

One who's at home on the range

Vaquero "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" (nonverbal)

One who deciphers.

HYDRATOR one that {hydrates=v}

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

""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.""

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)

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

Tabby's friend (wordplay)

Tabby's friend?

Pound worker (wordplay)

DOWNHILL a downward slope

Letting in more air

Having more wind? Hardier gut possibly wanted!

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

DROUGHT a dry period

Machine such as a bulldozer

Huge bulldozer

Caterpillar, often

ENCIPHER to write in a secret code

""One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.""

EPIGRAPH an engraved inscription

""EUPHEMIZE To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.""

Feathery

Sole trader on the 24 (wordplay)

Sole distributor (wordplay)

Sole trader (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One who flourishes.

Bird one's seen on the web (wordplay)

Winger tucking contract inside leaflet

Shrewd fielder in sticky leg trap

He came earlier for the fancy feather

One very high up a tree given warning by priest

He's back on the line with new offer (change of heart)

Meet old boy being entertained by dad

A female ancestor.

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Case supporting idle property owner

One enjoying permanent tenure of a property

Someone with permanent and absolute tenure of land

Dude, nice triatomic molecule!

Like some fish (2 words)

Could it make ferret wash (wordplay)

Confusion about right climbing plant for each insect

Student of Earth's features

Person studying the physical aspects of the earth

One adept at drawing (wordplay)

Billy the Kid, for one

Top drawer that opens up first (wordplay)

Boat for stylists (wordplay)

Trimmer, perhaps

Barber.

HANDWORK manual labor

Barbershop quartet man

Barbershop-quartet member

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

Heavenly

It's about 26.4 gallons

Abbr. hm A metric unit of length equal to 100 meters. See Table at measurement .

Cheer pilot going off in this (wordplay)

Igor Ivan Sikorsky's 1939 good idea

Sikorsky's brainchild

An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

Amphibian in box by shelter

Large salamander

""A white or tan powder, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , formerly used as a pesticide, that is highly toxic to humans and is a suspected carcinogen.""

Seven-foot line

7-foot line

A bit lucky, perhaps, for Half a Sixpence

Animal with a winter home

Confidence man

Native of north or west Scotland, a Gael

Scot's exam covering state of Germany

Classy boat for a mountain sailor (wordplay)

One with a pick-up line (wordplay)

One looking for a free ride (wordplay)

Thumbs up for a seeker of cheap travel

Term of endearment by one consuming bird

Bird with a long, protrusible tongue

Bird of the South Pacific

Con artist

Deceptive one

Equine political demand?

Hack's capacity for work (wordplay)

Engine's stable capacity (wordplay)

Farrier, at times

Person fitting animal to its anagram (wordplay)

Livery blacksmith with recycling (wordplay)

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.

Instrument for measuring humidity

The merry-go-round instrument

Instrument of geometry replaced in short time

A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

CENTER to place at the middle point

""An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.""

Manly pneumatic tool (wordplay)

Men's club craftsman (wordplay)

It pounds the pavement

Tillie the Toiler

Unconsolidated form of diatomite

Royal angler (wordplay)

Alan and Carrie's bird (wordplay)

Bird of Carole and Carrie (wordplay)

One who takes the field (wordplay)

Man of property

One with a lot

One who languishes.

Plant pest.

Vacuum-cleaner pipe, for example

Plotter in country besieged by dull soldiers

Leader of men taking a country to right is seen as a plotter

Kind of fern

Fern - girl getting shock

This goes on ahead of a girl in Ferns

One with a staggered start, perhaps

He may hit the wall

Olympic entrant in the 26-mile race.

Test God as Cupid (wordplay)

Dolly Levi, for one

Boxing's Don King (wordplay)

MECHANIZE To cause to be mechanical.

""METHYLATE An alcoholate of methyl alcohol in which the hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by a metal, after the analogy of a hydrate; as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa. as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa.""

Punishment catcher

Satellite spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Provider of criminal proof (wordplay)

White lightning maker

MYTHICIZE

A mythologist.

Agent noun (-or)

Freestone ring wearer (wordplay)

Chef, at times (wordplay)

Help ran, and upset cook (wordplay)

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

Immature component of wing

Young plume

One versed in various learning.

""THEATER a building for dramatic presentations, also THEATRE""

A prophet.

FINISHER n one that finishes

Judge, at times

Library frequenter, perhaps

Her career's damaged by investigator

Her career's ruined as analyst

""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""

Harsh jockey (wordplay)

Teddy Roosevelt, for one

Epithet for one of the Roosevelts.

Condiment holder on the table (2 words)

It's turned upside down when used

Half a dinner table duo

Schmalzy

Scratchy

Screechy

Impresser of seamen

Petrel's cousin

Cropper takes Tyler for a seabird

Long-winged bird that skims the ocean

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A man in control of his craft (wordplay)

One i/c vessel - tramp is she, perhaps (wordplay)

Skipper

Comparative adjective or agent noun