2-Letter Words Ending in R

""SHMALTZ excessive sentimentality, also SCHMALTZ, SCHMALZ""

E.g. newsagent

Irish operator is such a person in trade

Little Nell's Grandfather, for example

Robber holding up store (wordplay)

One needing a fence (wordplay)

Criminal (in a retail context)

SHOTGUN to shoot with a type of gun

Light infantry member

One who sees the future

One who warned Caesar

Expert on the future

Splotchy

Squelchy

Squooshy

Less likely to be caught

The realist contrived to be more secretive

Faux pa (wordplay)

Onassis to Caroline Kennedy

Mother's new husband

Non-blood relation

A relation by marriage

Stereotypically wicked member of 3

This grater works better!

Mad Hatter's rig is more respectable

Second rat reported and more in order

Unlikely rich setter will be giving more

More flexible

More flexible cat tries to scratch outside

Section of a body of laws

Recorder of speed? Move me to the car!

Teacher Tom (anagram)

Device for measuring speed

One calling helper, confused with tone

One calling out 'help' on programme after turning over film

From then 'e comes into it in the roof

From then on

From that time on

In accordance with the thing mentioned

The display involving uranium is beneath that

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

Part of circuit training beginning with the morris dance (wordplay)

""THOROUGH that which goes through, a passage etc""

Menacing character

Comparative adjective or agent noun

First-rate fellow.

""One of the fine branching tubes of the trachea of an insect, which penetrates the tissues to provide oxygen.""

Changed here, into smart hat and small jumper

Bug improperly put here, concealed in hat

""One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter. great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.""

TOGETHER in a relationship

Unworthy

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

""WAREHOUSE A storehouse for wares, or goods.""

Rolex, for example

Horologist to keep eye on manufacturer

He has time on his hands

Viewing that's a draw for Barbican

Sentinel's perch

Guard's post

""A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.""

Save the row (anagram)

At all others, wave frantically

We harvest nothing organic at all

Invalid's transport

Transport for the handicapped

It helps the handicapped get around

Where's Devon without its capital? Bust, any old time

Trader cheers in the Pequod perhaps

Ahab hooking fishy sole trader

Supplier to the trade

The objective of whosoever. See Whosoever. whosoever. See Whosoever.

One who withholds.

Practiser of religion

Queue up with overseas trader for prayer

One adoring a deity

Wretched

""One who, or that which, annihilates; as, a fire annihilator. as, a fire annihilator.""

Small room leading to a larger room

Lobby one college with sign of caution

Small entrance room

MP without office

Rank and file MP

MP not holding office

Metal detector user, maybe

Shore patroller (wordplay)

One with a metal detector

Substitute player: Slang.

Seldom-used substitute

*Sub in the dugout

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Genius spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Cult leader, in a way

Of or pertaining to a bronchiole.

Spanish athlete in a ring

Waver of a red cape

Suit of lights wearer

Oater villain who attacks from hiding

Western baddie

Oater ambusher

BUTTONHOLE The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

Amusing person, not so sweet as a cheat

He often makes money from crooked deals

Cheater at the gaming table

Cartwheel

CHANSON a {song=n}

Rooster in medieval tales.

Proper name for a bird.

Archetypal name for a rooster

Charbroil

Cheerful

Split personality (wordplay)

During the game, she's no reserve!

Root for the frontrunner (wordplay)

Palm reader

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Sweet maker/seller

Specialist confectioner

Sweet maker

Man of music.

Church music leader

Lifter of voices

Same as Chronologist. Chronologist.

Metal casing on timer? No, I'm timer

Instrument measuring time

Watch to find the enemy's position

Copublish

Crapshoot

""The study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.""

Worker in the trenches (wordplay)

Employee with a pick and shovel

His work may take him underground

(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) the Classical myth Poseidon (or Neptune) in his capacity as the bringer of earthquakes

Decorator, for example

One who establishes.

Hook and ladder rider

Hoser (wordplay)

Ladder company member

Forecheck

One having priceless ideas!

One who doesn't follow the crowd

He gets priceless ideas

Someone who "sits loose."

One who acts irresponsibly

Spirited author (wordplay)

Author of scary stories (wordplay)

Halloween correspondent (wordplay)

Man at home in D.C. (wordplay)

Tiny insect-eating bird

Insect-eating bird

She may have a "relative" with a wand

Drew Barrymore to Steven Spielberg

Sponsored one, often

An old-timer (wordplay)

Relative U clock

Clock or clause

Rose Kennedy to John Jr.

Rose Kennedy to John Jr.

Proverbially competent egg sucker

Wickerwork bin (wordplay)

Entomologist's cocktail (wordplay)

Insect (that won't stay still for long?)

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

Hemstitch

Subsequent part of this document

Home-life to be outside from now on

Later on in this document

Sirloin's section

Butcher's order, sometimes

Butcher's order

Holograph

Back-to-the-land practitioner

Back-to-the-land movement practitioner

Settler type

""HOMOGENIZE To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.""

HOMOLOGIZE To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

English word

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Newly-wed on holiday (wordplay)

Newlywed, right after the reception

Post-nuptial holidaymaker

Equus actor (wordplay)

Masochist of a sort

Houseboat

A man in charge of children in an institution.

Head of family.

Census taker's target

Resident champion follows the crowd

Perfect job for Dustin (wordplay)

Part 2 of the quote

I run home

Boys' school VIP

One responsible for boarders arouses them for assembly

Man accommodating some children in repurposed USA rest home

Swarthmore chaperon

Katt/Brooks films about a chaperon (wordplay)

Sorority chaperon

""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 of the Ichthyosaura.

""Severe protein malnutrition, especially in children after weaning, marked by lethargy, growth retardation, anemia, edema, potbelly, skin depigmentation, and hair loss or change in hair color.""

A chemical substance that causes tears to flow; same as lacrimator.lacrimator.

Guy who worked at dusk in colonial times

He was always illuminating

Spill jam with more flimsy packaging

I can occupy the House for a term!

Person with property rights

One renting a property

""LYOPHILIZE to freeze-dry; -- a technique used to dry serum, tissue, unstable chemicals and other sensitive materials.""

""MESHUGGE crazy, also MESHUGA, MESHUGAH, MESHUGGA""

This puzzle's theme

Monkeyshines

Person with a second job

One with a second job

Worker otherwise employed as doctor on boat

Mothproof

Agent noun (-or)

""One, especially a robber or prostitute, who walks the streets at night.""

A simpleton; a silly person.

Storm from the Atlantic, perhaps

Wind blowing towards the southwest

A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind.

A machine shaped like an aircraft that is held aloft and propelled by wing movements.

""That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.""

Motel patron, usually

One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ..

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ...

Publicity agent of yore

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

Writer of news items for newspapers

One who paraphrases.

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

23 with a stone (wordplay)

Eg, Kant or Plato

One as Socrates, Wittgenstein

Today's mimeograph

Piece of office gear

Office machine

PHOTOSET to prepare for printing by photographic means

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

""PIGEONHOLE A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.""

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Polygraph

Preschool

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

Where angry drinkers meet (wordplay)

Where angry drinkers meet?

Basement bar in Bonn

Refurbish

One who replenishes.

One who republishes.

If I recover, I'll re-enlist at Roscoe's place.

Shmaltzy

Serigraph

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

""Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.""

Constructor of forty nine down perhaps

Almost any Merman number.

Big Broadway number

Kind of act or song.

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

One who slaughters.

One who holds slaves.

Farmer who's short-handed (wordplay)

Minor farmer

Briefcase for an agriculturalist (wordplay)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

""A storm, strong wind, or gale coming from the southeast.""

Blow one's top in it (wordplay)

""An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc.""

More animated.

Southern prude, dictatorial type, demoting one relatively active

Perils at sea crossing starboard make you more nimble

""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

Relative by marriage

Relative to walk with hassle round river

Upset Herbert's top relative

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

Foot-weary citizen.

Type of passenger.

Subway rider without a seat

An apparatus for superheating steam.

Supporter

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

Morse-code user

Thankful

He's seen at first nights.

Devotee of drama.

FIRST-nighter, for example

One who theologizes; a theologian.

Temp worker? (CBS, 2013-present)

Place for graduation (wordplay)

Weatherman's tool

Noble champion (wordplay)

Champion of the aristocracy

Man of property

One studying the features of an area

Columbia picture (wordplay)

Outstanding acolyte in love (wordplay)

Champion who opens Olympics (wordplay)

Annie Oakley was a noted one.

One aiming at clay pigeons

One aiming at skeet

One setting up print

HEALTHIER healthy

SIGHTLIER sightly

One who covers furniture

He pads parlor pieces

Maker and mender of sofas etc

Comparative adjective or agent noun

In any place

Any one

One who whitewashes.

A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.

A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores.

The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. whosoever. See Whosoever.

yawn "Sure, go on" (nonverbal)

Upstart who makes insolent comments

He knows it all

Helicopter made of hickory (wordplay)

Feller in the forest

One making engravings on wood

One who accomplishes.

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

Large oval stadium with tiers

Hollywood Bowl, for example

ANTHOLOGIZE compile an anthology.