2-Letter Words Ending in R

Live-in nurse, perhaps

Many an in-home helper

Carroty

Certain

One giving formal confirmation

Guarantor

Smacker from singer drinking wines

One who severely reprimands

One strapping bear taken up by hunter

One who cherishes.

'Thank Heaven for Little Girls' singer

Each viler than the strange knight

A horseman or mounted knight

Childly

More miserly Slang.

More miserly: Slang.

More colorfully gaudy

More gaudy-looking

Untrustworthy sculptor (wordplay)

Dishonest mason (wordplay)

Statuary wide boy

Singer exciting his rector (wordplay)

Youngster noted in church (wordplay)

Church, cathedral singer

Churchy

""One who, or that which, civilizes or tends to civilize.""

That which clarifies.

Cleanly

Clerkly

INSURER one that {insures=v}

In the same straight line

Lying in the same straight path

Sharing the same one-dimensional space

One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist.

Leader in a red state (wordplay)

As Soviet official, I'm cross, am mad

Russian minister, before 1946

One who conceives.

Of an assemblage

A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.

One sending something to trick a gentleman of Verona (wordplay)

Person sending things? Tricks to disregard for the most part

Chest perhaps, or ancient bust

Box? He must do this to get here!

Vessel on 10, perhaps

One who continues; one who has the power of perseverance or persistence.

He may devise or fabulize

Scheming one

How one managed to get a hundred on tea to the water

Persuasive arguer.

Herb no good for dog and its owner!

An aromatic seed; carried on (anagram)

Spice-rack item

Tom Cruise (anagram)

French dresser Tom Cruise ordered

Tom Cruise arranged for theater job

Mace Windu or Yaddle, say

More refined

Valentino, for one

Christian Dior, for example

Dior or Klein

Crackly

Don Bradman or David Gower, say

Wicket-keeper, for one

One striking on the square (wordplay)

Having more bends and twists

Telescopic sighting aid

Target-centering aid

Aiming aid

Crumbly

Crumply

Like Grape-Nuts vis-a-vis other cereals

Cunning

More strange, to Alice

Maybe doctor takes in personal debts for stranger

One who curtails.

""Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.""

DECAL a design made to be transferred

About 3.38 fluid ounces

DECIME an old French coin

Speech-maker got back, having switched ends

Orator

""One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.""

An apparatus used to remove ions from a solution; a common variant contains a mixture of cation exchange resin in the acid form and anion exchange resin in the hydroxyl form inside a replaceable cartridge; ions in aqueous solution are exchanged for the elements of water by passing the solution through the mixed resin.

Same as Decaliter. Decaliter.

One who gives pleasure

Tag at the beginning or end of computer data

Paperboy, for one

One with redeeming qualities (wordplay)

One with redeeming qualities?

Saver made half the penniless sit inside

Bank account holder

One putting money into a bank account

Short-barrelled American pistol

Short-barreled pistol.

Making a mistake in the German gun

Writer interrupting the German reporter

Hopeless one.

Sherman at Atlanta

Thief.

Thief

""DIGITIZE to put into digital form, also DIGITISE""

Said paper has to go (wordplay)

Sink from sight

Vanish from view

One who disburses money.

Bridge player, at times.

Rummy player, often

""One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong. as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.""

Breaker of secret recording failure

One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.

One who disgraces.

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

Dirty washing-up liquid (wordplay)

What might be filled with Joy (wordplay)

Weak or soiled liquid

Divide up (organisation)

Gee, Peel might make ground this way!

Tear limb from limb

Rebel

Paper-cup container for vending machines

Little girl meets poet in the chemist

It delivers if I press end roughly

Scattering agent - rips reeds (anagram)

Sorry state of ruin (wordplay)

Duke is to retire in ruin

Dilapidated state is hell to put right

Troublemaker.

Be rude about 'Arry, chap with scalpel

""SEISOR one that takes seizing, also SEIZOR""

One not agreeing

One who differs among residents

Sen. Morse's GOP status.

""One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.""

One who seeks to deter

Complaint affecting setter (wordplay)

Confounding me, striped paint!

Fido's upset the paint!

Hiram Walker, for one

Spirited producer (wordplay)

His spirits make a woman more sedate

Twist dancer (wordplay)

Fisheye lens, for example

One who misrepresents.

""One who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler.""

Alpha male, for example

With "the," nickname of NHL goalie Hacek

America's mightiest bomber.

DONNE a given piece of data

Device measuring absorbed radiation

Radiation detection device

New G. I. "dog tag" warning of radiation

Doughty

Stock market irritant (wordplay)

He steers, taking hold, towards the sea

From source to mouth

Admit into golf club closer to the sea

Drizzly

Drouthy

My trade: in explosive

Demolition expert

Trade in my model for one of those with an explosive edge

Earthly

Embellish (with needlework?)

Do decorative needlework

Ornament with needlework.

Type of bunny (wordplay)

First name in TV bunnies (wordplay)

It's represented by a bunny

ENTRAIN to board a train

Earthquake origination point

Starting point of certain waves

Focal point, as of a quake

Jeffrey Aspern's sort of writer

Church reader always carries a weapon

A man of letters

What could make one lie square (wordplay)

Levelling goal

Strike causing impasse from peer is sign of hesitation

Six-shooter, a la the adult Western

With "The," Edward Woodward series

Pistol, in slang

MOLAR a grinding tooth

One who's not being precise

One judging number, quantity, etc

Who you see about a dent

Anesthetizer

Panegyrist

Marvellous! On and up! (motto)

Upwards with tall poet (wordplay)

New York state motto ("ever upward")

One who exclaims.

Treadmill runs around in circles perhaps

Francesco, Italy's star striker

One keeping fit

One displaying (at show)

I hit boxer (anagram)

One showing items in gallery display

He should get the devil out!

Priest, at times

His is a dispiriting occupation

Dispatcher

Facilitator

One facilitating export almost died at sea

One dispatches journalist supporting one-time president

Teacher, at times

He makes clear letter clearer

Old loaf cut by shop's end user

One who makes gain at another's expense

Oil - expert refiner can make it profitable

Role of a news commentator.

One shows it in poor sex novel

Explainer of complicated ideas or theories

""One who falsifies, or gives to a thing a deceptive appearance; a liar.""

One who designs something

""Relating to a fibril, also FIBRILAR""

Picture framer (wordplay)

Rothschild for one

Rothschild for one

I can infer (anagram)

Finicky

Disposable weapons (wordplay)

What 1 across has in the 10 across way

*Military's capability

Strong drink (two elements!)

Imbiber's intake

Order with an intimidating proof

Flaunty

Fleshly

Flighty

Flouncy

Flowery

""FLUIDIZE to make fluid, also FLUIDIFY, FLUIDISE""

Foolish

One who forbids.

Alien's six-inch ruler (wordplay)

Feels Like the First Time band

They're "Hot Blooded" and "Cold As Ice"

One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.

""One who, or that which, fortifies, strengthens, supports, or upholds.""

Gold-digger's enemies drug-free - not so good

Freckly

Engineers aboard aircraft or ship

About to enter aircraft carrier

Cargo-carrying ship or plane

FRITTER to squander little by little

FRIVOL to behave playfully

Frizzly

Rank by comparison of writer's novel

Two friers going wrong, smelling worse

Dealer in apples and pears (wordplay)

One charges for a date

Is this what you call a plum job for one who grows profits on trees (wordplay)

One who fulfills.

One who smokes out

(Of a railway) cable-operated

Using a cable

Of a mountain railway

""One who furbishes; esp., a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.""

One who supplies or fits out.

One who denies

Opponent wins over philosopher

One who contradicts

Variant of ganister .

More horrible

More dreadful

Ghostly

Prizefighter of sorts.

Spartacus, for one

Gold tiara (anagram)

GLISSADE to perform a gliding dance step

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make glorious""

Venetian in a striped shirt, perhaps

Driver in pole position (wordplay)

Boatman from old region (wordplay)

Soldier - in red gear (anagram)

Infantryman - in red gear (anagram)

One in regiment collapsing near ridge

More difficult to chew, in a way

Grizzly

More like TV's Oscar

More sullen.

Growthy

Warning bitter's cut short by boozer

Robin or crocus, often

Bring round with her a pioneer

Haughty

Star inside of a hat (wordplay)

Cast her in lead (wordplay)

Inside of a hat (wordplay)

More wholesome cure by Doctor Reith

More in the pink

In better condition

Lost one (wordplay)

Indecisive one

Successful person (in an aeroplane?)

Sounds as if you too will get to the top

Successful type

Ambitious person with leaflet on drugs (wordplay)

Go-getter with head in the clouds (wordplay)

Successful person

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Brush makeup, maybe

Mane or tail fibres

It's used in furniture for padding

One who renders humane.

Sound a bell - for a knockout (wordplay)

Excellent person or thing (colloq)

Something really good

ICEBOAT a vehicle that sails on ice

An idealist.

Describing muscular action evoked by an idea

""One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice selfmutilatio and sacrifice.""

Roman title of honor

Title for Caesar

Monkey transformed to rear commander

IMPLANT to plant firmly

Ink stamp, for one

Stamper.

""One who, or that, increases.""

Breeding place for germs, perhaps

Hot spot for chicks

Artificial hatching apparatus

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

INFIGHT to contend with others in the same group

One who inflicts.

INFLICT to impose on

One who infringes or violates; a violator.

An inhabitant.

Asthmatic's device

At home Henry needs a peak gas supplier

Breathing apparatus

Son, for one.

Willing recipient (wordplay)

Beneficiary of a Will

A dampening influence

Medicine that slows a chemical reaction

Substance slowing down a chemical reaction

One starting (a process)

Founder of almost the first hill

Start-up person

Highway man (wordplay)

One at the front desk, perhaps

Harry Bailly, in "The Canterbury Tales"

Steve Jobs, for example

Popular star to right of pioneer

Inventor of techniques.

Engraver

One having good looks (wordplay)

Morse perhaps, stern cop I fancy

Yard worker (wordplay)

Application included with Apple software

Cable guy, for example

Fashionable prevaricator gets fitter

Transient arrangement needed right now

Entrant is put to work without delay

Transient, changing immediately