2-Letter Words Ending in R

SNICKER to utter a partly stifled giggle

Giggler.

Snuffly

No particular beggar this law officer!

Lawyer, oldest professional (wordplay)

Advocate very legal alternative

Wine steward in restaurant or hotel

Smile more fake, as wine waiter

The wine expert-server in a hotel

Spangly

Sparkly

Special

One setting down requirements

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?"

Spidery

Unexpected by-product

Go past the rim

Unexpected consequence

Built more like Ichabod Crane

Longer and thinner

More thin and frail

Sail suited to Shane Warne (wordplay)

Racing yacht's large triangular sail.

Sail that looks kinda like a parachute

More ostentatious

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

Spleeny

Splurgy

1989's word: Plunderer

Sprawly

Spriggy

A spaniel without one is more resilient

More elastic

More likely to bounce back, more like May might you say (wordplay)

Device for lawn owners.

Device for watering

"Let-us-spray" device

Squabby

Squalid

Squally

Squashy

Squatty

More in need of oil

Squiffy

Squinny

Squinty

Squirmy

Squishy

More rigid

More stiff and formal - like collar (wordplay)

More pompous part of 7's workshop

More statuesque

More magnificent

Radio DJ's other job (wordplay)

Paper pusher (wordplay)

Pencil pusher (wordplay)

Stenchy

Sign maker, perhaps

Person of letters (wordplay)

Many a street artist

Strong drink - starch (wordplay)

Fortifying alcoholic drink (slang)

Starch, as a laundry agent

Not as clean

More variable.

Less consistent

Streamy

Less voluminous, as hair

More argumentative

More bad tempered and argumentative (colloq.)

With pressure involved, running Tories' PR gets more difficult to handle

Stubbly

Deskman scattered doubters around Italy

One proof-reads writers' copy

Newspaper checker

SUBSOIL to plow the layer of earth below the surface

WRITER one who {writes=v}

Summery

SUMMIT to take part in a summit conference

A muscle which produces the motion of supination.

One who surfeits.

Giver of a certain party

Unsponsored radio program

One supporting and backing American composer

Darker of complexion

Second husband's outwardly more blemished, darker

Sweltry

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Minor batsman kind to harbour trouble

Relative of a cellar dweller.

Last-place finisher

Menace in the mirror

One at a lot of parties

Early arriver at the stadium parking lot

Water in a tailrace.

What clocks the fare in a cab

Cab-fare calculator

It runs while you ride

Teentsy

TENSION to make strained

Witness may be more irritable about Formula 1

Witness can be more bad-tempered if trapped

Witness

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

Thrummy

Semiconductor device; I try short (anagram)

Semiconductor device

Coastal region of Virginia

Moisture mainly brought in twice a day

The eastern part of Virginia.

One who is turning the screw (wordplay)

Wrench or screwdriver, often

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

Volcanologist's instrument

Of the glands at the root of the tongue

Relating to items noticed during oral examination (wordplay)

Adding machine.

Trembly

Trickly

Tricksy

Br'er Rabbit, for one

Fooler / Summer Olympics standout

April fool player

""Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear co\'94rdinates. as, trilinear co\'94rdinates.""

Quarter of twelve (wordplay)

Term for a model poet

Cut down damaged trees in quarter

One who trinkets.

It makes three of one

Three-way divider

Twiddly

More nervous or jerky

Uncanny

Ungodly

Unhandy

Not as content

Sadder, more miserable

More bummed

Uniform

Of or developing in a progressive sequence usually from the primitive to the advanced.

Scarcely any absent in curfew, unlike degenerate less fortunate

Unquiet

Less prepared to find one immersed in a French textbook

UPBRAID to reproach severely

""Of or pertaining to a utricle, or utriculus; containing, or furnished with, a utricle or utricles; utriculate; as, a utricular plant. as, a utricular plant.""

Pharmaceutical delivery device

One applying a gloss to wood and nails

Relating to cars, trucks, etc

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

Automotive

Bard's son stops one checking authenticity

Relating to blisters or other fluid-filled sacs

One who furnishes victuals.

""A device used by photographers in printing vignettes, consisting of a screen of paper or glass with a central aperture the edges of which become opaque by insensible gradations.""

""VOCALIZE to produce with the voice, also VOCALISE""

Yuletide celebrant

Carol singer

One who laments admitting beast of a drunken raver

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

Willing

Slimmer with more guile eats little

What George has (wordplay)

It's used to break a habit

Resolve; self-control

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

Writer in residence's last novel is more gloomy

Don Juan

Womanly

More sophisticated

One in a congregation

Wriggly

Wrinkly

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One hates to see Robin with wingless Batman, struggling to apprehend ring

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.

One who acquires.

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

One who admonishes.

One publicising a product (S, not Z)

He pays the price of publicity

He has his own ideas on hoarding

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

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

Powerful drug-treatment class

Like chemotherapy drugs

HUNTER one who {hunts=v}

LITTER to scatter rubbish about

Something from nothing (wordplay)

Family subject (wordplay)

Family subject?

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

Nail polish brush, for example

Cosmetician's device.

Device used as a swab.

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

Same as arbitrageur.arbitrageur.

Grieve or Dascoli

Independent settler of dispute

Person authorized to decide a dispute.

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

""One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.""

Seepage aboard ship

Ship's seepage

Nonsense

Creator of life in a bookshop (wordplay)

A life's work for him

One who can tell your story

""A macromolecule in a living organism that is formed by linking together several smaller molecules, as a protein from amino acids or DNA from nucleotides.""

""An apparatus in which a suspension of microorganisms in a liquid are used to perform chemical reactions, as in synthesis of pharmaceutical agents or the conversion of harmful waste to less harmful substances. The reactor consists of a vessel to contain the suspension of microorganisms, plus a variety of attached devices used to control the reaction.""

One who uses blandishments.

NCO arranged raid in Lancaster, maybe

Canadian snowmobile inventor

Crowd round pub ride off with soldier

He wraps leaves up (wordplay)

Printing-shop employe

One fond of dining on tongue (wordplay)

Subservient one

Suck-up

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

Ruling (or, more modestly, intelligence)

Support presiding wisdom

'Solvers need this book' (The Sun's ruling)

Construction worker's course (wordplay)

Wall builder, maybe

Building trades worker

BRIGHTEN to make {bright=adj}

A muscle of the cheek; so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

Bird, one moving round capital

Popular cage-bird

Bird commonly kept as a pet

Zodiacal adjustor (wordplay)

Person on a trail

Man running for office.

Party man in action.

Projecting beam fixed at one end only

Kind of arch or bridge

Beam fixed at one end

CAPTIVATE To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

A nicer bear mauled sharpshooter

Soldier calling about a container

Cavalry soldier

""CARABINE a carbon compound, also CARABIN""

Severe critic to have fresh go at racist

CATECHIZE See Catechise. Catechise.

A photoelectric instrument for ascertaining cloud heights.

Small metric unit

Unit equal to 0.338 fluid ounce

.6102 cubic inch

Almost two-fifths of an inch

*Approximate width of a pencil

Unit, as a Salk vaccine.

Lighting up (wordplay)

Is it involving candle hire (wordplay)

The light fantastic (wordplay)

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

Churchly

Film buff, say, could make one grimace

I see picture blur once image runs

One sees pictures to make one grimace

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

One who classifies.

Of or pertaining to the clavicle.

Tool in forestry to measure slope, vertical angles and tree heights

Convert mile - not v. tricky if you have surveyor's instrument

Cobwebby

One who helps call the shots

""DISCOVER to find out, also DISCOURE, DISCURE""

""INVENTOR one who invents, also INVENTER""

INVESTOR one who {invests=v}

Allot micro-switch to subsidiary telescope

Rival clubs promote changes covering it

Sporting contest entrant

Entrant in race scheming to crop time

Member of the "cavil-ry"?

Member of the "cavil-ry" (wordplay)

Faultfinding type

Mulch over first person or typesetter

Print shop employee

Newspaper employe.

PRISONER one that is imprisoned

Producer of text for ad

Public relations position

Author who wrote pricy composition

Catholic sect keeps wagon for shoemaker

Old shoemaker in business with change in drawer

Member of a county administration

""CRITICIZE same as criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.criticise; as, The paper criticized the new movie.""

A soldier armed with a cuirass.