2-Letter Words Ending in R

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

Expectant one.

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

POPULAR something pleasing

Antitrust

One who values

Exploiter of market differences

Exploiter of stock market differences

Trader offers designer's latest little piece with passion in a very old city

""One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering. (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.""

ASSIMILATE To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.

*Airline for Lucille (wordplay)

Boat for fullbacks (wordplay)

Grange for one

Excessive adherence to a literal interpretation of the Bible.

""Pertaining to, involving, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).""

Jean (wordplay)

Pacific slave ship

Blacklist

Perry Mason's prey.

Criminal with dirt on someone

So the unions would ban Norman? That's criminal!

See windsurfing .

Noah was one

He made a bluebird to perform for Sir Donald!

One doing serious physical exercise

One developing muscles through exercise

Mr. Olympia, e.g

Beer-and-whiskey cocktail

Whiskey with a beer chaser

Whiskey-beer combo

""BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

It may call for lateral thinking

Puzzle requiring thought

New artisan beer is a puzzle

Genius spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Cult leader, in a way

Person who supports a family

Family's main earner

Source of family funds

Of or pertaining to a bronchiole.

Spanish athlete in a ring

Waver of a red cape

Suit of lights wearer

Breed of dog

Breed developed in England

English dog breed

Heat measuring device

Heat-measuring device

Apparatus to measure quantity of heat

One who calumniates.

""Pl. canaliculi (-l ) A small canal or duct in the body, such as the minute channels in compact bone.""

Larva with a pet in it (wordplay)

A future monarch (wordplay)

Provide post for leaf dweller

Variety of cabbage

It has an Orange Bouquet variety

It has a big head

""CENTRALIZE To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.""

CHANSON a {song=n}

Rooster in medieval tales.

Proper name for a bird.

Archetypal name for a rooster

Charbroil

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

One who performs circumcision.

Revolving about or surrounding the moon.

""About the pole; applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars. as, circumpolar stars.""

""An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.""

One who compromises.

One who mediates

One acting as mediator

Hair improver

Hair application

Salon item

One who confiscates.

He goes to galleries.

Knowledgeable art-lover

Expert judge of taste

Member of a cabal.

Planner in secret

Person who secretly plots with others

""That which constricts, draws together, or contracts.""

""One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer.""

One sending in articles for publication

One writing for, eg, magazine

Donor, giver

Harmonizer.

Copublish

A contemptible or vicious critic.

Like letters in SOS and COUSCOUS

ACTIVATOR any agency bringing about activation; (Biol.) a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription.

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

""Inflected form of COLORIZER Inflected form of COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

MORALIZER One who moralizes.

NITRIFIER An agent employed in nitrification.

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

""A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.""

Disparager

Salt remover

""An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.""

One who disapproves.

One with severe doubts

Punishment imposer

One who discourages.

Free from busmen drunk with cider

To fail to remember; to forget.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.

Car-engine part

Supplier of goods to retailers

Where to get discounts

Worker in the trenches (wordplay)

Employee with a pick and shovel

His work may take him underground

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

Ace in the hole business (wordplay)

Person who barks (wordplay)

Overseer of private practice

... converge - it somehow follows Euclid's first mathematical concept

Direction-finding line that is over Covent Garden and missing Barking

Campaign for votes

To campaign to be elected

Campaign for winning poll

One who sets free from slavery

Epithet applied to Lincoln.

Lincoln, on January 1, 1863

Decorator, for example

One who embroiders.

One who undertakes enterprises.

Streisand, for one.

Shore, for example

Record and somehow retain performer

""Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular.""

One who equivocates.

One who establishes.

Ko-Ko was high as this lord!

One carrying out death sentence

Hangman, for example

"", One who practices extortion.""

A smoother of the way

Petty nagger

Nitpicker

FELICITATE Made very happy.

July 3rd purchase, perhaps

Snack for an arsonist (wordplay)

Fourth of July popper

Hook and ladder rider

Hoser (wordplay)

Ladder company member

Silver-tongued bandit (wordplay)

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

Primitive life form supporting an underground worker, if trapped

A machine used in making paper; so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.

One who fraternizes.

One having priceless ideas!

One who doesn't follow the crowd

He gets priceless ideas

Fruitful

Large mosquito

Biting insect

One who takes general or comprehensive views

Spirited author (wordplay)

Author of scary stories (wordplay)

Halloween correspondent (wordplay)

""A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white. Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.""

""A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.""

Napoleonic family name

Greenmail

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.""

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

""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.

One of the Ichthyosaura.

One who richly decorates manuscripts

Flagg or Rockwell, for example

Norman Rockwell, for example

Provider of pictures

""IMMOBILIZE To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.""

Implement

""IMPLEMENT That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.""

IMPREGNATE To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

Swearing-in figure

Metaphorical father*

Dumpster fire of a sort

Waste burner

Trash terminus

One who compensates (another) for harm or loss

Secret penetrator of an organisation

Bats flit in with friend of Badger or Mole (wordplay)

INSEMINATE To sow; to impregnate.

""INSPISSATE To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.""

INSUFFLATE To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.

Small map inside another

Adverb giving force or emphasis

Pub, say, with XXXX? If that is right, it could be jolly

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

Plane or missile perhaps

Defensive back, at times

Type of plane.

Negotiator: I translate secrets into Norwegian

Item that improves turbo engine performance

CRATER to form cavities in a surface

Interdeal

""INTERDICT To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.""

With nothing to lose, I,note, judge interrupts clergyman, impatient speaker

""Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc.as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc.""

INTERMIT to stop temporarily

One translating orally

Translator of spoken languages

Oral translator

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

""INTERRUPT To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. as, to interrupt the remarks speaking.""

Eg, chat show host

Bully

Situated or occurring within the eyeball: intraocular pressure.

One who intromits.

""INVALIDATE To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument. as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.""

Proctor at an English school exam

Supervisor of those working on paper

INVIGORATE To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.

JOURNALIZE To enter or record in a journal or diary.

""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 large predatory bird (Gypaetus barbatus) of the vulture family, ranging from the mountainous regions of southern Europe to China and having a wide wingspan and black plumage. Also called bearded vulture , ossifrage .""

Guy who worked at dusk in colonial times

He was always illuminating

Spill jam with more flimsy packaging

""LEGITIMATE Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.""

LEGITIMIZE To legitimate.

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

Sweet gum

Bookish type to esteem high-class among the junk

Writer's rubbish: director has to overlook first of repeated characters

Essayist

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

One who manipulates

Microbrew

Microfilm

""A device for reading materials in microform, such as microfilm and microfiche.""

""Pl. microvilli (-v l ) Any of the minute hairlike structures projecting from the surface of certain types of epithelial cells, especially those of the small intestine.""

""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.""

The "Caine", for one

Excavation spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Ship of a sort.

Tannhaeuser was one

This puzzle's theme

Monkeyshines

One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.

Driving at a very high speed, perhaps

Minor crime

Ms. Behavior

REGISTER to record officially

Call to mind wrongly

Recall wrongly

MISSIONIZE

Certain skin cream

Skin cream

One who monopolizes.

""My lord; a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.) as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.)""

Person with a second job

One with a second job

Worker otherwise employed as doctor on boat

Piton user ("Cymbeline")

A negotiator on a grand scale (wordplay)

Sir Edmund P. Hillary, for example

Agent noun (-or)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Agent noun (-or)

Comparative adjective or agent noun

MULTIPLE the product of a quantity by an integer

Multiplex

MULTIPLEX Manifold; multiple.

""One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.""

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

A simpleton; a silly person.

BELIEVER one who {believes=v}

CIRCULAR a leaflet

""OBLITERATE To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.""

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

Motel patron, usually

""One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.""

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Partition

Dairy apparatus.