2-Letter Words Ending in R

It might be yellow-bellied

Yellow-bellied bird

Seedy cakes spur woodpecker

One working at court (wordplay)

Oxford man (wordplay)

Oxford's last worker (wordplay)

Shrieky

SHUNPIKE to travel on sideroads to avoid expressways

Vaguer in outline - stick here (anagram)

Less elaborated sportsman's clothing cut

Less clearly drawn

SKIBOB to travel in a sleigh-type vehicle over snow

Person who highjacks an aeroplane

Modern pirate

Modern pirate runs after sailor within island

SKYLARK to {frolic=v}

Educated plane (wordplay)

One with big ideas (wordplay)

Airborne ad maker

SNICKER to utter a partly stifled giggle

Vacationer, at times

Certain underwater explorer

Club Med vacationer, at times

Machine on the slopes

Sparkly

Cave man (wordplay)

Explorer of sorts

One exploring deeply (wordplay)

Sail suited to Shane Warne (wordplay)

Racing yacht's large triangular sail.

Sail that looks kinda like a parachute

Device for lawn owners.

Device for watering

"Let-us-spray" device

More in need of oil

Not as clean

More variable.

Less consistent

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Cornstarch, for example

Such as cornflour in cooking

Flour, for example.

Motor leak (anagram)

Black & Decker is one

Certain machinist

Trickly

Tricksy

Br'er Rabbit, for one

Fooler / Summer Olympics standout

April fool player

One who trinkets.

Scarcely any absent in curfew, unlike degenerate less fortunate

Person on a quick vacation, maybe

Guest of a sort.

Bag for a short trip

Wrinkly

Big cat person, maybe (wordplay)

Creature comforter (wordplay)

Cagey guy (wordplay)

Armored beast of old

SMOKER one who {smokes=v}

Big Three employee

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

BACKLASH to cause a reaction

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

Recidivist supporter gains second cap

One who reverts

Relapser into sin

BANKROLL to {finance=v}

Othello

1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers

1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers

He wraps leaves up (wordplay)

Printing-shop employe

Library menace (wordplay)

Librarian's bane?

Librarian's bane (wordplay)

It shows what stage you've got to in your romance

Around end of October person at races may be one beset by leaves

Shopkeeper hires Fitzgerald expressly

Vendor of volumes

Borders of old, for example

One fond of dining on tongue (wordplay)

Subservient one

Suck-up

Mole takes holiday by lake perhaps

Mole's holiday by river (wordplay)

Protection from shore erosion

Construction worker's course (wordplay)

Wall builder, maybe

Building trades worker

Strutting dancer

Certain dancer

Laborer making watch covers (wordplay)

Investigator of family problems, say

Social agency investigator

Large beetle

Large beetle destructive of vegetation - frock cache (anagram)

A worthless or despicable person; -- intended as disparaging and invariably offensive.

""A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Longshoreman

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

Guard of sorts

Reluctant car dealer (wordplay)

One on duty at building's entrance

Couturier or seamstress, perhaps

Fabric-cutting job

Jenny Wren was one.

Pigskin specialist of yore

Field goal attempter, once

RIGHT HAND (wordplay)

HAND that picks crops

Finnicky

Ramblin' Jack Elliott, for one

Pete Seeger, for example

Peter, Paul or Mary

G.I.'s small trunk

G.I.'s trunk

Soldier's stowage

Lady Chatterley's lover, for one

Lucky poacher (wordplay)

Breeder of birds for shooting

Entry attendant; butterfly

Doorman's kin

One of 18 that might take its toll (wordplay)

Bottle creator (2 words)

One whose job blows

Hugo Allen is such a footballer!

Competitor for the Vezina Trophy

Hockey player

Bird changing tack? Grouse!

Insect-eating bird such as the whippoorwill

He fits out miners

HANDWORK manual labor

One with a pick-up line (wordplay)

One looking for a free ride (wordplay)

Thumbs up for a seeker of cheap travel

Con artist

Deceptive one

"What's your sign?" perhaps

What's your sign? perhaps

Vacationer in Siberia (wordplay)

Laundry maid (wordplay)

Puddler approaching the green

Construction crew member

Manly pneumatic tool (wordplay)

Men's club craftsman (wordplay)

It pounds the pavement

Ring zinger (wordplay)

Zbigniew Brzezinski, for example

Really hard candy

Essential lodger, type who can type

Data-input pro

Tillie the Toiler

Unconsolidated form of diatomite

Royal angler (wordplay)

Alan and Carrie's bird (wordplay)

Bird of Carole and Carrie (wordplay)

Bereft of brilliance

Lacking brilliance or vitality

Like a rookie bootblack's efforts (wordplay)

Double-parker, for one.

One risking arrest

A crook or awl

Customer service agent (wordplay)

Ray Lewis, for one

Party policy enthusiast (wordplay)

Waterway worker has food in cupboard

Canal worker

Canal employee identified by hair and ring

Test God as Cupid (wordplay)

Dolly Levi, for one

Boxing's Don King (wordplay)

King Cole (wordplay)

King Cole?

One revels in tight score, getting runs

One that flies off shelves (wordplay)

Central bank breadwinner (wordplay)

Bread producer has a profitable business

Windows multimedia program

Goby sometimes found on the beach

Goby that might be found on the beach

Damaging allegations by captain bringing fish

Nitpicky

Arena handout, perhaps

Souvenir of New Year's Eve.

Item for a lively party.

One avoiding spirits

Dry sort of northern 1 Euros note across the sea

Stays away from the locals as has no interest in 14 down

SPEAKER one who {speaks=v}

Ball-breaker sounding sweet (wordplay)

Tchaikovsky's cocktail (wordplay)

High flier's suite (wordplay)

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance

The process or craft of making paper.

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

Indian pipe smoker (wordplay)

Indian pipe smoker?

Keep camera rolling for arbitrator

Peacocky

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Print-shop employee

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

Currier or Ives

20km Summer Olympian

One who tries to keep a step ahead (wordplay)

PACKAGER one that {packages=v}

""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""

Funambulist

Condiment holder on the table (2 words)

It's turned upside down when used

Half a dinner table duo

Fortune teller's lollipop (wordplay)

Someone looking a fool at the draper's

Cloth that's small for top of beer mug

Comparative adjective or agent noun

E.g. newsagent

Irish operator is such a person in trade

Little Nell's Grandfather, for example

""SKEDADDLE To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.""

Light infantry member

Skittery

Picture on a big-city postcard, perhaps

High-rise building (wordplay)

*Chicago's Sears Tower, for one

→ sidérurgiste m steel mill

STOCKPILE

*Sign of a typing mistake

Sloppy typing correction

Typing correction

One in charge of jobs (usually hard)

Imposer of hard work

Slave-driver teacher after a job

Fashion authority (see letters 3-6)

Fashion arbiter

Fashion VIP

Moving-picture (wordplay)

Picture of sorrow (wordplay)

Moving picture (wordplay)

Third game, perhaps

Sound of Asian wave? It's decisive

This may decide a Seles match

Watch the conductor

Watch or clock

One with a stopwatch

Hourly wage earner

Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place.

Dealer in illegal goods

One managing stiff ceremonies (wordplay)

One doing for the done for (wordplay)

One working on a plot

Unkindly

Unlikely

A wage earner.

Rolex, for example

Horologist to keep eye on manufacturer

He has time on his hands

Boring thing to hear (wordplay)

Club member getting birdie (wordplay)

Woody, e.g

Golfer with good club control (wordplay)

Furniture maker, for example

Furniture maker, e.g

""An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.""

MP without office

Rank and file MP

MP not holding office

Straw, to a camel (wordplay)

The last straw

Extremely strenuous task

SCATTER to disperse in all directions

Effusively friendly person

Cousin of a hail-fellow-well-met.

Hail-fellow-well-met.

False friend (Medical)

Treacherous person posing as a friend

Poor choice for a friend

Pacific slave ship

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Blacklist

Perry Mason's prey.

Criminal with dirt on someone

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

Big character (wordplay)

Popular film? Ban one about train robber

House wrecker's big brother

Clouds broke over Dracula, for one

Extortioner, one who sponges on another

Leech is one

Beer-and-whiskey cocktail

Whiskey with a beer chaser

Whiskey-beer combo

Breakfast

Oater villain who attacks from hiding

Western baddie

Oater ambusher

Percolator, machine for making hot drinks

Cloth cap (for a hunter?)

Voice of Bambi (wordplay)

Sherlock Holmes accessory

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

July 3rd purchase, perhaps

Snack for an arsonist (wordplay)

Fourth of July popper

Emporium employe.

Store supervisor

Supervisor in a large shop in North America

Forecheck

Sinatra's wiener (wordplay)

Type of sausage

Former Supreme Court member.

One having priceless ideas!

One who doesn't follow the crowd

He gets priceless ideas

Glasswork

""One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.""

Golf course maintainer

One looking after a golf course

Golf course employee

Perfect job for Dustin (wordplay)

Part 2 of the quote

I run home

""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.""

Part of hi-fi system

Part of a sound system

Sound projector

A blacksmith, for one

Robot (wordplay)

Eg, a blacksmith

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

Friction-reducing agent

One enforcing a truce

*One placed between warring parties

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

Person paid per item produced

Upright man (wordplay)

Any top-25 NFL career scoring leader

He knows how to score extra points

Charlatan

Lone Ranger's "Giddyap" (wordplay)

Liquid of sorts.

Fast money (wordplay)

Racetrack

Where angry drinkers meet (wordplay)

Where angry drinkers meet?

Basement bar in Bonn

Crook who doesn't need the combination

Thief of a sort

Fingernail filer, among criminals

Ball-game official

Summer (wordplay)

Game official

Clint at 300 A.M.?

Clint at 3:00 A.M. (wordplay)

We paler elks (anagram)

Knockout blow: Slang

Knockout blow Slang.

Slang A conclusive blow or remark.

Spacewalk

One with an interest in (say) society

One with an interest (in something)

Part-owner, say

Man in Bethlehem (wordplay)

Bridge builder

Wholesale plant grower or cattleman?

Dealer with bulls and bears.

Cher (wordplay)

Ranch owner (wordplay)

Reader of "quotations."

Owner of funds in a company

Former finance worker

Warehouse worker

Local retailer, maybe

* Mom or Pop, maybe

Stockholder (wordplay)

Exxon Valdez, for one

Nature's perk (anagram) - vessel

Large oil-carrying vessel

Thankful

Railroad worker.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Volkslied

Saxophonist's jacket (wordplay)

Chilly-weather wear

Sailor's jacket

Sage biscuit for a comedian

One-liner expert

Joker, quipster

One of the animal organisms constituting zooplankton.

TAKEOVER the act of assuming control

Background

Premier craftsman (wordplay)

Taoiseach perhaps builds up bureau

President's second career (wordplay)

""A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi). Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi).""

He makes sure the rough isn't too rough

One who uses a stimpmeter

Golf course maintenance person

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Sigmund Freud to some (wordplay)

Certain analyst, slangily

Fickle lover having courage to wave

One who causes overwhelming distress

Narrow defeat, for example

Travel agent perhaps is taking a break

Tourist in rank beset by wild blow

Feast day for God and tourist