2-Letter Words Ending in R

Off the charts (wordplay)

Eliciting boos, perhaps

Bargain hunter's lure

Unquiet

Less prepared to find one immersed in a French textbook

Unsound

Unstable

STOPPER to {plug=v}

One applying a gloss to wood and nails

Priest saying Mass, for example

Deeply respectful one.

Respectful one

""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.""

One with a game face, maybe (wordplay)

One raising a hand (TN)

Raise your hand, perhaps

Scrap-merchant (wordplay)

Scrap merchant (wordplay)

21 person, not far off, possibly a goner

""One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers.""

Product manufacturer, at times

Person on a quick vacation, maybe

Guest of a sort.

Bag for a short trip

Willing

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

Writer in residence's last novel is more gloomy

Don Juan

Womanly

Wrinkly

As clue for 'rode', it's a bad 'un!

Red gown or shift for malefactor

Possible clue to 'erod being a sinner

Child's potty gone rusty

Turning grey? Not us - nor him

Person of tender years

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

Manage publicity for one in church

Run as 'today's politician' (wordplay)

Pastor who pitches (wordplay)

One who admonishes.

Man of derring-do

Many a Jules Verne protagonist

Soldier of fortune.

Current-generating car part

Dodge Charger charger

Auto part introduced by Chrysler in 1960

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Armored beast of old

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

""Zoology A small antenna or similar organ, especially one of the first pair of small antennae on the head of a crustacean.""

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}

Water-skier's next of kin

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

Electronic signal weakener

Electric signal diminisher

Device reducing signal strength

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

A gift for dishonesty (wordplay)

Red Nah for a bribe at court (wordplay)

Bribe (in court?)

One who must face the music (wordplay)

Arm or rubber (wordplay)

Glenn or Mitch Miller

Samba trend (anagram)

Sousa or Alexander, for example

Conductor decorated stand with amber

BANKROLL to {finance=v}

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

One who uses blandishments.

Promise to take case, as tends to be fireproof in this country!

Union offers support to one that never gets burned in this place (wordplay)

Investor

Could he make broken nose better (wordplay)

Cured one's inside, though no doctor (wordplay)

Unqualified treater of fractures in times past

He wraps leaves up (wordplay)

Printing-shop employe

Ruling (or, more modestly, intelligence)

Support presiding wisdom

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

BRIGHTEN to make {bright=adj}

Jurassic giant

Early vegetarian sausage primarily out - or bran flakes (wordplay)

Obsequious person

Obsequious student

Brother right to cover own nose for obsequious person

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

Backwoodsman in awful rush in clapped-out car

So two heads of state spoke across the Atlantic? That's criminal!

Former US president meeting forest officer, backwoodsman

""Wood A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazelbrown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood. Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.""

CALENDER to smooth by pressing between rollers

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

A nicer bear mauled sharpshooter

Soldier calling about a container

Cavalry soldier

""CARABINE a carbon compound, also CARABIN""

He keeps moving house

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.

Daring sportsman (wordplay)

U.S. space shuttle

Professor in Doyle novels.

Lucky rollover for 20 (wordplay)

Govt. finance minister

German head's luck with press spin

Lighting up (wordplay)

Is it involving candle hire (wordplay)

The light fantastic (wordplay)

When tennis players meet in transition

Shifting of position.

Workplace activity, sometimes

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

Film buff, say, could make one grimace

I see picture blur once image runs

One sees pictures to make one grimace

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

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

""INVENTOR one who invents, also INVENTER""

INVESTOR one who {invests=v}

Take by force

Take by force.

Forcibly take mad McEnroe away

Member of the "cavil-ry"?

Member of the "cavil-ry" (wordplay)

Faultfinding type

""One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines. as, a compounder of medicines.""

Black-eyed Susan.

Prairie blossom

One who confounds.

Defiant one.

Did he get the building bug (wordplay)

Party to an agreement

His work is constructive

It's a game changer

One holding the reins

Officer who checks expenditures.

One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.

PRISONER one that is imprisoned

Catholic sect keeps wagon for shoemaker

Old shoemaker in business with change in drawer

Scented foot-growth (wordplay)

Scented foot-growth?

Hokey Bloomer (wordplay)

TRANSFER to move from one place to another

Member of a county administration

Adviser; a senior diplomat

Breakdown specialist

Adviser

17th century fighter for the Kirk

One wanting religious liberty? Witches aren't different

The party who makes a covenant.

Ranch worker to show fear taking blow

One who's at home on the range

Vaquero "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" (nonverbal)

DEADPAN to act without emotion

""One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.""

One who defames

Character assassin

He nominates doctor, one Greats don

One who classifies or defines

One allocating tasks, for example

Something decisive to put off man in pit

Decision maker

One concluding check on underground worker

One's out to make reductions

ENDOWER one who {endows=v}

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity.

Distinct

Same as Distrainor. Distrainor.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Doggoned

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

DOWNHILL a downward slope

DOWNSTATE

DOWNTOWN the business district of a city

User of outdoor air to reduce energy consumption

Heat making airmen toil

Device supplying current to a battery

"Legs" ZZ Top album

""One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.""

""Either of a pair of optical isomers of a chemical substance whose molecules are mirror images of each other, i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.""

ENCIPHER to write in a secret code

""One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer.""

""One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.""

Report topless camper seen around Bognor (wordplay)

Record.

Online counter (wordplay)

One who counts out

Census Bureau employee

One who enunciates or proclaims.

One who extenuates.

FANTASIZE

Headgear fashionable to Africans

Knot a scarf into eye-catching headgear

Ladies' headdress

""A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.""

FICTION an invented or false story

Finnicky

Sole trader on the 24 (wordplay)

Sole distributor (wordplay)

Sole trader (wordplay)

One from the prairie

Prairie resident

Ramblin' Jack Elliott, for one

Pete Seeger, for example

Peter, Paul or Mary

Digit for pointing

Digit next to the thumb

Is on hand to forge finer settlement

... about going into back of athlete"s Herald

Mention of boundary by horse in field for trailer (wordplay)

Father is more entertaining around two hospital areas

""An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.""

FOURTEEN a number

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Day-rate charger, perhaps

Outside worker (wordplay)

Charitable surgeon (wordplay)

Familiar face

Habitue.

More favorable.

More amicable

Drunk diner, one moving quickly around, becoming more affectionate (wordplay)

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

GANGBANG successive copulations of one person by many others

US agent involved with nugget bars

Bane of organized criminals

A great boaster; a blusterer.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

GILLNET to catch fish in a gillnet

Patrick Roy for one

Patrick Roy for one

Guidance counselor (wordplay)

""An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes.""

""GRANULATE To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal. as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.""

Smilax

One adept at drawing (wordplay)

Billy the Kid, for one

Top drawer that opens up first (wordplay)

*Expert at drawing (wordplay)

Armed man turns friendly? Stick around!

Shooting star (wordplay)

HANDWORK manual labor

Barbershop quartet man

Barbershop-quartet member

Job for Edith and Kim (wordplay)

Lettuce-picker's other job (wordplay)

Executive searcher (wordplay)

Heavenly

Amphibian in box by shelter

Large salamander

Animal with a winter home

Confidence man

Native of north or west Scotland, a Gael

Scot's exam covering state of Germany

Classy boat for a mountain sailor (wordplay)

Term of endearment by one consuming bird

Bird with a long, protrusible tongue

Bird of the South Pacific

Con artist

Deceptive one

CENTER to place at the middle point

A person or thing that establishes the identity of someone or something

Trafficker retains a French solicitor

International dealer retains a French pimp

One who inculcates.

Indecent

Innocent

Immunity bestower of sorts

Doctor, at times

One who vaccinates

Excessively harsh questioner

One in search of heretics

Torquemada was one

His gibes are snide

Artful gossip

""A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2. Injector, n., 2.""

Riot-causing reptile (wordplay)

One who initiates (something)

Starter prepared by roasting it

An institutor.

""One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes.""

Teacher measures hill after short climb

One who makes the grade

He trains this month with old policemen by the hill

One combining things

One used to find value in calculus objective written up in cast iron

Instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure

One who intercedes; an intercessor; a mediator.

Meddler.

""FIBER a threadlike cell or filament, also FIBRE""

LAYER to form a single thickness

One making a coat warmer, say

Nile porter disturbed uninvited guest

Person who meddles in others' affairs

Bury's runner, one entering uninvited

At the dark of the moon.

A time of invisibility from Margaret Atwood

Of the interval when the moon is invisible.

""One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties.""

Bury disabled archdeacon - he got in the way

Peacemaker, perhaps, put in grave situation, never agitated

""INTERVENE To come between, or to be between, persons or things; followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa. between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.""

He makes acquaintances

Variety show emcee, for example

Operator of a metal plant

Abraham Darby's remains rot, sadly

He's nuts!

Seller of metal goods

Dealer in household goods

Laundry maid (wordplay)

Puddler approaching the green

Construction crew member

Tillie the Toiler

Royal angler (wordplay)

Alan and Carrie's bird (wordplay)

Bird of Carole and Carrie (wordplay)

Noble dessert (wordplay)

Tirami su cake

Common item in a trifle's cake layer

One who takes the field (wordplay)

Man of property

One with a lot

Not a seafaring type!

Sea fearer (wordplay)

One with no experience of the sea

Moe (wordplay)

Job that involves cutting

He may make the earth move

LANGLAUF a cross-country ski run

One who languishes.

Vacuum-cleaner pipe, for example