2-Letter Words Ending in R

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.

BUTTONHOLE The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

One who calumniates.

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

Measure of light emitted

CP, to a physicist

Measure of luminosity

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""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

Palm reader

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Same as Chronologist. Chronologist.

Metal casing on timer? No, I'm timer

Instrument measuring time

Watch to find the enemy's position

Revolving about or surrounding the moon.

""GENERATOR One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.""

Sports match reporter

One who reports on sports event

Broadcaster describing sports events

""One who, or that which, compensates; a name applied to various mechanical devices.""

Eg, prommer

One in stalls possibly put Queen on to sure thing in African republic

Banker entering African country: I'm doubtful he likes live music

One who mediates

One acting as mediator

Hair improver

Hair application

Salon item

One who confiscates.

CONGREGATE Collected; compact; close.

One who hypothesizes

He goes to galleries.

Knowledgeable art-lover

Expert judge of taste

One who consecrates; one who performs the rites by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes.

One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.

Member of a cabal.

Planner in secret

Person who secretly plots with others

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

David Alfred Bywaters, as to this crossword

Builder

CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

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

One who contravenes.

One sending in articles for publication

One writing for, eg, magazine

Donor, giver

Person who prepares deeds for transference of property

Harmonizer.

Shrub in bed with a single flower

Garden shrub related to the hawthorn

Seen in the garden bed, a single flower

Like letters in SOS and COUSCOUS

NITRIFIER An agent employed in nitrification.

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

Salt remover

Punishment imposer

Free from busmen drunk with cider

Dumbfound

Power-measuring instrument

Instrument for measuring force

Engine output measuring machine

... 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

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.""

Ko-Ko was high as this lord!

One carrying out death sentence

Hangman, for example

"", One who practices extortion.""

Petty nagger

Nitpicker

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.

Sinatra's wiener (wordplay)

Type of sausage

Former Supreme Court member.

One who fraternizes.

One having priceless ideas!

One who doesn't follow the crowd

He gets priceless ideas

Large mosquito

Biting insect

One who takes general or comprehensive views

Rig vote in plant across railway

*Rearrange electoral districts

He seeks a political advantage

Man at home in D.C. (wordplay)

Tiny insect-eating bird

Insect-eating bird

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

An old-timer (wordplay)

Relative U clock

Clock or clause

Rose Kennedy to John Jr.

Rose Kennedy to John Jr.

Proverbially competent egg sucker

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

Fruit and veg merchant

A certain storekeeper.

Muslim month of fasting

Golf course maintainer

One looking after a golf course

Golf course employee

Greenmail

Moisture found in rocks or soil

Spring source

Aquifer contents

One who deals with books

Job involving prediction

Race-track habitue

""Clasping and squeezing of the hands, often in distress.""

Heroic operatic voice

Wagnerian male voice

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.""

English word

Newly-wed on holiday (wordplay)

Newlywed, right after the reception

Post-nuptial holidaymaker

One who richly decorates manuscripts

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.

One who manipulates

""MESHUGGE crazy, also MESHUGA, MESHUGAH, MESHUGGA""

""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

Driving at a very high speed, perhaps

Minor crime

Ms. Behavior

MISSIONIZE

Generous magazine subscriber (wordplay)

One with a special interest (wordplay)

Shylock, for example

MONOGRAM to mark with one's initials

Having only one nucleus: a mononuclear cell.

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

MOURNFUL expressing grief or sorrow

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Cagliostro, for one.

Ruth, the sorceress (wordplay)

Sauron, with an affair at the heart (wordplay)

""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.

One who calls persons or things by their names.

ATTENDER one who is attentive

BELIEVER one who {believes=v}

Not made up of or divided into cells. Opposite of cellular.cellular.

CIRCULAR a leaflet

COMPOSER one who writes music

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

CONSUMER one who {consumes=v}

COPLANAR on the same plane

CUSTOMER one who buys something

GRANULAR composed of granules

SECRETOR one that {secretes=v}

Destitute of vessels; extravascular.

Storm from the Atlantic, perhaps

Wind blowing towards the southwest

A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind.

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

""That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Motel patron, usually

Overspend

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Partition

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

One who personifies.

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

""PIGEONHOLE A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.""

Containing many nuclei.

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Appreciate the best (wordplay)

Appreciate the victor (wordplay)

One gaining award

Tester of a person's conduct

One on trial in post

Offender on conditional release

Of a Roman official

Provision

Make strategic survey of land

Keep tabs on the enemy

Survey an enemy position

A four-shaped, perhaps

Regal cat run (anagram) - right-angled

Of a certain shape.

All in straight lines

Moving in straight lines

Consisting of straight lines

""ENCOUNTER To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.""

Reformer's golden age described by viceroy in North

REJUVENATE To render young again.

One who pays

ORGANIZER One who organizes.

One who replenishes.

Gymgoer with a grievance? (PR issue 1)

""One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated.""

Dirt spreader

Gossip

Quidnunc

A salimeter.

Paper tool (wordplay)

Surface-cleaning tool

High-pressure abrasive tool

An alarming person

One spreading worrying rumours

Spreader of frightening rumours

One who scrutinizes.

""Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One using only a half pipe (wordplay)

One flipping out on slopes (wordplay)

Half-pipe performer

SNOWMOBILE

Labor Day orator, perhaps

A dynamic speaker, for example

Big hit on the lecture circuit

Clear quaff

Cooler drink

Perrier product

Tolerate a sideshow barker (wordplay)

Opponent of change in policy.

Conservative Colloq

""A substance that irritates the nasal and respiratory passages and causes coughing, sneezing, lacrimation, and sometimes vomiting.""

Secret society member in an episode of "The Simpsons"

Secret society member in an episode of 'The Simpsons'

One playing for time

One who is continually evasive to block progress

Defensive batsman, one playing for time with one wicket in hand

Foot-weary citizen.

Type of passenger.

Subway rider without a seat

Ship that's up a creek (wordplay)

Covering for a river bed

TGV, for instance

To supply; to afford.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Exxon Valdez, for one

Nature's perk (anagram) - vessel

Large oil-carrying vessel

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.