2-Letter Words Ending in R

Cleaner hides meat from thief

Cleaner hiding joint she's stolen

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

One loving relations (wordplay)

Baron Munchhausen, for one

Doctor ran to cure storyteller

Olajuwon, for example

Hoopster, at times

""To conquer again; to recover by conquest; as, to reconquer a revolted province. as, to reconquer a revolted province.""

CONTOUR to make the outline of

COUNTER to {oppose=v}

One who recovers.

Mirror (not a good one?)

Mirror or similar object

Type of telescope

Galileo's telescope, for one

Telescope type

Telescope that uses a lens as the primary focusing element

REGRESS to go back

Governor's time over, wearing uniform

Such as OFGAS, OFTEL etc

Government watchdog

About to connect the German answer

Quick, witty reply

Sharp or witty reply

One who abdicates

One who sacrifices personal ambition.

One who repudiates.

Old home owner, often

One who restores

Carpenter, at times

PRESSOR a substance that raises blood pressure

QUESTOR a Roman magistrate

Area for storage, of water say

River rose, spawning a lake maybe

Source of liquid assets (wordplay)

Resolute

It echoes some features on a tortoise

Small auxiliary muffler

Device for enhancing oscillations

One replying or reacting

Pen pal, at times

First one on the scene

Spot remover (wordplay)

Mechanism that furls seat belt

15 14 on farm vehicle

One holding back a muscle

One who makes a revelation; a revealer.

Device for indicating speed of blood circulation

Instrument for measuring velocity of flow.

Instrument for measuring a current of fluid

Willy Ley, for one

Technician at NASA

Gagarin or Glenn

Falstaff, for one

One can disturb retirer so!

Terrorise drunken reveller

Billy's "Aquacade" pool?

The scent when the tide came in perhaps

Billy's "Aquacade" pool (wordplay)

Pertaining to a rostellum.

""(Physics / General Physics)™ a device used for measuring the flow of a fluid. It consists of a small float supported in a tapering glass by the flow of the fluid, the height of the float indicating the rate of flow""

Cud chewer

What's odd in a politician, almost the thinker (wordplay)

Less rapid rapids? (letters 4-7)

Thistle-like plant cultivated in India

SALIVATE to secrete saliva

See Salimeter. Salimeter.

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

Savoury

Mollusk gatherer

""One who takes advantage of the generosity of others, also SHNORRER""

Scroggy

An appealing sponge (wordplay)

New surgeon accepting credit is sponge

He mooches

Opera star (anagram)

What keeps things apart

It divides cream and milk

Shadowy

Preferable for new swimmers

One will not be so deeply in debt

Comparatively superficial

Hairdresser finds spectacles in small basket

Onassis, perhaps, captive in the sun (wordplay)

Transport magnate's shown ripe bananas

At sea, person with less time to find big fish in the main (wordplay)

One working at court (wordplay)

Oxford man (wordplay)

Oxford's last worker (wordplay)

In gambling one who causes the odds to become less

Abridger

Pet that doesn't need much brushing, say

Feature of a crew cut.

Result of a buzz cut

Duck person doing spadework

Duck swimming over shell

He clears the way while getting over shell shock

Machine for training, eg, pilots

Device replicating external conditions

Flight training equipment

SKIBOB to travel in a sleigh-type vehicle over snow

Teen party, maybe

Stay with a friend, say

Preteens' party, maybe

False alibi (wordplay)

Chair upholstery item

False alibi?

One who slobbers.

A coiner of catchphrases

Ad agency specialist

Speaker of trite phrases

Slouchy

Sloughy

Vacationer, at times

Certain underwater explorer

Club Med vacationer, at times

Machine on the slopes

One who travels on snowshoes; an expert in using snowshoes.

In the USA, farmer who works the soil

Plow, for example

Farmer who works the soil

Like some books

Paperback book

Temporary resident

Traveler, 7/4/1997

Mars

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

Shakespeare, for one

One for fourteen a time

Youth by net always supports linesman

A model inspector at cricket, say ...

Playing to the crowd (wordplay)

One to watch!

Unexpected by-product

Go past the rim

Unexpected consequence

Odds on usurer heard to show richness

Show way to spend our pound inside

Half-hearted hostility and dismal dazzle

1989's word: Plunderer

Radio DJ's other job (wordplay)

Paper pusher (wordplay)

Pencil pusher (wordplay)

Jurassic Park resident (wordplay)

Ex-herbivore with bony plates

Large, extinct herbivore

Former article of dress

Decoration worn to marches

Decorative panel on front of gown or bodice

More argumentative

More bad tempered and argumentative (colloq.)

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

Deskman scattered doubters around Italy

One proof-reads writers' copy

Newspaper checker

SECTOR to divide into sections

SUBSOIL to plow the layer of earth below the surface

Hit men - one coming after you!

Follower (in post)

Eisenhower to Truman.

Tramp (Australian) - drink (British)

Star needs relaxant - a timely drink

Drink that's the opposite of 5, on paper

Star bloomer (wordplay)

Symbol of Kansas

Symbol of Kansas.

A muscle which produces the motion of supination.

May help to keep the team up!

Fan of champion (wordplay)

A fan of drink (beer)

A suspensory.

Performer with a sword

Reader of punch cards

Facility on word-processor or typewriter

Abacus, for example

TAMBOUR to embroider on a round wooden frame

TENSION to make strained

Scientist, at times

Other art, I suspect, is rougher

More guttural

Tailless dog with weirdo half ignored by strangler

One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.

Semiconductor device; I try short (anagram)

Semiconductor device

""A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady.""

Person not apt to discriminate

Understanding person

No bigot

Instrument for measuring pitch; not remote (anagram)

Of the glands at the root of the tongue

Relating to items noticed during oral examination (wordplay)

Motor leak (anagram)

Black & Decker is one

Certain machinist

""One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.""

Troll chaps found in Twin Peaks

Bully backing rubbish teacher

People in Twin Peaks a cause of pain

Adding machine.

It makes three of one

Three-way divider

""Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye. as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye.""

COUPLER one that {couples=v}

Ungodly

Uniform

Off the charts (wordplay)

Eliciting boos, perhaps

Bargain hunter's lure

Unsound

STOPPER to {plug=v}

Give padding and cover (wordplay)

Build a sofa, say

Work on chair, say, with higher armrest

Pharmaceutical delivery device

Regulating the diameter of blood vessels

Priest saying Mass, for example

Deeply respectful one.

Respectful one

English word

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

Electrical engineer's tool

Will give one current measure

Elector arrests lieutenant, this person showing measure of force

An instrument for measuring the volumes of gases or liquids by introducing them into a vessel of known capacity.

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

Product manufacturer, at times

Any body (wordplay)

Legalistic pronoun

Anyone.

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.""

""WOEFUL full of grief, also WOFUL, WOEFULLER, WOEFULLEST""

Don Juan

Womanly

More sophisticated

One in a congregation

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

Big cat person, maybe (wordplay)

Creature comforter (wordplay)

Cagey guy (wordplay)

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

ABSTRACT to draw away

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

One who acquires.

One who admonishes.

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

Current-generating car part

Dodge Charger charger

Auto part introduced by Chrysler in 1960

Later, he got drunk (completely)

Entirely in the natural state (wordplay)

Great hotel renovated completely

David K. E. Bruce, for one

Bunker, for one.

One who's goodwill hunting (wordplay)

One receiving measured blows (wordplay)

Meaner to me (anagram)

Kid's science project, maybe

Armored beast of old

Previous incumbent

Forerunner.

Forerunner

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.

Grieve or Dascoli

Independent settler of dispute

Person authorized to decide a dispute.

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

Expert on moving house (wordplay)

Charter for 11 (wordplay)

House examiner (wordplay)

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)

Alexander Graham Bell invention

Otologist's instrument

Otology instrument

Granter of a privilege.

One who sanctions an action

Big Three employee

BANKROLL to {finance=v}

Shakespearean fan

Agent noun (-or)

Showy blossom

Flared plant

Campanula.

One who raised the foundation

Eleemosynar, for example

Supporter's complaint about new player

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.""

Othello

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h

Winter Olympics competitor

Winter Olympian who may go 90 m.p.h.

Wave catcher

NCO arranged raid in Lancaster, maybe

Canadian snowmobile inventor

Crowd round pub ride off with soldier

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

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

Salesman of sorts.

One running for work (wordplay)

Speak-easy supplier

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)

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.

BULLDOG to wrestle and throw a steer

A collar cut off for summer (wordplay)

The button counter (wordplay)

Arithmetician's gadget

Zodiacal adjustor (wordplay)

CAPTIVATE To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

Choke's locale

It mixes air with gasoline

Fuel-injector ancestor

Name on a Visa

Place to keep your 'plastic'

Place to keep your "plastic"

Laborer making watch covers (wordplay)

Investigator of family problems, say

Social agency investigator

Severe critic to have fresh go at racist

One who makes a listing or inventory

Lynx becomes list maker

He should make the list

A photoelectric instrument for ascertaining cloud heights.

New Year's Eve figure.

Jubilant one

Dec. 31 figure

Lucky rollover for 20 (wordplay)

Govt. finance minister

German head's luck with press spin

When tennis players meet in transition

Shifting of position.

Workplace activity, sometimes

Her erotica (anagram)

Ben Hur, for one

Ben Hur (wordplay)

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

One who enters the services

Regular worshipper

A pious type, Winston, fit to move the queen

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.""