2-Letter Words Ending in R

Like an aperitif

PREEMPT to acquire by prior right

One who prefers.

HEATER an apparatus for heating

JUDGER one who {judges=v}

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

NUMBER to {count=v}

span>Minister from cabinet

Church elder

Church minister

Awards show host, perhaps

Here she rules over us, the shower!

Perhaps do nor as one for the show

Thing on a big boat (with "life")

He keeps quiet about the waiter

A keeper before a waiter

James Stuart, for one

Not a genuine claimant (wordplay)

Claimant (to a throne)

What Smokey wants you to be, re forest fires

Obviator

Online photo album feature

Prickly

Ship quietly corroded in stream

Vessel's solitary lug pronounced

Type of armed ship.

Teacher, or friend of Gilligan

Issuer of legal writs.

Computer hardware item

Four-time role for Patrick Stewart

Member of an academic faculty

University department head

Will he make too much of it (wordplay)

Scalp tickets, for example

Charge too much

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Plan alternative cinema equipment

Slide-showing device

Film-showing machine

""One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.""

Screw (on a boat)

Jack's screwdriver (wordplay)

Fit retaining 45-inch screw

PROPEL to drive forward

""A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province.""

English word

""One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.""

Expert + sleuth + peak

Knight, to a damsel

Guard for Commonwealth head of state

Person in a sit-in, say

Member of the mob (wordplay)

SAT administrator, by trade (wordplay)

Placard carrier, maybe

Member of the mob (wordplay)

One who disagrees Var.

Concept in cosmology

Not an amateur food seller (wordplay)

Dry food for beasts

Supplies spin round seller in US

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

Eg Jonathan Cape or Hamish Hamilton

Bookmaker in bar spilled relish

Budding author's pursuit

Puckery

He pulls the strings.

A dog always welcomes favourite

Burr Tillstrom, for example

Patron has ship's officer storing tea

Tea break for cashier and buyer

One who buys something

Cleaner hides meat from thief

Cleaner hiding joint she's stolen

Promote president to pram

Reportedly pedal president's buggy

Baby transport

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

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

Worker who positively impacts an urban environment

Customer of a public utility

One called upon to face a local charge

Contributor to local council funds

Fix up old walls

Patch a wall or ceiling.

""A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again.""

PRESSOR a substance that raises blood pressure

One who reprints.

Obeyer, as of laws

Person paying homage to sceptre representing the queen

One replying or reacting

Pen pal, at times

First one on the scene

Naturally occurring potassium nitrate

Another name for potassium nitrate

Ingredient in fireworks

Alternative to a plane (wordplay)

Abrasive sheet (DIY)

Wood-smoothing aid

Desert musician (wordplay)

Snipe's cousin

Small wading bird

It might be yellow-bellied

Yellow-bellied bird

Seedy cakes spur woodpecker

Mollusk gatherer

More combative

Scrimpy

Opera star (anagram)

What keeps things apart

It divides cream and milk

Burial chamber

Hairdresser finds spectacles in small basket

Heels, pair becoming more elegant

Evoking more "hubba-hubbas"

More likely to be watched

Device for making a point (wordplay)

Gadget on the cutting edge (wordplay)

It makes a point or edge

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)

Shrimpy

SHUNPIKE to travel on sideroads to avoid expressways

Teen party, maybe

Stay with a friend, say

Preteens' party, maybe

Here are Le Pew's pajamas

Retirement attire

Slimpsy

False alibi (wordplay)

Chair upholstery item

False alibi?

Spangly

Sparkly

Special

One setting down requirements

A model inspector at cricket, say ...

Playing to the crowd (wordplay)

One to watch!

Jensen, perhaps: a car for the fleet

Fast car (or driver)

'50s Porsche 356 roadster variant

Cave man (wordplay)

Explorer of sorts

One exploring deeply (wordplay)

Riddler endlessly chattering, loathing lost muscle

Muscle inclined to pinch with rest - stopped up

Body part in a "Wayne's World" joke used to get the other guy to say "What?"

Spidery

Unexpected by-product

Go past the rim

Unexpected consequence

Built more like Ichabod Crane

Longer and thinner

More thin and frail

Sail suited to Shane Warne (wordplay)

Racing yacht's large triangular sail.

Sail that looks kinda like a parachute

More ostentatious

Mountains (spelled backward) + Less bold = (wordplay)

Spleeny

Odds on usurer heard to show richness

Show way to spend our pound inside

Half-hearted hostility and dismal dazzle

Splurgy

1989's word: Plunderer

Sprawly

Spriggy

A spaniel without one is more resilient

More elastic

More likely to bounce back, more like May might you say (wordplay)

Device for lawn owners.

Device for watering

"Let-us-spray" device

One who explodes vocally

Bridge player at club showing hesitation to one who speaks incoherently

Messy part (anagram) - M (wordplay)

Bond's M, perhaps

George Smiley, for one

Calgary rodeo rider, perhaps

Panicker of steers.

When Peter's mad he panics

More argumentative

More bad tempered and argumentative (colloq.)

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

What the champ may become

Exalted rank of Rooney, for instance

*The Carpenters vs. Lupe Fiasco

A muscle which produces the motion of supination.

May help to keep the team up!

Fan of champion (wordplay)

A fan of drink (beer)

Giver of a certain party

Buy-one-get-one-free item (wordplay)

He puts off getting a hanger (wordplay)

This hold up could bring up redness

SUSPENSE a state of mental uncertainty or excitement

A suspensory.

Gabriel, for one

One of a band of elephants (wordplay)

Instrumentalist - type of swan

COUPLER one that {couples=v}

Not as content

Sadder, more miserable

More bummed

Off the charts (wordplay)

Eliciting boos, perhaps

Bargain hunter's lure

STOPPER to {plug=v}

UPBRAID to reproach severely

Give padding and cover (wordplay)

Build a sofa, say

Work on chair, say, with higher armrest

Pharmaceutical delivery device

Periodical for climbers (wordplay)

Item of home decor

Decorative covering in one's room

Hushed speaker

London colonel carries fashionable weight

What George has (wordplay)

It's used to break a habit

Resolve; self-control

One in a congregation

Big cat person, maybe (wordplay)

Creature comforter (wordplay)

Cagey guy (wordplay)

""A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in c\'best. c\'best.""

One who makes an apology; an apologist.

Nail polish brush, for example

Cosmetician's device.

Device used as a swab.

Water-skier's next of kin

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

He's debased (wordplay)

Fieldstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Musician at a dance (wordplay)

Agent noun (-or)

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.""

Rebel MP has reformed, so he swears!

One who reviles

Impious one

Library menace (wordplay)

Librarian's bane?

Librarian's bane (wordplay)

Ruling (or, more modestly, intelligence)

Support presiding wisdom

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

Person on a trail

Man running for office.

Party man in action.

CAPTIVATE To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

One who wants in on the deal

One holds hands during the game

World Series participant

Hold copper (anagram)

Clumsy person (wearing heavy shoes?)

Ultralight balloon (wordplay)

COMPOSER one who writes music

Peddler of Bibles, tracts, etc.

Pedlar disconcerted poor cutler

Pedlar of religious works

An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.

Rival clubs promote changes covering it

Sporting contest entrant

Entrant in race scheming to crop time

Member of the "cavil-ry"?

Member of the "cavil-ry" (wordplay)

Faultfinding type

Mulch over first person or typesetter

Print shop employee

Newspaper employe.

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

Impeller on a jet engine

Supercharger

Leading Romanian composer's work with a forceful air

One working with another

Man of the day, a high point for team member (wordplay)

One working together with old film star and another caught out

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

PRISONER one that is imprisoned

PRODUCER one that {produces=v}

PROMOTER one who {promotes=v}

Keeps the paper united with impression of custodian

An editor who prepares text for publication.

Producer of text for ad

Public relations position

Author who wrote pricy composition

""A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.""

Ranch worker to show fear taking blow

One who's at home on the range

Vaquero "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" (nonverbal)

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

DEADPAN to act without emotion

One who deciphers.

COMPOSER one who writes music

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

""Computer Science A word, phrase, or alphanumeric character used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system.""

One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

One who blames or dispraises.

Wasteful father (wordplay)

Guard of sorts

Reluctant car dealer (wordplay)

One on duty at building's entrance

Pigskin specialist of yore

Field goal attempter, once

Business machine.

ENCIPHER to write in a secret code

EPIGRAPH an engraved inscription

""EUPHEMIZE To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.""

Device that turns liquid to gas

Air conditioner component

Fridge device

One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

Count on him to find the dirty bits

One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.

Medicine-cabinet gadget

Liquid dispenser

Pipette kin

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Confusion about right climbing plant for each insect

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)

Student of Earth's features

Person studying the physical aspects of the earth

It will help smooth things over

One looking to get around a girl parking - a real smoothie!

Hugo Allen is such a footballer!

Competitor for the Vezina Trophy

Hockey player

Cheer pilot going off in this (wordplay)

Igor Ivan Sikorsky's 1939 good idea

Sikorsky's brainchild

""A white or tan powder, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , formerly used as a pesticide, that is highly toxic to humans and is a suspected carcinogen.""

Seven-foot line

7-foot line

A bit lucky, perhaps, for Half a Sixpence

Equine political demand?

Hack's capacity for work (wordplay)

Engine's stable capacity (wordplay)

Hydroelectric power.

A verse which has a redundant syllable or foot; a hypercatalectic verse.

CENTER to place at the middle point

""An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.""

Trafficker retains a French solicitor

International dealer retains a French pimp

Licence in publishing

License to publish.

"Let it be printed."

One winging it

Demon dog is bound to be one deviating imaginatively (wordplay)

One able to wing it is person getting better all round

""IMPROVISE To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.""

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

Nile porter disturbed uninvited guest

Person who meddles in others' affairs

Bury's runner, one entering uninvited

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

Tillie the Toiler

Moe (wordplay)

Job that involves cutting

He may make the earth move

Plant pest.

Waterway worker has food in cupboard

Canal worker

Canal employee identified by hair and ring

Botany A minute opening in the ovule of a seed plant through which the pollen tube usually enters.

Goby sometimes found on the beach

Goby that might be found on the beach

Damaging allegations by captain bringing fish

The "3" in "6 x 3 = 18"

Young producer, calculating type

Device for intensifying some effect

Like most brain neurons

Agitated till our MP pens article with numerous extreme points

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Nitpicky

SPEAKER one who {speaks=v}