2-Letter Words Ending in R

Letting in more air

Having more wind? Hardier gut possibly wanted!

King and I separately welcomed by child needing more protection from blows

DROUGHT a dry period

Figuratively, a publicity man.

A little lift for Manuel, maybe

High-rise convenience, perhaps

Inept eatery server (wordplay)

Business machine.

A muscle which helps ejaculation.

One who makes clear

He explains cryptic clue to arid characters

""ELUTRIATE To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing. as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.""

Photographer's agent

I'm sure life in storm is wetter

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

Online counter (wordplay)

One who counts out

Census Bureau employee

One who enunciates or proclaims.

An instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases; so named because frequently used to determine the purity of the air.

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

Count on him to find the dirty bits

One who extenuates.

""Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root. as, a fascicular root.""

Fearful

Block the passage, so to speak

Delaying tactic to obstruct legislation

Intransigent senator's tactic

One who flourishes.

FLUORESCE

""Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.""

... 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

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

FOURTEEN a number

Familiar face

Habitue.

US agent involved with nugget bars

Bane of organized criminals

English word

Bird changing tack? Grouse!

Insect-eating bird such as the whippoorwill

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

He fits out miners

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)

Boat for stylists (wordplay)

Trimmer, perhaps

Barber.

Job for Edith and Kim (wordplay)

Lettuce-picker's other job (wordplay)

Executive searcher (wordplay)

Heating system attachment.

Mister in the bedroom

Trafficker retains a French solicitor

International dealer retains a French pimp

Licence in publishing

License to publish.

"Let it be printed."

One who inculcates.

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

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

At the dark of the moon.

A time of invisibility from Margaret Atwood

Of the interval when the moon is invisible.

He makes acquaintances

Variety show emcee, for example

Tillie the Toiler

Unconsolidated form of diatomite

Bereft of brilliance

Lacking brilliance or vitality

Like a rookie bootblack's efforts (wordplay)

Not a seafaring type!

Sea fearer (wordplay)

One with no experience of the sea

LANGLAUF a cross-country ski run

One who languishes.

Biconvex

Settler of an estate.

Property settler.

What to relax in

Oversized sweats, for example

Comfy clothes for around the house

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

""A large letter, either capital or uncial, used in writing or printing.""

Lower jaw-related

Of the lower jaw

Relating to the jaw featured in bird manual

Dodger (wordplay)

Having a background with a pattern of flowers and plants.

Goby sometimes found on the beach

Goby that might be found on the beach

Damaging allegations by captain bringing fish

Coffeehouse employee (wordplay)

One making accusations

Campaigner of a sort

""Having many, or several, colors.""

Like onions

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

Agent noun (-or)

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

Ball-breaker sounding sweet (wordplay)

Tchaikovsky's cocktail (wordplay)

High flier's suite (wordplay)

OBSTRUCT to get in the way of

Like nerves acting on eye muscles

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Strawberry, for one

Cricketer a long way off perhaps

DiMaggio was one

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Painful

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

Pitiful

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

One who speaks for another.

Spelling bee official

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

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

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

English word

Quagmiry

""Logic An operator that limits the variables of a proposition, as some or all.""

Diamond-shaped piece of glass, the French, by right, make for one in a row

Interrogator or quizmaster

I doubt drunk is not given case of rum

Curious one.

One who has all the answers (wordplay)

One who asks a lot (wordplay)

One asking a lot of questions

Account-making official

Recorder to prepare reports about a terror pup

Hostile contest

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

One who repudiates.

RESTFUL {tranquil=adj}

SURFACER one that {surfaces=v}

Bird in bar holding a nose (wordplay)

Predigital beeper (wordplay)

Speedy bird travelled, say, over river (wordplay)

Harsh jockey (wordplay)

Teddy Roosevelt, for one

Epithet for one of the Roosevelts.

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

RUSTICATE To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.

Scroungy

Cross-examiner (wordplay)

Someone who checks electoral votes

Current head of English is new examiner

Fortune teller's lollipop (wordplay)

Someone looking a fool at the draper's

Cloth that's small for top of beer mug

Note house tremble

Sixteenth note

Musical note

SHOTGUN to shoot with a type of gun

Risky market trader, ponderous type

Second embezzler is better

Adirondack ski center.

Of or pertaining to a spiracle.

One who splutters.

One who squanders.

Squelchy

More wavy and twisting

Squooshy

Time in training device may be encouraging man

Maker of terms or conditions.

Section of a body of laws

CLUSTER to form into groups

DIVIDER one that {divides=v}

One who subjugates; a conqueror.

Deputy grabbed by Tuareg, an ambush backfired

Member of the U.S.N.

Member of the navy

One's business is taking a dive

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

Underwriter (wordplay)

One with lots of Time on his hands (wordplay)

Contributor returned puzzle, including small copy

""SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

Take away the queen by computer (wordplay)

Succinct

Recap writer, for example

Recap giver

SUPERLIE to lie above

Celestial; heavenly

A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.

Country militarily supreme

U.S.S.R. or U.S.A.

The United States, for example

Excellent material for furniture

Terrific sun blocker (wordplay)

One over you, perhaps

Headwear for a building chief (wordplay)

One who supplants.

Ignition-related radio-noise reducer

Eat iron and gold; it will stop interference

A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait. Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.

Like an octopus's limbs

Like an octopus's arms

Ballsy experiment by hospital ward: remove Mr. Gable's extremities

In accordance with the thing mentioned

The display involving uranium is beneath that

It's beneath that, shortly before interrupting the stormy noise

""THOROUGH that which goes through, a passage etc""

Of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabecul\'91; composed of trabecul\'91.

Tranquil

The South-East

Converter of physical quantity to electric signal

Like some sails

Like sides of pyramids

Shape of a lateen sail.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) of or relating to a binocular microscope having a lens for photographic recording while direct visual observation is taking place [from tri- + ( bi ) nocular ]

""TRITURATE To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.""

Our bard out to reform lyrical poet

French medieval lyric poet

Strolling singer of the Middle Ages

Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

Linnaeus's opening sentence dissecting brown herbaceous plant

1 Ac. not prepared to give credit

Evangelist's target

Heretic

Uncommon

Hush-hush when in bed (wordplay)

Kind of agent.

Carried out in secret

Rancher's driving problem (wordplay)

Automotive handling problem

One managing stiff ceremonies (wordplay)

One doing for the done for (wordplay)

One working on a plot

In a cabin, say

Where to find Neptune (wordplay)

Sin, King, down there!

Fun novel about airmail novel

Foreign or strange

Strange, regularly funny friend

Win following one up North - both sides admitting that is more awkward

""Having one cell or cavity only; as, a unilocular capsule or shell. as, a unilocular capsule or shell.""

Unkindly

Unlikely

Unlovely

Unseemly

Building under a site is more rickety

Happening at a more unsuitable moment

TOGETHER in a relationship

Unwieldy

Unworthy

A small hydrometer for determining the specific gravity of urine.

""Pl. valleculae (-l ) A shallow groove, depression, or furrow, as between the hemispheres of the brain.""

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

""Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic. as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic.""

Language of the man in the street

One's mother tongue.

Ordinary, everyday language

Of or pertaining to verses; designating distinct divisions of a writing.

Like some entrances

Licensed purveyor of spirits

One who visualizes or is proficient in visualization;

""One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.""

""VULGARIZE To make vulgar, or common.""

""WAREHOUSE A storehouse for wares, or goods.""

Saw Victoria about to speak (wordplay)

One felling trees

Paul Bunyan, for example

Bet; large battery cell

Battery - type of bet

Electric cell; bet

He has decisive qualities

Settler of disagreement

Arbitrator

One who adulterates or corrupts.

Part of a jet engine increasing thrust

Pollution-control device

Jet power booster

""One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.""

BURGLAR to enter a building to steal

NUCLEAR pertaining to a {nucleus=n}

POPULAR something pleasing

Antitrust