2-Letter Words Ending in R

Star bloomer (wordplay)

Symbol of Kansas

Symbol of Kansas.

""One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow.""

Performer with a sword

Darker of complexion

Second husband's outwardly more blemished, darker

Bribe a substitute (wordplay)

Aspartame, for one

Dash of sugar (wordplay)

Sweltry

Water in a tailrace.

One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.

Coastal region of Virginia

Moisture mainly brought in twice a day

The eastern part of Virginia.

Twiddly

More nervous or jerky

Invest in this, perhaps

Invest in this (wordplay)

Pants, perhaps, at bottom of river

Periodical for climbers (wordplay)

Item of home decor

Decorative covering in one's room

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

Yuletide celebrant

Carol singer

One who laments admitting beast of a drunken raver

It shows you the power

Electrical room device

Electric gauge

Get richer working with real energy

More well-off

In a higher bracket.

Person on a quick vacation, maybe

Guest of a sort.

Bag for a short trip

More meaningful

Eh, any one is fine

Any one that

Hushed speaker

London colonel carries fashionable weight

Any body (wordplay)

Legalistic pronoun

Anyone.

Willing

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.""

Writer in residence's last novel is more gloomy

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

Don Juan

Womanly

More sophisticated

One in a congregation

Wriggly

Wrinkly

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

Red gown or shift for malefactor

Possible clue to 'erod being a sinner

Big Three employee

Showy blossom

Flared plant

Campanula.

V.I.P. among sheep

Leader of the flock

Leading sheep; trendsetter

Seepage aboard ship

Ship's seepage

Nonsense

1975 #1 hit for the Doobie Brothers

1975 hit for the Doobie Brothers

Ruling (or, more modestly, intelligence)

Support presiding wisdom

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

Mole takes holiday by lake perhaps

Mole's holiday by river (wordplay)

Protection from shore erosion

Obsequious person

Obsequious student

Brother right to cover own nose for obsequious person

Strutting dancer

Certain dancer

Laborer making watch covers (wordplay)

Investigator of family problems, say

Social agency investigator

Full-dress coat, colloquially

Basic part of a tool kit

Puller or pounder

Cobwebby

Black-eyed Susan.

Prairie blossom

Producer of text for ad

Public relations position

Author who wrote pricy composition

Catholic sect keeps wagon for shoemaker

Old shoemaker in business with change in drawer

Scented foot-growth (wordplay)

Scented foot-growth?

Hokey Bloomer (wordplay)

Ranch hand (wordplay)

Lasso in front of train (wordplay)

Lasso part of train (wordplay)

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.""

See Deflourer. Deflourer.

ENDOWER one who {endows=v}

Soapstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Appliance used after dinner

Menial role of aerial nut and bolt ring (wordplay)

Longshoreman

DOWNHILL a downward slope

DOWNSTATE

DOWNTOWN the business district of a city

A little lift for Manuel, maybe

High-rise convenience, perhaps

Inept eatery server (wordplay)

RIGHT HAND (wordplay)

HAND that picks crops

Corps of Engineers concern

Cause of inundation

Bank threat

Buzzer beater (wordplay)

Thing causing a buzz kill (wordplay)

Low-tech pest-control device

False miterwort

Dude, nice triatomic molecule!

Like some fish (2 words)

Could it make ferret wash (wordplay)

HANDWORK manual labor

Service chief (wordplay)

Restaurant employee, perhaps

He orders those who take orders

Con artist

Deceptive one

Equine political demand?

Hack's capacity for work (wordplay)

Engine's stable capacity (wordplay)

Hydroelectric power.

Laundry maid (wordplay)

Puddler approaching the green

Construction crew member

Ring zinger (wordplay)

Zbigniew Brzezinski, for example

Really hard candy

Double-parker, for one.

One risking arrest

A crook or awl

What to relax in

Oversized sweats, for example

Comfy clothes for around the house

Astounding occurrence

Fantastic movie

Something astounding

Nocturnal climber scrambling from new loo

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Anchor, for one

Reporter of a special report.

Type of TV personality.

Urban streetcorner fixture

Bit of desktop publishing, maybe

Mail from your congressman, perhaps

Frequent Xmas-card enclosure

Gossip - Mr Owen's gen (anagram)

Gossipy sort

A man airing his intelligence (wordplay)

Snow? Unusually answered with hesitation

TV current affairs presenter

One likely to drown in water

Drug carried by town river with treatment to get through cold period

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

20km Summer Olympian

One who tries to keep a step ahead (wordplay)

Funambulist

Large powerful dog

Powerful German dog

Scoundrel ringing with lie about dog

Petrel's cousin

Cropper takes Tyler for a seabird

Long-winged bird that skims the ocean

See title (wordplay)

Rattlesnake or missile

Rattlesnake - air-to-air missile

Successor to the shovel.

Winter road machine

Blizzard cleanup machine

She's decomposed (wordplay)

Porter, perhaps, bending strong wire

Producer of music/lyrics

Strip for action!

Tracksuit perhaps fits uphill runner

Exhibits flower with spikes, say

Plant of primrose family

Bloomer in the primrose family

Country militarily supreme

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

The United States, for example

Wild rose also called eglantine

Virginia women's college

Eglantine - fragrant rose

Mild cheese right from the plant

Rose with pink flowers

One of an audience.

Hourly wage earner

""A shrubby, creeping evergreen plant (Linnaea borealis) of northern regions, having roundish, opposite leaves and paired, bell-shaped, pinkish flowers.""

Mark Twain, say, used this (wordplay)

A key supplier once in pool (wordplay)

Author's antique, perhaps

In a cabin, say

Where to find Neptune (wordplay)

Sin, King, down there!

Unwieldy

Unworthy

Market researcher on camera

Camera device.

A wage earner.

Cousin of a shrinking violet (wordplay)

She can't find a blooming partner!

Shy plant (wordplay)

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

Be a litterbug in stationery (wordplay)

Office trash resign (nonverbal)

Office or domestic bin

Manufacturing plant expulsion

Rolex, for example

Horologist to keep eye on manufacturer

He has time on his hands

Viewing that's a draw for Barbican

Sentinel's perch

Guard's post

Medium used by Whistler.

Medium for Cezanne

Artist's medium

Type of energy

Energy of a kind

T.V.A. largess

Sporting dog from Germany.

German hunting dog

Sporting dog from Germany

""A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.""

Save the row (anagram)

At all others, wave frantically

We harvest nothing organic at all

Invalid's transport

Transport for the handicapped

It helps the handicapped get around

Where's Devon without its capital? Bust, any old time

Trader cheers in the Pequod perhaps

Ahab hooking fishy sole trader

Supplier to the trade

The objective of whosoever. See Whosoever. whosoever. See Whosoever.

Oil man of sorts.

One in search of oil

Oil prospector

Raging river (wordplay)

River in a flash flood (wordplay)

Sign of spring

WILDFOWL a wild game bird

Quilt block with fourfold symmetry

The wood anemone

Anemone

Large sailing vessel

Large merchant sailing-ship

A large merchant sailing ship

Ernest or Julio Gallo

One who draws metal into wire.

One who bugs others (wordplay)

Person of intelligence (wordplay)

Expert on bugs

One who withholds.

Power in terms of the women available to a particular group or required for a particular task.

Saw Victoria about to speak (wordplay)

One felling trees

Paul Bunyan, for example

A dweller in a woodland.

Boring thing to hear (wordplay)

Club member getting birdie (wordplay)

Woody, e.g

Golfer with good club control (wordplay)

Furniture maker, for example

Furniture maker, e.g

A writer or speaker who uses language pretentiously or carelessly.

Practiser of religion

Queue up with overseas trader for prayer

One adoring a deity

Wretched

Substitute player: Slang.

Seldom-used substitute

*Sub in the dugout

""BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

Genius spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Cult leader, in a way

Person who supports a family

Family's main earner

Source of family funds

Oater villain who attacks from hiding

Western baddie

Oater ambusher

Measure of light emitted

CP, to a physicist

Measure of luminosity

Cartwheel

Variety of cabbage

It has an Orange Bouquet variety

It has a big head

Emporium employe.

Store supervisor

Supervisor in a large shop in North America

Someone who "sits loose."

One who acts irresponsibly

Spirited author (wordplay)

Author of scary stories (wordplay)

Halloween correspondent (wordplay)

""A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white. Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.""

Expert in see-through design (wordplay)

Chihuly, for one

Artisan with strong lungs

Glasswork

Ranunculaceous plant of the genus Trollius

Moisture found in rocks or soil

Spring source

Aquifer contents

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

Eg, chat show host

""Severe protein malnutrition, especially in children after weaning, marked by lethargy, growth retardation, anemia, edema, potbelly, skin depigmentation, and hair loss or change in hair color.""

A blacksmith, for one

Robot (wordplay)

Eg, a blacksmith

Microbrew

The "Caine", for one

Excavation spiffer-upper (wordplay)

Ship of a sort.

""One, especially a robber or prostitute, who walks the streets at night.""

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

Person paid per item produced

Appreciate the best (wordplay)

Appreciate the victor (wordplay)

One gaining award

Cocktail (vodka and 4 down juice)

Carpenter's libation (wordplay)

Carpenter's favorite drink (wordplay)

Almost any Merman number.

Big Broadway number

Kind of act or song.

Clint at 300 A.M.?

Clint at 3:00 A.M. (wordplay)

We paler elks (anagram)

One using only a half pipe (wordplay)

One flipping out on slopes (wordplay)

Half-pipe performer

SNOWMOBILE

To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.

Blow one's top in it (wordplay)

Spacewalk

Clear quaff

Cooler drink

Perrier product

Man in Bethlehem (wordplay)

Bridge builder

One playing for time

One who is continually evasive to block progress

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

Soda jerk's boutonniere (wordplay)

Soda jerk's boutonniere?

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

Railroad worker.

One in the insurance business

Person in the insurance business

Financial guarantor

Dispenser of gossip (wordplay)

Prison gossip center (wordplay)

Business meeting locale (wordplay)

Waterfowl

Comparative adjective or agent noun

In any place

Any one

One who whitewashes.

A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.

A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores.

The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. whosoever. See Whosoever.

Saxophonist's jacket (wordplay)

Chilly-weather wear

Sailor's jacket

Sage biscuit for a comedian

One-liner expert

Joker, quipster

yawn "Sure, go on" (nonverbal)

Upstart who makes insolent comments

He knows it all

Helicopter made of hickory (wordplay)

Feller in the forest

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi). Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Floscuculi).""

Weapon used in heated dispute (wordplay)

Criticize a pitcher (wordplay)

Gun firing burning liquid