2-Letter Words Starting with R

Was obviously afraid, say

Put the Fitbit to use, say

Entered (a race)

Water fall (wordplay)

Liquid sunshine, say

Reason for a delay, perhaps

Horse of a different color?

Foal color, perhaps

Stable strawberry (wordplay)

Lighthouse marker

Radar transmitter

Dangerous element (wordplay)

Academy must have academic element!

Inert gas - adorn (anagram)

Caning material Var.

Hurried round a square palm

Palm used for wicker work

Elvis Grbac, for one

Never more has one this to say for black

Elvis Grbac for one

Search for prey

Prey or plunder

Prey or plunder.

Sounding by radar

Seersucker fiber perhaps

Material - or any (anagram)

Seersucker fiber, perhaps

On the left, almost any basic defence

Angle-shaped fortification.

V-shaped fieldwork

Send more troops!

Furnish workers again

Provide with a new crew

Showed during the summer (wordplay)

Showed I Love Lucy say

Showed "I Love Lucy," say

Rewin

I for one!

Claudius, for one

Caesar's wife, for one

Mountain ash (at Lambeth!)

Martin's comedy partner

Half a 60's-70's TV duo

""A Jewish spiritual leader, also RABBI, REBBE""

Omnivorous nocturnal mammal (Var.)

Coati's cousin variable

Small ring-tailed American animal

Pie piece (wordplay)

Arc of a circle

Unit of angular measurement

An overcoat at Lord's (wordplay)

Kind of sweater

Sleeve type seen in sportswear

Dealer of sorts

Bag lady's mate (wordplay)

Scrappy fellow (wordplay)

Dealers in scrap cloth

Some junk dealers

Some scrap dealers

An iris (anagram)

Lexia, for one

Cookie addition, perhaps

Wild garlic

Garlic variety

Garlic

Boat propelled by three rowers

Boat having three rowers.

Boat for a sculler and two rowers.

Swiss centime

Limit supply of (eg, food)

Limit (a supply)

Wartime allowance (wordplay)

Rope-ladder step

Small, tarred rope

Rung on a rope ladder.

Sugar cane stalk.

Shoot sprouting from a plant's base

Sprout from the root of a plant [1966]

Rodent on bark of oak, maybe, or palm

Cane rotter with birch (wordplay)

Can E be so mousey-brown (wordplay)

Persecute

A rat

Antibody concerning a spirit

Sound judgment (end of #2)

Why, that's about a boy!

Why, that's referring to a boy!

Gain back ground

Gain anew, as trust

Win back, as trust

Recover, say, being seen in shower

Recover one's possession (wordplay)

Drops bags for one to recover

Advance further (wordplay)

Make further advances (wordplay)

Extend an IOU (wordplay)

Stay (in position)

Will Mother stay in harness (wordplay)

Don't leave (the EU?)

Make new blueprints

Make a new strategy

Map out again

Resaw

Hire a bar man (wordplay)

Hire a bar man?

Will 'e keep in the train (wordplay)

NBA's tattooed Dennis

Dennis of the N.B.A.

Dennis of the NBA

Informally, having the characteristics of both country and city life

Japanese inn

Traditional Japanese inn; yarn OK (anagram)

Furry masked bandit (wordplay)

Masked bandit (wordplay)

Driving club firm on animal

Small baking dish for one

Baking dish for one person

Beast! Goddess returns the baking dish!

Bellflower Campanula rapunculus

Wild plant used in salads

Eurasian plant of the bellflower family

Rough, loosely-woven dress fabric

Coarse woolen fabric

Rough open dress fabric

Shoot from a root Var.

Shoot from a root variable

Type of fortification

V-shaped outwork

Wild party line detailed in salient structure

Decorate anew

Ornament anew.

Work on wheels, perhaps

Change position (of something)

Duck out of shambolic regional shuffle

Do more housework

Once again, scrub about 100 on list

Wash again

Like a new will or contract

Changed, as boundaries

Outlined again

One who plays a reed instrument

Chorus; keep away (from)

E-I-E-I-O, say

Forbear from chorus (wordplay)

Hormone used to facilitate childbirth

Hormone for mother's help takin' it easy

Cram unit material, maybe

Take a refresher course.

Master the same lesson.

Won over (wordplay)

Like botched photos, maybe

Like the Philippines in W.W. II

Learn new things, maybe

Prepare for a job transfer, perhaps

Prepare for a transfer, perhaps

Rouse again

""A surveyor's assistant, also RODMAN, STAFFMAN""

Hooligan's game - very loud, Mr Fleming!

Brutal violent person

Aggressive, rude troublemaker

Communications technician of sorts

Sparks' job on ship

Guy using a CB

CB-ers (wordplay)

Important people on shipboard.

Naval communications techs

Tom Sawyer was one

Blueprints drawer*

River worker

Operators of river boats.

River travelers

Malayan tree bearing red fruit

Bright red Malaysian fruit

Nevertheless, one is following Aries

Small fireproof dish used for baking

Small fireproof dish used for serving individual portions

Savoury dish made from a cheese mixture baked in a fireproof container

What a shofar is typically made from

It's blown during Rosh Hashanah

It's blown on Yom Kippur

Person familiar with dudes (wordplay)

His stock is measured by the head

Livestock farmer

The Cartwrights, for example

Cowboys' employers

Cowboys

Beating of a drum

Continuous drum beat.

Sound of drum beats.

Combustion or decomposition, say

Response (to a stimulus)

Double take, for one

Transfer to another job, perhaps

Move to another job, say

Again give wiggle of ears gesture

Reach once more

Again get about at what ain't confused

Achieve (goal) once more

Arouse again, interest say

Repeat animation amazingly ran a week

Knew area could be made to revive again

Brought out of hibernation

Refall

Velcro again, perhaps

Make secure again.

Double-check the seat belts

Freeze again, like slush to ice

Freeze over again

Set after melting

A skilled rider of horses

Perhaps the telling sort of 7 down

Storytelling uncle perhaps

Maybe brother Rex is on ecstasy

Get back

Decree anew

Decree again.

Enact anew

Add more salt and pepper

Reshave

Part of day fine ... stop!

Repress (strong emotion)

Prevent (from excess)

A red dye

An antibiotic

Soldier - crack shot (wordplay)

Don't ransack him; he may shoot you

Chuck Connors role

Lively dance for two

Lively French dance

Dance in musical, topless

""A lively dance, also RIGADOON""

Found on a riverbank

Living on a river bank.

Like habitat zones along a riverbank

Solemn supplication (in Christianity)

Asking back to work to cut dole

Time to beat the bounds? You want rain to go somehow

Cultivator of floribundas

Flower growing specialist

Certain flower cultivator

Decay in a roundabout way (wordplay)

Round trip (wordplay)

Decay? In a roundabout way, perhaps

Worker who makes rounds

Newspaper deliverer, for example

Milk or mail deliverer

Waves off (wordplay)

What a Geiger counter measures

Diffusion of heat.

Building the Berlin Wall (wordplay)

Left-winger may take such editing

Editing communist move

About the manner to design for the better

Make over

REFLATE to inflate again

He gets a lot of parts

Fix-it guy

Oft-idle Maytag employee

Fixer-uppers (wordplay)

Misters fix-it

Fixers concerning two chaps

PATTERN to copy a design

Like a snake or lizard, eg

Loathsome agent returning to fix it

Contemptible and not to be trusted

""A synthetic antiviral ribonucleoside, C 8 H 12 N 4 O 5 , that inhibits the replication of DNA and RNA, used to treat respiratory syncytial virus.""

Does he deliver the circulars (wordplay)

One who delivers goods

Daily deliverer of milk, papers, etc

Are you one people? That'll spoil it all

Complete destruction or collapse

One race after sport's collapse

Fuming afar (anagram)

Makin' mistakes on the sitar (wordplay)

Tattered tot with quick bread?

Delivery of passage quoted

Classroom performance

Classroom activity

Enjoyable leisure activity

To do with mixed reaction for play

Refreshment of mind or body

Engineers taking part in light diversion

Function of a prism

Light diversion forcing father into response

""The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.""

Gulf partly seen in relation to rule

Lout in rage breaking law

Last month, about the first, in area of law

INVASION the act of {invading=v}

Bond snatching a kiss for fun

Rest with family member accepting a kiss

Workaholic's need

Entire goal difference may determine it

Demotion, to a lower league

The tale told about exemplary put-down

Slum-clearance problem

Problem in urban renewal

Narrative about old Conservative's moving deed

Restoration to original state.

From youngsters (no child), huge cheer for makeover

Repair

Making of amends.

A making of amends.

Paying of damages.

Abraham Lincoln, for one

Miller, for one.

Howard Baker, politically

What they say about you

Good report, fame

Name of English plant in allotment

Something unsaid (wordplay)

Act of eating one's words

Taking back engineer's drawing

Preacher's sky-high feeling (wordplay)

Irate novel makes startling disclosure

Last book of the Bible

Military force calling for withdrawal

Recall with reference to one's business

State of withdrawal

A yellow vitamin of the B complex

Vitamin B2, alternatively

Vitamin B-2.

A semisynthetic antibiotic derived from a form of rifamycin that interferes with the synthesis of RNA and is used to treat bacterial and viral diseases.

Thinking of motorway in disrepair

Maiden in state of collapse thinking

Musing Frenchman amid wreckage

Dating material

Cairo-born criminal ringing commercial dating agency

Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria.

Rascal or rogue

Plain carols (anagram) - rogue

A disgrace to criticise onion

Reduction in density (of a gas)

The opposite of compression

Two lots of soldiers going to party, with loss of concentration

Shallow, voluble, volatile person

Synonym for 7 Down

""ACCESSION A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy. as, a king's accession to a confederacy.""

Item on a spy's checklist (wordplay)

Literacy campaign (wordplay)

Interpret objective as getting in again

Accomplishment.

""The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.""

Harvest part to divide again

A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.

The act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.

Land-use project

Retrieval, recovery

""Remembrance; recollection; also, a record.""

""EDUCATION The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.""

Important religious movement.

Improvement in how sappers are deployed (wordplay)

Amendment, improvement

""HYDRATION The act of becoming, or state of being, a hydrate.""

Noun (-tion)

Further spiralling of prices

Restatement

Repetition

Repugnance; resistance; reluctance.

""MEDIATION The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.""

Migration back to the place from which one came.

""OPERATION The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.""

""OXIDATION The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.""

""PARTITION The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom. as, the partition of a kingdom.""

Copying CIA, Interpol will go wrong

Copy; repetition

The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval or censure.

Refusal of approval

""RADIATION The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.""

Booking (in restaurant)

Dinner arrangement (wordplay)

Booking (in a restaurant)

Leaving of a job

Notice attitude of compliance

Acceptance of the inevitable

Breathing

Talk in one's sleep (wordplay)

1660 to 1685, in England

Repair top of oven part following break

Repayment in kind

An eye for an eye.

Vengeance

Slowness in progress

Slowing; lag

""Action returned, or action backward.""

Adjustment of a currency relative to others

Impressive or persuasive orator

Master of telling phrases.

RUBRICATE Marked with red.

Cheers about one charged following provincial university's punishment

""RACEMIZE to change into racemic form, also RACEMISE""

Complex consequence (of an event)

Result of macaroni, if it cooks

Complicating consequence

Process of making a treaty official

Constitution's approval process

Confirmation pleasure's no good (wordplay)

Act of restoration to functioning state

Actual place for further distribution

Actual site for another share out

Actual site for a new allotment

Act of reannexing.

Convalescence

Getting better with unorthodox cure, gym activity helping

Process of doing up (room)

""DEDICATION The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple. as, the dedication of Solomon's temple.""

ESCALATION

New appraisal of worth

It may yield a new rating

Right at ease with quotation written for new appraisal

""FOUNDATION The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.""

Process of renewal

Recovery expected in about thirty years

Process of bringing new life to an area

Glove box item

Formal enrolment

Car number

Recovery of youth

New lease on life

Recovery of youthful character

MOTIVATION The act or process of motivating.

Pay - our men earn it (anagram)

Payment - a minor tenure (anagram)

Money paid for work or a service

RENATURE to restore natural qualities

NOMINATION The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated.

Action of giving up a thing

Giving up of rights, claim etc

Refuting the idea and point by mother from Channel Islands consumed by allowance

""OCCUPATION The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.""

PW's hope.

The returning of someone to their own country

The act of planting again; a replanting.

The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.

""REGULATION The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.""

Cult that is, perhaps, about to apply restrictions to network

Further confirmation of truth

Once more confirming the truth (of something)

""VEGETATION The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.""

""ROBOTIZE to make automatic, also ROBOTISE""

""ROMANIZE to write in the Roman alphabet, also ROMANISE""