Letter R
Roman (anag)
Retread, say
Row of shooters
Remote – like some incidents?
Ravel’s dance?
Release from service
Rice type
Run oxygen through
Rider (anag.)
Release that – song from Frozen
Rome bag (anag.)
Root as raw fish accompaniment
Real (anag.)
Rocker lad
Rapid-response unit
Representation of stats by box height
Royal Opera House performance?
Reinforced item of clothing
Ruction(s)
Recklessly and completely
Reacting badly
Resident of hamlet
Rudeness (anag)
Ranch homestead, in Spanish style
Rural sports organisation
Regard – for Aretha Franklin?
Rowdy type
Rush – thrill
Retrace (anag.)
Retains (anag.)
Reflection you can hear
Rowing boat steerer
Rested, raring to go – and blooming?
Radio set
Red or white (in Italy?)
Rosebush cutters
Rider’s garment
Roman form of transport?
Ruby or Shrove time of the week?
Recognisably different
Rorschach smudge?
Religious ascetic living on charity
Rough woollen material
Routinely approved
Race or course?
Remote (as of an area)
Record of events year by year
Russian alphabet
Residential development – no taste, is huge (anag)
Relating to our feathered friends
Recite (a list)
Requested but not yet supplied
Rock, soap or comic
Rod’s counterpart in the eye
Radio show with often angry participants
Red planet inhabitant
Report of a society’s works over the course of a year
Race – vocation
Rails rut (anag) – one advocating country living
Relating to international relations
Reason for buying a sports car
Rugby player until 2022
Rankin hero
Rod Stewart no 1 (later adapted by Millwall)
Raducanu’s footwear item
Rainbow’s shape
Rigid harness (anag) – doing the ‘do’?
Rockers supposedly to reunite for a tour in July 2025
Rabble – rain
Rats (anag)
River flowing north of Shanghai
Railway toy
Rodgers and Hammerstein ‘floral’ song
Repeated passage
Red cards – they’re Forever?
Result of foul?
Ruse (anag)
Ruff – rough coating of tree
Reaction, feeling or flora
Robinson Crusoe, for instance
Rider’s encouragement
Rails (against someone or something)
Row with them
Resourceful quality
Roam (over) – mountains
Ruritania oath (anag) – demanding absolute obedience
RAF conned Don (anag) – troops likely to die in battle
Relating to ancient Scandinavia
Region (anag)
River’s loop
Regularly recurring
Return’s ticket counterpart
Rivalry – contest
Retina (anag)
Repairperson or technician
Ridge of rock, coral or sand
Recs
Redundant – not called-for
Rat – runaway – renegade
Ruptured and aerated maize
Runner-up, e.g.
Raiser, restorer or dryer
Ring of a chain
Resistant to breaking (glass or plastic, e.g.)
Road often bordered by trees
Restore after marking for deletion
Regards with esteem
Road avoiding e.g. congested area
Restaurant or cafe
Refusal of permission
Reich rot (anag)
Reconditioning
Recoil – thrill
Rules of behaviour
Receive online video data
Restaurant customers
Ride or run very quickly
Revealing underwear
Run this way to go berserk
Ridiculously low (amount)
Read it to someone as a warning
Run – and catch
Rig agendas (anag) – to make (something) seem more important
Rush – professional path
Roman city that was buried
Representation of the correlation between experience and proficiency
Ready to fight – like certain bandits?
Rosette strip?
Rakish – spruce
Reconsider or hesitate
Race (anag.) – maple
River rising in Rocky Mountains
Respiration gas
Rounded vault
Rubber tree liquid
Roman outfit
Rubbing in of creams etc.?
Repeat the words of another
Range of wavelengths
Right of inheritance to the eldest son
Rising and falling toy
Russian artificial satellite
Reflective attraction?
Reddish-tinged metal
Red Arrows display?
Rebellious – diatribes on UN (anag)
Rats and fleas, say
Revolutionary movements
Racegoers’ viewpoint
Refuse to abandon (a hope or belief)
Running shoes
Relating to legal proceedings
Resumption of friendly relations
Refuse to answer questions so as to delay or prevent something
Reason one’s red-blooded
Repudiate one’s association with (someone)
Response from the cockpit
Revolving gate
Royal Galas, e.g.
Risible individual
Remnant of physical or psychological damage
Recurrent idea in an artwork
Rippling
Respond in the face of provocation
Rocks or minerals yielding metal
Received opinion
River flowing from Switzerland to the North Sea
Repeated sporting fixture
Respectful address used in colonial India
Room for clergy’s robes
Removed paint or clothing
Raising this is rude
Raspberry ripple, e.g.
Rowing fellow
Rue ribs (anag.) – thug
Ring out – bridge fee
Raw underground material
Red Arrows event
Roofer’s item – bluish-grey
Removes the trousers of
Raspy and grating
Rummage about (for wild food?)
Renewable rectangle?
Reconciler of foes
Refill again, to the brim
Running-costs money
Root veg
Roof-to-ground strip on building
Runt – Pooh’s friend
Regular drink
Run over – a later cup-tie (anag)
Reading aloud of names
Ralph, Enid (anag) – have casual affairs
Resident of Tirana or Berat
Repeated process
Reserve seats?
Russian writer, d. 1904
Relating to marriage – Cuban lion (anag.)
Representative of a monarch in another country
Ring-throwing game
Roguish child
Respond following provocation
Remain for more time than usual
Rigid quality
Related to bishops
Raffles or The Ritz?
Revealing (as in clothing)
Regard for one’s own happiness
Relaxing start to the day
Rogue – whose parent is a weapon?
Repeatedly annoy
Rule (anag) – it’s swung by a falconer
Reveals if (anag) – one comes to the rescue
Remove clothes – and paint
Rhythmically repeat
Rotavator, for example
RC rank
Rave (anag.)
Red leaf (anag.)
Rhombus, say
Rich urban professional
Rosemary or dill
Russian fortified complex
Races in which teams compete
Raucous bird – talk boastfully
Rowdy and violent
Remnant of a ticket or cigarette
Risk getting in trouble
Receptacle for laundering clothes
Ruined because of age
Rejoinder – piece of lab kit
Reveal the future
Russian, Dutch or rag?
Road tripper’s mobile home
Rare metal, Re, used in the process for making lead-free petrol
Run rings around (someone)
Railings in the centre of the motorway or at the roadside
Race route
Russian ballet dancer, d.1950
Route around town
Round white/cream root vegetable
Rialto (anag.)
React (anag.)
Runes (anag.)
Rock-crushing device – hard round sweet
Row of trees or columns
Rucks and scrums sport
Rotating tray
Regions in which the clocks are synchronised
Ring of coral islands
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