Letter R
Rank quality
Rank sensation
Reason for a clothespin, in comics
Reason for a comic strip clothespin
Reason for a diaper change
Reason for a patchouli cover-up
Reason for air freshener
Reason for an airing
Reason for an emptier-than-expected subway car, often
Reason for nose-pinching
Reason for shoe inserts
Reason to air out a room
Reason to bathe
Reason to clean the fridge
Reason to close a door or open a window
Reason to hold one's nose
Reason to hold your nose
Reason to pinch one's nose
Reason to pinch your nose
Reason to put a clothespin on your nose
Reason to say "Pee-yew!"
Reason to use Febreze
Reason to use Fresh Wave
Reason to use Glade
Reason to use a clothespin, perhaps
Reason to use an air freshener
Red jasmine emanation
Reminder that the laundry needs doing
Reminder to take out the trash
Reminder to take out the trash, maybe
Renuzit target
Repute, good or bad.
Resolve target
Result of microwaving fish
Result of waving two feet in the air?
Right Guard's target
Ripe quality
Rood anagram
Rose asset
Rose's attribute
Rotten egg's emanation
Rotten egg's smell, e.g.
Rotten eggs have a strong one
Rotten fish have one
Rotting evidence
Running shoe's smell, often
Rotten Sneaker Contest sponsor
Rotten Sneakers Contest sponsor
Result of an attorney who stinks?
Rank things
Real stinkers?
Reasons for moving to the next subway car
Reasons to clean
Reasons to hold one's nose
Reasons to take out the trash
Refrigerator woes
Reputes
Results of halitoses
Roll-on targets
Rotting results
Repute, in Britain.
Repute, on Fleet Street
Rubbish bin production
River flowing through Wrocław
River in Czechoslovakia
River into the Baltic: Czech name.
Really binges (on)
Really binges, in brief
Rx abusers, perhaps
Reichenbach's hypnotic force
Roman banquet room
Room in early Roman house.
Room or hall in ancient Rome.
"Reading the ___" (2008 book subtitled "One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages")
"Reading the ___: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages" (2008 book)
Ref. book that included the words "cisgender" and "intersectionality" in its latest update
Ref. book that will probably never be printed again
Ref. book whose 2023 word of the year was "rizz"
Ref. book whose last print edition came out in 1989
Ref. conceived in 1857
Ref. conceived of in 1857 by London's Philological Society
Ref. for Anglophones
Ref. for wordsmiths
Ref. last published in 1989
Ref. of note
Ref. of substantial fame and even more substantial size
Ref. room offering
Ref. section staple
Ref. shelf filler
Ref. staple
Ref. staple that used to come with a magnifying glass
Ref. text
Ref. that added "adultification" in 2023
Ref. that added "babyccino" in 2024
Ref. that added "brownie point" in 2024
Ref. that added "burner phone" in 2022
Ref. that added "chapstick" in 2021
Ref. that added "chef's kiss" in 2024
Ref. that added "chonky" in 2023
Ref. that added "content creator" in 2024
Ref. that added "cruciverbalist" (a person who does crosswords) in 2006
Ref. that added "follically challenged" and "adulting" in 2020
Ref. that added "gaslighter" in 2022
Ref. that added "group chat" in 2024
Ref. that added "jillionaire" in 2024
Ref. that added "lamestream" and "deep state" in 2023
Ref. that added "mic drop" in 2024
Ref. that added "safe space" in 2020
Ref. that added "spidey sense" and "turnt" in 2023
Ref. that added "swear jar" in 2023
Ref. that added "turnt" and "deepfake" in 2023
Ref. that added "vaccine passport" in 2022
Ref. that added "xoxo" in 2019
Ref. that added the word "anally" in 2010
Ref. that could be considered hi-def.?
Ref. that has a zed section
Ref. that has included "crowdfunding" and "photobomb" since 2015
Ref. that includes ROFL as of 2016
Ref. that recently added "locavore" and "phablet"
Ref. that recently added the word "hoverboard"
Ref. that took 70 years to complete
Ref. that uses British headword spellings
Ref. that's been online since 2000
Ref. that's gone through two editions in 125 years
Ref. to which "adorkable" was introduced in 2020
Ref. tome
Ref. updated quarterly
Ref. whose 2015 Word of the Year is the "Face With Tears of Joy" emoji
Ref. whose 2017 Word of the Year was "youthquake"
Ref. whose 2021 word of the year was "vax"
Ref. whose 2022 word of the year was "goblin mode"
Ref. whose first edition took decades to complete
Ref. whose last entry is "zyxt"
Ref. whose recent updates include "chillax" and "whatev"
Ref. whose second edition was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II
Ref. with 20 volumes
Ref. with a high word count
Ref. with about 22,000 pages
Ref. with about 600,000 word-forms
Ref. with more than 2 1/2 million quotations
Ref. with quarterly online updates
Ref. with thousands of definitions
Ref. work begun by the London Philological Society
Ref. work chronicled in "The Professor and the Madman"
Ref. work featured in "The Professor and the Madman"
Ref. work in which the verb "set" has a 60,000-word entry
Ref. work started in 1857
Ref. work that Tolkien contributed to from "waggle" to "wild"
Ref. work that added "YOLO" in 2016
Ref. work that added "freshperson" in 2021
Ref. work that added "influencer" in 2022
Ref. work that added "livestream" in 2021
Ref. work that added "oobleck" and "stromboli" in 2020
Ref. work that began as a Philological Society project
Ref. work that once employed J.R.R. Tolkien
Ref. work that spans 21,730 pages
Ref. work that took 70 years to complete
Ref. work that took more than 70 years to complete
Ref. work whose 2018 Word of the Year is "toxic"
Ref. work whose 2022 additions included "vax" and "folx"
Ref. work whose Compact Edition is sold with a magnifying glass
Ref. work with more than 300,000 entries
Ref. work with online subscriptions
Ref. work with over 45,000 obsolete words
Reference wk. that added "YOLO" in 2016
Reference work that added "idiocracy" in 2018, for short
Reference work that added "turnt" in 2023 (Abbr.)
Respected ref. book
Respected ref. work
ref. work British architect
ref. work Murray Actor
relating to a complex whereby a male child wants to replace his father
riddle-solver
"_____ Rex" (Sophocles)
Rex in the classics
Rex of classical tragedy
Role for Laurence Olivier.
Rules against marrying kin?
Royal ruins
Ref. books sometimes sold with magnifying glasses
Ref. books with almost two million quotations: Abbr.
Ref. tomes
Ref. works for wordsmiths
Ref. works sometimes sold with magnifying glasses
Ref. works that can run $1,000+
Ref. works that occupy entire shelves
Ref. works that take up a lot of shelf space
Refs. that first went digital in 1988
Refs. that may occupy whole shelves
Refs. that take up lots of shelf space
Refs. with over 414,800 entries
"Rainbows __ yon mountain-river": Shelley
"Returning were as tedious as go ___": Macbeth
Ramparts preposition
Robert Burns's "Whistle ___ the Lave O't"
"___ ramparts . . . "
Round letters
Ridge of glacial gravel: Var.
RIGA Gulf island
Russia island
Range in Greece
Roland Garros 0
Retrospective fodder
Ready to drink or be a bat mitzvah, e.g.
Ready to vote.
"Rock ___": Toplady
Ranging widely
Rather willing (to)
Room for a pres. or prin.
Racetrack announcer's adjective
Rancid or sour
Right -- the bat
Ringer status
Remains at the butcher
Run -- the mouth (gab)
Run ___ the mouth
Run __ (talk too much)
Run __: yak
Rather unconventional
Risque, as a joke
Risqué ... and what each answer to a starred clue contains?
Risqué, as a joke
Remnant of material
Rubbed out, gang-style
Rubbed out, gangster style
Rubbed out, so to speak
Ruffle feathers, say
Recipient of a bid
Real estate listing datum
Realtors write them
Readily available ... testing, testing ... rats, try this clue: Casual, as a remark
room or building where people work at desks
Rival of Staples
Rotating military position
Receptionists, secretaries, etc.
Research assistants, managers, et al.
Rudely unapproachable in manner: Colloq.
Remove, as cargo
Reduced-price, most likely
road allowing traffic to leave a motorway
Rip --- (thefts)
Rip- -- (flimflams)
Rip- -- (swindles)
Rig product
Ref's call, sometimes
Rooting for the team everyone else hates?
Rule that, when broken, warrants an indirect free kick
Result of reproduction
Ready-made, as a suit
Ready-to-wear
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