| Recent notable Couric get | 25 |
| Recent neighborhood arrival | 27 |
| Recent naval acad. grad | 23 |
| Recent Nav. Academy grad | 24 |
| Recent Microsoft retiree | 24 |
| Recent med school graduate | 26 |
| Recent Lincoln biographer | 25 |
| Recent horror film franchise | 28 |
| Recent grads' activity | 26 |
| Recent election winners | 23 |
| Recent Chevrolet hatchback | 26 |
| Recent Chapter 11 filer | 23 |
| Recent change in change | 23 |
| Recent Broadway musical | 23 |
| Recent blackmail victim | 23 |
| Recent Bar Mitzvah, e.g. | 24 |
| Recent arrivals in the world | 28 |
| Recent Annapolis graduate | 25 |
| Recent Angelina Jolie piece | 27 |
| Recent "SNL" alumna | 29 |
| Receiving-line participants | 27 |
| Receiving two pensions | 22 |
| Receiving rave reviews, maybe | 29 |
| Receiving department gadget | 27 |
| Receiving clerk's gadget | 28 |
| Receiving a pension: Abbr. | 26 |
| Receiving a pension, briefly | 28 |
| Receiving a pension (Abbr.) | 27 |
| Receives, as a visitor | 22 |
| Receives with approval | 22 |
| Receives the death penalty | 26 |
| Receives fewer votes than | 25 |
| Receives approval, as a joke | 28 |
| Receives and passes on | 22 |
| Receivers' counterparts | 27 |
| Receivers of spot payments? | 27 |
| Receivers of some downloads | 27 |
| Receivers of police calls | 25 |
| Receiver-turned-sportscaster | 28 |
| Receiver's gains: Abbr. | 27 |
| Receiver's counterpart | 26 |
| Receiver of security goods | 26 |
| Receiver of property, in law | 28 |
| Receiver of Niagara Falls | 25 |
| Receiver of many Apr. checks | 28 |
| Receiver of goods in trust | 26 |
| Receiver of donations? | 22 |
| Receiver of checkout checks | 27 |
| Receiver of blood samples | 25 |
| Receiver of a legal transfer | 28 |
| Receiver of a large bonus? | 26 |
| Receiver of a brush-off? | 24 |
| Receiver accessory, slangily | 28 |
| Received, as a visitor | 22 |
| Received, as a message | 22 |
| Received through the ear | 24 |
| Received Northern exposure? | 27 |
| Received from an estate | 23 |
| Received as one's due | 25 |
| Received a varsity award | 24 |
| Received a pastoral poem | 24 |
| Receive, as a radio signal | 26 |
| Receive's opposite | 22 |
| Receive with enthusiasm | 23 |
| Receive the booby prize | 23 |
| Receive enthusiastically | 24 |
| Receive as one's due | 24 |
| Receive an heirloom, perhaps | 28 |
| Receive a college degree | 24 |
| Receipts, collectively | 22 |
| Receipt to redeem a credit | 26 |
| Receding ocean movement | 23 |
| Receding object, sometimes | 26 |
| Recede gradually, as the tide | 29 |
| Recaps, with "up" | 27 |
| Recanted under pressure | 23 |
| Recanted in embarrassment | 25 |
| Recalls of September '09 | 28 |
| Recalling an earlier era | 24 |
| Recaller of faulty meds | 23 |
| Recall of recent events | 23 |
| Recall announcer, maybe | 23 |
| Rec. label across the pond | 26 |
| Rec. center for females | 23 |
| Rec room game, perhaps | 22 |
| Rec area at a barracks | 22 |
| Rebuttal to "nope" | 28 |
| Rebuttal in a shouting match | 28 |
| Rebus puzzle conjunction | 24 |
| Rebuke, with "down" | 29 |
| Rebuke to a thankless wretch | 28 |
| Rebuke made before the Senate | 29 |
| Rebuke before the senate | 24 |
| Rebuke a revolutionary? | 23 |
| Rebuilt city north of Cologne | 29 |
| Rebuild after a tragedy | 23 |
| Rebuff, with "off" | 28 |
| Rebuff, Scottish style | 22 |
| Rebs' nation: Abbr. | 23 |
| Rebounds, points scored, e.g. | 29 |