| A requisite of pianos | 21 |
| A resident of the "Gem State" | 39 |
| A resin | 7 |
| A restaurant lady | 17 |
| A restaurant may have one | 25 |
| A restaurant may hold it for you | 32 |
| A restaurant patron said ... | 28 |
| A resting place | 15 |
| A restrained manner | 19 |
| A result of backwash | 20 |
| A result of cerebration | 23 |
| A result of combustion | 22 |
| A result of nebulization | 24 |
| A Reubenite | 11 |
| A Revolutionary officer and a Civil War commander | 49 |
| A rewrite of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” using ___: “A lamb quite little, Mary had / A lamb, fleece white as snow” | 127 |
| A Rhine feeder | 14 |
| A rhizopod | 10 |
| A Rhode Island Red | 18 |
| A rhyme for credent | 19 |
| A rhyme for leaked | 18 |
| A rhyme scheme | 14 |
| A rhythm guitarist plays them | 29 |
| A rib in knit goods | 19 |
| A ribbonfish | 12 |
| A Rice Krispies fellow | 22 |
| A Rice Krispies sound | 21 |
| A rich cake | 11 |
| A rich person might have a private one | 38 |
| A rich tapestry | 15 |
| A ridge, especially on cloth | 28 |
| A right may cause one | 21 |
| A ring bearer | 13 |
| A ring bearer may go down it | 28 |
| A ring doesn't have them | 28 |
| A ring may indicate it | 22 |
| A ringer for Ringo | 18 |
| A Ringling brother | 18 |
| A ringmaster will do it | 23 |
| A rip-off for readers? | 22 |
| A ripe old age | 14 |
| A Ripken | 8 |
| A Ritter | 8 |
| A Ritter of films | 17 |
| A rival | 7 |
| A rival in "The Rivals" | 33 |
| A rival in a Sheridan play | 26 |
| A rival of ABC | 14 |
| A rival of Agatha | 17 |
| A rival of Babylonia | 20 |
| A rival of Bush | 15 |
| A rival of Carter in 1976 | 25 |
| A rival of Chris | 16 |
| A rival of Foyt | 15 |
| A rival of Hera | 15 |
| A rival of Jennings | 19 |
| A rival of Laver | 16 |
| A rival of Laver and Emerson | 28 |
| A rival of Martina | 18 |
| A river and a cartoonist | 24 |
| A river at Cairo | 16 |
| A river at Ghent | 16 |
| A river at Lyon | 15 |
| A river at Rennes | 17 |
| A river at York | 15 |
| A river might run through it | 28 |
| A river of Grampian | 19 |
| A river of Hades | 16 |
| A river of N.Y.C. | 17 |
| A river of the Punjab | 21 |
| A river or a Teletubby | 22 |
| A river runs through it | 23 |
| A river runs through it, often | 30 |
| A river runs to it | 18 |
| A river runs to it? | 19 |
| A Riviera season | 16 |
| A road to Rome | 14 |
| A roadie lugs it | 16 |
| A roaring success since 1912 | 28 |
| A roast | 7 |
| A Roberts whose ensign flies over Tulsa | 39 |
| A robin's are blue | 22 |
| A Robinson | 10 |
| A rock band's name often appears on it | 42 |
| A rock star, often | 18 |
| A Rockefeller | 13 |
| A Rockefeller nickname | 22 |
| A Rockefeller, sometimes | 24 |
| A Rockette, e.g. | 16 |
| A rocking Allman | 16 |
| A Rocky Mountain state | 22 |
| A Rodgers partner | 17 |
| A roe source | 12 |
| A Roe with a fishy pitch | 24 |
| A Roger Rabbit framer | 21 |
| A roisterous roo | 16 |
| A role for Beverly Sills | 24 |
| A role for Flagstad | 19 |
| A role for J. Ferrer | 20 |
| A role some people play | 23 |