| Rate setter, informally | 23 |
| Rate ___ (be deemed flawless) | 29 |
| Rate ___ (perform perfectly) | 28 |
| Rate, as players at Wimbledon | 29 |
| Rated (oneself) highly | 22 |
| Rated King, Austin et al. | 25 |
| Rated most likely to win | 24 |
| Rated, at Flushing Meadows | 26 |
| Rates an A in toxophily | 23 |
| Rates on Monopoly deeds | 23 |
| Rates-and-samples material | 26 |
| Rathbone colleague Bruce | 24 |
| Rathbone goes barnstorming? | 27 |
| Rather adept at reporting? | 26 |
| Rather and Brokaw, e.g. | 23 |
| Rather and Jennings, e.g. | 25 |
| Rather dedicated to news | 24 |
| Rather fast on the road | 23 |
| Rather good at reporting | 24 |
| Rather good with news? | 22 |
| Rather or Aykroyd, e.g. | 23 |
| Rather sarcastic, perhaps | 25 |
| Rather short-term follower? | 27 |
| Rather snarled on the road | 26 |
| Rather than, in poetry | 22 |
| Rather than, poetically | 23 |
| Rather than, to Cowper | 22 |
| Rather than, to Hamlet | 22 |
| Rather violent, perhaps | 23 |
| Rather's favorite letters | 29 |
| Rather's successor | 22 |
| Rathskeller "rocks" | 29 |
| Rathskeller decorations | 23 |
| Rating a 10 on the Mohs scale | 29 |
| Rating factor, perhaps | 22 |
| Rating for adult-themed shows | 29 |
| Rating for an awful movie | 25 |
| Rating for many a sitcom | 24 |
| Rating for many HBO shows | 25 |
| Rating for the risqué | 24 |
| Rating from Moody's | 23 |
| Rating of "Avatar" | 28 |
| Rating of some programs | 23 |
| Rating on an egg carton | 23 |
| Rating service, for short | 25 |
| Rating symbol at Amazon.com | 27 |
| Rating two stars, perhaps | 25 |
| Ratings time, for networks | 26 |
| Ratio involving a hypotenuse | 28 |
| Ratio involving ht. and wt. | 27 |
| Ratio of a foot to a yard | 25 |
| Ratio of AB to BC, say | 22 |
| Ratio representing 20 percent | 29 |
| Ration, with "out" | 28 |
| Ration-book agency of W.W. II | 29 |
| Rational belief in God | 22 |
| Rational faculty in Buddhism | 28 |
| Rationale for cooperation | 25 |
| Rationalizing from the inept | 28 |
| Rationals + irrationals | 23 |
| Rationed health care medicine | 29 |
| Rationing-time substitute | 25 |
| Ratios in trigonometry | 22 |
| Ratios, in trigonometry | 23 |
| Ratite bird of crosswords | 25 |
| Ratite from down under | 22 |
| Ratites with green eggs | 23 |
| Ratliff of the Trail Blazers | 28 |
| Rats and fleas, among others | 28 |
| Rats' milieux, often | 24 |
| Ratso's given name | 22 |
| Ratt's ___ DeMartini | 24 |
| Rattails of the deep seas | 25 |
| Rattle the whole auditorium? | 28 |
| Rattled one's saber at | 26 |
| Rattled sabers, perhaps | 23 |
| Rattles one's cage | 22 |
| Rattlesnake or missile | 22 |
| Rattlesnake's cousin | 24 |
| Rattlesnake's shape | 23 |
| Rattlesnake, periodically | 25 |
| Raucous laugh syllable | 22 |
| Raucous rookery remark | 22 |
| Raucous style of music | 22 |
| Raucous Western capital? | 24 |
| Raucous-laugh comedienne | 24 |
| Raul Castro's brother | 25 |
| Raul Castro's country | 25 |
| Raul Castro's predecessor | 29 |
| Raul de ___, famed architect | 28 |
| Raul, to Fidel's kids | 25 |
| Raunchy BBC comedy, briefly | 27 |
| RAV4 or TrailBlazer, briefly | 28 |
| Ravages of wind or tide | 23 |
| Rave rentals, for short | 23 |
| Ravell'd -sleave knitter | 28 |
| Raven-haired Puccini heroine | 28 |
| Ravenous reptile, for short | 27 |
| Ravens or Cardinals, e.g. | 25 |
| Ravens tight end Dennis | 23 |