| ___ Report (luxury magazine) | 28 |
| ___ Report of the 1990s | 23 |
| ___ Republic | 12 |
| ___ Republic of Egypt | 21 |
| ___ Republic, toppled in 1933 | 29 |
| ___ Republican Army | 19 |
| ___ res | 7 |
| ___ Research Center | 19 |
| ___ Research Center (NASA lab in Silicon Valley) | 48 |
| ___ Research Center (think tank) | 32 |
| ___ resemblance (be similar to) | 31 |
| ___ resemblance to (look like) | 30 |
| ___ resemblance to (unlike) | 27 |
| ___ reservations | 16 |
| ___ resistance (roll easily) | 28 |
| ___ rest (bury) | 15 |
| ___ rest (settles) | 18 |
| ___ restante | 12 |
| ___ result | 10 |
| ___ retentive | 13 |
| ___ retreat (decamp) | 20 |
| ___ retreat (fall back) | 23 |
| ___ retreat (flee) | 18 |
| ___ retreat (hightail it) | 25 |
| ___ retreat (retire in haste) | 29 |
| ___ retreat (withdraws) | 23 |
| ___ retriever | 13 |
| ___ Reuters, media giant | 24 |
| ___ Revenge (Atari classic) | 27 |
| ___ review | 10 |
| ___ Reville, Hitchcock's wife and collaborator | 50 |
| ___ Revolution (2005 Lebanese uprising) | 39 |
| ___ Rhin (French department) | 28 |
| ___ Rhodes Revels, the first African-American to serve in the U.S. senate | 73 |
| ___ rial (Mideastern currency) | 30 |
| ___ Ribbentrop | 14 |
| ___ ribs | 8 |
| ___ Rica | 8 |
| ___ Rica, C.A. | 14 |
| ___ Rican | 9 |
| ___ Rice Burroughs | 18 |
| ___ rich | 8 |
| ___ Richard | 11 |
| ___ Richard of Almanack fame | 28 |
| ___ riche | 9 |
| ___ riche (upstart) | 19 |
| ___ riches (poets' ploys) | 29 |
| ___ Rico | 8 |
| ___ Rico (Spanish name for Scrooge McDuck) | 42 |
| ___ Rida ("Low" performer with T-Pain) | 48 |
| ___ Rida ("Right Round" rapper) | 41 |
| ___ Ridden (1958 Epsom winner) | 30 |
| ___ ride (thumb) | 16 |
| ___ Ridge | 9 |
| ___ Ridge ('72 Belmont winner) | 34 |
| ___ Ridge (1972 Derby winner) | 29 |
| ___ Ridge (1972 Kentucky Derby winner) | 38 |
| ___ Ridge (famed race horse) | 28 |
| ___ Ridge (race horse) | 22 |
| ___ Ridge (racehorse) | 21 |
| ___ Ridge National Laboratory | 29 |
| ___ Ridge, 1972 Derby winner | 28 |
| ___ Ridge, famed horse | 22 |
| ___ Ridge, famed race horse | 27 |
| ___ Ridge, great race horse | 27 |
| ___ Ridge, Kentucky Derby winner, 1972 | 38 |
| ___ Ridge, Md. | 14 |
| ___ Ridge, race horse | 21 |
| ___ Ridge, Tenn. | 16 |
| ___ Ridge, Tennessee | 20 |
| ___ Ridge: 1972 Kentucky Derby winner | 37 |
| ___ ridgeback (hunting dog) | 27 |
| ___ rigate | 10 |
| ___ right | 9 |
| ___ Rights | 10 |
| ___ rights (red-handed) | 23 |
| ___ rigueur (literally) | 23 |
| ___ rigueur (to the fullest extent) | 35 |
| ___ Riisna, a producer of TV's "20/20" | 52 |
| ___ Rijn, Netherlands river | 27 |
| ___ Rijn, Utrecht's stream | 30 |
| ___ rima | 8 |
| ___ rima (verse form for Dante) | 31 |
| ___ rima (verse form) | 21 |
| ___ ring | 8 |
| ___ ring (have a ball) | 22 |
| ___ rings | 9 |
| ___ rings (fried side) | 22 |
| ___ Rio of silent films | 23 |
| ___ Rio, city in Tex. | 21 |
| ___ Rio, Tex. | 13 |
| ___ Rio, Tex. city | 18 |
| ___ Rio, Texas | 14 |
| ___ Rios (Jamaican resort) | 26 |
| ___ Rios Bay | 12 |
| ___ Rios de Minas, Brazil | 25 |
| ___ Rios, Ecuador | 17 |
| ___ Rios, Jamaica | 17 |
| ___ Rios, Jamaican resort | 25 |
| ___ riot (comedy review) | 24 |