| Recent blackmail victim | 23 |
| Recent Broadway musical | 23 |
| Recent change in change | 23 |
| Recent Chapter 11 filer | 23 |
| Recent Chevrolet hatchback | 26 |
| Recent election winners | 23 |
| Recent grads' activity | 26 |
| Recent horror film franchise | 28 |
| Recent Lincoln biographer | 25 |
| Recent med school graduate | 26 |
| Recent Microsoft retiree | 24 |
| Recent Nav. Academy grad | 24 |
| Recent naval acad. grad | 23 |
| Recent neighborhood arrival | 27 |
| Recent notable Couric get | 25 |
| Recent Oscar winners, e.g. | 26 |
| Recent past, colloquially | 25 |
| Recent political quip, part 1 | 29 |
| Recent prison scandal locale | 28 |
| Recent puzzle page addition | 27 |
| Recent rightist, familiarly | 27 |
| Recent Tea Party targeter | 25 |
| Recent teammate of Magic | 24 |
| Recent virus from Asia | 22 |
| Recent West Point grad | 22 |
| Recent Zippo acquisition | 24 |
| Recent, in geological terms | 27 |
| Recent, in Recklinghausen | 25 |
| Recent, to a geologist | 22 |
| Recently demoted planet | 23 |
| Recently dismantled stadium | 27 |
| Recently employed worker | 24 |
| Recently outed steroid abuser | 29 |
| Recently retired NBAer | 22 |
| Receptacle for a scoop or two | 29 |
| Receptacle for certain junk | 27 |
| Receptacle for choice slips | 27 |
| Receptacle for holy water | 25 |
| Receptacle for some donations | 29 |
| Receptacle for three men | 24 |
| Receptacle on a desk, perhaps | 29 |
| Receptacle under a barbecue | 27 |
| Receptacles for flowers | 23 |
| Reception desk convenience | 26 |
| Reception figures, briefly | 26 |
| Reception for a beekeeper? | 26 |
| Reception protection, perhaps | 29 |
| Reception room in a mansion | 27 |
| Reception site, perhaps | 23 |
| Reception strength units | 24 |
| Reception with open arms | 24 |
| Reception room | 22 |
| Receptionist's call | 23 |
| Receptionist's cry | 22 |
| Receptionist's directive | 28 |
| Receptionist's question | 27 |
| Receptionist's request | 26 |
| Receptionist's supply | 25 |
| Receptionist's word | 23 |
| Receptive to new ideas | 22 |
| Receptive to treatment | 22 |
| Receptor of a sweet sensation | 29 |
| Recess at St. John the Divine | 29 |
| Recess at St. Peter's | 25 |
| Recess at Westminster Abbey | 27 |
| Recess for a secretary | 22 |
| Recess for a statuette | 22 |
| Recess for holding vestments | 28 |
| Recess for the masses? | 22 |
| Recess in the shoreline | 23 |
| Recess rebuttal, perhaps | 24 |
| Recess sites, at times | 22 |
| Recess teasing defense | 22 |
| Recess with an ambulatory | 25 |
| Recessed section of a church | 28 |
| Recesses along the shore | 24 |
| Recession interest woe | 22 |
| Recession/recovery combo | 24 |
| Recharge one's batteries | 28 |
| Rechargeable battery type | 25 |
| Rechargeable cell, for short | 28 |
| Recipe amounts, briefly | 23 |
| Recipe amt., sometimes | 22 |
| Recipe direction starter | 24 |
| Recipe direction, perhaps | 25 |
| Recipe direction, sometimes | 27 |
| Recipe for heat-allergy | 23 |
| Recipe for KFC chicken, e.g. | 28 |
| Recipe holders, at times | 24 |
| Recipe measurements (abbr.) | 27 |
| Recipe measures (Abbr.) | 23 |
| Recipe measures: Abbr. | 22 |
| Recipe on a Sun-Maid box | 24 |
| Recipe quantity, maybe | 22 |
| Recipe quantity, perhaps | 24 |
| Recipe word for gelatin | 23 |
| Recipe-title connector | 22 |
| Recipient of a 1300-gem crown | 29 |
| Recipient of a 2008 bailout | 27 |
| Recipient of a beating | 22 |