| Record label of the Beatles' "Ain't She Sweet" | 64 |
| Record label whose house band was Booker T. & the M.G.'s | 64 |
| Record of the Year Grammy nominee for "Lose Yourself" | 63 |
| Record of the Year winner for "Just the Way You Are" | 62 |
| Record producer Ertegun in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | 57 |
| Record store whose physical locations closed in 2006 | 52 |
| Record-holder for most Emmy nominations without a win | 53 |
| Record-holder for throwing a touchdown pass in 47 consecutive games | 67 |
| Recordholder before Ichiro for most hits in a season | 52 |
| Recordholder for most completions by a left-handed quarterback | 62 |
| Recording artist made famous by the BBC series "The Celts" | 68 |
| Records "broken" in this puzzle's nine theme answers | 66 |
| Recruiting slogan that replaced "Be All You Can Be" | 61 |
| Recurring "Seinfeld" character from Pakistan | 54 |
| Recurring "SNL" character inspired by "Jaws" | 64 |
| Recurring Broadway role first played by Maude Adams, 1905 | 57 |
| Recurring character who dies in the novel "Curtain" | 61 |
| Recurring SNL twosome played by Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig | 63 |
| Recurring sound effect in the comic "B.C." | 52 |
| Recycling device in which you insert cans and get back money | 60 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers '85 album "Freaky ___" | 58 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers "The Uplift ___ Party Plan" | 59 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers song that runs down your cheek? | 53 |
| Red MacGregor, McEwan's Lager, or Tennent's Super, in pubs | 66 |
| Red Sox rookie in 2006, surprisingly super addition (6,7) | 57 |
| Red ___ ("Captain America: The First Avenger" villain) | 64 |
| Red's pal in "The Shawshank Redemption" | 53 |
| Redding covered his "A Change is Gonna Come" | 54 |
| Reds great Roush with a .323 lifetime batting average | 53 |
| Reenactment of a memorable scene from "The Exorcist"? | 63 |
| Reese Witherspoon's Oscar role in "Walk the Line" | 63 |
| Reese Witherspoon's role in "Legally Blonde" | 58 |
| Reeves who played Klaatu in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" | 69 |
| Ref's tool when reviewing a play that's been challenged | 63 |
| Ref. book whose first edition took 68 years to complete | 55 |
| Ref. books with almost two million quotations: Abbr. | 52 |
| Ref. conceived of in 1857 by London's Philological Society | 62 |
| Ref. staple that used to come with a magnifying glass | 53 |
| Ref. work chronicled in "The Professor and the Madman" | 64 |
| Ref. work featured in "The Professor and the Madman" | 62 |
| Ref. work whose Compact Edition is sold with a magnifying glass | 63 |
| Reference from the Hawaiian and Greek for "quick education" | 69 |
| Refrain from the song ''Hot Hot Hot'' | 53 |
| Refrigeration mechanic's "Stay cool!"? | 52 |
| Refrigerator company named for the town it started in | 53 |
| Refrigerator feature that may hold a carton's worth | 55 |
| Refuse to fire "Gangsta's Paradise" hip-hopper? | 61 |
| Refusenik, after she's been granted an exit visa | 52 |
| Reggae group that released "Burnin'" in 1973 | 58 |
| Reggae hitmakers of the 1970s-1980s, with "The" | 57 |
| Reggae icon on Beastie Boys "Hello Nasty" album | 57 |
| Reggie and the Full Effect "Under the ___" | 52 |
| Reggie and the Full Effect: "Under the ___" | 53 |
| Reggie White's team when he was named N.F.L. M.V.P. | 55 |
| Region divided by the Munich Pact and again by the Potsdam agreement | 68 |
| Region of France that borders Germany and Switzerland | 53 |
| Region with many Shintoists, Confucians, and Buddhists | 54 |
| Region with the highest concentration of national parks in the U.S. | 67 |
| Registers one's answer on a computerized true-false quiz? | 61 |
| Regret some stupidity ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme | 64 |
| Regular guest on "The O'Reilly Factor" | 52 |
| Regular on "The Odd Couple" and "Happy Days" | 64 |
| Regular stuff found inside this puzzle's three longest answers | 66 |
| Rehab regular who recently spent eighty-four minutes in jail | 60 |
| Reiterative reply to "Who wants ice cream?" | 53 |
| Reitman rumored to be involved with "Ghostbusters III" | 64 |
| Relating to a 17th century lord protector of England | 52 |
| Relating to the last division of the small intestine | 52 |
| Relationship in the 2009 film "I Love You, Man" | 57 |
| Relative of "It's not you, it's me" | 53 |
| Relatively lonely number, though not as bad as one, in song | 59 |
| Relatives of "Gee whiz!" and "Shucks!" | 58 |
| Relatives of "Gee whiz" and "Shucks!" | 57 |
| Relatives of AND's and OR's in Boolean logic | 52 |
| Relief pitcher Orosco who closed out Game 7 of the 1986 World Series | 68 |
| Relief pitcher with the 2004 World Series-winning Red Sox | 57 |
| Relient K "Two ___ Don't Make a Right ... But Three Do" | 69 |
| Relieved oneself in a workout routine move (5, 2, 2) | 52 |
| Relieved U.K. headline after a royal family accident? | 53 |
| Reliever's feeling after giving up a game-ending homerun? | 61 |
| Religion derived from the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama | 57 |
| Religion to which 10% of American voters believe Barack Obama belongs | 69 |
| Religious affiliation of John Adams and William Howard Taft | 59 |
| Religious artifact supposedly hidden in the Well of Souls | 57 |
| Religious believer that humankind is descended from aliens | 58 |
| Religious doctrine whose founder was born July 10, 1509 | 55 |
| Religious folks who like to toss ideas back and forth? | 54 |
| Religious leader who wrote "Peace With God" | 53 |
| Religious sch. with the motto "Make no little plans here" | 67 |
| REM: "It's The ___ the World as We Know It" | 57 |
| Remark from someone who's always sponging off you? | 54 |
| Remarkable thing, in old slang (with ''the'') | 61 |
| Rembrandt's ''The _____ of Europa'' | 55 |
| Rembrandt's ''___ and Anna With a Kid'' | 59 |
| Reminiscent of "Les Rougon-Macquart," maybe | 53 |
| Reminiscent of the 1919 poem "The Second Coming" | 58 |
| Reminiscent of vanilla, toast, chocolate, and coffee, as some wine | 66 |
| Removed from the actual action, as with a commentator | 53 |
| Renaissance composer of "Missa Papae Marcelli" | 56 |
| Renaissance period wind instrument with an upward curving end | 61 |