| Rumored reason for the stock market plunge of 5/6/10, whose effect is seen in this puzzle's theme answers | 109 |
| Run in the wash[To fully understand this week's and last week's puzzles, SEE NOTE ABOVE] | 96 |
| Runner Sebastian who headed London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics | 77 |
| Runs around naked covered in feathers, or whatever, for the privilege of living in a house that smells like Busch Light | 119 |
| Rush's song off "Presto" that went long? (with "The") | 77 |
| Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" is set at the end of it | 73 |
| Russell Byars is one: He set the Guinness World Record of 51 times from the shore of the Allegheny River on 7/19/2007 | 117 |
| Russell parodied on "South Park" with the show "Fightin' Around the World" | 98 |
| Russian girl pop group with the 2002 hit album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" | 85 |
| Russian peasants (and the highest-scoring opening word in Scrabble--it's worth 128 points) | 94 |
| Russian pop duo with the hit album "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane" | 73 |
| Ryan Piers Williams's romp on a waterbed with "Ugly Betty" star Ferrera? | 86 |