| Riddle: Why is this discard like music? | 39 |
| Ride for Don "The Snake" Prudhomme | 44 |
| Ride on a lightweight two-wheeled vehicle (1944) | 48 |
| Ride that's packed like sardines | 36 |
| Ride that's transparent and bulletproof | 43 |
| Ride the ___ (sit out a baseball game) | 38 |
| Rider-propelled vehicle, for short | 34 |
| Riders of the Purple Sage author | 35 |
| Riders on Direhorses in "Avatar" | 42 |
| Rides for the back country, for short | 37 |
| Rides that didn't last very long | 36 |
| Ridge in George W. Bush's cabinet | 37 |
| Ridge of sand created by the wind | 33 |
| Ridge on a guitar's fingerboard | 35 |
| Ridge with a gentle slope on one side | 37 |
| Ridicule Martin's guest of honor | 36 |
| Ridicule the "Tutti Frutti" man? | 42 |
| Ridiculed someone as loudly as possible? | 40 |
| Ridiculously intricate contrivance | 34 |
| Riding for __: acting overconfidently | 37 |
| Riding on someone else's shoulders | 38 |
| Riding the waves, as in a personal watercraft | 45 |
| Riesling alternative, familiarly | 32 |
| Riesling giant Chateau __ Michelle | 34 |
| Riesling wines are produced in its valley | 41 |
| Riff, e.g., in "West Side Story" | 42 |
| Rifleman's second in command? | 33 |
| Rigg of "The Avengers" | 32 |
| Rigg of TV's "The Avengers" | 41 |
| Rigg's costar on "The Avengers" | 45 |
| Rigging purchased out-of-season? | 32 |
| Right fielder Mel from Gretna, Louisiana | 40 |
| Right fielder Sammy of corked bat infamy | 40 |
| Right fielder, to the scorekeeper | 33 |
| Right in front of one's face | 32 |
| Right next to the sought-after object | 37 |
| Right Said Fred "I'm Too ___" | 43 |
| Right shoulder ___ (military command) | 37 |
| Right there in the drawer, perhaps | 34 |
| Right-angled additions to buildings | 35 |
| Right-angled alphabetic character | 33 |
| Right-hand man for a man with no right hand | 43 |
| Right-hand staff symbol, in piano music | 39 |
| Right-hook man in "Peter Pan"? | 40 |
| Right-rear challenge on an alley | 32 |
| Righteous Babe record label founder DiFranco | 44 |
| Righteous Babe Records founder Di Franco | 40 |
| Righteous Babe Records founder DiFranco | 39 |
| Righteous Babe Records mogul DiFranco | 37 |
| Righteous Brothers "___ Tide" | 39 |
| Righteous Brothers' musical style | 37 |
| Rightfully expect, with "for" | 39 |
| Righties that once were lefties, maybe | 38 |
| Rightmost column in the periodic table | 38 |
| Rightmost number on a grandfather clock | 39 |
| Rights org. formerly headed by Kweisi Mfume | 43 |
| Rights shouldn't be taken from it | 37 |
| Rigidly straight, as after being startled | 41 |
| Rihanna hit of 2006 or Abba hit of 1975 | 39 |
| Rihanna hit subtitled "Rescue Me" | 43 |
| Rihanna single from "Loud" | 36 |
| Rihanna song title meaning "I love you" | 49 |
| Rihanna's first #1 Billboard single | 39 |
| Rihanna's hairstylist, frequently | 37 |
| Rikki-Tikki- -- (Kipling mongoose) | 34 |
| Rikki-tikki-___ (Kipling mongoose) | 34 |
| Rikki-tikki-___, Kipling mongoose | 33 |
| Riley's "___ Sit in the Silence" | 46 |
| Riley's "___ Went Mad" | 36 |
| Riley's "_____ I Went Mad" | 40 |
| Rilke's You ___ the Future | 32 |
| Rilo Kiley's "Lining"? | 36 |
| Rima's "Green Mansions" beloved | 45 |
| Rimbaud's "___ Saison en Enfer" | 45 |
| Rime ___ (poetic use of homophones) | 35 |
| Rimes with the 1996 hit "Blue" | 40 |
| Rimsky-Korsakoff's "Le Coq ___" | 45 |
| Rimsky-Korsakov aria in "Sadko" | 41 |
| Rimsky-Korsakov opera, with "Le" | 42 |
| Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of ___" | 47 |
| Rimsky-Korsakov's "Le Coq __" | 43 |
| Rimsky-Korsakov's "Le Coq ___" | 44 |
| Rimsky-Korsakov's "Le Coq _____" | 46 |
| Rimsky-Korsakov's "Le ___ d'Or" | 49 |
| Rimsky-Korsakov's Saltan, e.g. | 34 |
| Ring around the neck at the rodeo | 33 |
| Ring Around the Rosie word | 32 |
| Ring event after exchanging rings | 33 |
| Ring figure in "Carmen" | 33 |
| Ring Lardner's "Alibi ___" | 40 |
| Ring Lardner's "___ Ike" | 38 |
| Ring name of WWE star Ettore Ewen | 33 |
| Ring of color, as around the human nipple | 41 |
| Ring used in a horseshoelike game | 33 |
| Ring-tailed critter, to Crockett | 32 |
| Ring-tailed scavenger, to Crockett | 34 |
| Ringbearer in "The Lord of the Rings" | 47 |
| Ringbearer of Scandinavian myth: Var. | 37 |
| Ringing that starts the new year, for many | 42 |
| Ringling Museum of the American Circus city | 43 |