| R&B singer Mary J. ___ | 26 |
| Rarity for a century plant | 26 |
| Releasing stress, in a way | 26 |
| Releasing pent-up emotions | 26 |
| Rare blood type, for short | 26 |
| Ray's longtime partner | 26 |
| Railroad-car undercarriage | 26 |
| Reach 212 degrees, perhaps | 26 |
| Ranchero's accessories | 26 |
| Rock star with many causes | 26 |
| Reagan's simian costar | 26 |
| React to a bad performance | 26 |
| Reacted to a bad call, say | 26 |
| Ready to do something else | 26 |
| Really close kind of buddy | 26 |
| Relaxing shot to the face? | 26 |
| Recites the compass points | 26 |
| Raisin __ (type of cereal) | 26 |
| Rabbit or Bear's title | 26 |
| Response to a polar vortex | 26 |
| Revolutionary 1930s bomber | 26 |
| Replaceable part of a lamp | 26 |
| React to pressure, perhaps | 26 |
| Rubber used in inner tubes | 26 |
| Route off the beaten track | 26 |
| Red wine choice, for short | 26 |
| Raise ___ (cause a ruckus) | 26 |
| Ripken the baseball legend | 26 |
| Reagan's milieu: Abbr. | 26 |
| Request before a coin toss | 26 |
| Refreshed after meditation | 26 |
| Roadside litter components | 26 |
| Removes the blindfold, say | 26 |
| Red Riding Hood's garb | 26 |
| Relief provider since 1945 | 26 |
| Roman statesman and writer | 26 |
| Roman statesman and censor | 26 |
| Roman Punic Wars statesman | 26 |
| Remarkable thing, quaintly | 26 |
| Relenting after a standoff | 26 |
| Ravens' strident cries | 26 |
| Relative of a glockenspiel | 26 |
| Republic or lake in Africa | 26 |
| React to exposure, perhaps | 26 |
| Rube's quid of tobacco | 26 |
| Revolutionary on a T-shirt | 26 |
| Requests for food, perhaps | 26 |
| Restaurant draw, sometimes | 26 |
| Robert M. Gates's org. | 26 |
| René ___, film director | 26 |
| Red Cross organizer Barton | 26 |
| Robert Schumann's love | 26 |
| Roy of "Hee Haw" | 26 |
| Remove profanity from, say | 26 |
| Reason to call Roto-Rooter | 26 |
| Red herring is a wrong one | 26 |
| Rich source of fossil fuel | 26 |
| Rough and boorish behavior | 26 |
| Rolled with the engine off | 26 |
| Rests on one's laurels | 26 |
| Renegade, for Barack Obama | 26 |
| Rumsfeld's predecessor | 26 |
| Result of teasing, perhaps | 26 |
| Rank just below brig. gen. | 26 |
| Red, white, and blue, e.g. | 26 |
| Result of a big hit, maybe | 26 |
| Regardless of consequences | 26 |
| Reason not to do something | 26 |
| Robert E. Howard barbarian | 26 |
| Robert or William of films | 26 |
| Robitussin suppresses them | 26 |
| Report on, as a news story | 26 |
| Reviewer of books, briefly | 26 |
| Result of an oil shortage? | 26 |
| Relative of mustard greens | 26 |
| Racquet for a certain game | 26 |
| Rock's Mötley _____ | 26 |
| Rock music's Motley -- | 26 |
| Rock group: Motley ____ | 26 |
| Robert E. Lee's outfit | 26 |
| Rotation player's need | 26 |
| Radium co-discoverer Marie | 26 |
| Remote controller, perhaps | 26 |
| Rather adept at reporting? | 26 |
| Risk taker's challenge | 26 |
| RMN was his vice president | 26 |
| Recording label for Crosby | 26 |
| Restaurateur's concern | 26 |
| River near Balmoral Castle | 26 |
| Ruby that sparkles onstage | 26 |
| Rihanna's record label | 26 |
| Religious belief of a sort | 26 |
| Remove from the manuscript | 26 |
| Remove from print, briefly | 26 |
| Ready-to-eat food products | 26 |
| Reese with an angelic role | 26 |
| River's end, sometimes | 26 |
| Recordings sent to deejays | 26 |
| Reply to 'Gracias' | 26 |
| Robert of "Heat" | 26 |