| Ribonucleic acid, for short | 27 |
| Reiner's favoritebird? | 27 |
| Reference book for a writer | 27 |
| Race driver's protector | 27 |
| Rich kid in 'Nancy' | 27 |
| Royce's fellow traveler | 27 |
| Read Only Memory, for short | 27 |
| Redheaded restaurant figure | 27 |
| Recurring-theme composition | 27 |
| Repetitive musical movement | 27 |
| Red fruit used in some jams | 27 |
| Robin Hood and Will Scarlet | 27 |
| Riveter painted by Rockwell | 27 |
| Repetitive learning process | 27 |
| Revolving part on a machine | 27 |
| River port east of Le Havre | 27 |
| Raekwon "100 ___" | 27 |
| Result of an unfair matchup | 27 |
| Result of an uneven matchup | 27 |
| Rob ___ (drink with Scotch) | 27 |
| Rob ___ (Scotch Manhattans) | 27 |
| Role on "Frasier" | 27 |
| Reading and the like: Abbr. | 27 |
| Request from a party leader | 27 |
| Red-underlined book heading | 27 |
| Regrets, he's had a few | 27 |
| Regulations' associates | 27 |
| Respond to the starting gun | 27 |
| Rene of "Tin Cup" | 27 |
| Rich-textured Norwegian rug | 27 |
| River of France and Germany | 27 |
| R.S.V.P. facilitator: Abbr. | 27 |
| React to gravitational pull | 27 |
| Russell ___, U.S. financier | 27 |
| Roughly one-third of Africa | 27 |
| Reception room in a mansion | 27 |
| Rio ... rhythm ... ballroom | 27 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson home | 27 |
| Removed splinters, in a way | 27 |
| Rids of roughness, in a way | 27 |
| Refines a surface, in a way | 27 |
| Ringling Museum of Art site | 27 |
| Response facilitator: Abbr. | 27 |
| Ready-to-mail item, briefly | 27 |
| Reason for detention, maybe | 27 |
| Recipe direction, sometimes | 27 |
| Resell unfairly, as tickets | 27 |
| Rubaiyat's rhyme scheme | 27 |
| Russian city on the Yenisei | 27 |
| River of woe, in Greek myth | 27 |
| Rhyme for a nursery scholar | 27 |
| Recipient of a 2008 bailout | 27 |
| River of the Argonne Forest | 27 |
| River flowing into the Oise | 27 |
| Rommel defeat site El ____ | 27 |
| River in Poland, to Germans | 27 |
| Related add-ons, informally | 27 |
| Richard Harris film of 1970 | 27 |
| Red blood cell deficiencies | 27 |
| Reasons for excommunication | 27 |
| Relaxing time on the slopes | 27 |
| Relaxing time in the chalet | 27 |
| Rock journalists write them | 27 |
| Rainy day activity for kids | 27 |
| Reduced to residue via fire | 27 |
| Receptacle under a barbecue | 27 |
| Return over the same course | 27 |
| Receptacle for choice slips | 27 |
| Resinous marching musician? | 27 |
| Result of a financial panic | 27 |
| Relating to a cranial point | 27 |
| Rathbone goes barnstorming? | 27 |
| Rubber duckie's habitat | 27 |
| Rounds for overworked cops? | 27 |
| Rules of Christian theology | 27 |
| Raise the price of, on eBay | 27 |
| Requiring use of both hands | 27 |
| Result of some fermentation | 27 |
| Reasons for some low scores | 27 |
| Rain-___ (bubble gum brand) | 27 |
| R-rated film feature, maybe | 27 |
| Radio/television comedy duo | 27 |
| Rather short-term follower? | 27 |
| Russia's cold war beer? | 27 |
| Rhett Butler's daughter | 27 |
| Relaxed, upscale restaurant | 27 |
| River to the Gulf of Mexico | 27 |
| Rest period during a fight? | 27 |
| Roaring Twenties hair cream | 27 |
| Robinson and Reese, for two | 27 |
| Rehnquist's predecessor | 27 |
| Reshining the pencils, e.g. | 27 |
| Richard Evelyn + Nicholas = | 27 |
| Retire to one's boudoir | 27 |
| Rookie with an even temper? | 27 |
| Reindeer commanding a ship? | 27 |
| Range including Mt. Rainier | 27 |
| Receiver of checkout checks | 27 |
| Revolutionary Cuban legume? | 27 |
| Recent, in geological terms | 27 |