| ___ ride (thumb) | 16 |
| ___ Ridden (1958 Epsom winner) | 30 |
| ___ Rida ("Right Round" rapper) | 41 |
| ___ Rida ("Low" performer with T-Pain) | 48 |
| ___ Rico (Spanish name for Scrooge McDuck) | 42 |
| ___ Rico | 8 |
| ___ riches (poets' ploys) | 29 |
| ___ riche (upstart) | 19 |
| ___ riche | 9 |
| ___ Richard of Almanack fame | 28 |
| ___ Richard | 11 |
| ___ rich | 8 |
| ___ Rice Burroughs | 18 |
| ___ Rican | 9 |
| ___ Rica, C.A. | 14 |
| ___ Rica | 8 |
| ___ ribs | 8 |
| ___ Ribbentrop | 14 |
| ___ rial (Mideastern currency) | 30 |
| ___ Rhodes Revels, the first African-American to serve in the U.S. senate | 73 |
| ___ Rhin (French department) | 28 |
| ___ Revolution (2005 Lebanese uprising) | 39 |
| ___ Reville, Hitchcock's wife and collaborator | 50 |
| ___ review | 10 |
| ___ Revenge (Atari classic) | 27 |
| ___ Reuters, media giant | 24 |
| ___ retriever | 13 |
| ___ retreat (withdraws) | 23 |
| ___ retreat (retire in haste) | 29 |
| ___ retreat (hightail it) | 25 |
| ___ retreat (flee) | 18 |
| ___ retreat (fall back) | 23 |
| ___ retreat (decamp) | 20 |
| ___ retentive | 13 |
| ___ result | 10 |
| ___ restante | 12 |
| ___ rest (settles) | 18 |
| ___ rest (bury) | 15 |
| ___ resistance (roll easily) | 28 |
| ___ reservations | 16 |
| ___ resemblance to (unlike) | 27 |
| ___ resemblance to (look like) | 30 |
| ___ resemblance (be similar to) | 31 |
| ___ Research Center (think tank) | 32 |
| ___ Research Center (NASA lab in Silicon Valley) | 48 |
| ___ Research Center | 19 |
| ___ res | 7 |
| ___ Republican Army | 19 |
| ___ Republic, toppled in 1933 | 29 |
| ___ Republic of Egypt | 21 |
| ___ Republic | 12 |
| ___ Report of the 1990s | 23 |
| ___ Report (luxury magazine) | 28 |
| ___ Report (luxury lifestyle magazine) | 38 |
| ___ Report (high-end lifestyle mag) | 35 |
| ___ reo (defendant not present) | 31 |
| ___ Renewal (skin care product) | 31 |
| ___ renewal | 11 |
| ___ René Lesage | 18 |
| ___ Remus | 9 |
| ___ remover | 11 |
| ___ Remo, Italy | 15 |
| ___ Remo | 8 |
| ___ relief | 10 |
| ___ release (message targeted to the media) | 43 |
| ___ Relays (annual sporting event) | 34 |
| ___ Relaxo (one-time getaway for Marge Simpson) | 47 |
| ___ relations | 13 |
| ___ Reiss Merin, babysitter player in "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" | 94 |
| ___ Reid (the Green Hornet) | 27 |
| ___ regni (in the year of the reign) | 36 |
| ___ regni | 9 |
| ___ regions | 11 |
| ___ Region, famed for horse farms | 33 |
| ___ regia (corrosive liquid) | 28 |
| ___ reggae (genre) | 18 |
| ___ Regency | 11 |
| ___ regarded | 12 |
| ___ reflux | 10 |
| ___ reflex | 10 |
| ___ reflection | 14 |
| ___ Reekie (Edinburgh) | 22 |
| ___ reef | 8 |
| ___ Reed Hall (portrayer of Olivia on "Sesame Street") | 64 |
| ___ Reed | 8 |
| ___ Redman, hero of Stephen King's "The Stand" | 60 |
| ___ Redbreast | 13 |
| ___ Red Seal (classical music label) | 36 |
| ___ red pepper (pizza condiment) | 32 |
| ___ red (vermilion) | 19 |
| ___ red (fumes) | 15 |
| ___ Red (apple variety) | 23 |
| ___ red (a pigment) | 19 |
| ___ red | 7 |
| ___ Records (old music label) | 29 |
| ___ Records (comedy label) | 26 |
| ___ Records | 11 |
| ___ recorder | 12 |
| ___ record (makes history) | 26 |
| ___ record (make history) | 25 |