| ___ record (equals) | 19 |
| ___ record (equaled) | 20 |
| ___ record (break an old standard) | 34 |
| ___ record (break an old mark) | 30 |
| ___ record | 10 |
| ___ reckoning | 13 |
| ___ Rebellion: 1786–87 | 29 |
| ___ Rebellion, Canadian uprising | 32 |
| ___ Rebellion of 1857-59 | 24 |
| ___ Rebellion in R.I.: 1842 | 27 |
| ___ Rebellion in India: 1857–58 | 38 |
| ___ Rebellion (19th-century Rhode Island Republican insurrection) | 65 |
| ___ Rebellion (1786 insurrection) | 33 |
| ___ Rebellion (1739 slave uprising) | 35 |
| ___ Rebellion (1676 Jamestown uprising) | 39 |
| ___ Rebellion | 13 |
| ___ reason at all | 17 |
| ___ reason (was logical) | 24 |
| ___ reason (make sense) | 23 |
| ___ reason (be logical) | 23 |
| ___ reason | 10 |
| ___ realm | 9 |
| ___ Real, Spain | 15 |
| ___ real | 8 |
| ___ Reagan Jr. | 14 |
| ___ ready | 9 |
| ___ Reader's Encyclopedia (classic literary reference) | 58 |
| ___ Reader (magazine) | 21 |
| ___ Reader (magazine since 1984) | 32 |
| ___ Reader (former magazine name) | 33 |
| ___ reader (elementary school book) | 35 |
| ___ Reader (eclectic magazine) | 30 |
| ___ Reader (eclectic bimonthly) | 31 |
| ___ Reader (bimonthly magazine) | 31 |
| ___ Reader (bimonthly digest) | 29 |
| ___ Reader (alternative press digest) | 37 |
| ___ Reader (alternative media digest) | 37 |
| ___ Reader (alternative media bimonthly) | 40 |
| ___ Reader (alternative magazine) | 33 |
| ___ Reader | 10 |
| ___ Reade (NYC drugstore chain) | 31 |
| ___ Reade | 9 |
| ___ reaction | 12 |
| ___ rea (criminal intent) | 25 |
| ___ RÃos, Argentine province | 31 |
| ___ RÃos (Paraná's province) | 38 |
| ___ régime (pre-1789 French government) | 42 |
| ___ régime | 13 |
| ___ razz and soda lime (vodka drink) | 36 |
| ___ razor (philosophic rule) | 28 |
| ___ Razberi (flavored vodka brand) | 34 |
| ___ rays | 8 |
| ___ Raymonde, player of Alex Rousseau on "Lost" | 57 |
| ___ Raymond Cobb of baseball fame | 33 |
| ___ Raymond Cobb | 16 |
| ___ Ray Vaughan | 15 |
| ___ Ray of the Indigo Girls | 27 |
| ___ Ray Leonard | 15 |
| ___ ray (stream of positive ions in a gas-discharge tube) | 57 |
| ___ ray (devilfish) | 19 |
| ___ ray | 7 |
| ___ raving mad | 14 |
| ___ rattling (militarism) | 25 |
| ___ Raton, Florida | 18 |
| ___ Raton, Fla. | 15 |
| ___ Raton, FL | 13 |
| ___ Raton | 9 |
| ___ Ration (former brand with the jingle "My dog's better than yours") | 84 |
| ___ Ration (dog food brand) | 27 |
| ___ Ration (bygone dog food brand) | 34 |
| ___ Ration (Alpo alternative) | 29 |
| ___ Ration | 10 |
| ___ ratio (TVs' 16:9 or 4:3) | 32 |
| ___ ratio (film conversion spec) | 32 |
| ___ rating system (world chess standard) | 40 |
| ___ rating (chess skill-level measure) | 38 |
| ___ rating | 10 |
| ___ Rathbone | 12 |
| ___ rate (inferior) | 19 |
| ___ rate (in whatever event) | 28 |
| ___ rate | 8 |
| ___ Ratchathani, Thai province | 30 |
| ___ rata | 8 |
| ___ rat (suspect) | 17 |
| ___ rat (prospector) | 20 |
| ___ rat (be suspicious) | 23 |
| ___ rat | 7 |
| ___ rasae | 9 |
| ___ rasa (clean slate) | 22 |
| ___ rasa | 8 |
| ___ Rapids, Mich. | 17 |
| ___ Rapids, Iowa | 16 |
| ___ Rapids, city in Minn. | 25 |
| ___ Rapids | 10 |
| ___ Rapee, longtime Radio City Music Hall conductor | 51 |
| ___ Rao, "The Serpent and the Rope" novelist | 54 |
| ___ ranger (punny name for a British yuppie, based on a fancy London neighborhood) | 82 |
| ___ Ranger | 10 |
| ___ Range, U.S.S.R. | 19 |
| ___ Rand, developer of Objectivism | 34 |