| Reason to roll out the tarp | 27 |
| Reason for a delay, perhaps | 27 |
| Rapidly shrinking ecosystem | 27 |
| Regardless of circumstances | 27 |
| Rum's ice-cream partner | 27 |
| Richie and Potsie's pal | 27 |
| Repeated Stallone film role | 27 |
| Roast beef request, perhaps | 27 |
| River in central New Jersey | 27 |
| River in India and Pakistan | 27 |
| Rachael on the Food Network | 27 |
| Rachael of the Food Network | 27 |
| Refuse to be bridled, maybe | 27 |
| React like a startled steed | 27 |
| React to danger, as a horse | 27 |
| Responded to a crash, maybe | 27 |
| Renovated the kitchen, e.g. | 27 |
| Reverberate again and again | 27 |
| Rock from a sock or a shock | 27 |
| Ruling or prevailing system | 27 |
| Rules of conduct for short | 27 |
| Recovery regimen, for short | 27 |
| Rastafarianism, e.g.: Abbr. | 27 |
| Races or electrical devices | 27 |
| Russo of "Ransom" | 27 |
| Resort city near Lake Tahoe | 27 |
| Royale, of 30's autodom | 27 |
| Royale 8 automobile company | 27 |
| Restored vigor to, in a way | 27 |
| Right your career, in a way | 27 |
| Receiving a pension (Abbr.) | 27 |
| Replace shoes; head for bed | 27 |
| Reason to go back to school | 27 |
| Replace the old connections | 27 |
| River of Europe, to Germans | 27 |
| Rappers' improvisations | 27 |
| Rapper's improvisations | 27 |
| Roast or something to roast | 27 |
| Relieve manager of services | 27 |
| Ruffles potato chip feature | 27 |
| Riva ___, 1972 Derby winner | 27 |
| Relative of a dressage whip | 27 |
| Richard Starkey, familiarly | 27 |
| Rampage through the streets | 27 |
| Reading in an unruly class? | 27 |
| Republican Party birthplace | 27 |
| Revolt, with "up" | 27 |
| Reward seeker's concern | 27 |
| Romance writer's reward | 27 |
| Romance writers' awards | 27 |
| Rural municipalities, abbr. | 27 |
| 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 |