| Required reading for a classics major | 37 |
| Required intake of milk and cheese? | 35 |
| Required course for fathers-to-be? | 34 |
| Require as part of the agreement | 32 |
| Requests to compare and contrast, maybe | 39 |
| Requests for a saucer of milk, maybe | 36 |
| Requests earnestly, with ''for'' | 48 |
| Requesting shipments in wooden containers? | 42 |
| Requesting customization, perhaps | 33 |
| Requester of "As Time Goes By" | 40 |
| Requested item, along with registration | 39 |
| Requested help from the computer department? | 44 |
| Requested gift in "A Christmas Story" | 47 |
| Request with "Please, Mom?" | 37 |
| Request when your friends are locked out | 40 |
| Request when the national anthem is played | 42 |
| Request when playing 'Red Light' | 40 |
| Request upon reaching the bottom of a can | 41 |
| Request to watch a Hugh Laurie show? | 36 |
| Request to Tussaud to change? Woof! | 35 |
| Request to Sam in "Casablanca" | 40 |
| Request to hear a certain audiobook genre? | 42 |
| Request to an opponent in checkers? | 35 |
| Request to a waiter who brings the salad | 40 |
| Request to a waiter in a Chinese restaurant? | 44 |
| Request to a Russian procrastinator? | 36 |
| Request to "ye faithful" | 34 |
| Request that will complete the show's puzzle | 48 |
| Request that often follows "Please" | 45 |
| Request on a pre-invitation card | 32 |
| Request often accompanied by "please" | 47 |
| Request of Rhonda, in a 1965 Beach Boys hit | 43 |
| Request of a frog in a fairy tale | 33 |
| Request made while pointing at a display case | 45 |
| Request just before a depression? | 33 |
| Request inside (or outside?) a wine bar | 39 |
| Request info in a fraudulent e-mail | 35 |
| Request in Ibsen's "Ghosts" | 41 |
| Request from the peanut gallery, perhaps | 40 |
| Request from the almost-finished | 32 |
| Request from someone who brought his own cola? | 46 |
| Request from someone trying to get smacked? | 43 |
| Request from one with a white flag | 34 |
| Request from one who's stumped | 34 |
| Request from one not yet satisfied | 34 |
| Request from one getting a backrub | 34 |
| Request from Ms. Hudson's mate? | 35 |
| Request from an impressed audience | 34 |
| Request from a toddler who loves Curious George? | 48 |
| Request from a thirsty Spaniard? | 32 |
| Request from a guest over an apartment intercom | 47 |
| Request from a doctor with a tongue depressor | 45 |
| Request for insurance for a lost suitcase? | 42 |
| Request for candy from a kid at camp? | 37 |
| Request for artist Georgia's forbearance? | 45 |
| Request for an attorney's argument? | 39 |
| Request for a congratulatory slap | 33 |
| Request before smoking a potato? | 32 |
| Request at the concert's end | 32 |
| Request at the butcher shop, perhaps | 36 |
| Request at a sandwich joint, sometimes | 38 |
| Request after a failure, sometimes | 34 |
| Reqmt. for giving someone the third degree? | 43 |
| Reqmt. for certain graduate studies | 35 |
| Reputed rattler bite remedy [2001] | 34 |
| Reputed originator of the curve ball | 36 |
| Reputed Dead Sea Scrolls transcribers | 37 |
| Reputed Crimean stage-prop of 1700's | 40 |
| Reputed "Fountain of Youth" site | 42 |
| Reputation earned by inept rodster | 34 |
| Republicans or Democrats, collectively | 38 |
| Republicans failed to take it over in 2010 | 42 |
| Republican-turned-Democrat Specter | 34 |
| Republican, Democratic, Green, etc. | 35 |
| Republican's opponent: Abbr. | 32 |
| Republican voter, stereotypically | 33 |
| Republican states, on Election Day maps | 39 |
| Republican region, on a political map | 37 |
| Republican presidential dropout Rick | 36 |
| Republican National Committee chairman Michael | 46 |
| Republican National Committee chairman | 38 |
| Republican elephant's creator | 33 |
| Republican candidate between Bush and Bush | 42 |
| Republic's name: 1937–49 | 35 |
| Republic whose Supreme Leader is Ali Khamenei | 45 |
| Republic once known as French Sudan | 35 |
| Republic on St. George's Channel: Abbr. | 43 |
| Republic in extreme eastern Africa | 34 |
| Republic founded by American blacks | 35 |
| Republic formerly under Danish rule | 35 |
| Republic consisting of 26 counties | 34 |
| Reptilian toy in "Toy Story" | 38 |
| Reptile with brilliantly colored bands | 38 |
| Reptile that's really sumthing? | 35 |
| Reptile that might be reticulated | 33 |
| Reptile known for making snap judgments? | 40 |
| Reptile feared by an ophidiophobe | 33 |
| Reptile charmed or feared in India | 34 |
| Reprographers' products, for short | 38 |
| Reproductive rights pioneer Margaret | 36 |