NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 13 January, 2023

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: u  a  e  l  n  t  x

  • Total Answers: 38
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AN

  1. AN6 β€” occurring once every year; a book or magazine that is published once a year; yearly; bimonthly; biweekly sounds like manual
  2. AN5 β€” to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective; to put an end to by formal action; cancel (out); compensate (for); correct sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null

AT

  1. AT9 β€” to diminish the price or value of; as in linear, elongate; break; cheapen; depreciate sounds like eventual, strenuous, tenet
  2. AT6 β€” to bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences; accommodate; conciliate; conform; coordinate sounds like tune

AU

  1. AU4 β€” sounds like act, and, ante, apt, can't

EX

  1. EX6 β€”
  2. EX9 β€” to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuses; deodorize; excuse; explain away; gloss (over) sounds like accentuate, insinuate
  3. EX5 β€” to feel or express joy or triumph; as in delight, glory (in); crow; delight; exuberate
  4. EX8 β€” having or expressing feelings of joy or triumph; cock-a-hoop; crank; crowing; exulting sounds like resultant

LU

  1. LU4 β€” as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
  2. LU4 β€” a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
  3. LU4 β€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
  4. LU4 β€” sounds like loon, loony, tuna
  5. LU6 β€” sounds like donate, innate, late, launched, lent
  6. LU4 β€” sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
  7. LU7 β€” sounds like brunette, duet, launched, lent, let
  8. LU6 β€” sounds like lonely, loon, loony, loosely, manila
  9. LU7 β€” sounds like loon, loony
  10. LU4 β€” sounds like boot, chute, f**, hoot, jute
  11. LU6 β€” sounds like booty, boutique, duty, litle, little
  12. LU4 β€” showing obvious signs of wealth and comfort; Babylonian; deluxe; lavish; Lucullan sounds like lax, loose

NU

  1. NU4 β€” having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness; to put an end to by formal action; bad; inoperative sounds like annul, cul, cull, dull, gull

TA

  1. TA5 β€” to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; as in quip, jeer; bait; hassle; haze sounds like daunt, gaunt, haunt, jaunt, tent
  2. TA4 β€” stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat
  3. TA6 β€” to draw tight; strain; stretch; tense; tighten sounds like tighten, titan

TE

  1. TE7 β€” sounds like sensual, taxable

TU

  1. TU5 β€” as in lace, fishnet; bobbinet; Brussels lace; filigree; fishnet sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
  2. TU4 β€”
  3. TU4 β€” a rhythmic series of musical tones arranged to give a pleasing effect; a state of consistency; an approximate amount, extent, or degree; air; lay sounds like at**, boon, dune, goon, loon
  4. TU6 β€” a passage that goes under the ground, through a hill, etc.; crawlway; gallery; subway; antre sounds like funnel, tonal, tonnage
  5. TU5 β€” sounds like booty, duty, sooty
  6. TU4 β€” as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo

UL

  1. UL4 β€” sounds like alas, alert, alight, align, aligned
  2. UL5 β€” sounds like align, allay, allow, alone
  3. UL7 β€” to make a long loud mournful sound; bay; howl; keen; wail sounds like accumulate, alienate, calculate, circulate, emulate

UN

  1. UN7 β€” sounds like onion
  2. UN5 β€”
  3. UN6 β€” sounds like attune

annual, annul, attenuate, attune, aunt, exeunt, extenuate, exult, exultant, luau, lull, lulu, luna, lunate, lune, lunette, lunula, lunulae, lute, luteal, luxe, null, taunt, taut, tauten, textual, tulle, tuna, tune, tunnel, tutee, tutu, ulna, ulnae, ululate, uneaten, unlet, untune