NYT π CluesβFri. 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! π€£
AN
- AN6 β occurring once every year; a book or magazine that is published once a year; yearly; bimonthly; biweekly sounds like manual
- 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
- AT9 β to diminish the price or value of; as in linear, elongate; break; cheapen; depreciate sounds like eventual, strenuous, tenet
- AT6 β to bring to a state free of conflicts, inconsistencies, or differences; accommodate; conciliate; conform; coordinate sounds like tune
AU
- AU4 β sounds like act, and, ante, apt, can't
EX
- EX6 β
- EX9 β to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuses; deodorize; excuse; explain away; gloss (over) sounds like accentuate, insinuate
- EX5 β to feel or express joy or triumph; as in delight, glory (in); crow; delight; exuberate
- EX8 β having or expressing feelings of joy or triumph; cock-a-hoop; crank; crowing; exulting sounds like resultant
LU
- LU4 β as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
- LU4 β a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- LU4 β something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
- LU4 β sounds like loon, loony, tuna
- LU6 β sounds like donate, innate, late, launched, lent
- LU4 β sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
- LU7 β sounds like brunette, duet, launched, lent, let
- LU6 β sounds like lonely, loon, loony, loosely, manila
- LU7 β sounds like loon, loony
- LU4 β sounds like boot, chute, f**, hoot, jute
- LU6 β sounds like booty, boutique, duty, litle, little
- LU4 β showing obvious signs of wealth and comfort; Babylonian; deluxe; lavish; Lucullan sounds like lax, loose
NU
- 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
- 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
- TA4 β stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat
- TA6 β to draw tight; strain; stretch; tense; tighten sounds like tighten, titan
TE
- TE7 β sounds like sensual, taxable
TU
- TU5 β as in lace, fishnet; bobbinet; Brussels lace; filigree; fishnet sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- TU4 β
- 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
- TU6 β a passage that goes under the ground, through a hill, etc.; crawlway; gallery; subway; antre sounds like funnel, tonal, tonnage
- TU5 β sounds like booty, duty, sooty
- TU4 β as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo
UL
- UL4 β sounds like alas, alert, alight, align, aligned
- UL5 β sounds like align, allay, allow, alone
- UL7 β to make a long loud mournful sound; bay; howl; keen; wail sounds like accumulate, alienate, calculate, circulate, emulate
UN
- UN7 β sounds like onion
- UN5 β
- UN6 β sounds like attune