NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 18 August, 2023

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

Letters: o  p  x  e  h  i  n

  • Total Answers: 24
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

EX

  1. EX4 — a public showing of objects of interest; display; exhibit; exhibition; exposition sounds like capo, echo

HI

  1. HI5sounds like hero, zippo

HO

  1. HO4 — to make sharp or sharper; to make smooth by friction; as in set, home (in on); edge; grind sounds like bone, cone, hen
  2. HO4 — a circular strip; having or expressing feelings of joy or triumph; inclined or twisted to one side; band; circle sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, heap, hip
  3. HO4 — as in wish, dream; as in optimism, hopefulness; as in confidence, faith; dream; wish sounds like cope, dope, heap, hip

NE

  1. NE4sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon

NO

  1. NO4 — certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
  2. NO4 — the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known
  3. NO4sounds like cope, dope, gnome, hope, knoll

ON

  1. ON5sounds like undone

OP

  1. OP4 — to change from a closed to an open position; to make passage through (something) possible by removing obstructions; to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area; unclose; clear sounds like ocean, omen, pun, spun
  2. OP5 — to make a statement of one's opinion; allow; comment; editorialize; note sounds like pine, spine
  3. OP7 — an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; a position arrived at after consideration; an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements; belief; conviction sounds like dominion, minion, onion

OX

  1. OX4sounds like arson, auction, toxin

PE

  1. PE4 — a person who does very hard or dull work; dogsbody; drone; drudge; drudger sounds like neon, paean

PH

  1. PH7sounds like fix, helix, nix, onyx, scenic
  2. PH5 — to make a telephone call to; call; dial; ring (up); telephone sounds like bone, cone, fan, fawn, feign
  3. PH5sounds like fun, fund, funny

PI

  1. PI6 — to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; bind; chain; enchain; enfetter sounds like minion, o**

PO

  1. PO4sounds like bony, penny, phoney, phony, tony
  2. PO4 — to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true; one of high position or importance within a group; to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true; brush (off); dismiss sounds like boo, chew, coup, dew, doo
  3. PO4 — solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal; information not generally available to the public; dirt; doo-doo; dropping sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop
  4. PO4 — as in bishop, archbishop; abbot; archbishop; archpriest; bishop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pap

XE

  1. XE5sounds like neon, zenith

expo, hippo, hone, hoop, hope, neon, none, noon, nope, onion, open, opine, opinion, oxen, peon, phoenix, phone, phono, pinion, pone, pooh, poop, pope, xenon