NYT π CluesβFri. 19 May, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: p a d e i n x
- Total Answers: 55
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AP
- AP4 β to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; copied; copycatted; emulated sounds like opt, upper
- AP4 β the highest part or point; the last and usually sharp or tapering part of something long and narrow; acme; apogee; capstone sounds like annex, flex, latex, peck, pence
- AP5 β sounds like alien, paean
- AP5 β sounds like acne, mania
- AP6 β to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; add; adjoin; annex; subjoin sounds like amend, ascend, attend, offend, spend
- AP8 β to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; added; adjoined; annexed sounds like offended
- AP8 β a part added at the end of a book or periodical; addendum; afterword; codicil; excursus
DA
- DA6 β sounds like adapt, apt, doped, lapped, rapped
DE
- DE7 β not expressing any emotion; blank; catatonic; empty; expressionless sounds like bedpan
- DE10 β
- DE4 β extending far downward; having a low musical pitch or range; being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain; abysmal; bottomless sounds like beep, cheap, dip, dope
- DE6 β to make markedly greater in measure or degree; accentuate; amp (up); amplify; beef (up) sounds like cheapen
- DE8 β as in aggravated, concentrated; to make markedly greater in measure or degree; to make markedly greater in measure or degree; accentuated; aggravated
- DE6 β to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); to place reliance or trust; as in rely (on); hang; hinge
- DE8 β to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); to place reliance or trust; to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); hinged; hung sounds like offended, suspended
DI
- DI6 β as in splashed, dunked; to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid; to lift out with something that holds liquid; dunked; splashed sounds like chipped, doped, shipped, sipped, whipped
EP
- EP4 β sounds like easy, pea
EX
- EX6 β to express more fully and in greater detail; to make greater in size, amount, or number; to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area; amplify; develop
- EX8 β as in ballooned, blown up; to express more fully and in greater detail; to make greater in size, amount, or number; ballooned; blown up
- EX6 β to hand over or use up in payment; to make complete use of; disburse; drop; fork (over, out, or up)
- EX8 β as in spent, reduced; to hand over or use up in payment; to make complete use of; bankrupted; consumed
NA
- NA4 β sounds like ape, cape, nip, rape, shape
- NA6 β to sleep lightly or briefly; to be in a state of sleep; a short sleep; catnapped; dozed sounds like apt, lapped, rapped, rapt, s**
NE
- NE4 β sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
NI
- NI7 β sounds like kingpin, linchpin
- NI6 β as in chilled; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points; chilled; asleep sounds like chipped, knit, shipped, sipped, whipped
PA
- PA6 β as in embroidered, embellished; to add to the interest of by including made-up details; to go on foot; elaborated; embellished sounds like added
- PA5 β a formal expression of praise; accolade; citation; commendation; dithyramb sounds like eon, peony, pun
- PA4 β as in expensive, high; to give (someone) the sum of money owed for goods or services received; to give what is owed for; costly; dear sounds like aid, aide, bade, fade, jade
- PA4 β a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body; a state of great suffering of body or mind; strict attentiveness to what one is doing; ache; pang sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
- PA6 β to feel or cause physical pain; to feel or cause physical pain; ached; hurt; smarted sounds like chained, feigned, gained, pond
- PA5 β
- PA4 β sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
- PA5 β sounds like chained, feigned, gained, pond
- PA6 β sounds like bikini, canine, dainty, faintly, genie
- PA6 β to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of; to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of; to come to be; blamed; censured sounds like and, band, canned, hand, land
- PA4 β a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man sounds like pop, poppy
PE
- PE4 β sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
- PE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
- PE4 β an instance of looking especially briefly; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cast; eye; gander sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
- PE6 β to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cheeped; chirped; chirruped
- PE4 β sounds like ap**, bend, end, fend, lend
- PE6 β sounds like ended, tended
- PE5 β sounds like den, hen, pain, pair, pan
- PE6 β as in imprisoned, caged; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; to compose and set down on paper the words of; caged; chained sounds like append, bend, end, fend, lend
- PE6 β to give life, vigor, or spirit to; amp (up); animate; brace; energize sounds like kept, leapt, wept
PI
- PI4 β having blotches of two or more colors; blotched; blotchy; dappled; marbled sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
- PI4 β as in long, yearn; to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; as in long (for), sigh; long; yearn sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, o**
- PI5 β as in longed, yearned; to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; as in longed (for), sighed; longed; yearned sounds like pained, pond, pound
- PI6 β as in mounted, hooked; as in chose, determined; as in charged, fathered (on); hooked; mounted sounds like pained, pond, pound
- PI8 β sounds like inept, sniped
- PI4 β a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; channel; conduit sounds like hype, pap, peep, pop, pope
- PI5 β to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; canalized; channeled sounds like typed
- PI6 β something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like begin, bidden, herein, kingpin, poplin
- PI5 β tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness; an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers; arch; devilish; elvish