NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 21 July, 2023

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

Letters: a  c  m  n  o  r  y

  • Total Answers: 73
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

  1. AC5 — sounds like corn, scorn

  2. AC7 — sounds like arabic, auctioneer, auctioning, chronic, crowning

AM

  1. AM4 — sounds like arrow, mow

AN

  1. AN5 — to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts; aggravate; bother; bug; burn (up)

  2. AN4 — at or within a short time; on some occasions; a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; before long; by and by sounds like upon

AR

  1. AR6 —

  2. AR4 — sounds like n**

  3. AR5 — means or method of defending; something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; as in ensheathe, encapsulate; aegis; ammunition sounds like charmer, farmer

  4. AR6 — a place where military arms are stored; arsenal; depot; dump; magazine

  5. AR4 — a large body of men and women organized for land warfare; a great number of persons or creatures massed together; a group of people working together on a task; array; battalion

  6. AR5 — a sweet or pleasant smell; the quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose; a special quality or impression associated with something; attar; balm sounds like coma, soma

  7. AR5 — a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; dressy clothing; assemblage; band sounds like awry, bay, day, earl, earn

  8. AR6 — as in runoff, freshet; billabong; fresh; freshet; runoff

CA

  1. CA5 — sounds like cocaine, coco, cocoa, cocoon, cuckoo

  2. CA4 — as in camouflage; camouflage; greasepaint; cold cream; cream sounds like combo, comma, commie

  3. CA6 — a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; betrayer; deep throat; fink; informant sounds like country

  4. CA6 — sounds like common, concave, condom

  5. CA5 — sounds like manna

  6. CA6 — as in barrage, cannonade; a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church; a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system; barrage; cannonade

  7. CA5 — having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment; enjoying physical comfort; astute; clear-eyed; clear-sighted sounds like cranny, fanny

  8. CA5 — a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church; a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system; a collection or system of rules of conduct; doctrine; dogma

  9. CA6 — a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage; a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church; a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system; col; couloir

  10. CA5 — sounds like corny

  11. CA5 — to strike and fly off at an angle; bounce; glance; rebound; ricochet sounds like chrome, come, cram, cream, crime

  12. CA5 — to support and take from one place to another; to wear or have on one's person; to bring before the public in performance or exhibition; bear; cart sounds like curry

  13. CA6 — sounds like common, layman

CO

  1. CO4 —

  2. CO5 —

  3. CO4 — as in sleep, rest; hibernation; hypnosis; repose; rest sounds like aroma, soma

  4. CO5 — as in space, window; caesura; interspace; lag; pause sounds like calm, calmer, mama

  5. CO6 — as in aura; aura; starburst; sunburst; aureole sounds like krona

  6. CO8 — sounds like cautionary

CR

  1. CR4 — a great number of persons or things massed together; to fit (people or things) into a tight space; to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained; army; bike sounds like chrome, clam

  2. CR6 — an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure; check; chink; cleft; crack sounds like canny

  3. CR6 — as in ink, pencil; ink; pencil; caricature; cartoon

CY

  1. CY4 — sounds like ion, lion, science, sign, sine

MA

  1. MA7 — sounds like muffin, mutton, occurrence, saccharin, suction

  2. MA8 — sounds like cocoon

  3. MA5 — sounds like micro

  4. MA6 — sounds like action, baron, barren, faction

  5. MA4 — a female human parent; as in boy, kid; as in boys, kids; ma; mammy sounds like comma, mom

  6. MA5 — a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mom

  7. MA7 — sounds like memory

  8. MA6 — sounds like famine, salmon

  9. MA5 — a source of great satisfaction; something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing; delectation; delight; feast

  10. MA5 — a large impressive residence; a large impressive residence; a large impressive residence; castle; château sounds like banner, meaner, miner, minor

  11. MA4 — being of a large but indefinite number; as in number; a pronounceable series of letters having a distinct meaning especially in a particular field; beaucoup; legion sounds like any, meant, mend, merry, messy

  12. MA6 —

  13. MA4 — sounds like arm, charm, farm, harm

  14. MA6 — to cause to remain behind; abandon; desert; forsake; leave sounds like moon, moraine

  15. MA5 — to perform the ceremony of marriage for; to give in marriage; to take as a spouse; wed; espouse sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  16. MA4 — sounds like kayo

  17. MA5 — sounds like layer

MO

  1. MO4 — a long low sound indicating pain or grief; a crying out in grief; an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; groan; wail sounds like bone, cone, hone, known, loan

  2. MO5 — a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mana

  3. MO9 — a system of government in which there is only one ruler whose power is unlimited; monarchism; monarchy; absolutism; autarchy

  4. MO5 — sounds like fray, gray, grey, may, pray

MY

  1. MY4 — sounds like mana, manna, min, mince, mint

NA

  1. NA4 — sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock

  2. NA4 — sounds like manna

  3. NA5 — a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children; babysitter; dry nurse; nurse; nursemaid sounds like canny, fanny

  4. NA4 — as in fed, plainclothesman; a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; fed; Federal; G-man sounds like arc, bark, dark, knock, lark

  5. NA5 — sounds like arc, bark, barrio, borrow, cargo

  6. NA4 — sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

OR

  1. OR4 — sounds like aura

RA

  1. RA7 — as in rabbit, otter; badger; beaver; chamois; chinchilla sounds like cocoon, reckon, recoup, tycoon, wrack

  2. RA4 — having much high-spirited energy and movement; hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent; active; airy; animate sounds like lacey, lacy

  3. RA6 — a deep-seated ill will; animosity; animus; antagonism; antipathy sounds like anchor, banker, canker, tanker

  4. RA5 — sounds like reign, rein, ruin, run

RO

  1. RO4 — to move about from place to place aimlessly; bat; cruise; drift; float sounds like chrome, comb, dome, foam, gnome

  2. RO4 — as in blotchy, piebald; as in palomino, chestnut; blotched; blotchy; piebald sounds like bone, cone, crone, drone, g**

  3. RO4 — a violent shouting; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; clamor; howl sounds like boar, bore, chore, core, door

YA

  1. YA4 — a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally; a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel; anecdote; story; tale sounds like barn, darn

acorn, acronym, ammo, annoy, anon, arcana, arco, armor, armory, army, aroma, array, arroyo, cacao, camo, canary, cancan, canna, cannon, canny, canon, canyon, carny, carom, carry, cayman, coca, cocoa, coma, comma, corona, coronary, cram, cranny, crayon, cyan, macaron, macaroon, macro, macron, mama, mamma, mammary, mammon, manna, manor, many, maraca, marm, maroon, marry, mayo, mayor, moan, momma, monocracy, moray, myna, naan, nana, nanny, narc, narco, nary, orca, raccoon, racy, rancor, rayon, roam, roan, roar, yarn