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NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 23 December, 2022

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

Letters: h  a  e  i  l  n  t

  • Total Answers: 50
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AN

  1. AN10 — to destroy all traces of; to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of; to defeat by a large margin synonyms—abolish, black out, blot out, cancel, clean (up) sounds like—insulate, violate
  2. AN7 — a mound of debris thrown up by ants or termites in digging their nest sounds like—until

AT

  1. AT7 — a person who is trained or skilled in exercises, sports, or games requiring physical strength, agility, or stamina; an animal (such as a horse or a dog) that competes in races or other sporting events or has qualities (such as stamina and agility) suggestive of a human *** sounds like—alley, cleat, delete, earthly, elite

ET

  1. ET6 — a colorless odorless gaseous alkane C2H6 found in natural gas and used as a fuel sounds like—m**

HA

  1. HA4 — to declare enthusiastic approval of; to demand or request the presence or service of synonyms—acclaim, accredit, applaud, cheer, crack up sounds like—ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  2. HA5 — sanctioned by Islamic law; especially : ritually fit for use; selling or serving food ritually fit according to Islamic law
  3. HA4 — enjoying health and vigor synonyms—able-bodied, bouncing, fit, healthy, hearty sounds like—ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  4. HA6 — salt that is in the form of large pieces or crystals : rock salt sounds like—alight, highlight, polite
  5. HA4 — the entrance room of a building; a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building; a large room or building for enclosed public gatherings synonyms—entranceway, entry, entryway, foyer, **way sounds like—all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  6. HA4 — to bring (something) to a standstill; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to come to an end synonyms—arrest, bring up, catch, check, draw up sounds like—fault, hilt, malt, salt, vault
  7. HA4 — to dislike strongly synonyms—abhor, abominate, despise, detest, execrate sounds like—ate, bait, date, eight, fate
  8. HA4sounds like—bath
  9. HA5 — a system of physical exercises for the control and perfection of the body that constitutes one of the four chief Hindu disciplines sounds like—bath, gala, gamma

HE

  1. HE4 — to restore to a thy condition; to become thy and strong again after illness or weakness; to bring about recovery from synonyms—cure, fix, mend, rehab, rehabilitate sounds like—deal, eel, feel, hail, hall
  2. HE6 — the condition of being sound in body; a state of being or fitness synonyms—fitness, **iness, heartiness, robustness, sap sounds like—wealth
  3. HE4 — depth of feeling; a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder; a body of officers of the law synonyms—ardency, ardor, emotion, enthusiasm, fervency sounds like—beat, beet, c**, eat, feat
  4. HE5 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops synonyms—campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, lea sounds like—s*, wreath
  5. HE7 — not civilized synonyms—barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, ***ish, natural sounds like—beacon, beaten, cheapen, deacon, deepen
  6. HE4 — a person whose behavior is offensive to others synonyms—bastard, beast, bleeder, blighter, boor sounds like—deal, eel, feel, hail, hall
  7. HE6 — the part of the body upon which someone sits synonyms—backside, behind, booty, bottom, breech sounds like—highly, hind, honey, shiny, tiny
  8. HE4 — the place of punishment for the wicked after death; a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness; a state in which everything is out of order synonyms—Gehenna, Pandemonium, perdition, Tophet, agony sounds like—bell, cell, dell, fell, gel
  9. HE5 — to dye with *

HI

  1. HI4 — a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; an area of high ground; an upward slope synonyms—cock, heap, mound, mountain, pile sounds like—bill, c**, dill, fill, hail
  2. HI4 — as in shaft synonyms—shaft, bail, bow, loop, crop sounds like—built, gilt, guilt, halt, jilt
  3. HI4 — a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation); an almost imperceptible sign of something; a piece of advice or useful information especially from an expert synonyms—clue, cue, indication, inkling, intimation sounds like—haunt, hunt, lint, mint, tint

IN

  1. IN8 — something (such as an allergen or medication) that is inhaled
  2. IN6 — to swallow or eat greedily synonyms—bolt, cram, devour, glut, gobble sounds like—entail, hail, impale

LA

  1. LA4 — a thin narrow strip of wood nailed to rafters, joists, or studding as a groundwork for slates, tiles, or plaster; a building material in sheets used as a base for plaster; a quantity of **s sounds like—bath
  2. LA5 — to cut or shape with a * sounds like—bathe

LE

  1. LE6 — likely to cause or capable of causing death synonyms—baleful, deadly, deathly, fatal, fell

LI

  1. LI5 — able to bend easily without breaking; moving easily; having a noticeably small amount of body fat synonyms—bendy, flexible, limber, lissome, *some sounds like—b*, lathe

NE

  1. NE5 — in a lower position than synonyms—below, be*, under sounds like—death, knell

NI

  1. NI10 — a number that is one more than 18
  2. NI9 — a number equal to nine times 10; the numbers 90 to 99; specifically : the years 90 to 99 in a lifetime or century
  3. NI5 — glossopharyngeal nerve sounds like—bind, china, dine, diner, find

TA

  1. TA6 — a smooth paste of sesame seeds sounds like—bikini, genie, honey, rainy, teen

TE

  1. TE5 — as in desires, tastes synonyms—appetites, fancies, favors, likes, likings sounds like—heath, sheath
  2. TE6 — to experience the emergence of one's teeth through the gums sounds like—seethe, tier
  3. TE10 — health care provided remotely to a patient in a separate location using two-way voice and visual communication (as by computer or cell phone) : telemedicine —often used before another noun sounds like—carousel, health, jealously, lapel, parallel
  4. TE5 — of the lowest character or quality

TH

  1. TH4 — not including synonyms—apart from, aside from, bar, barring, beside sounds like—ban, can, fan, man, pan
  2. TH5 — a free retainer of an Anglo-Saxon lord; especially : one resembling a feudal baron by holding lands of and performing military service for the king; a Scottish feudal lord sounds like—arraign, bane, cane, chain, e*
  3. TH4 — to a great degree synonyms—achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully sounds like—bat, cat, chat, fat, hat
  4. TH4 — the utmost degree; a state of perfection sounds like—bee, earthy, fee, gee, key
  5. TH4 — in addition to what has been said synonyms—additionally, again, also, besides, either sounds like—den, hen, pen, ten
  6. TH5 — a relatively high amplitude brain wave pattern between approximately four and nine hertz that is characteristic especially of the hippocampus —called also * wave sounds like—cheetah
  7. TH4 — having a noticeably small amount of body fat; being of less than usual width; not containing very much of some important element synonyms—bony, fatless, lean, lithe, skinny sounds like—been, bin, chin, din, fin
  8. TH5 — that which belongs to thee —used without a following noun as a pronoun equivalent in meaning to the adjective thy—used especially in ecclesiastical or literary language and still surviving in the speech of Friends especially among themselves sounds like—dine, fine, line, mine, pine

TI

  1. TI5 — cultivated land : tillage; the state of aggregation of a soil especially in relation to its suitability for crop growth sounds like—filth
  2. TI5 — an amount of money that a person gives to a church which is usually equal to 1/10 of that person's income synonyms—alms, benefaction, beneficence, benevolence, charity sounds like—with

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