NYT π CluesβFri. 29 September, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: o a b c j k t
- Total Answers: 34
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AB
- AB5 β as in bishop, archbishop; archbishop; archpriest; bishop; dean sounds like agate, but, butt, habit, rabbit
BA
- BA6 β sounds like blob, blobby, bobby, bombast, buyback
BO
- BO4 β a small buoyant structure for travel on water; a large craft for travel by water; to travel on water in a vessel; bottom; craft sounds like bait, bat, beat, beau, beet
- BO4 β
- BO6 β sounds like angst, backed, baked, banked, bark
- BO4 β sounds like back, bake, balk, balm, bar
- BO4 β an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; to make a mistake; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; blunder; bobble sounds like babe, bib, buoy
- BO6 β an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; blunder; bobble; boob; brick
- BO4 β a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction; a book made up of the writings accepted by Christians as coming from God; a publication that appears at regular intervals; tome; volume sounds like back, bake, balk, beak, bike
- BO4 β a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings; to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; to drive or force out; bang; charge sounds like bait, bat, beat, beet, bet
- BO8 β
CA
- CA5 β sounds like cocaine, coco, cocoa, cocoon, cuckoo
CO
- CO4 β the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick; to form a layer over; a special group of pictures that belong to a person, family, or group of people and that are shown on a shield; fleece; fur sounds like boat, cat, caught
- CO4 β
- CO4 β a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid; a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; faucet; gate sounds like cake, calm, car, caught, cause
- CO8 β sounds like docket, pocket, rocket, socket
- CO5 β
- CO4 β to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of; to take place; a person who prepares food by some manner of heating; bend; color sounds like book, cake, crook, hook, kick
- CO8 β sounds like checkbook, kickback
- CO4 β as in geezer; geezer; bohemian; maverick; nonconformist sounds like boot, cat, caught, chute
JA
- JA5 β sounds like abbot, habit, rabbit
- JA8 β
JO
- JO4 β as in DJ, disc jockey; disc jockey; DJ; veejay; VJ sounds like chalk, cock, dock, hock, jack
- JO6 β sounds like adobe, ayatollah, cajole, fajita, judge
KA
- KA5 β sounds like cabin
KO
- KO4 β a person of odd or whimsical habits; character; codger; crack; crackbrain sounds like cake, cock, coke, cook, cool
TA
- TA5 β as in no-no; as in anathema, abomination; that may not be permitted; no-no; ban
- TA4 β sounds like borrow, box, capo, chalk, cock
- TA6 β
TO
- TO7 β sounds like tableau
- TO7 β sounds like boycott, caught, cockatoo, comma, cot
- TO4 β sounds like chalk, cock, dock, hock, jock
- TO4 β to reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms; to agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly; to become affected with (a disease or disorder); clasped; grasped sounds like book, cook, hook, look, nook
- TO4 β a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking; bender; binge; bust; carousal sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot