NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 30 December, 2022

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

Letters: r  h  i  l  n  o  t

• Total Answers: 36
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

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HO

1. HO5 — to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration synonyms—fete, recognize sounds like—earner, inner, otter, owner
2. HO4 — something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container synonyms—cornet, cornucopia sounds like—born, corn, mourn, s**
3. HO6 — the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay; a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness; something unpleasant to look at synonyms—atrociousness, atrocity, awfulness, dreadfulness, frightfulness sounds like—borer, hauler, hawker, hearer, whore

IN

4. IN5 — a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part synonyms—exordium, foreword, *duction, preamble, preface sounds like—encroach, engross, entice, entire, entre

IR

5. IR4 — as in sand, grit synonyms—backbone, fortitude, grit, pluck, sand sounds like—burn, burne, churn, durn, earn

NI

6. NI5 — any of various nitrated products; specifically : *glycerin sounds like—gyro, knight, knightly, maestro, metro

NO

7. NO4 — a dry red wine produced from the same grape as French burgundy sounds like—afar, ajar, are, bar, car
8. NO4 — dried laver seaweed pressed into thin sheets and used especially as a seasoning or as a wrapper for sushi sounds like—gory, nary, naughty
9. NO5 — Douglass Cecil 1920—2015 American economist sounds like—forth, fourth

RH

10. RH5 — a large, endangered Asian *ceros (*ceros unicornis) that has a single horn and deeply folded, grayish-brown skin and that is now reduced to several small populations in India and Nepal —called also greater one-horned *ceros sounds like—rind

RI

11. RI4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river synonyms—beck, bourn, brook, brooklet, burn sounds like—bill, chill, dill, d**, fill
12. RI4 — someone or something that is very funny synonyms—hoot, knee-slapper, laugh, scream sounds like—diet, rut, write

RO

13. RO4 — to be in a state of violent rolling motion; to make angry synonyms—boil, churn, moil, seethe, anger sounds like—boil, b**, coil, foil, oil
14. RO4 — to form into a round compact mass; to make a low heavy **ing sound; to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions synonyms—agglomerate, ball, round, wad, growl sounds like—boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
15. RO4 — a point or place at which something is invented or provided; the source from which something grows or develops; an immaterial thing upon which something else rests synonyms—cradle, font, fountain, fountainhead, origin sounds like—boot, brute, chute, fruit, hoot
16. RO4 — a round soft flat unleavened bread; also : such a bread wrapped around a filling and eaten as a sandwich sounds like—goatee, ratty, wrote
17. RO6 — short, corkscrew-shaped pasta sounds like—protein
18. RO5 — as in gyroplane, convertiplane; as in biplane, triplane synonyms—autogiro, convertiplane, gyroplane, rotary-wing aircraft, *craft sounds like—boater, motor, voter, writer
19. RO8 — as in hoe, list synonyms—harrow, hoe, list, rake, fallow sounds like—coattail, notable, potable, protocol, prototype

TH

20. TH5 — something that is a source of irritation synonyms—aggravation, aggro, annoyance, bother, botheration sounds like—born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn
21. TH6 — a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings synonyms—bang, boot, charge, exhilaration, frisson sounds like—drill, frill, grill, grille, rill

TI

22. TI7 — one (such as a gambler) who pretends to have money, ability, or influence sounds like—inborn, intern

TO

23. TO4 — sounds like—gory, story, talky, tarry, tawdry
24. TO5 — a Japanese gateway of light construction commonly built at the approach to a Shinto shrine sounds like—boring, corny, forage, foresee, gory
25. TO4 — to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it; to separate or remove by forceful pulling; to proceed or move quickly synonyms—rent, ribboned, ripped, riven, shredded sounds like—born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn
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27. TO4 — a wrongful act other than a breach of contract for which relief may be obtained in the form of damages or an injunction sounds like—court, fort, port, short, sort
28. TO7 — ice cream made of heavy cream often with minced almonds and chopped maraschino cherries and often flavored with rum sounds like—corny, courtly, crony, hormone, martini

TR

29. TR5 — to sing with the alternation of two musical tones synonyms—quaver, warble sounds like—drill, frill, grill, grille, rill
30. TR8 — as in million, zillion synonyms—gazillion, jillion, kazillion, million, thousands sounds like—billion, brilliance, brilliant, jillion, million
31. TR10 — a number equal to 1,000 times one billion; an indeterminately large number
32. TR4 — a group of three synonyms—threesome, triad, trifecta, trinity, triple
33. TR6 — a son of Poseidon described as a demigod of the sea with the lower part of his body like that of a fish; any of various large marine gastropod mollusks (family Ranellidae synonym Cymatiidae) with a heavy elongated conical shell; also : the shell sounds like—brighten, frighten, tighten, titan
34. TR5 — an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers synonyms—brownie, dwarf, elf, faerie, fairy sounds like—role, roll, s*, toll
35. TR4 — a mean or ugly old woman; abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools synonyms—beldam, carline, crone, hag, hellcat sounds like—rot
36. TR5 — a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something; the act or state of being engaged to be married; adherence to something to which one is bound by a pledge or duty synonyms—oath, pledge, promise, vow, word sounds like—broth, froth

honor, horn, horror, intro, iron, nitro, noir, nori, north, rhino, rill, riot, roil, roll, root, roti, rotini, rotor, rototill, thorn, thrill, tinhorn, tori, torii, torn, toro, tort, tortoni, trill, trillion, trillionth, trio, triton, troll, trot, troth