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

Letters: a  j  l  n  o  r  u

• Total Answers: 27
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AJ

1. AJ4 — slightly open sounds like—afar, jar

AN

2. AN4 — extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise synonyms—**-retentive, obsessive, adamant, adamantine, bullheaded sounds like—addle, agile, apple, channel, null
3. AN5 — sounds like—addle, agile, apple, channel, null
4. AN6 — occurring once every year synonyms—yearly, bimonthly, biweekly, daily, monthly sounds like—manual
5. AN5 — to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective; to put an end to by formal action synonyms—cancel (out), compensate (for), correct, counteract, counterbalance sounds like—addle, agile, apple, channel, null
6. AN7 — as in circular, discoidal synonyms—circular, disciform, discoid, discoidal, disklike
7. AN4 — at or within a short time synonyms—before long, by and by, directly, momentarily, presently sounds like—upon

AU

8. AU4 — a special quality or impression associated with something; a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings synonyms—air, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, climate sounds like—era, oral, orb, ore
9. AU5 — of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing synonyms—acoustic, audial, audile, auditory, auricular sounds like—choral, coral, laurel, moral, orally
10. AU6 — the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance synonyms—cockcrow, dawn, dawning, day, daybreak sounds like—drawer, flora, roar, trauma
11. AU7 — the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance synonyms—cockcrow, dawn, dawning, day, daybreak sounds like—corporal, oracle, oral

JO

12. JO7 — a publication that appears at regular intervals; a record of personal experiences, reflections, or ideas kept regularly for private use synonyms—book, bulletin, diurnal, gazette, mag sounds like—colonel, kernel, vernal

LL

13. LL5 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country synonyms—campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath sounds like—blond, blonde, bond, borrow, capo

LO

14. LO4 — as in advance synonyms—advance, bribe, douceur, peace offering, sop sounds like—alone, blown, bone, clone, clones

LU

15. LU4 — as in barbecue, cookout synonyms—barbecue, clambake, cookout, fry, roast sounds like—lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
16. LU4 — a large mostly pale green American saturniid moth (Actias **) with long tails on the hind wings sounds like—loon, loony, tuna
17. LU5 — a space vehicle module designed to carry astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back —called also * excursion module sounds like—learner, loner, loon, loony, looser
18. LU6 — sounds like—lonely, loon, loony, loosely, manila

NA

19. NA4 — a round flat leavened bread especially of the Indian subcontinent sounds like—con, don, han, john, knob
20. NA4 — the mother of one's father or mother : grandmother —often used as a form of address sounds like—manna

OR

21. OR4 — expressed or communicated by voice; made or carried on through speaking rather than in writing synonyms—spoken, uttered, vocal, voiced, nuncupative sounds like—aura, ch, c, laurel, m

RA

22. RA4 — as in prince, baron synonyms—baron, baronet, count, duke, earl sounds like—cholla, comma, dodge, donna, drama

RO

23. RO4 — as in blotchy, piebald synonyms—blotched, blotchy, piebald, pinto, chromatic sounds like—bone, cone, crone, drone, g
24. RO4 — a violent shouting; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound synonyms—clamor, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo sounds like—boar, bore, chore, core, door

RU

25. RU5 — of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people synonyms—bucolic, country, pastoral, rustic sounds like—neural

UL

26. UL4 — a single bone in the forelimb of an amphibian (such as a frog) that represents fusion of the separate radius and ** of higher vertebrate forms sounds like—alas, alert, alight, align, aligned
27. UL5 — a surgical procedure in which a torn * collateral ligament of the elbow is replaced with a tendon graft typically obtained from a superficial muscle of the forearm : tommy john surgery