Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Mon. 10 July, 2023

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

Letters: y  a  h  o  p  r  t

  • Total Answers: 42
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AH

  1. AH4 β€” sounds like add, alloy, ash, ass, boy

AP

  1. AP6 β€” a lack of emotion or emotional expressiveness; lack of interest or concern; affectlessness; emotionlessness; impassiveness

AR

  1. AR5 β€” 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
  2. AR6 β€” as in runoff, freshet; billabong; fresh; freshet; runoff
  3. AR4 β€” sounds like he, p

AT

  1. AT7 β€” to become worse or of less value; as in degeneration, decline; crumble; decay; decline

HA

  1. HA5 β€” coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly; experiencing pleasure, satisfaction, or delight; feeling that one's needs or desires have been met; fluky; fortuitous sounds like hippie
  2. HA5 β€” a bad-tempered scolding woman; a person who habitually preys upon others; battle-ax; dragon lady; fury sounds like hearty
  3. HA5 β€” as in loot, sack; as in scold, berate; despoil; foray; loot sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

HO

  1. HO5 β€” dating or surviving from the distant past; age-old; aged; ancient; antediluvian sounds like haughty, hurry
  2. HO6 β€” how delightful; as in hail, huzzah; glory; ha; hallelujah sounds like hurrah
  3. HO5 β€” sounds like c*, copy, happy, hippie, poppy
  4. HO9 β€” sounds like dormitory, oratory

HY

  1. HY4 β€”

OA

  1. OA4 β€” sounds like eighty, goatee, tea, tee

OR

  1. OR7 β€” the art of speaking in public eloquently and effectively; language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere; elocution; public speaking; bombast sounds like dormitory, laudatory

PA

  1. PA6 β€” sounds like pecan, pup, puppet, puppy, upon
  2. PA5 β€” sounds like happy, peppy, poppy, puppy
  3. PA5 β€” as in avoid, evade; avoid; elude; escape; evade sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
  4. PA5 β€” as in revel, carouse; a social gathering; a group of people acting together within a larger group; carouse; revel sounds like arty, hearty, potty
  5. PA5 β€” a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried; cake; croquette; cutlet; fritter sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty

PO

  1. PO5 β€” sounds like choppy, copy, peppy, puppy
  2. PO7 β€” to give a representation or account of in words; to point out the chief quality or qualities of an individual or group; to present a picture of; delineate; depict sounds like paltry
  3. PO5 β€” being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior; a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste; as in dirty, nasty; aristocratic; elitist sounds like knotty, party, patty, petty, pity

PR

  1. PR4 β€” to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner; appeal (to); beg; beseech; besiege sounds like fray, gray, grey, pay, play

PY

  1. PY4 β€” sounds like gyro, pro

RA

  1. RA5 β€” showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; worn or torn into or as if into rags; easily irritated or annoyed; beat-up; bombed-out sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

RO

  1. RO4 β€” being of a consistency that resists flow; syrupy; thick; viscid; viscous sounds like choppy, copy, poppy, rupee
  2. RO6 β€” as in circle, roundabout; as in rotorcraft; as in rotorcraft; circle; roundabout sounds like coterie
  3. RO8 β€” sounds like category, laudatory, lavatory, oratory, poetry

TA

  1. TA5 β€” as in pitchy; a temporary residing as another's guest; to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; pitchy; gelatinous sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
  2. TA5 β€” showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; beat-up; bombed-out; dilapidated; dog-eared sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TH

  1. TH7 β€” harsh and dry in sound; having a low musical pitch or range; coarse; croaking; croaky

TO

  1. TO6 β€” very pleasing to the sense of taste; ambrosial; appetizing; dainty; delectable

TR

  1. TR4 β€” as in plate, bowl; bowl; casserole; charger; cup sounds like fray, gray, grey, pray, prey
  2. TR6 β€” an asset that brings praise or renown; boast; credit; crown jewel; glory sounds like a**, crony, rosy, taffy, toffee
  3. TR4 β€” sounds like toy

TY

  1. TY4 β€”
  2. TY4 β€” a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; abecedarian; apprentice; babe; beginner sounds like gyro

YA

  1. YA5 β€” how delightful; a stupid person; glory; ha; hallelujah sounds like who, you
  2. YA5 β€” sounds like happy, yuppie

YO

  1. YO6 β€” sounds like guru, use, used, user, voodoo

ahoy, apathy, array, arroyo, arty, atrophy, happy, harpy, harry, hoary, hooray, hoppy, hortatory, hypo, oaty, oratory, papaya, pappy, parry, party, patty, poppy, portray, potty, pray, pyro, ratty, ropy, rotary, rotatory, tarry, tatty, throaty, toothy, tray, trophy, troy, typo, tyro, yahoo, yappy, yoohoo