NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 19 December, 2022

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

Letters: h  a  n  o  r  t  w

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

AR

  1. AR5 — a Buddhist who has reached the stage of enlightenment sounds like—brat, hat, rat

AT

  1. AT7 — from one side to the other of an intervening space; in a line or direction running from corner to corner synonyms—across, over, through, bias, cornerways sounds like—thwart

HA

  1. HA6 — to cause persistent suffering to synonyms—afflict, agonize, anguish, bedevil, beset sounds like—arrow, barrow, hero

  2. HA4 — Albert Bushnell 1854—1943 American historian and editor sounds like—art, cart, c**, dart, hearth

  3. HA4 — sounds like—bath

  4. 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

  5. HA8 — any of a genus (Crataegus) of spring-flowering spiny shrubs or small trees of the rose family with glossy and often lobed leaves, white or pink fragrant flowers, and small red fruits sounds like—author, horn, horror

HO

  1. HO4 — dating or surviving from the distant past synonyms—age-old, aged, ancient, antediluvian, antique sounds like—hall, haul, hauler, haw, hawk

  2. HO5 — to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration synonyms—fete, recognize sounds like—earner, inner, otter, owner

  3. HO6 — as in hail, huzzah synonyms—bravo, hail, hallelujah, hosanna, huzzah sounds like—hurrah

  4. HO4 — a loud vocal expression of strong emotion; a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; the smallest amount or part imaginable synonyms—cry, holler, howl, shout, whoop sounds like—boot, chute, hat, hate, heat

  5. HO4 — a circle dance of Romania and Israel sounds like—aura, whore

  6. HO4 — something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container synonyms—cornet, cornucopia sounds like—born, corn, mourn, s**

  7. 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

NO

  1. NO5 — in no manner or way : not at all; anyhow sounds like—coco, cocoa, gnome, hoe, knoll

  2. NO5 — Douglass Cecil 1920—2015 American economist sounds like—forth, fourth

OA

  1. OA4 — a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something synonyms—pledge, promise, troth, vow, word sounds like—earth, l**, ode, ole, owe

TH

  1. TH4 — not including synonyms—apart from, aside from, bar, barring, beside sounds like—ban, can, fan, man, pan

  2. TH4 — to a great degree synonyms—achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully sounds like—bat, cat, chat, fat, hat

  3. TH4 — to go from a solid to a liquid state synonyms—deliquesce, flux, fuse, liquefy, melt sounds like—chaw, gnaw, haw, jaw, law

  4. TH5 — something that is a source of irritation synonyms—aggravation, aggro, annoyance, bother, botheration sounds like—born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

  5. TH6 — a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing synonyms—betrayer, canary, fink, informant, informer sounds like—rote, wrote

  6. TH5 — to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm; to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally synonyms—cast, catapult, chuck, dash, fire sounds like—arrow, crow, grow, pro, row

  7. TH6 — to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm; to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally synonyms—cast, catapulted, chucked, dashed, fired sounds like—crone, drone, groan, grown, prone

  8. TH6 — to prevent from achieving a goal synonyms—baffle, balk, beat, checkmate, discomfit sounds like—quart, swart, wart

TO

  1. TO5 — as in desire, taste synonyms—appetite, fancy, favor, fondness, like sounds like—booth, truth, tube, tune, two

  2. TO5 — a Jewish holiday observed on the 23rd of Tishri in celebration of the completion of the annual reading of the * sounds like—aura

TR

  1. 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

WA

  1. WA5 — how delightful synonyms—glory, ha, hallelujah, hey, hooray

WH

  1. WH4 — how surprising, doubtful, or unbelievable synonyms—ah, aha, come on, fie, indeed sounds like—but, butt, cut, gut, hut

  2. WH7 — a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember synonyms—dingus, doodad, doohickey, hickey, thingamabob sounds like—cannot

  3. WH4 — a command (as to a draft animal) to stand still; cease or slow a course of action or a line of thought : pause to consider or reconsider —often used to express a strong reaction (such as alarm or astonishment) sounds like—boa, hoe, hole, home, hone

WO

  1. WO6 — used to express exuberant delight or approval sounds like—guru, voodoo, who, whoop, whoosh

  2. WO5 — the relative usefulness or importance of something as judged by specific qualities; the amount of money for which something will find a buyer; the total of one's money and property synonyms—account, merit, valuation, value, valuation sounds like—berth, birth, dearth, earth, girth

WR

  1. WR5 — an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something; suffering, loss, or hardship imposed in response to a crime or offense synonyms—anger, angriness, birse, choler, furor sounds like—bath, math, path, rack, rag

  2. WR5 — feeling or showing anger synonyms—angered, angry, apoplectic, ballistic, cheesed off sounds like—broth, froth, moth, roar

arhat, athwart, harrow, hart, hath, hatha, hawthorn, hoar, honor, hoorah, hoot, hora, horn, horror, nohow, north, oath, than, that, thaw, thorn, throat, throw, thrown, thwart, tooth, torah, troth, wahoo, what, whatnot, whoa, woohoo, worth, wrath, wroth