NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 29 August, 2022

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

Letters: u  a  d  n  o  r  t

  • Total Answers: 39
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AR

  1. AR6 — close to; in random positions within the boundaries of synonyms—about, by, near, next to, nigh sounds like—bound, earned, found, hound, mound

AU

  1. AU4 — an object of criticism or contention; especially : one that is set up to invite criticism or be easily refuted sounds like—act, and, ante, apt, can't

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. AU4 — a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels synonyms—**mobile, bus, car, horseless carriage, machine sounds like—ought, stow, toe, tow

DA

  1. DA5 — to lessen the courage or confidence of synonyms—chill, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dismay sounds like—dent, don't, gaunt, haunt, jaunt

DO

  1. DO5 — a small usually ring-shaped piece of sweet fried dough; something (such as a mathematical torus) that has a round shape like a doughnut; a controlled skid that sends an automobile into a tight circle of at least 360 degrees —usually used in the phrase do doughnuts

  2. DO4 — harsh and threatening in manner or appearance synonyms—austere, fierce, flinty, forbidding, grim sounds like—bower, cower, hour, our

DU

  1. DU5 — sounds like—done

NO

  1. NO4 — a ** (such as Seattle, Joyce, or Empire State Building) that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English —called also proper name sounds like—down, gown, known, nine, nun

OR

  1. OR7 — marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones; marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases synonyms—golden, plangent, resonant, resounding, reverberant sounds like—rotund

OU

  1. OU5 — to be greater, better, or stronger than synonyms—beat, better, eclipse, exceed, excel sounds like—dew, doo, due

  2. OU7 — of, relating to, or held in the open air synonyms—alfresco, open-air, out-of-door, ***sy sounds like—adore, door, indoor

  3. OU6 — to go beyond the limit of synonyms—broke, exceeded, outreached, overpassed, overran

  4. OU5 — a short, distinct closing section at the end of something (such as a piece of music, a performance, or a news report)

  5. OU6 — to go beyond the limit of synonyms—break, exceed, outreach, overpass, overreach

RO

  1. RO6 — having an excess of body fat; marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones synonyms—blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy

  2. RO7 — a round building; especially : one covered by a dome; a large round room; a large central area (as in a hotel)

  3. RO5 — a circular strip; a series of events or actions that repeat themselves regularly and in the same order; something with a perfectly * circumference synonyms—band, circle, eye, hoop, loop sounds like—a*, bound, drowned, found, g*

  4. RO4 — a great number of persons or creatures massed together; people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class synonyms—army, bike, cram, crowd, crush sounds like—bout, doubt, drought, gout, kraut

RU

  1. RU9 — as in circumvention, sidestepping synonyms—bypassing, circumvention, sidestepping, skirting, avoidance sounds like—renowned, turnaround

  2. RU6 — as in throw out, kick out synonyms—cast out, dismiss, eject, eliminate, evict sounds like—redoubt

  3. RU4 — a living thing much smaller than others of its kind synonyms—diminutive, dwarf, midget, mite, peewee sounds like—aren't, b**, bunt, errant, front

TA

  1. TA5 — to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults synonyms—bait, hassle, haze, heckle, needle sounds like—daunt, gaunt, haunt, jaunt, tent

  2. TA4 — stretched with little or no give synonyms—rigid, tense, tight sounds like—fought, naught, ought, sought, teat

TO

  1. TO4 — a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position synonyms—hitch, stint, tenure, term sounds like—boor, lure, moor, poor, sure

  2. TO4 — to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to provide publicity for synonyms—ballyhoo, blow up, crack up, cry up, glorify sounds like—bout, doubt, gout, out, pout

TR

  1. TR5 — a brightly colored golden-yellow * (Oncorhynchus aguabonita synonym Salmo aguabonita) with red markings on the sides and belly that is native to waters of the southern Sierra Nevada but has been introduced in other upland waters of western North America sounds like—drought, kraut, rout, tout

  2. TR6 — not present at a mandatory time and place synonyms—AWOL, absent, away, missing, out sounds like—ardent, aren't, brunt, errant, fluent

TU

  1. TU4 — a food made by mixing chopped ** with mayonnaise

  2. TU6 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country synonyms—campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath sounds like—hundred, sundry, wondrous

  3. TU4 — to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis; to change the course or direction of (something); to change one's course or direction synonyms—pivot, revolve, roll, rotate, spin sounds like—burn, burne, churn, durn, earn

  4. TU10 — a changing from one policy or point of view to virtually its exact opposite synonyms—about-face, about-turn, flip-flop, reversal, turnabout sounds like—around, confound, earthbound, inbound, renowned

  5. TU7 — to leave one's bed; to remove the dirt from; to drive or force out synonyms—arise, get up, rise, roll out, uprise sounds like—burnout

  6. TU5 — to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field; to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed synonyms—educate, indoctrinate, instruct, lesson, school sounds like—neuter, shooter, suitor, tatter, teeter

  7. TU4 — as in hoot, howl synonyms—bark, bay, bellow, blat, bleat sounds like—tattoo

UD

  1. UD4 — a thick Japanese noodle made from wheat flour and usually served in a soup sounds like—don, radon

UN

  1. UN4 — to deprive of courage or confidence; to disengage the knotted parts of; to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy synonyms—demoralize, emasculate, paralyze, unman, unnerve sounds like—anew

  2. UN4 — a person who acts in a way that shows he or she does not care what kind of behavior other people think is acceptable sounds like—anew, into, onto

around, aunt, aura, aurora, auto, daunt, donut, dour, dunno, noun, orotund, outdo, outdoor, outran, outro, outrun, rotund, rotunda, round, rout, runaround, runout, runt, taunt, taut, tour, tout, trout, truant, tuna, tundra, turn, turnaround, turnout, tutor, tutu, udon, undo, unto