NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 15 October, 2022

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

Letters: o  a  h  k  m  t  w

  • Total Answers: 29
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! đŸ€Ł

AM

  1. AM4 — ammunition sounds like—arrow, mow

  2. AM4 — in a confused and reckless manner synonyms—berserk, berserkly, frantically, frenetically, frenziedly sounds like—muck

AT

  1. AT4 — a very small piece synonyms—bit, crumb, dribble, fleck, flyspeck sounds like—alum, annum, autumn, datum, item

HO

  1. HO4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument synonyms—bang, bash, bat, beat, belt sounds like—book, cook, hack, hawk, heck

  2. HO6 — water pipe

  3. 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

KO

  1. KO4 — a person of odd or whimsical habits synonyms—character, codger, crack, crackbrain, crackpot sounds like—cake, cock, coke, cook, cool

  2. KO6 — to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior synonyms—apple-polish, bootlick, fawn, fuss, suck (up) sounds like—auto, bout, capo, cat, cater

MA

  1. MA4 — either of two relatively slender mackerel sharks (Isurus paucus and I. oxyrinchus) that are dark blue above and white below with long pointed snouts and that are notable sport fish —called also ** sounds like—mock, morrow, motto, taco

  2. MA7 — unusually large synonyms—astronomical, Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic

MO

  1. MO4 — a deep, wide excavation that is usually filled with water and that goes around the walls of a place (such as a castle) to protect it from being attacked synonyms—ha-ha, stank, sunk fence, dike, ditch sounds like—boat, coat, goat, mat, mate

  2. MO6 — as in shag, bob synonyms—bob, buzz cut, crew cut, crop, fade sounds like—hawk

  3. MO5 — a female human parent synonyms—ma, mammy, mater, mom, mommy sounds like—comma, mana

  4. MO4 — open to question or dispute synonyms—arguable, controvertible, debatable, disputable, doubtable sounds like—boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot

  5. MO4 — having passed its time of use or usefulness; showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; used or heard so often as to be dull synonyms—antiquated, archaic, dated, dĂ©modĂ©, demoded sounds like—mall, math, maul, mauve, maw

  6. MO5 — a short sentence or phrase that expresses a rule guiding the behavior of a particular person or group synonyms—axiom, precept, truism, truth, adage sounds like—macho, mater

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

TA

  1. TA6 — to mark the skin with (a **); to mark or color (the skin) with **s

TO

  1. TO8 — to cut, strike, or kill with a ** sounds like—almanac, almond, amok, atomic, automaton

  2. TO6 — a North American hawk moth (Manduca quinquemaculata) whose green larva is a hornworm feeding on leaves of plants of the nightshade family and especially tobacco and ** sounds like—automate, potato, teammate

  3. TO4 — to reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms; to agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly; to become affected with (a disease or disorder) synonyms—clasped, grasped, gripped, held, accepted sounds like—book, cook, hook, look, nook

  4. TO4 — a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking synonyms—bender, binge, bust, carousal, carouse sounds like—boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot

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

WA

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

WH

  1. WH6 — with violent abruptness sounds like—ammo

  2. 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

  3. WH4 — used as an interrogative or relative—used as object of a verb or a preceding preposition or less frequently as the object of a following preposition though now often considered stilted especially as an interrogative and especially in oral use—occasionally used as predicate nominative with a copulative verb or as subject of a verb especially in the vicinity of a preposition or a verb of which it might mistakenly be considered the object sounds like—boom, doom, ham, hem, him

WO

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

  2. WO4 — sounds like—boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot

ammo, amok, atom, hook, hookah, hoot, kook, kowtow, mako, mammoth, moat, mohawk, momma, moot, moth, motto, oath, tattoo, tomahawk, tomato, took, toot, tooth, wahoo, whammo, whoa, whom, woohoo, woot