NYT ๐Ÿ Cluesโ€”Sat. 23 September, 2023

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

Letters: o  a  f  h  k  r  y

  • Total Answers: 28
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! ๐Ÿคฃ

AF

  1. AF4 โ€” sounds like arrow

AH

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

AR

  1. AR6 โ€” as in runoff, freshet; billabong; fresh; freshet; runoff

FA

  1. FA5 โ€” sounds like borrow, follow, morrow, sorrow

FO

  1. FO4 โ€” a meeting featuring a group discussion; a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information; an assembly of persons for the administration of justice; colloquies; conferences sounds like aura, fauna, flora
  2. FO5 โ€” a sudden attack on and entrance into hostile territory; as in plunder, loot; to enter for conquest or plunder; descent; incursion
  3. FO4 โ€” to go or move in different directions from a central point; as in knife, spoon; to hand over or use up in payment; branch (out); diverge sounds like cork

HA

  1. HA7 โ€” sounds like ache, arc, bake, bark, basic

HO

  1. HO4 โ€” dating or surviving from the distant past; a covering of tiny ice crystals on a cold surface; age-old; aged; ancient sounds like hall, haul, hauler, hawk, hawker
  2. HO5 โ€” dating or surviving from the distant past; age-old; aged; ancient; antediluvian sounds like haughty, hurry
  3. HO4 โ€” as in kick, boot; to go on foot; to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music; boot; kick sounds like goof, half, huff, poof, roof
  4. HO4 โ€” a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to cause to turn away from a straight line; to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole; bang; bash sounds like book, cook, hack, hawk, heck
  5. HO6 โ€”
  6. HO5 โ€” to fail to attend; to fail to attend; to fail to attend; blow off; cut sounds like bookie, cookie, rookie
  7. HO6 โ€” as in hail, huzzah; bravo; hail; hallelujah; hosanna sounds like hurrah
  8. HO6 โ€” how delightful; as in hail, huzzah; glory; ha; hallelujah sounds like hurrah
  9. HO4 โ€” sounds like aura, whore
  10. HO6 โ€” the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay; a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness; something unpleasant to look at; atrociousness; atrocity sounds like borer, hauler, hawker, hearer, whore

KO

  1. KO4 โ€” a person of odd or whimsical habits; character; codger; crack; crackbrain sounds like cake, cock, coke, cook, cool
  2. KO5 โ€” different from the ordinary in a way that causes curiosity or suspicion; having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; bizarre; bizarro sounds like bookie, cocky, cook, cooker, khaki

OA

  1. OA4 โ€” sounds like hokey, key, ochre, okay, pokey

OK

  1. OK4 โ€” being to one's liking; of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards; in a satisfactory way; agreeable; all right sounds like oak, obey, ochre
  2. OK4 โ€” sounds like opera

RO

  1. RO4 โ€” a violent shouting; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; clamor; howl sounds like boar, bore, chore, core, door
  2. RO4 โ€” a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; the place where one lives; to provide with living quarters or shelter; awning; canopy sounds like goof, hoof, poof, p**, reef
  3. RO4 โ€” a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; to rob by the use of trickery or threats; abecedarian; apprentice; babe sounds like book, b, cook, c, hook

YA

  1. YA5 โ€” how delightful; a stupid person; glory; ha; hallelujah sounds like who, you

YO

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

afro, ahoy, arroyo, farro, fora, foray, fork, hayfork, hoar, hoary, hoof, hook, hookah, hooky, hoorah, hooray, hora, horror, kook, kooky, oaky, okay, okra, roar, roof, rook, yahoo, yoohoo