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! 🤣

AF

1. AF4 — sounds like arrow

AH

3. AH4 — sounds like add, alloy, ash, ass, boy

AR

5. AR6 — as in runoff, freshet; billabong; fresh; freshet; runoff

FA

7. FA5 — sounds like borrow, follow, morrow, sorrow

FO

9. FO4 — 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
10. FO5 — a sudden attack on and entrance into hostile territory; as in plunder, loot; to enter for conquest or plunder; descent; incursion
11. FO4 — 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

13. HA7 — sounds like ache, arc, bake, bark, basic

HO

15. HO4 — 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
16. HO5 — dating or surviving from the distant past; age-old; aged; ancient; antediluvian sounds like haughty, hurry
17. HO4 — 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
18. HO4 — 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
19. HO6 —
20. HO5 — to fail to attend; to fail to attend; to fail to attend; blow off; cut sounds like bookie, cookie, rookie
21. HO6 — as in hail, huzzah; bravo; hail; hallelujah; hosanna sounds like hurrah
22. HO6 — how delightful; as in hail, huzzah; glory; ha; hallelujah sounds like hurrah
23. HO4 — sounds like aura, whore
24. HO6 — 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

26. KO4 — a person of odd or whimsical habits; character; codger; crack; crackbrain sounds like cake, cock, coke, cook, cool
27. KO5 — 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

29. OA4 — sounds like hokey, key, ochre, okay, pokey

OK

31. OK4 — 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
32. OK4 — sounds like opera

RO

34. RO4 — 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
35. RO4 — 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
36. RO4 — 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

38. YA5 — how delightful; a stupid person; glory; ha; hallelujah sounds like who, you

YO

40. YO6 — sounds like guru, use, used, user, voodoo