Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 25 March, 2023

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

Letters: a  m  o  r  t  w  y

  • Total Answers: 60
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AM

  1. AM7 β€” of, relating to, exciting, or expressing sexual attraction or desire; amorous; aphrodisiac; erogenous; erotic sounds like allegory, lavatory, oratory
  2. AM4 β€” sounds like arrow, mow

AO

  1. AO5 β€” sounds like aura, chortle, court, fort, mortal

AR

  1. AR5 β€” means or method of defending; something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; as in ensheathe, encapsulate; aegis; ammunition sounds like charmer, farmer
  2. AR6 β€” a place where military arms are stored; arsenal; depot; dump; magazine
  3. AR4 β€” a large body of men and women organized for land warfare; a great number of persons or creatures massed together; a group of people working together on a task; array; battalion
  4. AR5 β€” a sweet or pleasant smell; the quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose; a special quality or impression associated with something; attar; balm sounds like coma, soma
  5. AR5 β€” a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; dressy clothing; assemblage; band sounds like awry, bay, day, earl, earn
  6. AR5 β€” as in beeline; as in prude, fuddy-duddy; beeline; catch up; fast-forward sounds like ammo, b*, crow, grow, h*
  7. AR9 β€” sounds like prorate, reroute
  8. AR6 β€” as in runoff, freshet; billabong; fresh; freshet; runoff
  9. AR4 β€” sounds like he, p

AT

  1. AT4 β€” a very small piece; bit; crumb; dribble; fleck sounds like alum, annum, autumn, datum, item
  2. AT5 β€” a sweet or pleasant smell; aroma; balm; bouquet; fragrance sounds like butter, cutter, eater, gutter, mutter

AW

  1. AW4 β€” from this or that place; not close in time or space; not at a certain place; down; fro sounds like allay, sway, way, weigh
  2. AW4 β€” inclined or twisted to one side; off the desired or intended path or course; askew; aslant; atilt sounds like arise, array, arrive, buy, die

MA

  1. MA4 β€” a female human parent; as in boy, kid; as in boys, kids; ma; mammy sounds like comma, mom
  2. MA5 β€” a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mom
  3. MA7 β€” sounds like memory
  4. MA4 β€” sounds like arm, charm, farm, harm
  5. MA6 β€”
  6. MA6 β€” as in center, core; alpha and omega; center; core; keynote sounds like faro, meadow, mellow, memo, merry
  7. MA5 β€” to perform the ceremony of marriage for; to give in marriage; to take as a spouse; wed; espouse sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
  8. MA4 β€” as in department store, mini-mart; as in department store, chain store; boutique; chain store; department store sounds like art, cart, chart, dart, heart
  9. MA6 β€” to kill (someone) for refusing to give up a belief or causeβ€”usually used as (be) martyred; as in sacrifice; assail; attack; afflict sounds like barter, charter, garter, mortar, smarter
  10. MA4 β€” sounds like kayo
  11. MA5 β€” sounds like layer

MO

  1. MO4 β€” 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; ha-ha; stank; sunk fence; dike sounds like boat, coat, goat, mat, mate
  2. MO5 β€” a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mana
  3. MO5 β€” sounds like fray, gray, grey, may, pray
  4. MO6 β€” sounds like martyr, porter, shorter
  5. MO8 β€” as in interstate, autobahn; autobahn; autoroute; autostrada; dual carriageway sounds like waterway

OA

  1. OA4 β€” sounds like eighty, goatee, tea, tee

OR

  1. OR6 β€” a person who makes usually formal public speeches; lecturer; speaker sounds like altar, alter, amateur, auditor, aura
  2. OR7 β€” the art of speaking in public eloquently and effectively; language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere; elocution; public speaking; bombast sounds like dormitory, laudatory

RA

  1. RA7 β€” sounds like habitat
  2. RA5 β€” showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; worn or torn into or as if into rags; easily irritated or annoyed; beat-up; bombed-out sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

RO

  1. RO4 β€” to move about from place to place aimlessly; bat; cruise; drift; float sounds like chrome, comb, dome, foam, gnome
  2. RO4 β€” 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
  3. RO6 β€” as in circle, roundabout; as in rotorcraft; as in rotorcraft; circle; roundabout sounds like coterie
  4. RO7 β€” sounds like rattler, rioter, stutter
  5. RO8 β€” sounds like category, laudatory, lavatory, oratory, poetry

TA

  1. TA4 β€” sounds like borrow, morrow, sorrow
  2. TA5 β€” sounds like carrot
  3. TA5 β€” a temporary residing as another's guest; to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; to move or act slowly; sojourn; stay sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
  4. TA4 β€” causing or characterized by the one of the basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings; a woman who engages in sexual activities for money; acid; acidic sounds like art, cart, chart, dart, heart
  5. TA6 β€” sounds like barter, charter, garter, martyr, starter
  6. TA6 β€”
  7. TA5 β€” showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; beat-up; bombed-out; dilapidated; dog-eared sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TO

  1. TO6 β€” sounds like automate, potato, teammate

TR

  1. TR4 β€” as in truck, wheelbarrow; barrow; hand truck; pushcart; truck sounds like cram, dram, gram, ram, tam
  2. TR7 β€”
  3. TR4 β€” as in plate, bowl; bowl; casserole; charger; cup sounds like fray, gray, grey, pray, prey

WA

  1. WA4 β€” having or giving off heat to a moderate degree; having or expressing great depth of feeling; having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest; heated; hottish sounds like dorm, form, norm, s**
  2. WA4 β€” as in growth, tumor; growth; tumor; bump; knot sounds like court, fort, port, quart, short
  3. WA5 β€” sounds like forty
  4. WA4 β€” having or showing a close attentiveness to avoiding danger or trouble; alert; careful; cautious; chary sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
  5. WA4 β€” sounds like bought, caught, cot, dot, got

WO

  1. WO9 β€” a person who is inclined to worry; handwringer; nervous Nellie; worrier sounds like airport, cricket, crimped, crypt, dreary

YA

  1. YA6 β€”

amatory, ammo, aorta, armor, armory, army, aroma, array, arrow, arrowroot, arroyo, arty, atom, attar, away, awry, mama, mamma, mammary, marm, marmot, marrow, marry, mart, martyr, mayo, mayor, moat, momma, moray, mortar, motorway, oaty, orator, oratory, ratatat, ratty, roam, roar, rotary, rotator, rotatory, taro, tarot, tarry, tart, tartar, tattoo, tatty, tomato, tram, tramway, tray, warm, wart, warty, wary, watt, worrywart, yarrow