NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 29 October, 2022

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

Letters: h  a  d  e  n  o  p

  • Total Answers: 35
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AH

  1. AH5 — so as to precede something in order of time; toward a point * in space or time; toward or at a point lying in advance in space or time synonyms—afore, already, antecedently, anteriorly, before sounds like—head

DA

  1. DA6 — Dame ** 1907—1989 British writer sounds like—acne, canny, draftee, drafty, fanny

DE

  1. DE8 — a stupid person synonyms—airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, bubblehead sounds like—redhead

  2. DE10 — to make especially a return trip without a load; to deadhead a plant; to remove the faded flowers of (a plant) especially to keep a neat appearance and to promote reblooming by preventing seed production sounds like—redheaded

HA

  1. HA4 — a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; a place, space, or direction away from or beyond a central point or line; an arrow-shaped piece on a dial or scale for registering information synonyms—angle, aspect, facet, phase, side sounds like—and, band, canned, hind, honed

  2. HA6 — to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption; to shift possession of (something) from one person to another; to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another synonyms—delivered, fed, furnished, gave, ** over sounds like—candid

  3. HA6 — to take place synonyms—be, befall, betide, chance, come sounds like—apple, ashen, aspen, baron, barren

  4. HA8 — to take place synonyms—befell, betided, came, came about, came down

HE

  1. HE4 — the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; the place of leadership or command; a light mass of fine bubbles formed in or on a liquid synonyms—bean, block, dome, mazard, nob sounds like—a**, bed, dead, had, hadd

  2. HE6 — to go on a specified course or in a certain direction; to be at the front of; to be in charge of synonyms—bore, made, led, bossed, captained sounds like—wedded

  3. HE9 — an earphone held over the ear by a band worn on the head —usually plural; also : a small earphone inserted into the ear : earbud

  4. HE4 — a considerable amount; a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another synonyms—abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket sounds like—beep, c**, deep, hip

  5. HE6 — to give readily and in large quantities; to lay or throw on top of one another; to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained synonyms—lavished, poured, rained, showered, mounded

  6. HE4 — a state of being aware; strict attentiveness to what one is doing synonyms—advertence, advertency, attention, awareness, cognizance sounds like—bead, cede, deed, feed, had

  7. HE6 — to take notice of and be guided by; to pay attention especially through the act of hearing synonyms—followed, listened (to), minded, noted, observed sounds like—needed

  8. HE5 — to dye with *

  9. HE7 — to dye with henna sounds like—bend, decade, end, fend, hand

HO

  1. HO4 — as in raked, harrowed synonyms—harrowed, listed, raked, rototilled, fallowed sounds like—bode, code, goad, had, hadd

  2. HO4 — to make sharp or sharper; to make smooth by friction synonyms—edge, grind, sharpen, stone, strop sounds like—bone, cone, han, hen

  3. HO5 — having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something synonyms—cutting, edged, edgy, ground, keen sounds like—hand, hind, owned

  4. HO4 — a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang synonyms—bully, gangbanger, gangsta, gangster, goon sounds like—could, good, had, hadd, head

  5. HO6 — a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang synonyms—bully, gangbanger, gangsta, gangster, goon sounds like—added, dud, ended, faded, guided

  6. HO6 — language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; something that brings bad luck synonyms—applesauce, balderdash, baloney, beans, bilge

  7. HO4 — a circular strip synonyms—band, circle, eye, loop, ring sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, heap, hip

  8. HO6 — to bind or fasten with or as if with a hoop

  9. HO4 — as in wish, dream synonyms—dream, wish, aim, allow, aspire sounds like—cope, dope, heap, hip

  10. HO5 — as in wished, dreamed synonyms—dreamed, wished, aimed, allowed, aspired sounds like—doped

  11. HO6 — to move with a light springing step; to propel oneself upward or forward into the air synonyms—bounced, bounded, lolloped, loped, skipped sounds like—c**, heart, lopped, opt

OP

  1. OP4 — a large elliptical laterally compressed marine bony fish (Lampris guttatus of the family Lampridae) with brilliant colors

  2. OP10 — giving or sharing in abundance and without hesitation synonyms—bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, free sounds like—evenhanded, panhandle

PE

  1. PE6 — a female peafowl sounds like—paean

PH

  1. PH5 — to make a tele* call to synonyms—call, dial, ring (up), tele* sounds like—bone, cone, fan, fawn, feign

  2. PH6 — to make a telephone call to synonyms—called, dialed, rang (up), tele** sounds like—feigned, fend, fiend, find, fold

  3. PH5 — *graph sounds like—fun, fund, funny

PO

  1. PO4 — to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true synonyms—brush (off), dismiss, flout, reject, scoff (at) sounds like—boo, chew, coup, dew, doo

ahead, daphne, deadhead, deadheaded, hand, handed, happen, happened, head, headed, headphone, heap, heaped, heed, heeded, henna, hennaed, hoed, hone, honed, hood, hooded, hoodoo, hoop, hooped, hope, hoped, hopped, opah, openhanded, peahen, phone, phoned, phono, pooh