NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 8 October, 2022
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: o a c h n v y
- Total Answers: 26
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AC
- AC5 — used to represent the sound of a sneeze sounds like—axe, coup
AH
- AH4 — used in hailing sounds like—add, alloy, ash, ass, boy
AN
- AN5 — a poblano chili pepper especially when mature and dried to a reddish black sounds like—ammo
- AN7 — any of a family (Engraulidae) of small fishes resembling herrings that includes several (such as Engraulis encrasicholus) that are important food fishes used especially in appetizers, as a garnish, and for making sauces and relishes sounds like—alcove, enrollee, envy, navy, nervy
- AN5 — to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts synonyms—aggravate, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe
- AN4 — at or within a short time synonyms—before long, by and by, directly, momentarily, presently sounds like—upon
- AN6 —
CA
- CA5 — a dried, fermented, fatty seed of the fruit of a South American evergreen tree (Theobroma * of the family Sterculiaceae) that is used in making cocoa, chocolate, and cocoa butter : cocoa bean; a tree having small yellowish flowers followed by fleshy pods from which * is obtained sounds like—cocaine, coco, cocoa, cocoon, cuckoo
- CA6 — as in barrage, **ade synonyms—barrage, **ade, blitz, bomb, bombard
- CA5 — a statement or body of statements concerning faith or morals proclaimed by a church; a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system; a collection or system of rules of conduct synonyms—doctrine, dogma, catalog, checklist, list
- CA6 — a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage synonyms—col, couloir, defile, flume, gap
CO
- CO5 — a person who trains performers or athletes synonyms—trainer sounds like—catch
- CO4 — any of several South American shrubs (genus Erythroxylon, family Erythroxylaceae); especially : one (E. ) that is the primary source of ine; dried leaves of a (especially Erythroxylon ) containing alkaloids including **ine
- CO5 — a dried, fermented, fatty seed of the fruit of a South American tropical evergreen tree (Theobroma cacao of the family Sterculiaceae) that is used in making *, chocolate, and * butter : cacao
- CO6 — something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; something that serves as a protective barrier synonyms—armor, capsule, case, casing, cover sounds like—cuckoo
- CO4 — a rather small Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) that has light-colored flesh and is native to both coasts of the North Pacific and is stocked in the Great Lakes —called also ** salmon, silver salmon
- CO5 — any of various large spiral-shelled marine gastropod mollusks (as of the genus Strombus); also : its shell used especially for cameos; a native or resident of the Florida Keys; *a
- CO6 — to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship synonyms—accompany, attend, chaperone, companion, company sounds like—carve, carved, envoy
HA
- HA5 — a state in which everything is out of order; the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless synonyms—chance-medley, chaos, confusion, disarrangement, disarray
HO
- HO6 — one of high position or importance within a group; the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do synonyms—big, big boy, big cheese, big gun, big leaguer sounds like—condo, han, hunch, hunched, macho
- HO5 — a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk synonyms—alcohol, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, booze, bottle sounds like—hatch, hitch, hutch, pooch, who
NA
- NA5 — a tortilla chip topped with melted cheese and often additional savory toppings (such as hot peppers or refried beans) sounds like—ammo, arrow, barrow, batch, catch
NO
- NO4 — the middle of the day; the highest part or point synonyms—high , lunch time, midday, day, **tide sounds like—boon, dune, goon, knew, known
- NO4 — a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness and then within a few months or years becomes less bright again synonyms—binary star, brown dwarf, dwarf, fixed star, gasser sounds like—aroma, boa, coca, cola, coma
YA
- YA5 — how delightful synonyms—glory, ha, hallelujah, hey, hooray sounds like—who, you
YO
- YO6 — used to attract attention or as a call to persons sounds like—guru, use, used, user, voodoo