Ben Willenbring

View Original

NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sun. 16 July, 2023

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

Letters: n  a  d  o  r  t  u

  • Total Answers: 54
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AD

  1. AD5 β€” to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; array; beautify; bedeck; bedizen

AN

  1. AN9 β€” as in analyst, commentator; to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc.); analyst; columnist; commentator sounds like agitator, innovator
  2. AN4 β€” at or within a short time; on some occasions; a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; before long; by and by sounds like upon

AR

  1. AR6 β€” close to; in random positions within the boundaries of; on all sides or in every direction; about; by sounds like bound, earned, found, hound, mound
  2. AR6 β€” having no exceptions or restrictions; absolute; all-out; blank; blooming sounds like bunt, current, hunt, punt, urgent

AU

  1. AU4 β€” sounds like act, and, ante, apt, can't

DA

  1. DA4 β€” the smallest amount or part imaginable; to close up with a series of interlacing stitches; deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure; beans; bubkes sounds like barn, don, yarn
  2. DA5 β€” to lessen the courage or confidence of; chill; demoralize; discourage; dishearten sounds like dent, don't, gaunt, haunt, jaunt

DO

  1. DO5 β€” one that helps another with gifts or money; angel; benefactor; donator; fairy godmother sounds like diner, dinner, loner, owner, toner
  2. DO5 β€”

DU

  1. DU5 β€” sounds like done

NA

  1. NA4 β€” sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
  2. NA4 β€” sounds like nod
  3. NA4 β€” sounds like manna
  4. NA8 β€” to give an oral or written account of in some detail; chart; chronicle; describe; recite
  5. NA6 β€” sounds like latent

NO

  1. NO6 β€” sounds like monarch
  2. NO4 β€” the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known
  3. NO7 β€” sounds like narrator, rotate
  4. NO4 β€” as in count noun, proper noun; as in count noun, proper noun; as in common noun, proper noun; nominal; substantive sounds like down, gown, known, nine, nun

ON

  1. ON4 β€” as in hit (upon), pitch (upon); as in hit (upon), pitched (upon); as in hitting (upon), pitching (upon); chance (upon); encounter sounds like into, unto

OR

  1. OR7 β€” marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones; marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases; golden; plangent; resonant sounds like rotund

OU

  1. OU6 β€” to go beyond the limit of; to go beyond the limit of; broke; exceeded; outreached
  2. OU6 β€” to go beyond the limit of; break; exceed; outreach; overpass

RA

  1. RA5 β€”
  2. RA4 β€” sounds like and, band, b, canned, g
  3. RA5 β€” sounds like and, band, bandy, banjo, brand
  4. RA4 β€” a long angry speech or scolding; boastful speech or writing; to talk loudly and wildly; diatribe; harangue sounds like ant, aunt, can't, chant, g**
  5. RA6 β€” as in birch, cowhide; birch; blacksnake; bullwhip; cat-o'-nine-tails sounds like cotton, gotten, robin, written

RO

  1. RO4 β€” as in blotchy, piebald; as in palomino, chestnut; blotched; blotchy; piebald sounds like bone, cone, crone, drone, g**
  2. RO5 β€” sounds like condo
  3. RO6 β€” having an excess of body fat; marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones; blubbery; chubby; corpulent
  4. RO7 β€”
  5. RO5 β€” a circular strip; a series of events or actions that repeat themselves regularly and in the same order; something with a perfectly round circumference; band; circle sounds like a*, bound, drowned, found, g*

RU

  1. RU9 β€” as in circumvention, sidestepping; to be greater, better, or stronger than; to defeat by a large margin; bypassing; circumvention sounds like renowned, turnaround
  2. RU6 β€” as in throw out, kick out; a device to measure time; to make complete use of; cast out; dismiss sounds like redoubt
  3. RU4 β€” a living thing much smaller than others of its kind; diminutive; dwarf; midget; mite sounds like aren't, b**, bunt, errant, front

TA

  1. TA7 β€”
  2. TA7 β€”
  3. TA6 β€”
  4. TA6 β€” sounds like carton, hearten
  5. TA5 β€” as in quip, jeer; to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; catcall; gibe; jeer sounds like daunt, gaunt, haunt, jaunt, tent

TO

  1. TO4 β€” a lower limb of an animal; a portion of a trip; pin; lap; stage sounds like attune, boon, dune, goon, loon
  2. TO4 β€” to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it; to separate or remove by forceful pulling; to proceed or move quickly; rent; ribboned sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn
  3. TO7 β€” a violent and destructive storm in which powerful winds move around a central point; bluster; gale; hurricane; squall

TR

  1. TR6 β€” not present at a mandatory time and place; as in furlough, goldbrick; AWOL; absent; away sounds like ardent, aren't, brunt, errant, fluent

TU

  1. TU4 β€”
  2. TU6 β€” a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; campo; champaign; down(s); grassland sounds like hundred, sundry, wondrous
  3. TU4 β€” to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis; to change the course or direction of (something); to change one's course or direction; pivot; revolve sounds like burn, burne, churn, durn, earn
  4. TU10 β€” as in change, improve; a changing from one policy or point of view to virtually its exact opposite; change; fluctuate; mutate sounds like around, confound, earthbound, inbound, renowned
  5. TU7 β€” as in stage, buggy; to leave one's bed; to remove the dirt from; barouche; brougham sounds like burnout

UD

  1. UD4 β€” sounds like don, radon

UN

  1. UN4 β€” to deprive of courage or confidence; to disengage the knotted parts of; to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy; demoralize; emasculate sounds like anew
  2. UN4 β€” sounds like anew, into, onto

adorn, annotator, anon, around, arrant, aunt, darn, daunt, donor, donut, dunno, naan, nada, nana, narrator, natant, nonart, noon, notator, noun, onto, orotund, outran, outrun, radon, rand, rando, rant, rattan, roan, rondo, rotund, rotunda, round, runaround, runout, runt, tandoor, tantara, tantra, tartan, taunt, toon, torn, tornado, truant, tuna, tundra, turn, turnaround, turnout, udon, undo, unto