NYT π CluesβSun. 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! π€£
AD
- AD5 β to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; array; beautify; bedeck; bedizen
AN
- AN9 β as in analyst, commentator; to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc.); analyst; columnist; commentator sounds like agitator, innovator
- 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
- 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
- AR6 β having no exceptions or restrictions; absolute; all-out; blank; blooming sounds like bunt, current, hunt, punt, urgent
AU
- AU4 β sounds like act, and, ante, apt, can't
DA
- 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
- DA5 β to lessen the courage or confidence of; chill; demoralize; discourage; dishearten sounds like dent, don't, gaunt, haunt, jaunt
DO
- DO5 β one that helps another with gifts or money; angel; benefactor; donator; fairy godmother sounds like diner, dinner, loner, owner, toner
- DO5 β
DU
- DU5 β sounds like done
NA
- NA4 β sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
- NA4 β sounds like nod
- NA4 β sounds like manna
- NA8 β to give an oral or written account of in some detail; chart; chronicle; describe; recite
- NA6 β sounds like latent
NO
- NO6 β sounds like monarch
- 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
- NO7 β sounds like narrator, rotate
- 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
- 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
- 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
- OU6 β to go beyond the limit of; to go beyond the limit of; broke; exceeded; outreached
- OU6 β to go beyond the limit of; break; exceed; outreach; overpass
RA
- RA5 β
- RA4 β sounds like and, band, b, canned, g
- RA5 β sounds like and, band, bandy, banjo, brand
- 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**
- RA6 β as in birch, cowhide; birch; blacksnake; bullwhip; cat-o'-nine-tails sounds like cotton, gotten, robin, written
RO
- RO4 β as in blotchy, piebald; as in palomino, chestnut; blotched; blotchy; piebald sounds like bone, cone, crone, drone, g**
- RO5 β sounds like condo
- RO6 β having an excess of body fat; marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones; blubbery; chubby; corpulent
- RO7 β
- 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
- 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
- RU6 β as in throw out, kick out; a device to measure time; to make complete use of; cast out; dismiss sounds like redoubt
- 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
- TA7 β
- TA7 β
- TA6 β
- TA6 β sounds like carton, hearten
- 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
- TO4 β a lower limb of an animal; a portion of a trip; pin; lap; stage sounds like attune, boon, dune, goon, loon
- 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
- TO7 β a violent and destructive storm in which powerful winds move around a central point; bluster; gale; hurricane; squall
TR
- 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
- TU4 β
- TU6 β a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; campo; champaign; down(s); grassland sounds like hundred, sundry, wondrous
- 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
- 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
- TU7 β as in stage, buggy; to leave one's bed; to remove the dirt from; barouche; brougham sounds like burnout
UD
- UD4 β sounds like don, radon
UN
- 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
- UN4 β sounds like anew, into, onto