NYT π CluesβSun. 17 September, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: l a c n o r t
- Total Answers: 59
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AL
- AL9 β to give as a share or portion; to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; to keep or intend for a special purpose; allot; allow sounds like applicator
- AL5 β to give as a share or portion; allocate; allow; apportion; assign sounds like blot, clot, lat, lot, plot
- AL5 β a table or place which serves as a center of worship or ritual; bimah; footpace; pulpit; platform sounds like falter, halter
- AL4 β sounds like act, actor, after
AN
- AN4 β extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; as in perversity, waywardness; anal-retentive; obsessive sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
- AN5 β sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
AO
- AO6 β sounds like chortle, mortal, portal
AT
- AT5 β a ring-shaped land mass surrounded by water and made of coral; barrier reef; cay; coral reef; key sounds like shuttle, subtle
- AT6 β as in off-key, tuneless; off-key; tuneless; disagreeable; unpleasant sounds like tonal
CA
- CA4 β to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like all, ball, bawl, coal, cog
- CA5 β to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like cola, gala
- CA8 β
- CA5 β an open man-made passageway for water; aqueduct; channel; conduit; course sounds like banal, colonel, conceal, concur, confer
- CA6 β sounds like ayatollah, cola, connote, kimono, manila
- CA6 β having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven; of or relating to the human body; pleasing to the physical senses; earthborn; earthbound
- CA5 β a religious song; to produce musical sounds with the voice; to proclaim the glory of; anthem; canticle sounds like choral, coral, kennel, kettle, peril
- CA7 β a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; as in deride, jeer; bird; boo; Bronx cheer
CL
- CL4 β a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; a group of persons who come from the same ancestor; body; bunch; circle sounds like can
- CL6 β sounds like coca
- CL4 β a number of things considered as a unit; a small uneven mass; a stupid person; array; assemblage sounds like allot, blot, caught, cot, lat
CO
- CO4 β sounds like boll, bowl, call
- CO4 β
- CO9 β sounds like cannon, canon, volcanic
- CO6 β an ornamental chain or string (as of beads) worn around the neck; the act of taking or holding under one's control by authority of law; to take or keep under one's control by authority of law; choker; dog collar sounds like caller, calmer, cholera, dollar
- CO5 β
- CO5 β a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; a substance used to color other materials; the hue or appearance of the skin and especially of the face; cast; hue sounds like caller, cul, cull
- CO8 β a substance used to color other materials; color; coloring; dye; dyestuff sounds like client, cultist, current, tolerant
- CO4 β a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; abecedarian; apprentice; babe; beginner sounds like bolt, cult, jolt, kilt, molt
- CO9 β
- CO7 β a mechanism for adjusting the operation of a device, machine, or system; the ability to direct the course of something; the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something; controller; regulator
- CO4 β having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; free from emotional or mental agitation; having a low or subnormal temperature; aloof; antisocial sounds like call, cul
- CO7 β
- CO5 β as in key, barrier reef; as in keys, barrier reefs; as in sea snake, rat snake; atoll; barrier reef sounds like aural, causal, chorus, laurel, moral
- CO7 β sounds like choral, krona
- CO7 β a decorative band or wreath worn about the head as a symbol of victory or honor; chaplet; coronet; crown; diadem sounds like caramel, cardinal, carnal, choral, horrible
- CO6 β an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly; cage; coop sounds like curl, morale
LA
- LA7 β sounds like antenna
LL
- LL5 β a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; campo; champaign; down(s); grassland sounds like blond, blonde, bond, borrow, capo
LO
- LO4 β as in advance; to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned; advance; bribe; douceur sounds like alone, blown, bone, clone, clones
- LO5 β as in regional; a local unit of an organization; a usually longtime resident of a locality; regional; aboriginal sounds like focal, vocal
- LO7 β
- LO4 β having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; to cause to go insane or as if insane; balmy; barmy; bats sounds like coco, cocoa
- LO4 β to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall
- LO4 β one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person; bug; crackbrain; crazy sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
- LO4 β valuables stolen or taken by force; something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; to search through with the intent of committing robbery; booty; pillage sounds like boot, chute, flute, hoot, jute
- LO5 β sounds like lat, motto
NA
- NA5 β sounds like fatal, nettle
NO
- NO8 β
OC
- OC5 β sounds like artful, auction, awful, axle, battle
OR
- OR4 β expressed or communicated by voice; made or carried on through speaking rather than in writing; spoken; uttered; vocal sounds like aura, ch, c, laurel, m**
RO
- RO4 β to form into a round compact mass; to make a low heavy rolling sound; to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions; agglomerate; ball sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
TA
- TA4 β sounds like torque
- TA4 β extending to a great distance upward; requiring considerable physical or mental effort; as in yacht, sailboat; altitudinous; high sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
- TA5 β sounds like salon
TO
- TO4 β as in expense; as in tariff, income tax; to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates; expense; cost sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- TO5 β as in orchestral, harmonic; chordal; harmonic; homophonic; orchestral sounds like a*, tunnel
- TO4 β an article intended for use in work; one that is or can be used to further the purposes of another; one who is easily deceived or cheated; device; implement sounds like cool, fool, pool, rule, s**
- TO5 β having no exceptions or restrictions; not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it; trying all possibilities; absolute; all-out sounds like title, turtle
TR
- TR5 β an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers; to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something; brownie; dwarf; elf sounds like role, roll, s*, toll