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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sun. 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! 🀣

AL

  1. 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
  2. AL5 β€” to give as a share or portion; allocate; allow; apportion; assign sounds like blot, clot, lat, lot, plot
  3. AL5 β€” a table or place which serves as a center of worship or ritual; bimah; footpace; pulpit; platform sounds like falter, halter
  4. AL4 β€” sounds like act, actor, after

AN

  1. 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
  2. AN5 β€” sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null

AO

  1. AO6 β€” sounds like chortle, mortal, portal

AT

  1. AT5 β€” a ring-shaped land mass surrounded by water and made of coral; barrier reef; cay; coral reef; key sounds like shuttle, subtle
  2. AT6 β€” as in off-key, tuneless; off-key; tuneless; disagreeable; unpleasant sounds like tonal

CA

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. CA8 β€”
  4. CA5 β€” an open man-made passageway for water; aqueduct; channel; conduit; course sounds like banal, colonel, conceal, concur, confer
  5. CA6 β€” sounds like ayatollah, cola, connote, kimono, manila
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. CA7 β€” a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; as in deride, jeer; bird; boo; Bronx cheer

CL

  1. 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
  2. CL6 β€” sounds like coca
  3. 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

  1. CO4 β€” sounds like boll, bowl, call
  2. CO4 β€”
  3. CO9 β€” sounds like cannon, canon, volcanic
  4. 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
  5. CO5 β€”
  6. 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
  7. CO8 β€” a substance used to color other materials; color; coloring; dye; dyestuff sounds like client, cultist, current, tolerant
  8. 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
  9. CO9 β€”
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. CO7 β€”
  13. 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
  14. CO7 β€” sounds like choral, krona
  15. 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
  16. 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

  1. LA7 β€” sounds like antenna

LL

  1. LL5 β€” a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; campo; champaign; down(s); grassland sounds like blond, blonde, bond, borrow, capo

LO

  1. 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
  2. LO5 β€” as in regional; a local unit of an organization; a usually longtime resident of a locality; regional; aboriginal sounds like focal, vocal
  3. LO7 β€”
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. LO5 β€” sounds like lat, motto

NA

  1. NA5 β€” sounds like fatal, nettle

NO

  1. NO8 β€”

OC

  1. OC5 β€” sounds like artful, auction, awful, axle, battle

OR

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. TA4 β€” sounds like torque
  2. 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
  3. TA5 β€” sounds like salon

TO

  1. 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
  2. TO5 β€” as in orchestral, harmonic; chordal; harmonic; homophonic; orchestral sounds like a*, tunnel
  3. 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**
  4. 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

  1. 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

allocator, allot, altar, alto, anal, annal, aortal, atoll, atonal, call, calla, callaloo, canal, canola, carnal, carol, catcall, clan, cloaca, clot, coal, cola, colcannon, collar, colon, color, colorant, colt, contralto, control, cool, coolant, coral, corolla, coronal, corral, lantana, llano, loan, local, locator, loco, loll, loon, loot, lotto, natal, nonlocal, octal, oral, roll, talc, tall, talon, toll, tonal, tool, total, troll