NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 23 October, 2022

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

Letters: p  a  f  i  l  n  u

  • Total Answers: 30
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AP

  1. AP5 — sounds like—alien, paean

  2. AP6 — to cause an unpleasant surprise for synonyms—floor, jolt, shake up, shock

FI

  1. FI6 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument synonyms—bang, bash, bat, beat, belt sounds like—billet, billon, bishop, buildup, dollop

FL

  1. FL4 — a state of wildly excited activity or emotion synonyms—agitation, deliriousness, delirium, distraction, fever sounds like—clap, lap, slap

  2. FL4 — to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner; to change the position of (an object) so that the opposite side or end is showing synonyms—leaf, riffle, skim, thumb, invert sounds like—blip, clip, lip, slip

PA

  1. PA4 — a round container that is open at the top and outfitted with a handle synonyms—bucket sounds like—ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  2. PA4 — a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body; a state of great suffering of body or mind; strict attentiveness to what one is doing synonyms—ache, pang, prick, shoot, smart sounds like—arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

  3. PA7 — causing or feeling bodily pain; hard to accept or bear especially emotionally synonyms—aching, achy, afflictive, hurting, nasty sounds like—gainful

  4. PA6 — sounds like—plaza, plop

  5. PA4 — a boxlike container for holding a dead body; an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom; something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth synonyms—bier, box, casket, coffin, sarcophagus sounds like—doll, loll, peal, pearl, peel

  6. PA4 — as in ate synonyms—ate, feel, touch, brush, graze sounds like—pulp

  7. PA6 — Giovanni Paolo 1691—1765 Italian painter sounds like—bikini, canine, dainty, faintly, genie

  8. PA4 — a male human parent synonyms—dad, daddy, father, old man, pa sounds like—pop, poppy

  9. PA5 — as in priestly, apostolic synonyms—apostolic, canonical, clerical, episcopal, evangelical sounds like—maple, people, purple

  10. PA7 — a small projecting body part similar to a nipple in form:; a vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth; any of the vascular protuberances of the dermal layer of the skin extending into the epidermal layer and often containing tactile corpuscles

PI

  1. PI5 — a dish made of seasoned rice and often meat sounds like—aloof, bailiff, bluff, fluff, gulf

  2. PI4 — a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally; a person whose behavior is offensive to others synonyms—cap, capsule, lozenge, tablet, bastard sounds like—bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

  3. PI5 — as in cover girl, bathing beauty synonyms—bathing beauty, cover girl, belle, charmer, peach

  4. PI6 — something very good of its kind synonyms—beaut, beauty, bee's knees, cat's meow, corker sounds like—begin, herein, kingpin, poplin, spin

PL

  1. PL5 — free from all additions or embellishment; free from added matter; free in expressing one's true feelings and opinions synonyms—bald, bare, naked, *-vanilla, simple sounds like—lain, lane, pain, pane

  2. PL4 — a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective; something that one hopes or intends to accomplish synonyms—arrangement, blueprint, design, game, game ** sounds like—clan, pan

PU

  1. PU4 — a slight or gentle movement of air synonyms—air, breath, breeze, waft, zephyr sounds like—buff, cuff, huff, muff, poof

  2. PU6 — a small black-and-white ** (Fratercula arctica) of the northern coastal parts of the North Atlantic Ocean that has a triangular bill with a broad red or yellow tip sounds like—buffoon, coffin, elfin, fin, muffin

  3. PU4 — a monetary subunit of the afghani

  4. PU4 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to draw out by force or with effort; to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure synonyms—drag, draw, hale, haul, lug sounds like—bull, full, pail, pal, pale

  5. PU4 — to cause to become a **y mass synonyms—crush, mash, squash sounds like—gulp

  6. PU4 — as in larva, nymph synonyms—larva, naiad, nymph sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop

  7. PU5 — an intermediate usually quiescent stage of a metamorphic insect (such as a bee, moth, or beetle) that occurs between the larva and the imago, is usually enclosed in a cocoon or protective covering, and undergoes internal changes by which larval structures are replaced by those typical of the imago sounds like—papal, people, poodle

  8. PU5 — one who attends a school; one who follows the opinions or teachings of another synonyms—scholar, student, acolyte, adherent, convert sounds like—bugle, feudal, fuel, futile, papal

UN

  1. UN5 — to remove a pin from; to loosen, free, or unfasten by or as if by removing a pin sounds like—annoying, appear, nine, onion, pin

apian, appall, fillip, flap, flip, pail, pain, painful, palapa, pall, palp, panini, papa, papal, papilla, pilaf, pill, pinup, pippin, plain, plan, puff, puffin, puli, pull, pulp, pupa, pupal, pupil, unpin