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NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 28 August, 2022

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

Letters: h  a  b  e  l  p  t

  • Total Answers: 42
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

  1. AL5 — the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet sounds like—leaf
  2. AL5 — the point at which something begins synonyms—baseline, beginning, birth, commencement, dawn
  3. AL8 — general or basic truths on which other truths or theories can be based synonyms—ABC(s), basics, elements, essentials, fundamentals

AT

  1. AT7 — a person who is trained or skilled in exercises, sports, or games requiring physical strength, agility, or stamina; an animal (such as a horse or a dog) that competes in races or other sporting events or has qualities (such as stamina and agility) suggestive of a human *** sounds like—alley, cleat, delete, earthly, elite

BA

  1. BA4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment synonyms—bang, bash, beat, belt, biff
  2. BA4 — a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste synonyms—alluvion, cataclysm, cataract, deluge, flood
  3. BA5 — to flow along or against; to make wet; to supply with light synonyms—lap, lave, lip, splash, wash

BL

  1. BL4 — language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; the state of being bored synonyms—applesauce, balderdash, baloney, beans, bilge

HA

  1. HA5 — sanctioned by Islamic law; especially : ritually fit for use; selling or serving food ritually fit according to Islamic law
  2. HA4 — enjoying health and vigor synonyms—able-bodied, bouncing, fit, healthy, hearty sounds like—ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  3. HA4 — the entrance room of a building; a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building; a large room or building for enclosed public gatherings synonyms—entranceway, entry, entryway, foyer, **way sounds like—all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  4. HA4 — to bring (something) to a standstill; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to come to an end synonyms—arrest, bring up, catch, check, draw up sounds like—fault, hilt, malt, salt, vault
  5. HA4 — to dislike strongly synonyms—abhor, abominate, despise, detest, execrate sounds like—ate, bait, date, eight, fate
  6. HA8sounds like—capable, horrible, notable, payable, potable
  7. HA4sounds like—bath
  8. HA5 — a system of physical exercises for the control and perfection of the body that constitutes one of the four chief Hindu disciplines sounds like—bath, gala, gamma

HE

  1. HE4 — to restore to a thy condition; to become thy and strong again after illness or weakness; to bring about recovery from synonyms—cure, fix, mend, rehab, rehabilitate sounds like—deal, eel, feel, hail, hall
  2. HE8sounds like—billable, fallible, feasible, gullible, horrible
  3. HE6 — the condition of being sound in body; a state of being or fitness synonyms—fitness, **iness, heartiness, robustness, sap sounds like—wealth
  4. HE4 — a considerable amount; a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another synonyms—abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket sounds like—beep, c**, deep, hip
  5. HE4 — depth of feeling; a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder; a body of officers of the law synonyms—ardency, ardor, emotion, enthusiasm, fervency sounds like—beat, beet, c**, eat, feat
  6. HE8 — to cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree synonyms—hot (up), toast, warm sounds like—feasible, horrible, notable, peaceable, potable
  7. HE5 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops synonyms—campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, lea sounds like—s*, wreath
  8. HE4 — a person whose behavior is offensive to others synonyms—bastard, beast, bleeder, blighter, boor sounds like—deal, eel, feel, hail, hall
  9. HE7 — a small quantity of alcoholic beverage remaining (as in a glass after drinking) sounds like—hilltop
  10. HE4 — the place of punishment for the wicked after death; a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness; a state in which everything is out of order synonyms—Gehenna, Pandemonium, perdition, Tophet, agony sounds like—bell, cell, dell, fell, gel
  11. HE4 — to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; to make more bearable or less severe; to keep from happening by taking action in advance synonyms—abet, aid, assist, back, backstop sounds like—kelp
  12. HE8sounds like—culpable, palpable
  13. HE11 — an athlete who competes in a heptathlon sounds like—athlete

LA

  1. LA4 — a thin narrow strip of wood nailed to rafters, joists, or studding as a groundwork for slates, tiles, or plaster; a building material in sheets used as a base for plaster; a quantity of **s sounds like—bath
  2. LA5 — to cut or shape with a * sounds like—bathe

LE

  1. LE6 — likely to cause or capable of causing death synonyms—baleful, deadly, deathly, fatal, fell

PA

  1. PA4 — the direction along which something or someone moves; a rough course or way formed by or as if by repeated footsteps; an established course for traveling from one place to another synonyms—course, line, **way, route, routeway sounds like—bath, math

PH

  1. PH7sounds like—fable, fabled
  2. PH4 — of the very best kind synonyms—A-OK, A1, awesome, bang-up, banner sounds like—bat, cat, chat, fact, fad

TE

  1. TE5 — as in desires, tastes synonyms—appetites, fancies, favors, likes, likings sounds like—heath, sheath
  2. TE6 — to experience the emergence of one's teeth through the gums sounds like—seethe, tier
  3. TE10 — health care provided remotely to a patient in a separate location using two-way voice and visual communication (as by computer or cell phone) : telemedicine —often used before another noun sounds like—carousel, health, jealously, lapel, parallel
  4. TE8 — as in mentalist, clairvoyant synonyms—clairvoyant, mentalist, mind reader, sensitive, channel sounds like—tulip

TH

  1. TH4 — to a great degree synonyms—achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully sounds like—bat, cat, chat, fat, hat
  2. TH4 — the utmost degree; a state of perfection sounds like—bee, earthy, fee, gee, key
  3. TH5 — a relatively high amplitude brain wave pattern between approximately four and nine hertz that is characteristic especially of the hippocampus —called also * wave sounds like—cheetah

aleph, alpha, alphabet, athlete, baht, bath, bathe, blah, halal, hale, hall, halt, hate, hateable, hath, hatha, heal, healable, health, heap, heat, heatable, heath, heel, heeltap, hell, help, helpable, heptathlete, lath, lathe, lethal, path, phablet, phat, teeth, teethe, telehealth, telepath, that, thee, theta