NYT π CluesβSun. 3 September, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: a h l m n o r
- Total Answers: 46
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AL
- AL5 β suspicion or fear of future harm or misfortune; the act or an instance of telling beforehand of danger or risk; the emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger; apprehension; apprehensiveness
- AL5 β sounds like ultra
AM
- AM4 β sounds like arrow, mow
- AM6 β sounds like immoral, moral
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
- 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
- AR5 β means or method of defending; something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; as in ensheathe, encapsulate; aegis; ammunition sounds like charmer, farmer
- AR5 β a sweet or pleasant smell; the quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose; a special quality or impression associated with something; attar; balm sounds like coma, soma
HA
- HA5 β
- HA4 β 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; entranceway; entry sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
- HA4 β a special quality or impression associated with something; an artistic rendering of radiant light around the head or body of a sacred personage; as in enhalo; air; ambience sounds like hello, hollow
- HA5 β sounds like cram, dram, gram, ram
- HA4 β something that causes loss or pain; to cause bodily damage to; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; affliction; damage sounds like arm, c**, farm, heart, hearth
HO
- HO4 β dating or surviving from the distant past; a covering of tiny ice crystals on a cold surface; age-old; aged; ancient sounds like hall, haul, hauler, hawk, hawker
- HO6 β as in hail, huzzah; bravo; hail; hallelujah; hosanna sounds like hurrah
- HO4 β sounds like aura, whore
- HO5 β sounds like aural, c*, coral, laurel, moral
- HO8 β
LA
- LA4 β sounds like comma, mama
LL
- LL5 β sounds like comma, lava, mama
- 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 a type of soil that is good for growing plants; humus; topsoil; clod; dirt sounds like comb, dome, foam, gnome, home
- 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
MA
- MA4 β a public place for strolling; boardwalk; promenade; walk sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
- MA4 β a female human parent; as in boy, kid; as in boys, kids; ma; mammy sounds like comma, mom
- MA5 β a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mom
- MA6 β sounds like camel
- MA6 β sounds like famine, salmon
- MA5 β a source of great satisfaction; something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing; delectation; delight; feast
- MA5 β a large impressive residence; a large impressive residence; a large impressive residence; castle; chΓ’teau sounds like banner, meaner, miner, minor
- MA4 β sounds like arm, charm, farm, harm
- MA6 β to cause to remain behind; abandon; desert; forsake; leave sounds like moon, moraine
MO
- MO4 β a long low sound indicating pain or grief; a crying out in grief; an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; groan; wail sounds like bone, cone, hone, known, loan
- MO5 β sounds like mauler, polar, roller, solar
- MO5 β a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mana
- MO5 β 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; bread; bucks; cabbage; cash sounds like mullah
- MO6 β 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; bread; bucks; cabbage; cash sounds like mullah
- MO5 β conforming to a high standard of morality or virtue; guided by or in accordance with one's sense of right and wrong; as in value, norm; all right; decent sounds like a*, aural, choral, coral, im*
NA
- NA4 β sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
- NA4 β sounds like manna
NO
- NO6 β being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events; having full use of one's mind and control over one's actions; having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind; average; common sounds like formal
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 move about from place to place aimlessly; bat; cruise; drift; float sounds like chrome, comb, dome, foam, gnome
- RO4 β as in blotchy, piebald; as in palomino, chestnut; blotched; blotchy; piebald sounds like bone, cone, crone, drone, g**
- RO4 β a violent shouting; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; clamor; howl sounds like boar, bore, chore, core, door