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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sun. 5 March, 2023

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

Letters: a  g  h  l  o  t  u

  • Total Answers: 40
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AG

  1. AG4 β€” having or showing signs of eagerly awaiting something; showing urgent desire or interest; agape; anticipant; anticipatory sounds like afar, ajar, allot, atop, awash

AL

  1. AL4 β€”
  2. AL5 β€” sounds like angle
  3. AL5 β€” to give as a share or portion; allocate; allow; apportion; assign sounds like blot, clot, lat, lot, plot
  4. AL5 β€” sounds like ultra
  5. AL8 β€” in spite of the fact that; albeit; as; howbeit; much as
  6. AL4 β€” sounds like act, actor, after

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

AU

  1. AU5 β€” the numerical symbol 0 or the absence of number or quantity represented by it; cipher; goose egg; naught; nil sounds like all, ate, awed, eat, eight
  2. AU4 β€” a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels; automobile; bus; car; horseless carriage sounds like ought, stow, toe, tow

GA

  1. GA4 β€” having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; filled with an intense or excessive love for; balmy; barmy; bats sounds like goggle, saga
  2. GA4 β€” a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something; carnival; celebration; fest; festival
  3. GA4 β€” a deep-seated ill will; shameless boldness; to damage or diminish by continued friction; animosity; animus sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  4. GA6 β€” an adult male human being; bastard; bloke; buck; cat sounds like ballot, dilute, flute

GL

  1. GL5 β€” to show in an improper or selfish way that you are happy with your own success or another person's failure; preen; swell; crow; delight sounds like bloat, float, goat
  2. GL7 β€” as in velar, uvular; uvular; velar; choked; cracked sounds like bottle, clotted, gobble, goggle, gotten

GO

  1. GO4 β€” something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; aim; ambition; aspiration; bourne sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
  2. GO4 β€” a person or thing taking the blame for others; to take sudden, violent action against; to start work on energetically; fall guy; scapegoat sounds like boat, coat, gait, gate, gauche
  3. GO5 β€”

GU

  1. GU5 β€” as in concentration camp, stalag; concentration camp; labor camp; prison camp; stalag sounds like flag, gag, ghoulish, glad, glass

HA

  1. HA5 β€”
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. HA4 β€” to bring (something) to a standstill; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to come to an end; arrest; bring up sounds like fault, hilt, malt, salt, vault
  5. HA4 β€” sounds like bath
  6. HA5 β€” sounds like bath, gala, gamma
  7. HA4 β€” to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to support and take from one place to another; the total amount collected or obtained especially at one time; drag; draw sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

HU

  1. HU4 β€” sounds like cholla, cola, cool, cooled, cooler

LA

  1. LA4 β€” sounds like bath
  2. LA5 β€” to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; to express scornful amusement by means of facial contortions; an explosive sound that is a sign of amusement; break up; cackle sounds like calf, chaff, gaffe, half

LO

  1. LO5 β€” slow to begin or proceed with a course of action because of doubts or uncertainty; cagey; disinclined; dubious; hesitant

LU

  1. LU4 β€” as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose

OA

  1. OA4 β€” a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something; pledge; promise; troth; vow sounds like earth, l**, ode, ole, owe

TA

  1. 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
  2. TA6 β€”
  3. TA6 β€” as in trained, schooled; to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field; to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field; knowledgeable; schooled sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat
  4. TA4 β€” stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat

TH

  1. TH4 β€” to a great degree; as in other, far; to the degree that; achingly; almighty sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, hat

TO

  1. TO4 β€” sounds like yoga
  2. 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

agog, alga, algal, allot, aloha, although, alto, atoll, aught, auto, gaga, gala, gall, galoot, gloat, glottal, goal, goat, gotta, gulag, halal, hall, halo, halt, hath, hatha, haul, hula, lath, laugh, loath, luau, oath, tall, tattoo, taught, taut, that, toga, total