NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 9 October, 2022

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

Letters: y  a  e  l  n  p  t

  • Total Answers: 47
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AL

  1. AL5 — to make more bearable or less severe synonyms—alleviate, assuage, ease, help, mitigate sounds like—away, clay, fillet, lay, play
  2. AL5 — a narrow passage between buildings synonyms—*way, arterial, artery, avenue, boulevard sounds like—abbey, assay, dally, early, flea
  3. AL4 — someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support synonyms—abettor, backer, bedfellow, confederate, fellow traveler sounds like—fly, lie, lye, ply, sleigh

AN

  1. AN6 — of, relating to, situated near, or involving the anus; of, relating to, characterized by, or being the stage of psychosexual development which follows the oral stage and during which the child is concerned especially with his or her feces; of, relating to, characterized by, or being personality traits (such as parsimony, meticulousness, and ill humor) considered typical of fixation at the anal stage of development : anal-retentive —often used in nontechnical contexts to describe someone as extremely or excessively neat, careful, or precise

AP

  1. AP7 — being more than enough without being excessive synonyms—abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, comfortable sounds like—plenty
  2. AP5 — to have a relation or connection; to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention; to put a layer of on a surface synonyms—appertain, bear, pertain, refer, relate sounds like—ply, supply
  3. AP5 — as in fluently synonyms—fluently, ably, adeptly, adroitly, artfully sounds like—alley, amply, ante, antsy, curtly

EE

  1. EE4 — any of numerous voracious elongate snakelike bony fishes (order Anguilliformes) that have a smooth slimy skin, lack pelvic fins, and have the median fins confluent around the tail; any of numerous other elongate fishes (as of the order Synbranchiformes); any of various nematodes (such as the vinegar eel) sounds like—alley, early, easy, flea, flee

EY

  1. EY6 — a small hole designed to receive a cord or used for decoration (as in embroidery); a small typically metal ring to reinforce an ** : grommet; peephole, loophole sounds like—glut, pilot

LA

  1. LA6 — not long ago synonyms—freshly, just, late, new, newly sounds like—lightly
  2. LA8 — not being in a state of use, activity, or employment synonyms—dead, dormant, fallow, free, idle sounds like—blatantly
  3. LA7 — a complete outfit of clothing and equipment for a newborn infant sounds like—let

LE

  1. LE6 — having a noticeably small amount of body fat synonyms—bony, fatless, lithe, skinny, slender sounds like—c**, keenly, lonely

NA

  1. NA5 — a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children synonyms—babysitter, dry nurse, nurse, nursemaid, nurser sounds like—canny, fanny
  2. NA5 — being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance synonyms—dapper, sharp, smart, snappy, spruce sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, knotty, nutty

NE

  1. NE6 — as in tidily, orderly synonyms—orderly, tidily, trimly, dashingly, nattily sounds like—knightly, nightly
  2. NE5 — a fabric made of strands loosely twisted, knotted, or woven together at regular intervals; a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise; something that catches and holds synonyms—mesh, netting, network, ambush, snare sounds like—jetty, knotty, nary, natty, naughty

PA

  1. PA6 — lacking intensity of color; lacking a healthy skin color; not seen or understood clearly synonyms—dull, dulled, faded, light, pastel sounds like—bubbly, bulky, comely, cuddly, doubly
  2. PA5 — a raid on a women's dormitory by college men usually to obtain panties as trophies sounds like—ante, pointy, shanty
  3. PA7 — of or relating to a pope or to the Roman Catholic Church; also : resembling a pope or that of a pope sounds like—bodily, happily, people, policy, polity
  4. PA6 — a tropical American tree (Carica ** of the family Caricaceae, the ** family) having an oblong to globose yellow edible fruit with numerous black seeds in a central cavity; also : its fruit sounds like—pecan, pup, puppet, puppy, upon
  5. PA5 — papa sounds like—happy, peppy, poppy, puppy
  6. PA8 — as in clearly, obviously synonyms—clearly, distinctly, evidently, manifestly, obviously
  7. PA5 —
  8. PA5 — a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried synonyms—cake, croquette, cutlet, fritter, galette sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, natty
  9. PA5 — one to whom money is or is to be paid

PE

  1. PE5 — a bold lively woman sounds like—meaty, patty, pity, potty, putty
  2. PE7 — inflicting, involving, or serving as punishment synonyms—castigating, chastening, chastising, correcting, correctional
  3. PE7 — a sum of money to be paid as a punishment; suffering, loss, or hardship imposed in response to a crime or offense; the negative result caused by something that creates difficulty for achieving success synonyms—damages, fine, forfeit, forfeiture, mulct sounds like—parity, specialty
  4. PE5 — a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money synonyms—cheapskate, churl, hunks, miser, niggard sounds like—any, many, parry, pony
  5. PE5 — having active strength of body or mind; having much high-spirited energy and movement synonyms—dynamic, energetic, flush, gingery, lusty sounds like—parry, poppy, preppie, preppy, puppy
  6. PE5 — not broad or open in views or opinions; so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention synonyms—illiberal, insular, Lilliputian, little, narrow sounds like—jetty, parry, patty, pity, potty

PL

  1. PL4 — to engage in activity for amusement; to present a portrayal or performance of; to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior synonyms—dally, disport, frolic, recreate, rollick sounds like—allay, clay, lay, pay
  2. PL7 — as in interlude synonyms—interlude, drama, dramatization, play, comedy sounds like—palate, palest, palette, pallet, pellet
  3. PL7 — a portable usually collapsible enclosure in which a baby or young child may play —called also play yard
  4. PL6 — an amount or supply more than sufficient to meet one's needs; a considerable amount synonyms—abundance, cornucopia, feast, plenitude, plentitude sounds like—a**

TA

  1. TA5 — a total number obtained or recorded by noting each thing as it was being added synonyms—census, count, tale sounds like—alley, dally, galley, rally, sally
  2. TA5 — showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect synonyms—beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TE

  1. TE5 — very small in size synonyms—atomic, bitsy, bitty, infinitesimal, itty-bitty sounds like—genie, tinny, tiny, tony, tourney
  2. TE8 — a story prepared for television production sounds like—jealously, tulip
  3. TE8 — a printing device resembling a typewriter that is used to send and receive telephonic signals —formerly a U.S. registered trademark—called also **writer; a message sent by a ** machine

TY

  1. TY4 — a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common; one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic synonyms—breed, class, description, feather, genre sounds like—hype, pipe, ripe, tap, tape

YA

  1. YA5 — sounds like—happy, yuppie

YE

  1. YE4 — to cry out loudly and emotionally; to speak so as to be heard at a distance synonyms—howl, scream, screech, shriek, shrill sounds like—bell, cell, dell, fell, gel
  2. YE4 — to cry out loudly and emotionally synonyms—howl, scream, screech, shriek, shrill sounds like—help, kelp
  3. YE5 — a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others synonyms—circulator, gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger sounds like—bent, cent, center, centre, centum
  4. YE5 — sounds like—ante, any, bent, bounty, cent

allay, alley, ally, anally, aplenty, apply, aptly, eely, eyelet, lately, latently, layette, leanly, nanny, natty, neatly, netty, palely, panty, papally, papaya, pappy, patently, patly, patty, payee, peaty, penally, penalty, penny, peppy, petty, play, playlet, playpen, plenty, tally, tatty, teeny, teleplay, teletype, type, yappy, yell, yelp, yenta, yente