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• Total Answers: 48
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AN

1. AN4 — extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise synonyms—**-retentive, obsessive, adamant, adamantine, bullheaded sounds like—addle, agile, apple, channel, null
2. 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
3. AN5 — sounds like—addle, agile, apple, channel, null
4. AN5 — to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts synonyms—aggravate, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe
5. AN4 — at or within a short time synonyms—before long, by and by, directly, momentarily, presently sounds like—upon

AT

6. AT6 — as in off-key, tuneless synonyms—off-key, tuneless, disagreeable, unpleasant, unpleasing sounds like—tonal
7. AT8 — marked by avoidance of traditional musical tonality; especially : organized without reference to key or tonal center and using the tones of the chromatic scale impartially sounds like—anomaly, autonomy, eternally

BA

8. BA6 — a ** (Papio hamadryas) that has a reddish-pink muzzle and a large bare patch of pink skin on each buttock and that was venerated by the ancient Egyptians —called also sacred ** sounds like—buffoon
9. BA7 — to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number; to extend outward beyond a usual point synonyms—accelerate, accumulate, appreciate, boom, build up sounds like—buffoon, saloon
10. BA5 — lacking in qualities that make for spirit and character; used or heard so often as to be dull synonyms—flat, insipid, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, watery sounds like—bizarre, bubble, buckle, bun, bunch
11. BA7 — lacking in qualities that make for spirit and character; used or heard so often as to be dull synonyms—flat, insipid, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, watery sounds like—bluntly, bodily, bubble, bubbly, buckle
12. BA6 — as in comedian, wit synonyms—comedian, comedienne, comic, droll, farceur sounds like—bonanza
13. BA6 — a large fig tree (Ficus benghalensis) native to India and Pakistan that starts as an epiphyte and has spreading branches which send out aerial roots that grow down to the ground and form secondary trunks around the host tree sounds like—canyon
14. BA5 — a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment synonyms—bastinado, bat, billy, billy club, bludgeon sounds like—button

BL

15. BL7 — engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest; very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad synonyms—caterwauling, clamant, clamorous, obstreperous, squawking sounds like—latent
16. BL9 — as in loudly, vociferously synonyms—bloody murder, boisterously, clamorously, loudly, lustily

BO

17. BO6 — a candy with chocolate or fondant coating and fondant center that sometimes contains fruits and nuts; something that is pleasing in a light or frivolous way sounds like—bargain, carbon, robin
18. BO5 — of the very best kind; very pleasing to look at synonyms—A-OK, A1, awesome, bang-up, banner sounds like—balmy, bunny
19. BO6 — a rare anthropoid ape (Pan paniscus) that has a more slender build and longer limbs than the related common chimpanzee (P. troglodytes) and that inhabits a small geographic region in equatorial Africa south of the Congo River —called also pygmy chimpanzee sounds like—banjo, barb, barbed, barber, barrio
20. BO4 — having a noticeably small amount of body fat; producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation synonyms—fatless, lean, lithe, skinny, slender sounds like—bunny, phoney, phony, pony, tony
21. BO4 — likely to seek or enjoy the company of others synonyms—clubbable, clubby, companionable, convivial, extroverted sounds like—ban, bane, bean, been, bin
22. BO6 — a branch of biology dealing with plant life; plant life; the properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group sounds like—beaten, bitten, bunny, button, colony

LA

23. LA7 — any of a genus (***) of tropical shrubs or perennial herbs of the vervain family with showy heads of small bright flowers sounds like—antenna

LL

24. LL5 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country synonyms—campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath sounds like—blond, blonde, bond, borrow, capo

LO

25. LO4 — as in advance synonyms—advance, bribe, douceur, peace offering, sop sounds like—alone, blown, bone, clone, clones
26. LO4 — one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person synonyms—bug, crackbrain, crazy, fool, fruitcake sounds like—boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
27. LO5 — one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind synonyms—bug, crackbrain, crazy, fool, fruitcake sounds like—lucy, lunar

NA

28. NA4 — a round flat leavened bread especially of the Indian subcontinent sounds like—con, don, han, john, knob
29. NA5 — one of high position or importance within a group synonyms—big, big boy, big cheese, big gun, big leaguer sounds like—abbot, babble, cabin, dabble, habit
30. NA4 — the mother of one's father or mother : grandmother —often used as a form of address sounds like—manna
31. 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
32. NA7 — a microscopically small robot : a robot built on the scale of nanometers sounds like—cannot, robot
33. NA5 — a document describing all of the possible astrological influences on a subject based on the precise time and place of the subject's birth —called also * chart sounds like—fatal, nettle
34. NA6 — swimming or floating in water sounds like—latent
35. NA5 — being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance synonyms—dapper, sharp, smart, snappy, spruce sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, knotty, nutty

NO

36. NO5 — in a manner befitting a person of the highest character and ideals synonyms—gallantly, grandly, greatheartedly, greatly, heroically sounds like—awfully, barley, bobby, bubbly, calmly
37. NO4 — a person who has recently started a particular activity : newbie sounds like—knew, knob, lube, nab, new
38. NO4 — the middle of the day; the highest part or point synonyms—high , lunch time, midday, day, **tide sounds like—boon, dune, goon, knew, known
39. NO7 — in regard to something mentioned explicitly or in detail synonyms—especially, particularly, specially, specifically sounds like—nattily, suitably, totally

NY

40. NY5 — any of numerous strong tough elastic synthetic polyamide materials that are fashioned into fibers, filaments, bristles, or sheets and used especially in textiles and plastics; stockings made of * sounds like—pylon

ON

41. ON5 — sounds like—inlay
42. ON4 — for nothing other than; not long ago; nothing more than synonyms—alone, exclusively, just, purely, simply sounds like—lonely
43. ON4 — as in hit (upon), pitch (upon) synonyms—chance (upon), encounter, find, happen (on or upon), hit (upon) sounds like—into, unto

TA

44. TA5 — the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey; a finger or hand of a human being; a part or object shaped like or suggestive of a heel or claw: such as sounds like—salon

TO

45. TO5 — as in orchestral, harmonic synonyms—chordal, harmonic, homophonic, orchestral, polyphonic sounds like—a*, tunnel
46. TO7 — of or relating to tone, tonality, or tonicity; having tonality sounds like—autonomy, bodily, eternally, finally, fondly
47. TO4 — 1953— Anthony Charles Lynton Blair British prime minister (1997—2007) sounds like—bony, phoney, phony, pony, s
48. TO4 — a lower limb of an animal; a portion of a trip synonyms—pin, lap, stage sounds like—attune, boon, dune, goon, loon