NYT π CluesβThu. 20 April, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: n a e h m o p
- Total Answers: 48
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AE
- AE4 β a long or seemingly long period of time; age; blue moon; coon's age; cycle sounds like neon
AM
- AM4 β sounds like again, aim, cayenne, den, glen
AN
- AN7 β sounds like adman, ammo, bemoan, intone, known
- 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
AP
- AP6 β sounds like pummel, summon, thiamin
- AP6 β sounds like lemon, oppression, penman
- AP5 β sounds like acne, mania
EN
- EN5 β
HA
- HA6 β to take place; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face; be; befall sounds like apple, ashen, aspen, baron, barren
HE
- HE5 β
HO
- HO9 β sounds like headphone, muffin, omen, showman, telephone
- HO4 β to make sharp or sharper; to make smooth by friction; as in set, home (in on); edge; grind sounds like bone, cone, hen
MA
- MA6 β sounds like famine, salmon
- MA4 β sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
- MA5 β a source of great satisfaction; something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing; delectation; delight; feast
ME
- ME4 β to communicate or convey (as an idea) to the mind; to be of importance; to have in mind as a purpose or goal; denote; express sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
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
- MO4 β
- MO4 β a long or seemingly long period of time; a long or seemingly long period of time; not often; aeon; age sounds like boon, dune, goon, loon, main
NA
- NA4 β sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
- NA4 β a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known; an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings; outward and often deceptive indication; appellation; appellative sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
- NA4 β sounds like manna
- NA4 β sounds like ape, cape, nip, rape, shape
NE
- NE4 β sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
- NE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
- NE4 β sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon
NO
- NO4 β certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
- NO4 β the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known
- NO4 β sounds like cope, dope, gnome, hope, knoll
OM
- OM4 β something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event; augury; auspice; boding; foreboding sounds like ocean, open, showman
OP
- OP4 β to change from a closed to an open position; to make passage through (something) possible by removing obstructions; to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area; unclose; clear sounds like ocean, omen, pun, spun
PA
- PA5 β a formal expression of praise; accolade; citation; commendation; dithyramb sounds like eon, peony, pun
- PA6 β as in sombrero, beret; baseball cap; beret; billycock; biretta
- PA4 β sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
PE
- PE6 β sounds like paean
- PE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
- PE6 β a person who creates a written work; one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts; author; litterateur; pen
- PE6 β a person who creates a written work; one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts; a person who creates a written work; authors; litterateurs
- PE5 β sounds like den, hen, pain, pair, pan
- PE4 β a person who does very hard or dull work; dogsbody; drone; drudge; drudger sounds like neon, paean
PH
- PH6 β sounds like funnel
- PH9 β something extraordinary or surprising; something extraordinary or surprising; cautions; flashes; marvels
- PH10 β something extraordinary or surprising; caution; flash; marvel; miracle
- PH5 β to make a telephone call to; call; dial; ring (up); telephone sounds like bone, cone, fan, fawn, feign
- PH7 β
- PH5 β sounds like fun, fund, funny
PO
- PO7 β
- PO4 β sounds like bony, penny, phoney, phony, tony