NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 22 December, 2022

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

Letters: a  g  l  m  o  p  y

  • Total Answers: 60
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AG

  1. AG4 — having or showing signs of eagerly awaiting something; showing urgent desire or interest synonyms—agape, anticipant, anticipatory, expectant, antsy sounds like—afar, ajar, allot, atop, awash

AL

  1. AL4 — a plant or plantlike organism of any of several phyla, divisions, or classes of chiefly aquatic usually chlorophyll-containing nonvascular organisms of polyphyletic origin that usually include the green, yellow-green, brown, and red **e in the eukaryotes and especially formerly the cyanobacteria in the prokaryotes

  2. AL5 — a plant or plantlike organism of any of several phyla, divisions, or classes of chiefly aquatic usually chlorophyll-containing nonvascular organisms of polyphyletic origin that usually include the green, yellow-green, brown, and red algae in the eukaryotes and especially formerly the cyanobacteria in the prokaryotes sounds like—angle

  3. AL5 — to make more bearable or less severe synonyms—alleviate, assuage, ease, help, mitigate sounds like—away, clay, fillet, lay, play

  4. AL5 — a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things synonyms—admixture, amalgam, amalgamation, blend, cocktail sounds like—cloy, ploy

  5. 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

AM

  1. AM7 — a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things synonyms—admixture, alloy, ***ation, blend, cocktail

  2. AM4 — ammunition sounds like—arrow, mow

  3. AM5 — in a generous manner synonyms—bounteously, bountifully, freehandedly, freeheartedly, generously sounds like—alley, cheaply, deeply, employ, employee

  4. AM4 — a colorless liquid acetate C7H14O2 of ** alcohol that has a pleasant fruity odor and is used especially as a solvent and in the manufacture of artificial fruit essences —called also banana oil sounds like—mill

AP

  1. AP7 — an explanation that frees one from fault or blame synonyms—alibi, defense, excuse, justification, plea sounds like—analogy, biology, ecology, geology, mythology

  2. AP6 — to cause an unpleasant surprise for synonyms—floor, jolt, shake up, shock

  3. 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

GA

  1. GA4 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind synonyms—balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bedlam sounds like—goggle, saga

  2. GA4 — a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something synonyms—carnival, celebration, fest, festival, festivity

  3. GA4 — a deep-seated ill will; shameless boldness synonyms—animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, bad blood sounds like—all, ball, bawl, call, fall

  4. GA6 — to go at a pace faster than a walk synonyms—dash, jog, run, scamper, sprint

  5. GA5 — a lively dance in duple measure; also : the music of a *

  6. GA5 — a camera that detects the radiation from a radioactive tracer injected into the body and is used especially in medical diagnostic scanning

  7. GA4 — hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent synonyms—bawdy, blue, lewd, off, off-color sounds like—gummy

  8. GA5 — in a cheerful or happy manner; in a quick and spirited manner; in a manner that is colorful and tends to arouse gaiety synonyms—brightly, cheerfully, cheerily, happily, heartily sounds like—daily, girlie, glee, golly, gulley

GL

  1. GL4 — to make (someone or something) orous or more orous —usually used with up —sometimes used with out sounds like—clam, gram, lamb

GO

  1. GO4 — something that one hopes or intends to accomplish synonyms—aim, ambition, aspiration, bourne, design sounds like—boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

LA

  1. LA5 — having a delayed or slow response (as to a user's input) : marked or affected by lag sounds like—baggy, leggy, shaggy

  2. LA8 — to move or act slowly synonyms—crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, delay sounds like—afghan, alley, alleyway, ballyhoo, beleaguer

  3. LA4 — 1935— Tenzin Gyatso Tibetan religious and political leader sounds like—comma, mama

  4. LA4 — something that provides illumination synonyms—beacon, illuminant, light sounds like—camp, champ, c, damp, limp

LL

  1. LL5 — any of a genus (Lama) of wild or domesticated, long-necked, South American ruminant mammals related to the camels but smaller and without a hump; especially : a domesticated * (L. glama) descended from the guanaco and used especially in the Andes as a pack animal and a source of wool sounds like—comma, lava, mama

LO

  1. LO4 — a type of soil that is good for growing plants synonyms—humus, topsoil, clod, dirt, earth sounds like—comb, dome, foam, gnome, home

  2. LO5 — consisting or suggestive of earth synonyms—earthlike, earthy sounds like—foamy, homey

  3. LO8 — to move or act slowly synonyms—crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, delay sounds like—colleague

  4. LO5 — firm in one's allegiance to someone or something synonyms—constant, dedicated, devoted, devout, down-the-line sounds like—lull, royal

  5. LO7 — firm in one's allegiance to someone or something synonyms—constant, dedicated, devoted, devout, down-the-line

MA

  1. MA5 — dregs, sediment; a thin pasty suspension (as of a precipitate in water); molten rock material within the earth from which igneous rock results by cooling sounds like—alma, asthma, dogma, gamma

  2. MA4 — a public place for strolling synonyms—boardwalk, promenade, walk sounds like—all, ball, bawl, call, fall

  3. MA4 — a female human parent synonyms—ma, mammy, mater, mom, mommy sounds like—comma, mom

  4. MA5 — a female human parent synonyms—ma, mammy, mater, mom, mommy sounds like—comma, mom

  5. MA6 — any of a class (**ia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans sounds like—camel

  6. MA9 — a branch of zoology dealing with mammals sounds like—metallurgy, mycology, mythology, nominally

  7. MA4 — Charles Horace 1865—1939 and his brother William James 1861—1939 American surgeons sounds like—kayo

MO

  1. MO5 — a female human parent synonyms—ma, mammy, mater, mom, mommy sounds like—comma, mana

  2. MO5 — 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 synonyms—bread, bucks, cabbage, cash, change sounds like—mullah

OP

  1. OP4 — a usually amorphous mineral that is a hydrated silica softer and less dense than quartz and typically with definite and often marked iridescent play of colors and is used especially as a gem sounds like—apple, ogle, oval

PA

  1. PA6 — sounds like—plaza, plop

  2. PA4 — a boxlike container for holding a dead body; an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom; something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth synonyms—bier, box, casket, coffin, sarcophagus sounds like—doll, loll, peal, pearl, peel

  3. PA4 — an instance of defeating an enemy or opponent synonyms—triumph, victory, win sounds like—balm, bomb, calm, mom, pod

  4. PA5 — having attained a desired end or state of good fortune; marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically synonyms—flourishing, going, prosperous, successful, thriving sounds like—algae, alley, alma, calorie, dally

  5. PA4 — as in ate synonyms—ate, feel, touch, brush, graze sounds like—pulp

  6. PA5 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country synonyms—campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath

  7. PA4 — a male human parent synonyms—dad, daddy, father, old man, pa sounds like—pop, poppy

  8. PA5 — as in priestly, apostolic synonyms—apostolic, canonical, clerical, episcopal, evangelical sounds like—maple, people, purple

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. PA5 — papa sounds like—happy, peppy, poppy, puppy

  12. PA6 — undercover or indirect payment (as to a disc jockey) for a commercial favor (as for promoting a particular recording) sounds like—cola, polar, pole

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

PO

  1. PO8 — the state or practice of being married to more than one person at the same time synonyms—bigamy, polyandry, polyamory, polygyny, conjugality

  2. PO5 — a male human parent synonyms—dad, daddy, father, old man, pa

YA

  1. YA5 — sounds like—happy, yuppie

YO

  1. YO4 — a Hindu theistic philosophy teaching the suppression of all activity of body, mind, and will in order that the self may realize its distinction from them and attain liberation; a system of physical postures, breathing techniques, and sometimes meditation derived from ** but often practiced independently especially in Western cultures to promote physical and emotional well-being sounds like—toga

agog, alga, algal, allay, alloy, ally, amalgam, ammo, amply, amyl, apology, appall, apply, gaga, gala, gall, gallop, galop, gamma, gamy, gayly, glam, goal, laggy, lallygag, lama, lamp, llama, loam, loamy, lollygag, loyal, loyally, magma, mall, mama, mamma, mammal, mammalogy, mayo, momma, moola, opal, palapa, pall, palm, palmy, palp, pampa, papa, papal, papally, papaya, pappy, payola, play, polygamy, poppa, yappy, yoga