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NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 22 September, 2022

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

Letters: a  d  h  n  o  t  u

  • Total Answers: 24
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AN

  1. AN4 — at or within a short time synonyms—before long, by and by, directly, momentarily, presently sounds like—upon

AU

  1. AU4 — an object of criticism or contention; especially : one that is set up to invite criticism or be easily refuted sounds like—act, and, ante, apt, can't
  2. AU4 — a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels synonyms**mobile, bus, car, horseless carriage, machine sounds like—ought, stow, toe, tow

DA

  1. DA4 — a collection of factual knowledge about something synonyms—facts, information sounds like—donna, dot, dotted
  2. DA5 — to lessen the courage or confidence of synonyms—chill, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dismay sounds like—dent, don't, gaunt, haunt, jaunt

DO

  1. DO6 — a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember; a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest; something that decorates or beautifies synonyms—dingus, doohickey, hickey, thingamabob, thingamajig sounds like—dad

HA

  1. HA4 — a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; a place, space, or direction away from or beyond a central point or line; an arrow-shaped piece on a dial or scale for registering information synonyms—angle, aspect, facet, phase, side sounds like—and, band, canned, hind, honed
  2. HA7 — to give out (something) to appropriate individuals synonyms—administer, allocate, apportion, deal (out), dispense sounds like—bandit, hideout
  3. HA4sounds like—bath
  4. HA5 — a system of physical exercises for the control and perfection of the body that constitutes one of the four chief Hindu disciplines sounds like—bath, gala, gamma
  5. HA5 — to go to or spend time in often synonyms—affect, frequent, habituate, hang (at), resort (to) sounds like—daunt, gaunt, hint, hunt, jaunt

NA

  1. NA4 — a round flat leavened bread especially of the Indian subcontinent sounds like—con, don, han, john, knob
  2. NA4 — nothing sounds like—nod
  3. NA4 — the mother of one's father or mother : grandmother —often used as a form of address sounds like—manna
  4. NA6 — swimming or floating in water sounds like—latent

OA

  1. OA4 — a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something synonyms—pledge, promise, troth, vow, word sounds like—earth, l, ode, ole, owe

TA

  1. TA6 — to mark the skin with (a **); to mark or color (the skin) with **s
  2. TA5 — to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults synonyms—bait, hassle, haze, heckle, needle sounds like—daunt, gaunt, haunt, jaunt, tent
  3. TA4 — stretched with little or no give synonyms—rigid, tense, tight sounds like—fought, naught, ought, sought, teat

TH

  1. TH4 — not including synonyms—apart from, aside from, bar, barring, beside sounds like—ban, can, fan, man, pan
  2. TH4 — to a great degree synonyms—achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully sounds like—bat, cat, chat, fat, hat

TO

  1. TO4 — a person whose behavior is offensive to others synonyms—bastard, beast, bleeder, blighter, boor sounds like—bode, code, goad, load, mode

TU

  1. TU4 — a food made by mixing chopped ** with mayonnaise

UN

  1. UN6 — as in unclasp, give synonyms—drop, give, hand, unclasp, cede

anon, aunt, auto, data, daunt, doodad, hand, handout, hath, hatha, haunt, naan, nada, nana, natant, oath, tattoo, taunt, taut, than, that, toad, tuna, unhand