NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 28 July, 2022

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

Letters: n  a  c  e  h  l  v

  • Total Answers: 40
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

  1. AC4 — a chronic inflammatory skin disorder typically involving the nose, forehead, and chin that is characterized especially by redness, flushing, telangiectasia, inflamed lesions, and burning sensation, and sometimes by eye dryness and irritation and thickening of tissues especially of the nose —called also rosacea sounds like—abbey, agony, algae, alley, and

AN

  1. AN4 — extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise synonyms—-retentive, obsessive, adamant, adamantine, bullheaded sounds like—addle, agile, apple, channel, null

  2. AN5 — sounds like—addle, agile, apple, channel, null

  3. AN6 — to make stronger (as through hardship) synonyms—temper, fortify, harden, indurate, inure sounds like—aunt

AV

  1. AV9 — a large mass especially of snow, ice, dirt, or rocks descending from a high place; a sudden large amount of something that overwhelms synonyms—landslide, mudslide, slide, snowslide, burst sounds like—abalone, blanche, overland

CA

  1. CA5 — an open man-made passageway for water synonyms—aqueduct, channel, conduit, course, flume sounds like—banal, colonel, conceal, concur, confer

  2. CA6 — a woman's dance of French origin characterized by high kicking usually while holding up the front of a full ruffled skirt sounds like—common, concave, condom

  3. CA6 — to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to); to put an end to by formal action; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it synonyms—abandon, abort, call, call off, cry off sounds like—consul, council, counsel

  4. CA4 — a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment synonyms—bastinado, bat, baton, billy, billy club sounds like—arraign, bane, chain

  5. CA5 — any of a genus (* of the family *ceae) of tropical herbs with simple stems, large leaves, and a terminal raceme of irregular flowers sounds like—manna

CH

  1. CH6 — the uncertain course of events; a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place; a measure of how often an event will occur instead of another synonyms—accident, casualty, circumstance, hap, hazard sounds like—dance, lance

  2. CH7 — the part of a church containing the altar and seats for the clergy and choir sounds like—cancel

  3. CH7 — an open man-made passageway for water; a narrow body of water between two land masses; a direct way of passing along information or supplies synonyms—aqueduct, canal, conduit, course, flume sounds like—annul, panel

CL

  1. CL4 — a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; a group of persons who come from the same ancestor synonyms—body, bunch, circle, clique, community sounds like—can

  2. CL5 — free from dirt or stain; following or according to the rules; free from any trace of the coarse or indecent synonyms—antiseptic, chaste, fair, immaculate, pristine sounds like—careen, glean, keen

  3. CL6 — the act or manner of holding synonyms—clasp, grapple, grasp, grip, handgrip sounds like—quench

EL

  1. EL4 — as in passion, ardor synonyms—ardor, fervor, fire, passion, zeal sounds like—align, alone, oven, sullen

  2. EL6 — a number that is one more than 10; the 11th in a set or series; something having 11 units or members; especially : a football team sounds like—leaven

EN

  1. EN7 — an area with people who are different in some way from the people in the areas around it synonyms—barrio, ghetto, hood, district, nabe sounds like—conclave

  2. EN7 — to make better; to make markedly greater in measure or degree; to make more desirable synonyms—ameliorate, amend, better, enrich, help

  3. EN6 — to cause to twine about one another synonyms—entwine, implicate, interlace, intertwine, intertwist sounds like—unless

EV

  1. EV4 — not merely this but also; to a full extent or degree synonyms—indeed, nay, truly, verily, yea sounds like—been, bin, chin, din, easing

HA

  1. HA5 — a part of a body of water protected and deep enough to be a place of safety for ships; something (as a building) that offers cover from the weather or protection from danger synonyms—anchorage, harbor, harborage, port, asylum sounds like—heaven, maven, s*

HE

  1. HE6 — a dwelling place of perfect happiness for the soul after death; an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness; a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion synonyms—above, bliss, elysian fields, Elysium, empyrean sounds like—haven, leaven, seven

  2. HE5 — for this or that reason; from this or that place synonyms—accordingly, consequently, ergo, so, therefore sounds like—dense, fence, pence, sense, tense

  3. HE5 — to dye with *

LA

  1. LA5 — a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade synonyms—javelin, pike, pikestaff, shaft, spear sounds like—chance, dance, g*

  2. LA4 — as in byway, way synonyms—bypath, byway, way, approach, avenue sounds like—arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

LE

  1. LE4 — to set or cause to be at an angle; to show a liking or proneness (for something); to place reliance or trust synonyms—angle, cant, cock, heel, incline sounds like—bean, c, dean, gene, g

  2. LE6 — as in enliven, invigorate synonyms—animate, charge, enliven, invigorate, endue sounds like—eleven, heaven, seven

NA

  1. NA4 — a round flat leavened bread especially of the Indian subcontinent sounds like—con, don, han, john, knob

  2. NA4 — the mother of one's father or mother : grandmother — often used as a form of address sounds like—manna

  3. NA5 — of or relating to a country's navy synonyms—GI, gladiatorial, mercenary, soldierly, martial sounds like—novel

  4. NA4 — the hub of a wheel sounds like—cave, gave, nerve, pave, rave

  5. NA5 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest synonyms—axis, base, capital, center, central sounds like—novel

NE

  1. NE4 — an endangered goose (Branta sandvicensis synonym Nesochen sandvicensis) of the Hawaiian Islands that usually inhabits waterless uplands and feeds on berries and vegetation sounds like—bean, dean, gene, keen, knead

VA

  1. VA7 — a drapery hung along the edge of a bed, table, altar, canopy, or shelf; a short drapery or wood or metal frame used as a decorative heading to conceal the top of curtains and fixtures sounds like—balance, colony, fallen, parlance, pollen

  2. VA7 — a single electron or one of two or more electrons in the outer shell of an atom that is responsible for the chemical properties of the atom sounds like—balance

  3. VA4 — Sir Henry 1613—1662 the Younger English statesman sounds like—arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

VE

  1. VE5 — open to improper influence and especially bribery synonyms—bribable, corruptible, dirty, purchasable sounds like—penal, renal, vinyl

acne, anal, annal, anneal, avalanche, canal, cancan, cancel, cane, canna, chance, chancel, channel, clan, clean, clench, elan, eleven, enclave, enhance, enlace, even, haven, heaven, hence, henna, lance, lane, lean, leaven, naan, nana, naval, nave, navel, nene, valance, valence, vane, venal