NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 3 November, 2022

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

Letters: u  a  l  n  o  p  r

  • Total Answers: 33
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AN

  1. AN6 — occurring once every year synonyms—yearly, bimonthly, biweekly, daily, monthly sounds like—manual

  2. AN5 — to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective; to put an end to by formal action synonyms—cancel (out), compensate (for), correct, counteract, counterbalance sounds like—addle, agile, apple, channel, null

  3. AN7 — as in circular, discoidal synonyms—circular, disciform, discoid, discoidal, disklike

AU

  1. AU4 — a special quality or impression associated with something; a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings synonyms—air, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, climate sounds like—era, oral, orb, ore

  2. AU5 — of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing synonyms—acoustic, audial, audile, auditory, auricular sounds like—choral, coral, laurel, moral, orally

  3. AU6 — the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance synonyms—cockcrow, dawn, dawning, day, daybreak sounds like—drawer, flora, roar, trauma

  4. AU7 — the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance synonyms—cockcrow, dawn, dawning, day, daybreak sounds like—corporal, oracle, oral

LA

  1. LA6 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument synonyms—bang, bash, bat, beat, belt sounds like—lockup, lop

LU

  1. LU4 — as in barbecue, cookout synonyms—barbecue, clambake, cookout, fry, roast sounds like—lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose

  2. LU4 — a momentary halt in an activity synonyms—break, breath, breather, interruption, pause sounds like—cul, cull, dull, gull, hull

  3. LU4 — something very good of its kind synonyms—beaut, beauty, bee's knees, cat's meow, corker sounds like—blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled

  4. LU4 — a large mostly pale green American saturniid moth (Actias **) with long tails on the hind wings sounds like—loon, loony, tuna

  5. LU5 — a space vehicle module designed to carry astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back —called also * excursion module sounds like—learner, loner, loon, loony, looser

  6. LU6 — sounds like—lonely, loon, loony, loosely, manila

NO

  1. NO4 — a (such as Seattle, Joyce, or Empire State Building) that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English —called also proper name sounds like—down, gown, known, nine, nun

NU

  1. NU4 — having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness synonyms—bad, inoperative, invalid, nonbinding, nonvalid sounds like—annul, cul, cull, dull, gull

PL

  1. PL6 — a marriage in which there is more than one husband or wife sounds like—floral, laurel, lurid, mural, neural

PO

  1. PO7 — enjoying widespread favor or approval; accepted, used, or practiced by most people; held by or applicable to a majority of the people synonyms—big, crowd-pleasing, du jour, faddish, faddy sounds like—jocular, un***

  2. PO4 — to cause to flow in a stream; to move in a stream; to flow out in great quantities or with force synonyms—stream, flow, roll, run, stream sounds like—boar, bore, chore, core, door

PR

  1. PR7 — a *** (such as I, you, or they) that expresses a distinction of person sounds like—renown

PU

  1. PU4 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to draw out by force or with effort; to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure synonyms—drag, draw, hale, haul, lug sounds like—bull, full, pail, pal, pale

  2. PU4 — to cause to become a **y mass synonyms—crush, mash, squash sounds like—gulp

  3. PU4 — as in larva, nymph synonyms—larva, naiad, nymph sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop

  4. PU5 — an intermediate usually quiescent stage of a metamorphic insect (such as a bee, moth, or beetle) that occurs between the larva and the imago, is usually enclosed in a cocoon or protective covering, and undergoes internal changes by which larval structures are replaced by those typical of the imago sounds like—papal, people, poodle

  5. PU4 — as in swirl, eddy synonyms—eddy, swirl, bubble, dribble, guggle sounds like—burl, curl, earl, girl, hurl

  6. PU4 — a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion synonyms—burr, buzz, chirr, churr, drone sounds like—burr, fir, fur, her, hour

RU

  1. RU5 — of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people synonyms—bucolic, country, pastoral, rustic sounds like—neural

UL

  1. UL4 — a single bone in the forelimb of an amphibian (such as a frog) that represents fusion of the separate radius and ** of higher vertebrate forms sounds like—alas, alert, alight, align, aligned

  2. UL5 — a surgical procedure in which a torn * collateral ligament of the elbow is replaced with a tendon graft typically obtained from a superficial muscle of the forearm : tommy john surgery

UN

  1. UN9 — as in obscure, insignificant synonyms—nameless, no-name, noteless, obscure, uncelebrated sounds like—popular

  2. UN6 — as in unwind, uncoil synonyms—uncoil, unwind, straighten, unbend, uncurl sounds like—enroll

UP

  1. UP4 — in or into contact with synonyms—against, on sounds like—spawn

  2. UP6 — a state of noisy, confused activity; a state of wildly excited activity or emotion; a violent disturbance (as of the political or social order) synonyms—ado, alarums and excursions, ballyhoo, blather, bluster sounds like—abroad, across, adore, appall, appear

annual, annul, annular, aura, aural, aurora, auroral, larrup, luau, lull, lulu, luna, lunar, lunula, noun, null, plural, popular, pour, pronoun, pull, pulp, pupa, pupal, purl, purr, rural, ulna, ulnar, unpopular, unroll, upon, uproar