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NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 6 October, 2022

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

Letters: m  a  l  n  o  p  r

  • Total Answers: 51
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

  1. AL5 — suspicion or fear of future harm or misfortune; the act or an instance of telling beforehand of danger or risk; the emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger synonyms—apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread, foreboding, misgiving

AM

  1. AM4 — ammunition sounds like—arrow, mow
  2. AM6 — having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong; being neither moral nor immoral; specifically : lying outside the sphere to which moral judgments apply; being outside or beyond the moral order or a particular code of morals sounds like—immoral, moral

AR

  1. AR5 — means or method of defending; something that encloses another thing especially to protect it synonyms—aegis, ammunition, buckler, cover, defense sounds like—charmer, farmer
  2. AR5 — a sweet or pleasant smell; the quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose; a special quality or impression associated with something synonyms—attar, balm, bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy sounds like—coma, soma

LA

  1. LA4 — 1935— Tenzin Gyatso Tibetan religious and political leader sounds like—comma, mama
  2. LA4 — something that provides illumination synonyms—beacon, illuminant, light sounds like—camp, champ, c**, damp, limp
  3. LA7 — a creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general synonyms—pasquinade, satire sounds like—campaign, champagne, dampen, shampoo, tampon

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. LO4 — to be about to happen synonyms—brew, impend sounds like—b, boom, doom, g, lamb

MA

  1. MA8 — an example of **ism sounds like—multiple
  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. MA6 — material wealth or possessions especially as having a debasing influence sounds like—famine, salmon
  7. MA5 — a source of great satisfaction; something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing synonyms—delectation, delight, feast, gas, joy
  8. MA5 — a large impressive residence synonyms—castle, château, estate, hacienda, hall sounds like—banner, meaner, miner, minor
  9. MA4sounds like—arm, charm, farm, harm
  10. MA6 — to cause to remain behind synonyms—abandon, desert, forsake, leave, quit sounds like—moon, moraine

MO

  1. MO4 — a long low sound indicating pain or grief; a crying out in grief; an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment synonyms—groan, wail, groan, howl, keen sounds like—bone, cone, hone, known, loan
  2. MO5 — a tooth with a rounded or flattened surface adapted for grinding; specifically : one of the cheek teeth in mammals behind the incisors and canines sounds like—mauler, polar, roller, solar
  3. MO4 — as in mistress synonyms—mistress, gal, gill, girl, girlfriend sounds like—doll, loll, mail, male, mall
  4. MO5 — a female human parent synonyms—ma, mammy, mater, mom, mommy sounds like—comma, mana
  5. MO4
  6. 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
  7. MO4 — a long or seemingly long period of time synonyms—aeon, age, blue **, coon's age, cycle sounds like—boon, dune, goon, loon, main
  8. MO4 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; spongy land saturated or partially covered with water synonyms—campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath sounds like—boor, lure, mar, mare, mere
  9. MO5 — conforming to a high standard of *ity or virtue; guided by or in accordance with one's sense of right and wrong synonyms—all right, decent, ethical, good, honest sounds like—a*, aural, choral, coral, im*
  10. MO4 — the first appearance of light in the **ing or the time of its appearance; the time from sunrise until noon synonyms—aurora, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, day sounds like—born, corn, horn, shorn, thorn
  11. MO5 — a stupid person synonyms—airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, bubblehead sounds like—run

NA

  1. NA6 — to assault with ** sounds like—arm, awesome, balm, bam, bomb

NO

  1. NO4 — what is typical of a group, class, or series; the code of good conduct for an individual or group synonyms—average, **al, par, standard, ethics sounds like—dorm, form, warm
  2. NO6 — being of the type that is encountered in the ** course of events; having full use of one's mind and control over one's actions; having or showing the qualities associated with the members of a particular group or kind synonyms—average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, everyday sounds like—formal

PA

  1. PA4 — an instance of defeating an enemy or opponent synonyms—triumph, victory, win sounds like—balm, bomb, calm, mom, pod
  2. PA5 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country synonyms—campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath
  3. PA6 — as in sombrero, beret synonyms—baseball cap, beret, billycock, biretta, boater
  4. PA8 — all that can be seen from a certain point synonyms—command, lookout, outlook, perspective, prospect
  5. PA10 — of, relating to, or being part of a reality beyond the observable physical universe synonyms—metaphysical, otherworldly, preternatural, supernatural, transcendent sounds like—abnormal, caramel, cerebral, editorial, meritorious

PO

  1. PO4 — the impressive decorations, music, clothing etc., that are part of some formal events synonyms—dazzle, fanfare, foofaraw, pageantry, razzle-dazzle sounds like—chomp, palm, pimp, pump, romp
  2. PO7 — a carangid food fish (Trachinotus carolinus) of the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico; broadly : any of several related fishes; a small bluish or greenish butterfish (Peprilus simillimus) of the Pacific coast of North America
  3. PO6 — an automatic antiaircraft gun of 20 to 40 millimeters mounted especially on ships
  4. PO8 — a room in which bookmaking is carried on; a room for the playing of pool sounds like—ballroom, mailroom, newsroom, playroom, plume

PR

  1. PR4 — a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in synonyms—baby buggy, baby carriage, buggy, perambulator, pushchair sounds like—cram, dram, gram, ram
  2. PR4 — a social gathering for dancing synonyms—ball, cotillion, dance, formal, hop sounds like—palm
  3. PR5 — as in campaign, *tion synonyms—ballyhoo, boost, buildup, campaign, plug sounds like—chrome, polo

RA

  1. RA4 — as in step up, boost synonyms—boost, elevate, jack (up), mount, step up sounds like—camp, champ, c**, damp, lamp

RO

  1. RO4 — to move about from place to place aimlessly synonyms—bat, cruise, drift, float, gad (about) sounds like—chrome, comb, dome, foam, gnome
  2. RO4 — a time or instance of carefree fun synonyms—binge, fling, frisk, frolic, gambol sounds like—chomp, pomp, ramp, rump
  3. RO4 — an extent or area available for or used up by some activity or thing; an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall; a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place synonyms—elbow , place, space, way, apartment sounds like—boom, b, doom, g**, loom

alarm, ammo, amoral, armor, aroma, lama, lamp, lampoon, llama, loam, loom, malaprop, mall, mama, mamma, mammal, mammon, manna, manor, marm, maroon, moan, molar, moll, momma, mono, moola, moon, moor, moral, morn, moron, napalm, norm, normal, palm, pampa, panama, panorama, paranormal, pomp, pompano, pompom, poolroom, pram, prom, promo, ramp, roam, romp, room