NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 8 December, 2022

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

Letters: p  a  g  l  n  o  y

  • Total Answers: 46
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

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

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

GL

  1. GL5 — sounds like—group, loop, sloop

  2. GL6 — sounds like—loopy

  3. GL4 — a thick semiliquid substance (as food) that is unattractive synonyms—slop, swill sounds like—flop, lop, plop, slop

  4. GL6 — a thick semiliquid substance (as food) that is unattractive synonyms—slop, swill sounds like—floppy, sloppy

GO

  1. GO4 — as in gunk, goo synonyms—crud, goo, guck, gunk, glop sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, gap, group

  2. GO5 — goo, gunk sounds like—guppy, loopy, rupee, soupy

LO

  1. LO6 — to move with a light springing step synonyms—bounce, bound, hop, lope, skip sounds like—dollop, wallop

  2. LO4 — a circular strip synonyms—band, circle, eye, hoop, ring sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, lap

  3. LO5 — as in dotty, touched synonyms—dotty, fey, off, potty, teched sounds like—lucy, rupee, soupy

NO

  1. NO10 — sounds like—anthropology, apology, gynecology

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. PA5 — a person who does not worship the God of the Bible synonyms—gentile, heathen, idolater sounds like—bacon, bagel, basin, begun, cajun

  2. PA6 — sounds like—plaza, plop

  3. 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

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

  5. PA4 — a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body synonyms—ache, pain, prick, shoot, smart sounds like—bang, dang, fang, gang, hang

  6. PA7 — a full suit of armor synonyms—carapace, house, mail, plate, plating sounds like—amply, canopy, handily, manly, monopoly

  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 — a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective; something that one hopes or intends to accomplish synonyms—arrangement, blueprint, design, game, game ** sounds like—clan, pan

  2. 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

  3. PL4 — to throw or set down clumsily or casually synonyms—flop, flump, plank, plump, plunk sounds like—flop, glop, lop, pop, prop

  4. PL4 — a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end; a time or instance of carefree fun synonyms—artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam sounds like—alloy, cloy

PO

  1. PO4 — a pole with a strong spring at the bottom and two footrests on which a person stands and moves along with a series of jumps sounds like—logo

  2. PO4 — the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth synonyms—bean, block, dome, head, mazard sounds like—boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

  3. PO4 — sounds like—pillow, solo

  4. PO7 — a closed plane figure bounded by straight lines; a closed figure on a sphere bounded by arcs of great circles sounds like—collagen

  5. PO9 — a closed plane figure bounded by straight lines; a closed figure on a sphere bounded by arcs of great circles

  6. PO5 — as in cancer, carcinoma synonyms—cancer, carcinoma, lymphoma, malignancy, melanoma

  7. PO4 — shift, bounce sounds like—long, pang, pause, paw, pawn

  8. PO4 — as in mustang, bronco synonyms—bronco, mustang, colt, filly, foal sounds like—bony, penny, phoney, phony, tony

  9. PO4 — a small often deep body of water synonyms—billabong, mere, puddle, stank, well sounds like—cool, fool, pail, pal, pale

  10. PO4 — solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal synonyms—dirt, doo-doo, dropping, dung, excrement sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop

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

  12. PO5 — a cultivated corn * with brightly colored usually white, pink, or red single or double flowers sounds like—choppy, copy, peppy, puppy

PY

  1. PY5 — a usually massive gateway; an ancient Egyptian gateway building in a truncated pyramidal form; a monumental mass flanking an entranceway or an approach to a bridge sounds like—nylon

YA

  1. YA5 — sounds like—happy, yuppie

apology, appall, apply, gallop, galop, gloop, gloopy, glop, gloppy, goop, goopy, lollop, loop, loopy, nonapology, opal, pagan, palapa, pall, palp, pang, panoply, papa, papal, papally, papaya, pappy, payola, plan, play, plop, ploy, pogo, poll, polo, polygon, polygonal, polyp, pong, pony, pool, poop, poppa, poppy, pylon, yappy