NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 13 December, 2022
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: o a b c e k l
- Total Answers: 54
- Pangrams: 3
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AL
- AL9 — to give as a share or portion; to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; to keep or intend for a special purpose synonyms—allot, allow, apportion, assign, distribute sounds like—applicable
- AL4 — agarwood; any of a large genus () of succulent chiefly southern African plants of the lily family with basal leaves and spicate flowers; the dried juice of the leaves of various s used especially formerly as a purgative —usually used in plural but singular in construction sounds like—ago, blow, floe, flow, glow
BA
- BA8 — an automatic valve whose opening and closing are controlled by a hollow float at the end of a lever sounds like—bloc, block
- BA6 — a broad-trunked tropical tree (Adansonia digitata) of the silk-cotton family that is native to Africa and has an edible acidic fruit resembling a gourd and bark used in making paper, cloth, and rope; also : any of several related trees chiefly of Madagascar and Australia sounds like—blob, blobby, bobby, bombast, buyback
BL
- BL4 — a small uneven mass; the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass synonyms—chunk, clod, clot, clump, dollop sounds like—lob, slob
- BL4 — a group of people acting together within a larger group; an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection synonyms—**k, body, coalition, faction, party sounds like—brok, clock, flock
- BL5 — a number of things considered as a unit; something that makes movement or progress difficult; the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth synonyms—array, assemblage, band, bank, batch sounds like—brok, clock, flock
- BL9 — sounds like—likable
- BL5 — an adult male human being synonyms—bastard, buck, cat, chap, chappie sounds like—baroque, broke
BO
- BO4 —
- BO6 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy synonyms—blunder, boo-boo, boob, brick, clanger sounds like—babble, bauble, bible, bubble, cobble
- BO5 — a game of Italian origin similar to lawn bowling played on a long narrow usually dirt court sounds like—base, bass, beau
- BO4 — a dark lager beer with a high alcohol content that has a strong flavor of malt and a mild flavor of hops and is typically sold in the winter or early spring sounds like—back, bake, balk, balm, bar
- BO4 — a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie —called also bolo sounds like—cola
- BO4 — Heinrich Theodor 1917—1985 German writer sounds like—bail, bale, ball, bawl, beau
- BO4 — as in machete, dagger synonyms—bayonet, bodkin, bowie knife, cutlass, dagger sounds like—bellow, below, billow, blow, follow
- BO4 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy synonyms—blunder, bobble, boo-boo, brick, clanger sounds like—babe, bib, buoy
- BO6 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy synonyms—blunder, bobble, boob, brick, clanger
- BO4 — a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction; a made up of the writings accepted by Christians as coming from God; a publication that appears at regular intervals synonyms—tome, volume, Bible, Good , Holy Writ sounds like—back, bake, balk, beak, bike
- BO8 — to arrange to have something (as a hotel room) held for one's future use; to leave a place often for another synonyms—bespeak, reserve, bail, bail out, begone sounds like—bearable, billable, bubble, durable, likable
CA
- CA5 — a dried, fermented, fatty seed of the fruit of a South American evergreen tree (Theobroma * of the family Sterculiaceae) that is used in making cocoa, chocolate, and cocoa butter : cocoa bean; a tree having small yellowish flowers followed by fleshy pods from which * is obtained sounds like—cocaine, coco, cocoa, cocoon, cuckoo
- CA8 — the edible young green leaves of a plant (such as taro or a member of the genus Xanthosoma) of the arum family used as greens; a soup or stew made with greens, onions, and crabmeat or pork
CE
- CE9 — sounds like—selfless
- CE5 — the bass member of the violin family tuned an octave below the viola sounds like—bellow, fellow, mellow, self, sell
CL
- CL6 — sewer; the common chamber into which the intestinal and urogenital tracts discharge especially in monotreme mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and elasmobranch fishes; also : a comparable chamber of an invertebrate; the enlarged terminal part of the posterior embryonic digestive tract of a mammal that gives rise to the rectum, upper anal canal, and urogenital sinus sounds like—coca
- CL5 — something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; a sleeveless garment worn so as to hang over the shoulders, arms, and back synonyms—blanket, cope, cover, covering, coverture sounds like—bloke
- CL5 — a device to measure time synonyms—chronometer, timekeeper, timepiece, timer sounds like—bloc, block, cock
CO
- CO4 — to burn to char : char; to supply with ; to take in ** sounds like—boll, bowl, call
- CO6 — to make or assemble roughly or hastily synonyms—jury-rig, patch (together), throw up sounds like—cable, gobble, hobble, wobble
- CO4 — any of several South American shrubs (genus Erythroxylon, family Erythroxylaceae); especially : one (E. ) that is the primary source of ine; dried leaves of a (especially Erythroxylon ) containing alkaloids including **ine
- CO4 — a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid synonyms—faucet, gate, spigot, stop**, tap sounds like—cake, calm, car, caught, cause
- CO6 — an annual hairy weed (Agrostemma githago) of the pink family with purplish-red flowers that is found in grain fields
- CO5 — a dried, fermented, fatty seed of the fruit of a South American tropical evergreen tree (Theobroma cacao of the family Sterculiaceae) that is used in making *, chocolate, and * butter : cacao
- CO4 — to change into ; to become or like ** sounds like—cake, choke, cloak
- CO4 —
- CO4 — to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of; to take place synonyms—bend, color, distort, falsify, fudge sounds like—book, cake, crook, hook, kick
- CO8 — to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of; to take place synonyms—bend, color, distort, falsify, fudge sounds like—capable, durable, likable, workable
- CO8 — a book of cooking directions and recipes; broadly : a book of detailed instructions sounds like—checkbook, kickback
- CO4 — having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; free from emotional or mental agitation; having a low or subnormal temperature synonyms—aloof, antisocial, asocial, buttoned-up, cold sounds like—call, cul
KA
- KA5 — cubes of meat (such as lamb or beef) marinated and cooked with vegetables usually on a skewer sounds like—cabin
KO
- KO5 — an Australian arboreal marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus) that has a broad head, large hairy ears, dense gray fur, and sharp claws and feeds on eucalyptus leaves —called also * bear sounds like—coal, coca, cold, colon, colt
- KO4 — sounds like—coal, coca, cold, colon, colt
- KO4 — a person of odd or whimsical habits synonyms—character, codger, crack, crackbrain, crackpot sounds like—cake, cock, coke, cook, cool
LO
- LO4 — a curved or rounded projection or division; specifically : a usually somewhat rounded projection or division of a bodily organ or part sounds like—g**, lab
- LO4 — gray wolf
- LO5 — as in regional synonyms—regional, aboriginal, autochthonous, born, domestic sounds like—focal, vocal
- LO6 — the area or space occupied by or intended for something; the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set synonyms—emplacement, locality, location, locus, place
- LO4 — as in bar, latch; as in wrap, fold synonyms—bar, batten (down), bolt, chain, fasten sounds like—bloc, b, chalk, c, cock
- LO8 — to put in or as if in prison synonyms—commit, confine, immure, imprison, incarcerate sounds like—likable
- LO4 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind synonyms—balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bedlam sounds like—coco, cocoa
- LO4 — to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing synonyms—droop, flag, hang, sag, swag sounds like—doll, lat, lull, pall
- LO4 — to give the impression of being; to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion); to have in mind as a purpose or goal synonyms—act, appear, come across (as), come off (as), feel sounds like—book, cook, hook, lack, lak
OB
- OB4 — a double-reed woodwind instrument having a conical tube, a brilliant penetrating tone, and a usual range from B flat below middle C upward for over 21/2 octaves sounds like—beau, lobo
OL
- OL4 — margarine sounds like—polio