NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Tue. 17 January, 2023

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

Letters: u  a  d  l  m  o  r

  • Total Answers: 32
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AL

  1. AL5 β€” with one's normal voice speaking the words; audibly; out; out loud sounds like avowed, cloud, loud, plowed
  2. AL4 β€” sounds like annum, atom, glum, plum, plumb

AM

  1. AM5 β€” a brief romantic relationship; an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements; affair; fling; love sounds like adore, ashore, more

AR

  1. AR4 β€” sounds like bum, chum, come, drum, dumb

AU

  1. AU4 β€” a special quality or impression associated with something; a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings; air; ambience; aroma sounds like era, oral, orb, ore
  2. AU5 β€” of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing; acoustic; audial; audile; auditory sounds like choral, coral, laurel, moral, orally
  3. AU6 β€” the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; day sounds like drawer, flora, roar, trauma
  4. AU7 β€” the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; day sounds like corporal, oracle, oral

DO

  1. DO5 β€” sounds like duly
  2. DO4 β€” harsh and threatening in manner or appearance; austere; fierce; flinty; forbidding sounds like bower, cower, hour, our

DR

  1. DR4 β€” a metal container in the shape of a cylinder; to strike or cause to strike lightly and usually rhythmically; to drive or force out; barrel; can sounds like dumb, from, rum
  2. DR8 β€” sounds like crumble, crumple, dumbbell, grumble, patrol

DU

  1. DU4 β€” consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined; as in interstate, motorway; as in interstates, motorways; binary; bipartite sounds like dial, dowel, jewel
  2. DU4 β€” lacking sharpness of edge or point; causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; covered over by clouds; blunt; blunted sounds like addle, cul, cull, dale, deal
  3. DU7 β€” a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like colored, coloured
  4. DU6 β€” a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like amok, among, boredom, bumble, bundle
  5. DU5 β€” sounds like drum

LA

  1. LA4 β€” public acknowledgment or admiration for an achievement; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to proclaim the glory of; acclaim; accolade sounds like awed, flawed, lead, led, lewd

LO

  1. LO4 β€” marked by a high volume of sound; excessively showy; as in loudly, flamboyantly; blaring; blasting sounds like allowed, a, bowed, c, lad

LU

  1. LU4 β€” as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
  2. LU4 β€” a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
  3. LU4 β€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled

MA

  1. MA6 β€” to search through with the intent of committing robbery; despoil; loot; pillage; plunder sounds like erode, mode, road, rode
  2. MA4 β€” to abuse physically; to strike repeatedly; as in hammer, sledgehammer; maltreat; manhandle sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

MO

  1. MO7 β€” having parts that can be connected or combined in different ways; adjustable; flexible; mobile; movable sounds like nodular

MU

  1. MU7 β€”
  2. MU4 β€” to reduce to fine particles; as in duff; to give serious and careful thought to; atomize; beat sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
  3. MU5 β€” a usually large painting that is done directly on the surface of a wall; fresco; panorama; canvas; oil sounds like mitral, moral, neural, plural, rural
  4. MU6 β€” an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; speech that is not clear enough to be understood; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; beef; bitch sounds like firmer, mercer, merger
  5. MU6 β€” as in sundress, housedress; chemise; coatdress; granny dress; housedress sounds like amok, among, animal, animate, gunman

RU

  1. RU5 β€” information or opinion that is widely disseminated without any authority or confirmation of accuracy; to make (as a piece of information) the subject of common talk without any authority or confirmation of accuracy; buzz; dish; gossip sounds like boomer, roemer, roofer, room, roomier
  2. RU5 β€” of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people; as in special deliveries, registered mails; as in special delivery, registered mail; bucolic; country sounds like neural

aloud, alum, amour, arum, aura, aural, aurora, auroral, doula, dour, drum, drumroll, dual, dull, dullard, dumdum, durum, laud, loud, luau, lull, lulu, maraud, maul, modular, mudroom, mull, mural, murmur, muumuu, rumor, rural