NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 20 September, 2022

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

Letters: m  a  b  h  o  r  t

  • Total Answers: 38
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! đŸ€Ł

AM

  1. AM4 — ammunition sounds like—arrow, mow

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

AT

  1. AT4 — a very small piece synonyms—bit, crumb, dribble, fleck, flyspeck sounds like—alum, annum, autumn, datum, item

BA

  1. BA6 — a political, military, and ideological barrier isolating an area of eastern Asia sounds like—amber, bimbo, shampoo, taboo

  2. BA7 — a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises synonyms—bar, cafĂ©, cantina, dramshop, gin mill sounds like—bedroom, boardroom, broom, darkroom

  3. BA7 — a usually washable mat used in a bathroom sounds like—athlete

  4. BA8 — a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste synonyms—bath, bog, can, cloakroom, comfort station

BO

  1. BO4 — something that has failed; a very large amount of money synonyms—bummer, bust, catastrophe, clinker, clunker sounds like—balmy, bam, bar, beam

  2. BO4 — a loud explosive sound synonyms—bang, blast, clap, crack, crash sounds like—balm, bam, beam, bloom

  3. BO6 — the side or part facing downward from something; the surface upon which a body of water lies; the lowest part, place, or point synonyms—underbelly, underbody, underpart, underside, undersurface

BR

  1. BR5 — to sweep with or as if with a *; to finish (something, such as a concrete surface) by means of a * sounds like—bloom, boom, groom

HA

  1. HA5 — forbidden by Islamic law sounds like—cram, dram, gram, ram

  2. HA4 — something that causes loss or pain synonyms—affliction, damage, detriment, hurt, injury sounds like—arm, c**, farm, heart, hearth

MA

  1. MA7 — as in guru, swami synonyms—guru, pandit, swami, yogi, brain

  2. MA4 — a female human parent synonyms—ma, mammy, mater, mom, mommy sounds like—comma, mom

  3. MA5 — as in rattlesnake, cobra synonyms—adder, anaconda, asp, black racer, blacksnake

  4. MA5 — as in tango, jive synonyms—boogie, bop, fox-trot, gavotte, jig sounds like—mumbo

  5. MA5 — a female human parent synonyms—ma, mammy, mater, mom, mommy sounds like—comma, mom

  6. MA7 — unusually large synonyms—astronomical, Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic

  7. MA4 — sounds like—arm, charm, farm, harm

  8. MA6 — any of a genus (**a) of stout-bodied short-legged chiefly herbivorous burrowing rodents of the squirrel family that have coarse fur, a short bushy tail, and very small ears and that hibernate during the winter

  9. MA4 — as in department store, mini-** synonyms—boutique, chain store, department store, dime store, exchange sounds like—art, cart, chart, dart, heart

  10. MA4 — the act or process of performing **ematical operations to find a value synonyms—arithmetic, calculation, calculus, ciphering, computation sounds like—bath

MO

  1. MO4 — a deep, wide excavation that is usually filled with water and that goes around the walls of a place (such as a castle) to protect it from being attacked synonyms—ha-ha, stank, sunk fence, dike, ditch sounds like—boat, coat, goat, mat, mate

  2. MO5 — a female human parent synonyms—ma, mammy, mater, mom, mommy sounds like—comma, mana

  3. 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

  4. MO4 — open to question or dispute synonyms—arguable, controvertible, debatable, disputable, doubtable sounds like—boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot

  5. MO6 — to plaster or make fast with ** sounds like—martyr, porter, shorter

  6. MO4 — having passed its time of use or usefulness; showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; used or heard so often as to be dull synonyms—antiquated, archaic, dated, dĂ©modĂ©, demoded sounds like—mall, math, maul, mauve, maw

  7. MO5 — a device that changes energy into mechanical motion; a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels synonyms—engine, machine, auto, automobile, bus sounds like—boater, mater, matter, meter, miter

  8. MO9 — a boat equipped with a motor synonyms—powerboat, speedboat, stinkpot

  9. MO5 — a short sentence or phrase that expresses a rule guiding the behavior of a particular person or group synonyms—axiom, precept, truism, truth, adage sounds like—macho, mater

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 — 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

TO

  1. TO6 — a North American hawk moth (Manduca quinquemaculata) whose green larva is a hornworm feeding on leaves of plants of the nightshade family and especially tobacco and ** sounds like—automate, potato, teammate

  2. TO4 — a final resting place for a dead person synonyms—burial, grave, sepulchre, sepulture sounds like—boom, doom, loom, room, tam

TR

  1. TR4 — as in truck, wheelbarrow synonyms—barrow, hand truck, pushcart, truck, wheelbarrow sounds like—cram, dram, gram, ram, tam

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