NYT π CluesβTue. 22 August, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: t a k l o u w
- Total Answers: 27
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AL
- AL5 β to give as a share or portion; allocate; allow; apportion; assign sounds like blot, clot, lat, lot, plot
- AL4 β sounds like act, actor, after
AT
- AT5 β a ring-shaped land mass surrounded by water and made of coral; barrier reef; cay; coral reef; key sounds like shuttle, subtle
AU
- AU4 β a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels; automobile; bus; car; horseless carriage sounds like ought, stow, toe, tow
KO
- KO6 β to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior; apple-polish; bootlick; fawn; fuss sounds like auto, bout, capo, cat, cater
LO
- LO7 β a high place or structure from which a wide view is possible; all that can be seen from a certain point; a person or group that watches over someone or something; observatory; outlook
- LO4 β valuables stolen or taken by force; 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; to search through with the intent of committing robbery; booty; pillage sounds like boot, chute, flute, hoot, jute
- LO5 β sounds like lat, motto
- LO4 β a big clumsy often slow-witted person; a person whose behavior is offensive to others; clod; clodhopper; gawk sounds like bout, c, doubt, f, gout
OU
- OU6 β to make or declare contrary to the law; to order not to do or use or to be done or used; as in criminal, felon; criminalize; illegalize
- OU7 β a high place or structure from which a wide view is possible; a way of looking at or thinking about something; all that can be seen from a certain point; lookout; observatory sounds like look, took
- OU7 β sounds like stalk, talk
TA
- TA4 β a usually formal discourse delivered to an audience; an exchange of views for the purpose of exploring a subject or deciding an issue; friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; address; declamation sounds like balk, hawk, s**
- TA4 β extending to a great distance upward; requiring considerable physical or mental effort; as in yacht, sailboat; altitudinous; high sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
- TA6 β sounds like fallow, shallow
- TA6 β
- TA4 β stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat
TO
- TO4 β as in expense; as in tariff, income tax; to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates; expense; cost sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- TO4 β to reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms; to agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly; to become affected with (a disease or disorder); clasped; grasped sounds like book, cook, hook, look, nook
- TO4 β an article intended for use in work; one that is or can be used to further the purposes of another; one who is easily deceived or cheated; device; implement sounds like cool, fool, pool, rule, s**
- TO4 β a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking; bender; binge; bust; carousal sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot
- TO5 β having no exceptions or restrictions; not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it; trying all possibilities; absolute; all-out sounds like title, turtle
- TO4 β to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to provide publicity for; ballyhoo; blow up sounds like bout, doubt, gout, out, pout
TU
- TU4 β as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo
WA
- WA7 β to leave a place often for another; to refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet demands; a work stoppage by a body of workers intended to force an employer to meet their demands; bail; bail out sounds like workout
- WA4 β sounds like bought, caught, cot, dot, got
WO
- WO4 β sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot