NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 30 August, 2022

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

Letters: m  a  b  c  k  o  r

  • Total Answers: 37
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! đŸ€Ł

AM

  1. AM4 — ammunition sounds like—arrow, mow

  2. AM4 — in a confused and reckless manner synonyms—berserk, berserkly, frantically, frenetically, frenziedly sounds like—muck

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

BA

  1. BA8 — sounds like—become

  2. BA8 — a room situated in the rear; the meeting place of a directing group that exercises its authority in an inconspicuous and indirect way

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

  4. 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

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. BO8 — to create a computer ** for sounds like—pockmark

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

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

CA

  1. CA4 — as in uflage synonyms—uflage, greasepaint, cold cream, cream, eye shadow sounds like—combo, comma, commie

  2. CA5 — to strike and fly off at an angle synonyms—bounce, glance, rebound, ricochet, skim sounds like—chrome, come, cram, cream, crime

CO

  1. CO4 — as in sleep, rest synonyms—hibernation, hypnosis, repose, rest, sleep sounds like—aroma, soma

  2. CO4 — to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something synonyms—dig (through), dredge, hunt (through), rake, ransack sounds like—calm, came, chrome

  3. CO5 — as in group, ensemble synonyms—ensemble, group, brasses, strings, woodwinds sounds like—bimbo, calm, calmer, calming, calmly

  4. CO5 — as in space, window synonyms—caesura, interspace, lag, pause, space sounds like—calm, calmer, mama

CR

  1. CR4 — a great number of persons or things massed together synonyms—army, bike, crowd, crush, drove sounds like—chrome, clam

KA

  1. KA5 — a special quality or impression associated with something synonyms—air, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, aura sounds like—comma

KO

  1. KO5 — an Indian dish of usually braised meat or vegetables cooked with spices and often yogurt or cream sounds like—aorta, aura, choral, chord, chorus

MA

  1. MA5 — a camera lens designed to focus at very short distances with up to life-size magnification of the image sounds like—micro

  2. MA4 — either of two relatively slender mackerel sharks (Isurus paucus and I. oxyrinchus) that are dark blue above and white below with long pointed snouts and that are notable sport fish —called also ** sounds like—mock, morrow, motto, taco

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

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

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

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

  7. MA6 — a rattle usually made from a gourd that is used as a percussion instrument

  8. MA4 — to attach an identifying slip to; to be an important feature of; to make a written note of synonyms—label, tag, ticket, characterize, distinguish sounds like—arc, bark, dark, lark

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

MO

  1. MO4 — to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of; to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter; to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of synonyms—burlesque, caricature, do, imitate, mimic sounds like—chalk, cock, dock, hock, jock

  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. MO7 — as in goatskin, calfskin synonyms—alligator, antelope, buckskin, cabretta, calfskin sounds like—broke, broker, coco, cocoa, croak

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. RO6 — romantic comedy —often used before another noun sounds like—calm, mom, pompon, railcar

  3. 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

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