NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 17 August, 2022

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

Letters: h  d  e  n  o  w  y

  • Total Answers: 23
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

HE

  1. HE4 — a state of being aware; strict attentiveness to what one is doing synonyms—advertence, advertency, attention, awareness, cognizance sounds like—bead, cede, deed, feed, had

  2. HE6 — to take notice of and be guided by; to pay attention especially through the act of hearing synonyms—followed, listened (to), minded, noted, observed sounds like—needed

  3. HE5 — to bring down by cutting; to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion synonyms—chopped (down), cut (down), felled, mowed, adhered sounds like—food, had, hadd, hid, hide

  4. HE4 — to bring down by cutting; to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion synonyms—chop (down), cut (down), fell, mow, adhere sounds like—hue, huge

HO

  1. HO4 — as in raked, harrowed synonyms—harrowed, listed, raked, rototilled, fallowed sounds like—bode, code, goad, had, hadd

  2. HO7 — as in square dance synonyms—square dance, blowout, celebration, event, festival sounds like—showdown

  3. HO4 — to make sharp or sharper; to make smooth by friction synonyms—edge, grind, sharpen, stone, strop sounds like—bone, cone, han, hen

  4. HO5 — having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something synonyms—cutting, edged, edgy, ground, keen sounds like—hand, hind, owned

  5. HO5 — a lovely woman; something very good of its kind; a person with whom one is in love synonyms—babe, beauty, beauty queen, cookie, cutie sounds like—bunny, funny, gunny, hubby, hunch

  6. HO8 — a pale smooth-skinned winter melon with sweet greenish flesh sounds like—moneyed, monied, undo, undue

  7. HO7 — to praise too much synonyms—adulated, belauded, blarneyed, buttered up, flattered sounds like—fund, hand, hind, hunch, hunt

  8. HO4 — a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang synonyms—bully, gangbanger, gangsta, gangster, goon sounds like—could, good, had, hadd, head

  9. HO6 — a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang synonyms—bully, gangbanger, gangsta, gangster, goon sounds like—added, dud, ended, faded, guided

  10. HO6 — language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; something that brings bad luck synonyms—applesauce, balderdash, baloney, beans, bilge

  11. HO5 — language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense synonyms—applesauce, balderdash, baloney, beans, bilge sounds like—buoy, gooey, hurry, suey, who

  12. HO5 — used to express greeting sounds like—dowdy, heady, rowdy

NO

  1. NO5 — in no manner or way : not at all; anyhow sounds like—coco, cocoa, gnome, hoe, knoll

WH

  1. WH4 — how delightful synonyms—glory, ha, hallelujah, hey, hooray sounds like—bee, fee, gee, key, knee

  2. WH4 — at or during the time that; just at the moment that; in spite of the fact that synonyms—as, so long as, while, whilst, as soon as sounds like—den, hen, one, pen, ten

  3. WH4 — a whistling sound or a sound like a half-formed whistle uttered as an exclamation —used interjectionally chiefly to express amazement, discomfort, or relief sounds like—boo, chew, coup, dew, doo

  4. WH4 — as in white-faced synonyms—white-faced, untanned, anemic, bloodless, white sounds like—bee, fee, gee, key, knee

WO

  1. WO6 — used to express exuberant delight or approval sounds like—guru, voodoo, who, whoop, whoosh

YO

  1. YO6 — used to attract attention or as a call to persons sounds like—guru, use, used, user, voodoo

heed, heeded, hewed, hewn, hoed, hoedown, hone, honed, honey, honeydew, honeyed, hood, hooded, hoodoo, hooey, howdy, nohow, whee, when, whew, whey, woohoo, yoohoo