NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 18 October, 2023

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

Letters: r  a  h  n  o  t  w

  • Total Answers: 59
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AN

  1. AN9 — as in analyst, commentator; to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc.); analyst; columnist; commentator sounds like agitator, innovator

AO

  1. AO5 — sounds like aura, chortle, court, fort, mortal

AR

  1. AR5 — sounds like brat, hat, rat

  2. AR6 — having no exceptions or restrictions; absolute; all-out; blank; blooming sounds like bunt, current, hunt, punt, urgent

  3. AR5 — as in beeline; as in prude, fuddy-duddy; beeline; catch up; fast-forward sounds like ammo, b*, crow, grow, h*

  4. AR9 — sounds like prorate, reroute

AT

  1. AT7 — from one side to the other of an intervening space; in a line or direction running from corner to corner; to the opposite side of; across; over sounds like thwart

  2. AT5 — a sweet or pleasant smell; aroma; balm; bouquet; fragrance sounds like butter, cutter, eater, gutter, mutter

HA

  1. HA6 — to cause persistent suffering to; afflict; agonize; anguish; bedevil sounds like arrow, barrow, hero

  2. HA4 — sounds like art, cart, c**, dart, hearth

  3. HA8 — sounds like author, horn, horror

HO

  1. HO4 — dating or surviving from the distant past; a covering of tiny ice crystals on a cold surface; age-old; aged; ancient sounds like hall, haul, hauler, hawk, hawker

  2. HO5 — to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration; faithfulness to high moral standards; an asset that brings praise or renown; fete; recognize sounds like earner, inner, otter, owner

  3. HO6 — as in hail, huzzah; bravo; hail; hallelujah; hosanna sounds like hurrah

  4. HO4 — sounds like aura, whore

  5. HO4 — something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container; feeling or showing anger; as in bother, barge (in); cornet; cornucopia sounds like born, corn, mourn, s**

  6. HO6 — the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay; a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness; something unpleasant to look at; atrociousness; atrocity sounds like borer, hauler, hawker, hearer, whore

NA

  1. NA8 — to give an oral or written account of in some detail; chart; chronicle; describe; recite

  2. NA6 — being of less than usual width; not broad or open in views or opinions; having distinct or certain limits; fine; hairline sounds like faro, marrow

NO

  1. NO6 — sounds like monarch

  2. NO5 — sounds like forth, fourth

  3. NO7 — sounds like narrator, rotate

OR

  1. OR6 — a person who makes usually formal public speeches; lecturer; speaker sounds like altar, alter, amateur, auditor, aura

RA

  1. RA4 — a long angry speech or scolding; boastful speech or writing; to talk loudly and wildly; diatribe; harangue sounds like ant, aunt, can't, chant, g**

  2. RA7 — sounds like habitat

  3. RA6 — as in birch, cowhide; birch; blacksnake; bullwhip; cat-o'-nine-tails sounds like cotton, gotten, robin, written

RO

  1. RO4 — as in blotchy, piebald; as in palomino, chestnut; blotched; blotchy; piebald sounds like bone, cone, crone, drone, g**

  2. RO4 — a violent shouting; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; clamor; howl sounds like boar, bore, chore, core, door

  3. RO4 — a point or place at which something is invented or provided; the source from which something grows or develops; an immaterial thing upon which something else rests; cradle; font sounds like boot, brute, chute, fruit, hoot

  4. RO7 — sounds like rattler, rioter, stutter

  5. RO5 — as in gyroplane, convertiplane; as in biplane, triplane; autogiro; convertiplane; gyroplane sounds like boater, motor, voter, writer

  6. RO5 — sounds like rayon, ruin, run

TA

  1. TA7 —

  2. TA6 —

  3. TA4 — sounds like borrow, morrow, sorrow

  4. TA5 — sounds like carrot

  5. TA4 — causing or characterized by the one of the basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings; a woman who engages in sexual activities for money; acid; acidic sounds like art, cart, chart, dart, heart

  6. TA6 — sounds like carton, hearten

  7. TA6 — sounds like barter, charter, garter, martyr, starter

TH

  1. TH5 — something that is a source of irritation; aggravation; aggro; annoyance; bother sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

  2. TH6 — a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; a small uneven mass; a small rounded mass of swollen tissue; betrayer; canary sounds like rote, wrote

  3. TH5 — to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm; to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally; a risky undertaking; cast; catapult sounds like arrow, crow, grow, pro, row

  4. TH6 — to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm; to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally; to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm; cast; catapulted sounds like crone, drone, groan, grown, prone

  5. TH6 — to prevent from achieving a goal; baffle; balk; beat; checkmate sounds like quart, swart, wart

TO

  1. TO5 — sounds like aura

  2. TO4 — to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it; to separate or remove by forceful pulling; to proceed or move quickly; rent; ribboned sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

  3. TO4 —

  4. TO4 — sounds like court, fort, port, short, sort

TR

  1. TR4 — a mean or ugly old woman; abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools; to go at a pace faster than a walk; beldam; carline sounds like rot

  2. TR5 — a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something; the act or state of being engaged to be married; adherence to something to which one is bound by a pledge or duty; oath; pledge sounds like broth, froth

WA

  1. WA4 — to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk; advise; alert; caution; forewarn sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

  2. WA7 — the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something; to assume responsibility for the satisfactory quality or performance of; to give official acceptance of as satisfactory; allowance; authorization sounds like torrent

  3. WA9 — sounds like grantor

  4. WA4 — as in growth, tumor; growth; tumor; bump; knot sounds like court, fort, port, quart, short

WO

  1. WO4 — depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; to use up all the physical energy of; to damage or diminish by continued friction; all in; aweary sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

  2. WO4 — sounds like curt, dirt, hurt, pert, shirt

  3. WO5 — the relative usefulness or importance of something as judged by specific qualities; the amount of money for which something will find a buyer; the total of one's money and property; account; merit sounds like berth, birth, dearth, earth, girth

WR

  1. WR5 — an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something; suffering, loss, or hardship imposed in response to a crime or offense; anger; angriness; birse sounds like bath, math, path, rack, rag

  2. WR5 — feeling or showing anger; angered; angry; apoplectic; ballistic sounds like broth, froth, moth, roar

annotator, aorta, arhat, arrant, arrow, arrowroot, athwart, attar, harrow, hart, hawthorn, hoar, honor, hoorah, hora, horn, horror, narrator, narrow, nonart, north, notator, orator, rant, ratatat, rattan, roan, roar, root, rotator, rotor, rowan, tantara, tantra, taro, tarot, tart, tartan, tartar, thorn, throat, throw, thrown, thwart, torah, torn, toro, tort, trot, troth, warn, warrant, warrantor, wart, worn, wort, worth, wrath, wroth