NYT π CluesβWed. 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! π€£
AN
- AN9 β as in analyst, commentator; to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc.); analyst; columnist; commentator sounds like agitator, innovator
AO
- AO5 β sounds like aura, chortle, court, fort, mortal
AR
- AR5 β sounds like brat, hat, rat
- AR6 β having no exceptions or restrictions; absolute; all-out; blank; blooming sounds like bunt, current, hunt, punt, urgent
- AR5 β as in beeline; as in prude, fuddy-duddy; beeline; catch up; fast-forward sounds like ammo, b*, crow, grow, h*
- AR9 β sounds like prorate, reroute
AT
- AT7 β 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
- AT5 β a sweet or pleasant smell; aroma; balm; bouquet; fragrance sounds like butter, cutter, eater, gutter, mutter
HA
- HA6 β to cause persistent suffering to; afflict; agonize; anguish; bedevil sounds like arrow, barrow, hero
- HA4 β sounds like art, cart, c**, dart, hearth
- HA8 β sounds like author, horn, horror
HO
- HO4 β 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
- HO5 β 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
- HO6 β as in hail, huzzah; bravo; hail; hallelujah; hosanna sounds like hurrah
- HO4 β sounds like aura, whore
- HO4 β 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**
- HO6 β 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
- NA8 β to give an oral or written account of in some detail; chart; chronicle; describe; recite
- NA6 β 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
- NO6 β sounds like monarch
- NO5 β sounds like forth, fourth
- NO7 β sounds like narrator, rotate
OR
- OR6 β a person who makes usually formal public speeches; lecturer; speaker sounds like altar, alter, amateur, auditor, aura
RA
- RA4 β 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**
- RA7 β sounds like habitat
- RA6 β as in birch, cowhide; birch; blacksnake; bullwhip; cat-o'-nine-tails sounds like cotton, gotten, robin, written
RO
- RO4 β as in blotchy, piebald; as in palomino, chestnut; blotched; blotchy; piebald sounds like bone, cone, crone, drone, g**
- RO4 β 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
- RO4 β 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
- RO7 β sounds like rattler, rioter, stutter
- RO5 β as in gyroplane, convertiplane; as in biplane, triplane; autogiro; convertiplane; gyroplane sounds like boater, motor, voter, writer
- RO5 β sounds like rayon, ruin, run
TA
- TA7 β
- TA6 β
- TA4 β sounds like borrow, morrow, sorrow
- TA5 β sounds like carrot
- TA4 β 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
- TA6 β sounds like carton, hearten
- TA6 β sounds like barter, charter, garter, martyr, starter
TH
- TH5 β something that is a source of irritation; aggravation; aggro; annoyance; bother sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn
- TH6 β 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
- TH5 β 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
- TH6 β 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
- TH6 β to prevent from achieving a goal; baffle; balk; beat; checkmate sounds like quart, swart, wart
TO
- TO5 β sounds like aura
- TO4 β 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
- TO4 β
- TO4 β sounds like court, fort, port, short, sort
TR
- TR4 β 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
- TR5 β 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
- WA4 β to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk; advise; alert; caution; forewarn sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn
- WA7 β 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
- WA9 β sounds like grantor
- WA4 β as in growth, tumor; growth; tumor; bump; knot sounds like court, fort, port, quart, short
WO
- WO4 β 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
- WO4 β sounds like curt, dirt, hurt, pert, shirt
- WO5 β 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
- WR5 β 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
- WR5 β feeling or showing anger; angered; angry; apoplectic; ballistic sounds like broth, froth, moth, roar