NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 27 July, 2022

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

Letters: r  a  d  j  n  o  u

  • Total Answers: 26
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AD

  1. AD7 — to bring to a formal close for a period of time synonyms—prorogate, prorogue, recess, suspend

  2. AD5 — to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming synonyms—array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, blazon

AJ

  1. AJ4 — slightly open sounds like—afar, jar

AR

  1. AR5 — depth of feeling; urgent desire or interest; intense sexual desire synonyms—ardency, emotion, enthusiasm, fervency, fervidness sounds like—harder, larder, order

  2. AR6 — close to; in random positions within the boundaries of synonyms—about, by, near, next to, nigh sounds like—bound, earned, found, hound, mound

AU

  1. AU4 — a special quality or impression associated with something; a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings synonyms—air, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, climate sounds like—era, oral, orb, ore

  2. AU6 — the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance synonyms—cockcrow, dawn, dawning, day, daybreak sounds like—drawer, flora, roar, trauma

DA

  1. DA4 — the smallest amount or part imaginable synonyms—beans, bubkes, continental, damn, diddly sounds like—barn, don, yarn

DO

  1. DO5 — one that helps another with gifts or money synonyms—angel, benefactor, donator, fairy godmother, Maecenas sounds like—diner, dinner, loner, owner, toner

  2. DO4 — a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened; the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure; the means or right of entering or participating in synonyms—gate, hatch, portal, **way, entrance sounds like—adore, boar, bore, chore, core

  3. DO6 — a city or country of fabulous riches held by 16th century explorers to exist in South America; a place of fabulous wealth or opportunity sounds like—board, border, bored, chord, cord

  4. DO4 — harsh and threatening in manner or appearance synonyms—austere, fierce, flinty, forbidding, grim sounds like—bower, cower, hour, our

JO

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JU

  1. JU5 — a jury that examines accusations against persons charged with crime and if the evidence warrants makes formal charges on which the accused persons are later tried sounds like—poorer

OD

  1. OD4 — a special quality or impression associated with something; the quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose; overall quality as seen or judged by people in general synonyms—air, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, aura sounds like—loader, ochre, older, over, owner

RA

  1. RA5 — a device designed to alert the operator of a vehicle when it has been targeted by a * beam (as from a police officer's * gun); * gun

  2. RA5 — a heavy radioactive gaseous element formed by the decay of radium

  3. RA4 — as in prince, baron synonyms—baron, baronet, count, duke, earl sounds like—cholla, comma, dodge, donna, drama

  4. RA4 — Ayn 1905—1982 American (Russian-born) writer sounds like—and, band, b, canned, g

RO

  1. RO4 — a passage cleared for public vehicular travel; a **way overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel synonyms—arterial, artery, avenue, boulevard, carriageway sounds like—bode, code, erode, goad, load

  2. RO4 — as in blotchy, piebald synonyms—blotched, blotchy, piebald, pinto, chromatic sounds like—bone, cone, crone, drone, g**

  3. RO4 — a violent shouting; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound synonyms—clamor, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo sounds like—boar, bore, chore, core, door

  4. RO5 — an instrumental composition typically with a refrain recurring four times in the tonic and with three couplets in contrasting keys; the musical form of a * used especially for a movement in a concerto or sonata sounds like—condo

  5. RO4 — a cross or crucifix symbolizing the cross on which Jesus Christ died; specifically : a large crucifix on a beam or screen at the entrance to the chancel of a church; any of various units of land area; especially : a British unit equal to 1/4 acre; any of various units of length; especially : a British unit equal to seven or eight yards or sometimes a rod sounds like—could, good, hood, raid, read

  6. RO5 — a circular strip; a series of events or actions that repeat themselves regularly and in the same order; something with a perfectly * circumference synonyms—band, circle, eye, hoop, loop sounds like—a*, bound, drowned, found, g*

RU

  1. RU9 — as in circumvention, sidestepping synonyms—bypassing, circumvention, sidestepping, skirting, avoidance sounds like—renowned, turnaround

adjourn, adorn, ajar, ardor, around, aura, aurora, darn, donor, door, dorado, dour, journo, juror, odor, radar, radon, raja, rand, road, roan, roar, rondo, rood, round, runaround