NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 4 October, 2023

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

Letters: p  a  d  h  o  r  t

  • Total Answers: 45
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AD

  1. AD5 β€” to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; acclimate; acclimatize; accommodate; adjust
  2. AD7 β€” something that is not necessary in itself but adds to the convenience or performance of the main piece of equipment; accessory; accoutrement; add-on; adjunct
  3. AD5 β€” to take for one's own use (something originated by another); borrow; embrace; espouse; take on

AP

  1. AP5 β€” into parts or pieces; as in odd, nowhere; not including; asunder; piecemeal sounds like part
  2. AP7 β€” sounds like abbot, accurate, afferent, agate, amorist

AR

  1. AR9 β€” sounds like occupied, rarefied, tripod, whereupon

AT

  1. AT4 β€” on top of; above; over sounds like stop, top

DR

  1. DR5 β€” the extent to which something hangs or dips below a straight line; to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to lose bodily strength or vigor; hang; sag sounds like dupe, group, troop, troup, troupe
  2. DR4 β€” to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally; to go to a lower level especially abruptly; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; depress; lower sounds like crop, prop

HA

  1. HA7 β€” as in wagon, convertible; convertible; fastback; hatchback; notchback sounds like heart, hearten, hearty, hilltop
  2. HA4 β€” to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely; belabor; dwell (on or upon) sounds like carp, heart, hearth, hop, s**

HO

  1. HO4 β€” a circular strip; having or expressing feelings of joy or triumph; inclined or twisted to one side; band; circle sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, heap, hip
  2. HO6 β€”

OP

  1. OP4 β€”

PA

  1. PA4 β€” a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man sounds like pop, poppy
  2. PA7 β€” sounds like adore, matador, metaphor
  3. PA8 β€” sounds like backdrop, bedrock, drop, eavesdrop, melodrama
  4. PA7 β€” sounds like peril, perilous
  5. PA9 β€”
  6. PA6 β€” as in ape, echo; to say after another; ape; copycat; echo sounds like beret, carat, ferret, merit, pellet
  7. PA4 β€” one of the pieces from which something is designed to be assembled; something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group; the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists; member; partition sounds like a**, art, cart, chart, dart
  8. PA4 β€” the direction along which something or someone moves; a rough course or way formed by or as if by repeated footsteps; an established course for traveling from one place to another; course; line sounds like bath, math

PH

  1. PH7 β€” a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way; caesar; despot; dictator; fΓΌhrer sounds like arrow, crow, faro, flow, foe
  2. PH4 β€” of the very best kind; individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class; the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed; A-OK; A1 sounds like bat, cat, chat, fact, fad
  3. PH5 β€” a picture created from an image recorded on a light-sensitive surface by a camera; to take a photograph of; closely resembling the object imitated; photograph; pic sounds like auto, boat, boater, chateau, chateaux

PO

  1. PO4 β€” to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true; one of high position or importance within a group; to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true; brush (off); dismiss sounds like boo, chew, coup, dew, doo
  2. PO4 β€” solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal; information not generally available to the public; dirt; doo-doo; dropping sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop
  3. PO4 β€” lacking money or material possessions; producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation; less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable; beggared; beggarly sounds like boor, lure, moor, pair, pare
  4. PO5 β€” a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man
  5. PO4 β€” a part of a body of water protected and deep enough to be a place of safety for ships; to stop at or near a place along the shore; as in seaport, containerport; anchorage; harbor sounds like court, fort, part, short, sort
  6. PO6 β€” a lazy person; deadbeat; do-nothing; drone; idler sounds like petite, tomato

PR

  1. PR4 β€” a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like brat, pat, rat
  2. PR4 β€” as in incentive, goad; to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed object; to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action; encouragement; galvanization sounds like plod, pod, rod
  3. PR4 β€” a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else; to hold up or serve as a foundation for; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; brace; buttress sounds like crop, drop, plop, pop

RA

  1. RA7 β€” a friendly relationship marked by ready communication and mutual understanding; communion; fellowship; rapprochement sounds like pore, pour, repair, report
  2. RA4 β€” experiencing or marked by overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion; having the mind fixed on something; ecstatic; elated; elevated sounds like apt, lapped, tapped
  3. RA6 β€” sounds like captor, chapter, wrapper
  4. RA7 β€” a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape; bind; box; catch-22; corner sounds like strap, trap

TA

  1. TA4 β€” sounds like top, topper, topple
  2. TA7 β€” sounds like uproot
  3. TA4 β€” sounds like carp, harp, sharp, top

TO

  1. TO6 β€” lack of interest or concern; physical or mental inertness; apathy; casualness; complacence

TR

  1. TR4 β€” a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise; a setup in which hidden attackers lie in wait; something that catches and holds; ambush; net sounds like crap, rap, s**, tap
  2. TR8 β€” as in portcullis, lattice; double door; Dutch door; French door; lattice sounds like grandeur, rapport
  3. TR5 β€” as in march, pace; an organized group of stage performers; the combined army, air force, and navy of a nation; march; pace sounds like droop, group

adapt, adaptor, adopt, apart, apparat, arthropod, atop, droop, drop, hardtop, harp, hoop, hotpot, opah, papa, parador, paradrop, paratha, paratroop, parrot, part, path, pharaoh, phat, photo, pooh, poop, poor, poppa, port, potato, prat, prod, prop, rapport, rapt, raptor, rattrap, tapa, taproot, tarp, torpor, trap, trapdoor, troop