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 — to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; acclimate; acclimatize; accommodate; adjust
2. AD7 — 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 — to take for one's own use (something originated by another); borrow; embrace; espouse; take on

AP

5. AP5 — into parts or pieces; as in odd, nowhere; not including; asunder; piecemeal sounds like part
6. AP7 — sounds like abbot, accurate, afferent, agate, amorist

AR

8. AR9 — sounds like occupied, rarefied, tripod, whereupon

AT

10. AT4 — on top of; above; over sounds like stop, top

DR

12. DR5 — 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
13. DR4 — 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

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

HO

18. HO4 — 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
19. HO6 —

OP

21. OP4 —

PA

23. PA4 — a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man sounds like pop, poppy
24. PA7 — sounds like adore, matador, metaphor
25. PA8 — sounds like backdrop, bedrock, drop, eavesdrop, melodrama
26. PA7 — sounds like peril, perilous
27. PA9 —
28. PA6 — as in ape, echo; to say after another; ape; copycat; echo sounds like beret, carat, ferret, merit, pellet
29. PA4 — 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
30. PA4 — 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

32. PH7 — a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way; caesar; despot; dictator; führer sounds like arrow, crow, faro, flow, foe
33. PH4 — 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
34. PH5 — 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

36. PO4 — 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
37. PO4 — 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
38. PO4 — 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
39. PO5 — a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man
40. PO4 — 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
41. PO6 — a lazy person; deadbeat; do-nothing; drone; idler sounds like petite, tomato

PR

43. PR4 — a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like brat, pat, rat
44. PR4 — 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
45. PR4 — 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

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

TA

52. TA4 — sounds like top, topper, topple
53. TA7 — sounds like uproot
54. TA4 — sounds like carp, harp, sharp, top

TO

56. TO6 — lack of interest or concern; physical or mental inertness; apathy; casualness; complacence

TR

58. TR4 — 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
59. TR8 — as in portcullis, lattice; double door; Dutch door; French door; lattice sounds like grandeur, rapport
60. TR5 — 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