NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 6 September, 2023

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

Letters: a  d  e  f  h  n  o

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AD

  1. AD5 — resulting in an increase in amount or number; to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; to combine (numbers) into a single sum; additional; another sounds like acid, arid, avid, dud, p*
  2. AD6sounds like amend, append, ascend, attend, offend
  3. AD7 — a part added at the end of a book or periodical; something added (as by growth); a part added at the end of a book or periodical; afterwords; appendixes sounds like agenda

AE

  1. AE4 — a long or seemingly long period of time; age; blue moon; coon's age; cycle sounds like neon

AH

  1. AH5 — so as to precede something in order of time; toward a point ahead in space or time; toward or at a point lying in advance in space or time; afore; already sounds like head

AN

  1. AN5sounds like node
  2. AN4 — at or within a short time; on some occasions; a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; before long; by and by sounds like upon

DE

  1. DE4 — no longer living; lacking in gaiety, movement, or animation; depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; asleep; breathless sounds like bed, dad, dare
  2. DE6 — to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality; to reduce or weaken in strength or feeling; castrate; damp; dampen sounds like leaden
  3. DE8 — as in drugged, stupefied; to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality; to reduce or weaken in strength or feeling; anesthetized; cocainized sounds like diamond, didn't, errand, hadn't, leaden
  4. DE8 — a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like redhead
  5. DE10sounds like redheaded
  6. DE4 — sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion; to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis; to change the course or direction of (something); adamant; adamantine sounds like chef, dare, doff
  7. DE6sounds like beckon
  8. DE8
  9. DE4 — the senior member of a group; doyen; elder; elder statesman; éminence grise sounds like bean, dawn, din, dine, don

DO

  1. DO6 — a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember; a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest; something that decorates or beautifies; dingus; doohickey sounds like dad

EN

  1. EN6sounds like any, knead, need

FA

  1. FA4 — to cease to be visible; to make white or whiter by removing color; to lose bodily strength or vigor; dematerialize; disappear sounds like aid, aide, bade
  2. FA5 — lacking intensity of color; to cease to be visible; to make white or whiter by removing color; dull; dulled sounds like jaded
  3. FA6 — as in ignited, triggered; as in swung, swayed; to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area; ignited; inflamed sounds like and, band, canned, feigned, fend

HA

  1. HA4 — a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; a place, space, or direction away from or beyond a central point or line; an arrow-shaped piece on a dial or scale for registering information; angle; aspect sounds like and, band, canned, hind, honed
  2. HA6 — to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption; to shift possession of (something) from one person to another; to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another; delivered; fed sounds like candid
  3. HA7sounds like standoff

HE

  1. HE4 — the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; the place of leadership or command; a light mass of fine bubbles formed in or on a liquid; bean; block sounds like a**, bed, dead, fed, had
  2. HE6 — to go on a specified course or in a certain direction; to be at the front of; to be in charge of; bore; made sounds like wedded
  3. HE5
  4. HE7sounds like bend, decade, end, fend, hand

NA

  1. NA4sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
  2. NA4sounds like nod
  3. NA4sounds like manna

OD

  1. OD4 — as in music halls, theaters-in-the-round; arena theaters; music halls; playhouses; theaters-in-the-round sounds like aria, audio, idea

OF

  1. OF7 — made or done without previous thought or preparation; as in casually, carelessly; ad hoc; ad-lib; down and dirty sounds like hand, longhand
  2. OF9 — made or done without previous thought or preparation; ad hoc; ad-lib; down and dirty; extemporaneous sounds like backhanded, candid, founded, funded, handle

added, addend, addenda, aeon, ahead, anode, anon, dead, deaden, deadened, deadhead, deadheaded, deaf, deafen, deafened, dean, doodad, ennead, fade, faded, fanned, hand, handed, handoff, head, headed, henna, hennaed, naan, nada, nana, odea, offhand, offhanded