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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 19 May, 2023

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

Letters: p  a  d  e  i  n  x

  • Total Answers: 55
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AP

  1. AP4 β€” to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; copied; copycatted; emulated sounds like opt, upper
  2. AP4 β€” the highest part or point; the last and usually sharp or tapering part of something long and narrow; acme; apogee; capstone sounds like annex, flex, latex, peck, pence
  3. AP5 β€” sounds like alien, paean
  4. AP5 β€” sounds like acne, mania
  5. AP6 β€” to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; add; adjoin; annex; subjoin sounds like amend, ascend, attend, offend, spend
  6. AP8 β€” to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; added; adjoined; annexed sounds like offended
  7. AP8 β€” a part added at the end of a book or periodical; addendum; afterword; codicil; excursus

DA

  1. DA6 β€” sounds like adapt, apt, doped, lapped, rapped

DE

  1. DE7 β€” not expressing any emotion; blank; catatonic; empty; expressionless sounds like bedpan
  2. DE10 β€”
  3. DE4 β€” extending far downward; having a low musical pitch or range; being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain; abysmal; bottomless sounds like beep, cheap, dip, dope
  4. DE6 β€” to make markedly greater in measure or degree; accentuate; amp (up); amplify; beef (up) sounds like cheapen
  5. DE8 β€” as in aggravated, concentrated; to make markedly greater in measure or degree; to make markedly greater in measure or degree; accentuated; aggravated
  6. DE6 β€” to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); to place reliance or trust; as in rely (on); hang; hinge
  7. DE8 β€” to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); to place reliance or trust; to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); hinged; hung sounds like offended, suspended

DI

  1. DI6 β€” as in splashed, dunked; to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid; to lift out with something that holds liquid; dunked; splashed sounds like chipped, doped, shipped, sipped, whipped

EP

  1. EP4 β€” sounds like easy, pea

EX

  1. EX6 β€” to express more fully and in greater detail; to make greater in size, amount, or number; to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area; amplify; develop
  2. EX8 β€” as in ballooned, blown up; to express more fully and in greater detail; to make greater in size, amount, or number; ballooned; blown up
  3. EX6 β€” to hand over or use up in payment; to make complete use of; disburse; drop; fork (over, out, or up)
  4. EX8 β€” as in spent, reduced; to hand over or use up in payment; to make complete use of; bankrupted; consumed

NA

  1. NA4 β€” sounds like ape, cape, nip, rape, shape
  2. NA6 β€” to sleep lightly or briefly; to be in a state of sleep; a short sleep; catnapped; dozed sounds like apt, lapped, rapped, rapt, s**

NE

  1. NE4 β€” sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep

NI

  1. NI7 β€” sounds like kingpin, linchpin
  2. NI6 β€” as in chilled; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points; chilled; asleep sounds like chipped, knit, shipped, sipped, whipped

PA

  1. PA6 β€” as in embroidered, embellished; to add to the interest of by including made-up details; to go on foot; elaborated; embellished sounds like added
  2. PA5 β€” a formal expression of praise; accolade; citation; commendation; dithyramb sounds like eon, peony, pun
  3. PA4 β€” as in expensive, high; to give (someone) the sum of money owed for goods or services received; to give what is owed for; costly; dear sounds like aid, aide, bade, fade, jade
  4. PA4 β€” a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body; a state of great suffering of body or mind; strict attentiveness to what one is doing; ache; pang sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
  5. PA6 β€” to feel or cause physical pain; to feel or cause physical pain; ached; hurt; smarted sounds like chained, feigned, gained, pond
  6. PA5 β€”
  7. PA4 β€” sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
  8. PA5 β€” sounds like chained, feigned, gained, pond
  9. PA6 β€” sounds like bikini, canine, dainty, faintly, genie
  10. PA6 β€” to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of; to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of; to come to be; blamed; censured sounds like and, band, canned, hand, land
  11. PA4 β€” a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man sounds like pop, poppy

PE

  1. PE4 β€” sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  2. PE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
  3. PE4 β€” an instance of looking especially briefly; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cast; eye; gander sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
  4. PE6 β€” to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cheeped; chirped; chirruped
  5. PE4 β€” sounds like ap**, bend, end, fend, lend
  6. PE6 β€” sounds like ended, tended
  7. PE5 β€” sounds like den, hen, pain, pair, pan
  8. PE6 β€” as in imprisoned, caged; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; to compose and set down on paper the words of; caged; chained sounds like append, bend, end, fend, lend
  9. PE6 β€” to give life, vigor, or spirit to; amp (up); animate; brace; energize sounds like kept, leapt, wept

PI

  1. PI4 β€” having blotches of two or more colors; blotched; blotchy; dappled; marbled sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  2. PI4 β€” as in long, yearn; to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; as in long (for), sigh; long; yearn sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, o**
  3. PI5 β€” as in longed, yearned; to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; as in longed (for), sighed; longed; yearned sounds like pained, pond, pound
  4. PI6 β€” as in mounted, hooked; as in chose, determined; as in charged, fathered (on); hooked; mounted sounds like pained, pond, pound
  5. PI8 β€” sounds like inept, sniped
  6. PI4 β€” a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; channel; conduit sounds like hype, pap, peep, pop, pope
  7. PI5 β€” to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; canalized; channeled sounds like typed
  8. PI6 β€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like begin, bidden, herein, kingpin, poplin
  9. PI5 β€” tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness; an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers; arch; devilish; elvish

aped, apex, apian, apnea, append, appended, appendix, dapped, deadpan, deadpanned, deep, deepen, deepened, depend, depended, dipped, epee, expand, expanded, expend, expended, nape, napped, neap, ninepin, nipped, padded, paean, paid, pain, pained, panda, pane, paned, panini, panned, papa, peed, peen, peep, peeped, pend, pended, penne, penned, pepped, pied, pine, pined, pinned, pinniped, pipe, piped, pippin, pixie