NYT π CluesβFri. 20 January, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: o a e f g l p
- Total Answers: 48
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AG
- AG4 β having or showing signs of eagerly awaiting something; showing urgent desire or interest; agape; anticipant; anticipatory sounds like afar, ajar, allot, atop, awash
AL
- AL4 β sounds like ago, blow, flow, glow, hello
- AL5 β having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; antisocial; asocial; buttoned-up; cold
AP
- AP6 β the highest part or point; acme; apex; capstone; climax
EL
- EL5 β as in escape, abscond; abscond; clear out; decamp; escape sounds like alone, lope, slope
FA
- FA7 β the amount by which something is lessened; to turn away from a straight line or course; abatement; decline; decrease sounds like flaw, flawed, floor, fluff
FL
- FL8 β sounds like tadpole
- FL4 β sounds like blow, fallow, fellow
- FL4 β to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; to strike repeatedly; to move heavily or clumsily; birch; cowhide sounds like clog, fog, frog, slog
- FL4 β something that has failed; to throw or set down clumsily or casually; to be unsuccessful; bomb; bummer sounds like glop, lop, plop, slop
FO
- FO4 β as in filly, colt; colt; filly; gelding; mare sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, fail
- FO4 β a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a person formerly kept in a royal or noble household to amuse with jests and pranks; a person with a strong and habitual liking for something; berk; booby sounds like cool, fail, fall, feel, fell
GA
- GA6 β to go at a pace faster than a walk; dash; jog; run; scamper
- GA5 β
GL
- GL5 β sounds like group, loop, sloop
- GL4 β a thick semiliquid substance (as food) that is unattractive; slop; swill sounds like flop, lop, plop, slop
GO
- GO4 β something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; aim; ambition; aspiration; bourne sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- GO6 β to look long and hard in wonder or surprise; blink; gape; gawk; gawp sounds like boggle, gaggle, giggle, gurgle
- GO4 β sounds like gulf
- GO4 β an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; a stupid person; to spend time in aimless activity; blunder; bobble sounds like gaffe, hoof, poof, roof, woof
- GO6 β sounds like gaggle, giggle, gurgle
- GO6 β sounds like gaggle, giggle, gurgle
- GO4 β as in gunk, goo; crud; goo; guck; gunk sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, gap, group
LO
- LO4 β to spend time doing nothing; as in reason, noodle; bum; chill; dally sounds like laugh, leaf, life
- LO4 β as in box, booth; booth; box; crib; stall sounds like ledge
- LO4 β a device, design, or figure used as an identifying mark; emblem; ensign; hallmark; impresa
- LO4 β to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall
- LO6 β to move with a light springing step; bounce; bound; hop; lope sounds like dollop, wallop
- LO5 β sounds like aloof, alpha, goof, goofy, hoof
- LO4 β a circular strip; as in circle, spiral; to cause an unpleasant surprise for; band; circle sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, lap
- LO4 β to move with a light springing step; as in bounce, skip; bounce; bound; hop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lap, leap
OF
- OF5 β discarded or useless material; chaff; deadwood; debris; dreck sounds like waffle
OG
- OG4 β sounds like edgy
- OG4 β to look at in a flirtatious or desiring way; as in gaze, stare; leer (at); gape; gaze sounds like eagle, gull, mogul, oval
OL
- OL4 β sounds like polio
OP
- OP4 β sounds like apple, ogle, oval
PA
- PA5 β sounds like polio
PE
- PE6 β human beings in general; the body of the community as contrasted with the elite; a group of persons who come from the same ancestor; folks; humanity sounds like papal, purple
PL
- PL4 β to throw or set down clumsily or casually; as in sinking, plummeting; flop; flump; plank sounds like flop, glop, lop, pop, prop
PO
- PO4 β sounds like logo
- PO4 β as in center, capital; as in punt; capital; center; cynosure sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- PO4 β the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; to go around and approach (people) with a request for opinions or information; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; bean; block sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- PO4 β sounds like pillow, solo
- PO4 β sounds like goof, hoof, proof, puff, roof
- PO4 β a small often deep body of water; a body of persons at work or available for work; the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time; billabong; mere sounds like cool, fool, pail, pal, pale
- 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
- PO4 β as in bishop, archbishop; abbot; archbishop; archpriest; bishop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pap
- PO5 β a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man