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

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• Total Answers: 36
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

HO

1. HO5 — to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration synonyms—fete, recognize sounds like—earner, inner, otter, owner
2. HO4 — something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container synonyms—cornet, cornucopia sounds like—born, corn, mourn, s**
3. HO6 — the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay; a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness; something unpleasant to look at synonyms—atrociousness, atrocity, awfulness, dreadfulness, frightfulness sounds like—borer, hauler, hawker, hearer, whore

IN

4. IN5 — a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part synonyms—exordium, foreword, *duction, preamble, preface sounds like—encroach, engross, entice, entire, entre

IR

5. IR4 — as in sand, grit synonyms—backbone, fortitude, grit, pluck, sand sounds like—burn, burne, churn, durn, earn

NI

6. NI5 — any of various nitrated products; specifically : *glycerin sounds like—gyro, knight, knightly, maestro, metro

NO

7. NO4 — a dry red wine produced from the same grape as French burgundy sounds like—afar, ajar, are, bar, car
8. NO4 — dried laver seaweed pressed into thin sheets and used especially as a seasoning or as a wrapper for sushi sounds like—gory, nary, naughty
9. NO5 — Douglass Cecil 1920—2015 American economist sounds like—forth, fourth

RH

10. RH5 — a large, endangered Asian *ceros (*ceros unicornis) that has a single horn and deeply folded, grayish-brown skin and that is now reduced to several small populations in India and Nepal —called also greater one-horned *ceros sounds like—rind

RI

11. RI4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river synonyms—beck, bourn, brook, brooklet, burn sounds like—bill, chill, dill, d**, fill
12. RI4 — someone or something that is very funny synonyms—hoot, knee-slapper, laugh, scream sounds like—diet, rut, write

RO

13. RO4 — to be in a state of violent rolling motion; to make angry synonyms—boil, churn, moil, seethe, anger sounds like—boil, b**, coil, foil, oil
14. RO4 — to form into a round compact mass; to make a low heavy **ing sound; to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions synonyms—agglomerate, ball, round, wad, growl sounds like—boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
15. RO4 — a point or place at which something is invented or provided; the source from which something grows or develops; an immaterial thing upon which something else rests synonyms—cradle, font, fountain, fountainhead, origin sounds like—boot, brute, chute, fruit, hoot
16. RO4 — a round soft flat unleavened bread; also : such a bread wrapped around a filling and eaten as a sandwich sounds like—goatee, ratty, wrote
17. RO6 — short, corkscrew-shaped pasta sounds like—protein
18. RO5 — as in gyroplane, convertiplane; as in biplane, triplane synonyms—autogiro, convertiplane, gyroplane, rotary-wing aircraft, *craft sounds like—boater, motor, voter, writer
19. RO8 — as in hoe, list synonyms—harrow, hoe, list, rake, fallow sounds like—coattail, notable, potable, protocol, prototype

TH

20. TH5 — something that is a source of irritation synonyms—aggravation, aggro, annoyance, bother, botheration sounds like—born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn
21. TH6 — a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings synonyms—bang, boot, charge, exhilaration, frisson sounds like—drill, frill, grill, grille, rill

TI

22. TI7 — one (such as a gambler) who pretends to have money, ability, or influence sounds like—inborn, intern

TO

23. TO4 — sounds like—gory, story, talky, tarry, tawdry
24. TO5 — a Japanese gateway of light construction commonly built at the approach to a Shinto shrine sounds like—boring, corny, forage, foresee, gory
25. TO4 — to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it; to separate or remove by forceful pulling; to proceed or move quickly synonyms—rent, ribboned, ripped, riven, shredded sounds like—born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn
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27. TO4 — a wrongful act other than a breach of contract for which relief may be obtained in the form of damages or an injunction sounds like—court, fort, port, short, sort
28. TO7 — ice cream made of heavy cream often with minced almonds and chopped maraschino cherries and often flavored with rum sounds like—corny, courtly, crony, hormone, martini

TR

29. TR5 — to sing with the alternation of two musical tones synonyms—quaver, warble sounds like—drill, frill, grill, grille, rill
30. TR8 — as in million, zillion synonyms—gazillion, jillion, kazillion, million, thousands sounds like—billion, brilliance, brilliant, jillion, million
31. TR10 — a number equal to 1,000 times one billion; an indeterminately large number
32. TR4 — a group of three synonyms—threesome, triad, trifecta, trinity, triple
33. TR6 — a son of Poseidon described as a demigod of the sea with the lower part of his body like that of a fish; any of various large marine gastropod mollusks (family Ranellidae synonym Cymatiidae) with a heavy elongated conical shell; also : the shell sounds like—brighten, frighten, tighten, titan
34. TR5 — an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers synonyms—brownie, dwarf, elf, faerie, fairy sounds like—role, roll, s*, toll
35. TR4 — a mean or ugly old woman; abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools synonyms—beldam, carline, crone, hag, hellcat sounds like—rot
36. TR5 — a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something; the act or state of being engaged to be married; adherence to something to which one is bound by a pledge or duty synonyms—oath, pledge, promise, vow, word sounds like—broth, froth