NYT π CluesβMon. 1 May, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: p b e l o t y
- Total Answers: 45
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
BE
- BE5 β sounds like bop
- BE4 β as in buzz; buzz; call; dial; phone
BL
- BL5 β as in remove, cut; blip; clip; cut; excise sounds like beep, leap, sleep
- BL5 β sounds like loop, sloop
EL
- EL5 β as in escape, abscond; abscond; clear out; decamp; escape sounds like alone, lope, slope
EP
- EP4 β sounds like easy, pea
LO
- LO6 β to move with a light springing step; bounce; bound; hop; lope sounds like dollop, wallop
- LO4 β a circular strip; as in circle, spiral; to cause an unpleasant surprise for; band; circle sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, lap
- LO5 β as in dotty, touched; dotty; fey; off; potty sounds like lucy, rupee, soupy
- LO4 β to move with a light springing step; as in bounce, skip; bounce; bound; hop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lap, leap
PE
- PE6 β sounds like rebel
- PE6 β not having a level or smooth surface; broken; bumpy; coarse; irregular sounds like barely, belly, bubbly, deadly, deathly
- PE4 β to remove the natural covering of; to rid oneself of (a garment); to leave a place often for another; bark; flay sounds like appeal, deal, eel, feel, heal
- 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
- PE6 β as in bead, pearl; a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm; bead; pearl; pelletize sounds like palate, palette, pallet, parrot, pilot
- PE4 β a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; the outer covering of an animal removed for its commercial value; to proceed or move quickly; bang; bash sounds like belt, dealt, felt, knelt, melt
- 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
- PE5 β having active strength of body or mind; having much high-spirited energy and movement; dynamic; energetic; flush sounds like parry, poppy, preppie, preppy, puppy
- PE5 β not broad or open in views or opinions; so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention; as in pocket money, spending money; illiberal; insular sounds like jetty, parry, patty, pity, potty
- PE6 β sounds like paint, paste, pate, payout
PL
- PL4 β as in commoner, plebeian; commoner; plebeian; prole; proletarian
- PL5 β as in commoner, plebeian; commoner; plebeian; prole; proletarian
- PL4 β as in sinking, plummeting; to throw or set down clumsily or casually; plummeting; sinking; descent sounds like flop, glop, lop, pop, prop
- PL4 β a secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful ends; a small area of usually open land; a small piece of land that is developed or available for development; conspiracy; design sounds like allot, blot, clot, lat, lot
- PL4 β a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end; a time or instance of carefree fun; artifice; device; dodge sounds like alloy, cloy
PO
- PO4 β a person who writes poetry; as in poet, poetaster; as in poets, poetasters; bard; minstrel sounds like putt
- 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
- PO5 β as in cancer, carcinoma; cancer; carcinoma; lymphoma; malignancy
- PO4 β as in join, connect; a small often deep body of water; a body of persons at work or available for work; combine; connect 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
- PO6 β a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; action figure; doll; dolly; puppet sounds like puppet
- PO5 β sounds like choppy, copy, peppy, puppy
- PO8 β an enlarged or bulging abdomen; bay window; beer belly; belly; corporation sounds like partially, wobbly
- PO5 β being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior; a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste; as in dirty, nasty; aristocratic; elitist sounds like knotty, party, patty, petty, pity
TE
- TE6 β sounds like beady, beefy, beep, beeper, cheap
- TE8 β
- TE5 β sounds like guppy, puppy, touchy, tummy, yuppie
TO
- TO4 β sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pope
- TO6 β to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily; fall; slip; stumble; trip sounds like tipple
TY
- TY4 β a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common; one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic; to arrange or assign according to type; breed; class sounds like hype, pipe, ripe, tap, tape
- TY4 β
YE
- YE4 β as in howl, squeal; to cry out loudly and emotionally; bark; bay; bellow sounds like help, kelp