NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 25 March, 2023

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

Letters: a  m  o  r  t  w  y

  • Total Answers: 60
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AM

  1. AM7 — of, relating to, exciting, or expressing sexual attraction or desire; amorous; aphrodisiac; erogenous; erotic sounds like allegory, lavatory, oratory

  2. AM4 — sounds like arrow, mow

AO

  1. AO5 — sounds like aura, chortle, court, fort, mortal

AR

  1. AR5 — means or method of defending; something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; as in ensheathe, encapsulate; aegis; ammunition sounds like charmer, farmer

  2. AR6 — a place where military arms are stored; arsenal; depot; dump; magazine

  3. AR4 — a large body of men and women organized for land warfare; a great number of persons or creatures massed together; a group of people working together on a task; array; battalion

  4. AR5 — a sweet or pleasant smell; the quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose; a special quality or impression associated with something; attar; balm sounds like coma, soma

  5. AR5 — a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; dressy clothing; assemblage; band sounds like awry, bay, day, earl, earn

  6. AR5 — as in beeline; as in prude, fuddy-duddy; beeline; catch up; fast-forward sounds like ammo, b*, crow, grow, h*

  7. AR9 — sounds like prorate, reroute

  8. AR6 — as in runoff, freshet; billabong; fresh; freshet; runoff

  9. AR4 — sounds like he, p

AT

  1. AT4 — a very small piece; bit; crumb; dribble; fleck sounds like alum, annum, autumn, datum, item

  2. AT5 — a sweet or pleasant smell; aroma; balm; bouquet; fragrance sounds like butter, cutter, eater, gutter, mutter

AW

  1. AW4 — from this or that place; not close in time or space; not at a certain place; down; fro sounds like allay, sway, way, weigh

  2. AW4 — inclined or twisted to one side; off the desired or intended path or course; askew; aslant; atilt sounds like arise, array, arrive, buy, die

MA

  1. MA4 — a female human parent; as in boy, kid; as in boys, kids; ma; mammy sounds like comma, mom

  2. MA5 — a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mom

  3. MA7 — sounds like memory

  4. MA4 — sounds like arm, charm, farm, harm

  5. MA6 —

  6. MA6 — as in center, core; alpha and omega; center; core; keynote sounds like faro, meadow, mellow, memo, merry

  7. MA5 — to perform the ceremony of marriage for; to give in marriage; to take as a spouse; wed; espouse sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  8. MA4 — as in department store, mini-mart; as in department store, chain store; boutique; chain store; department store sounds like art, cart, chart, dart, heart

  9. MA6 — to kill (someone) for refusing to give up a belief or cause—usually used as (be) martyred; as in sacrifice; assail; attack; afflict sounds like barter, charter, garter, mortar, smarter

  10. MA4 — sounds like kayo

  11. MA5 — sounds like layer

MO

  1. MO4 — a deep, wide excavation that is usually filled with water and that goes around the walls of a place (such as a castle) to protect it from being attacked; ha-ha; stank; sunk fence; dike sounds like boat, coat, goat, mat, mate

  2. MO5 — a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mana

  3. MO5 — sounds like fray, gray, grey, may, pray

  4. MO6 — sounds like martyr, porter, shorter

  5. MO8 — as in interstate, autobahn; autobahn; autoroute; autostrada; dual carriageway sounds like waterway

OA

  1. OA4 — sounds like eighty, goatee, tea, tee

OR

  1. OR6 — a person who makes usually formal public speeches; lecturer; speaker sounds like altar, alter, amateur, auditor, aura

  2. OR7 — the art of speaking in public eloquently and effectively; language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere; elocution; public speaking; bombast sounds like dormitory, laudatory

RA

  1. RA7 — sounds like habitat

  2. RA5 — showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; worn or torn into or as if into rags; easily irritated or annoyed; beat-up; bombed-out sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

RO

  1. RO4 — to move about from place to place aimlessly; bat; cruise; drift; float sounds like chrome, comb, dome, foam, gnome

  2. RO4 — a violent shouting; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; clamor; howl sounds like boar, bore, chore, core, door

  3. RO6 — as in circle, roundabout; as in rotorcraft; as in rotorcraft; circle; roundabout sounds like coterie

  4. RO7 — sounds like rattler, rioter, stutter

  5. RO8 — sounds like category, laudatory, lavatory, oratory, poetry

TA

  1. TA4 — sounds like borrow, morrow, sorrow

  2. TA5 — sounds like carrot

  3. TA5 — a temporary residing as another's guest; to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; to move or act slowly; sojourn; stay sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  4. TA4 — causing or characterized by the one of the basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings; a woman who engages in sexual activities for money; acid; acidic sounds like art, cart, chart, dart, heart

  5. TA6 — sounds like barter, charter, garter, martyr, starter

  6. TA6 —

  7. TA5 — showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; beat-up; bombed-out; dilapidated; dog-eared sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TO

  1. TO6 — sounds like automate, potato, teammate

TR

  1. TR4 — as in truck, wheelbarrow; barrow; hand truck; pushcart; truck sounds like cram, dram, gram, ram, tam

  2. TR7 —

  3. TR4 — as in plate, bowl; bowl; casserole; charger; cup sounds like fray, gray, grey, pray, prey

WA

  1. WA4 — having or giving off heat to a moderate degree; having or expressing great depth of feeling; having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest; heated; hottish sounds like dorm, form, norm, s**

  2. WA4 — as in growth, tumor; growth; tumor; bump; knot sounds like court, fort, port, quart, short

  3. WA5 — sounds like forty

  4. WA4 — having or showing a close attentiveness to avoiding danger or trouble; alert; careful; cautious; chary sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  5. WA4 — sounds like bought, caught, cot, dot, got

WO

  1. WO9 — a person who is inclined to worry; handwringer; nervous Nellie; worrier sounds like airport, cricket, crimped, crypt, dreary

YA

  1. YA6 —

amatory, ammo, aorta, armor, armory, army, aroma, array, arrow, arrowroot, arroyo, arty, atom, attar, away, awry, mama, mamma, mammary, marm, marmot, marrow, marry, mart, martyr, mayo, mayor, moat, momma, moray, mortar, motorway, oaty, orator, oratory, ratatat, ratty, roam, roar, rotary, rotator, rotatory, taro, tarot, tarry, tart, tartar, tattoo, tatty, tomato, tram, tramway, tray, warm, wart, warty, wary, watt, worrywart, yarrow