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NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 18 December, 2022

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

Letters: u  a  g  n  o  r  t

  • Total Answers: 42
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AR

  1. AR8 — any of a band of heroes sailing with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece; an adventurer engaged in a quest; paper nautilus

AU

  1. AU5 — one who predicts future events or developments synonyms—diviner, forecaster, foreseer, foreteller, fortune-teller sounds like—eager, offer
  2. AU4 — an object of criticism or contention; especially : one that is set up to invite criticism or be easily refuted sounds like—act, and, ante, apt, can't
  3. AU4 — a special quality or impression associated with something; a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings synonyms—air, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, climate sounds like—era, oral, orb, ore
  4. AU6 — the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance synonyms—cockcrow, dawn, dawning, day, daybreak sounds like—drawer, flora, roar, trauma
  5. AU4 — a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels synonyms**mobile, bus, car, horseless carriage, machine sounds like—ought, stow, toe, tow

GA

  1. GA10 — unusually large synonyms—astronomical, Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic sounds like—grandson
  2. GA5 — suffering extreme weight loss as a result of hunger or disease synonyms—cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, skeletal, wasted sounds like—daunt, gone, haunt, jaunt, taunt

GO

  1. GO4 — a metabolic disease marked by a painful inflammation of the joints, deposits of urates in and around the joints, and usually an excessive amount of uric acid in the blood; a mass or aggregate especially of something fluid often gushing or bursting forth sounds like—bout, doubt, gait, gate, gauss

GR

  1. GR5 — to fill up or finish with *; to fix in place by means of * sounds like—drought, gout, kraut, rout
  2. GR5 — speech that is not clear enough to be understood; a person who does very hard or dull work synonyms*ing, mumble, murmur, murmuring, mutter sounds like—aren't, brunt, errant, front

GU

  1. GU5 — as in manure, muck synonyms—dunghill, manure, midden, muck, dirt sounds like—iguana, swallow, swan, wallow, wan
  2. GU4 — a drought-tolerant legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) cultivated in warm regions as a vegetable, for forage, and for its seeds which produce ** gum sounds like—are, bar, car, char, czar
  3. GU9 — a person who takes the responsibility for some other person or thing synonyms—backer, patron, sponsor, surety
  4. GU4 — a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field; one who brings an art or science to full realization synonyms—ace, adept, artist, authority, cognoscente sounds like—grew

NO

  1. NO6 — a confection of nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste sounds like—begat, negate, newest, newt, nugget
  2. NO4 — a ** (such as Seattle, Joyce, or Empire State Building) that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English —called also proper name sounds like—down, gown, known, nine, nun

OR

  1. OR9 — a largely herbivorous arboreal anthropoid ape (Pongo pygmaeus) of Borneo and Sumatra that is about 2/3 as large as the gorilla and has brown skin, long sparse reddish-brown hair, and very long arms sounds like—dragon, wrangle

OU

  1. OU5 — a payment made in the course of achieving a result; the act of leaving a place synonyms—charge, cost, disbursement, expenditure, expense
  2. OU6 — to be greater, better, or stronger than synonyms—beat, better, eclipse, exceed, excel
  3. OU6 — to go beyond the limit of synonyms—broke, exceeded, outreached, overpassed, overran
  4. OU5 — a short, distinct closing section at the end of something (such as a piece of music, a performance, or a news report)
  5. OU6 — to go beyond the limit of synonyms—break, exceed, outreach, overpass, overreach

RA

  1. RA6 — an unorganized collection or mixture of various things synonyms—agglomerate, agglomeration, alphabet soup, assortment, botch sounds like—dropout, dugout, gout, knockout, lockout

RO

  1. RO6 — as in red-eye, bathtub gin synonyms—bathtub gin, red-eye, bootleg, moonshine, mountain dew sounds like—argot, shotgun, target
  2. RO4 — a great number of persons or creatures massed together; people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class synonyms—army, bike, cram, crowd, crush sounds like—bout, doubt, drought, gout, kraut

RU

  1. RU4 — the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement; a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment synonyms—degree, echelon, footing, level, place sounds like—dung, hung, lung, rang, ring
  2. RU6 — as in throw out, kick out synonyms—cast out, dismiss, eject, eliminate, evict sounds like—redoubt
  3. RU4 — a living thing much smaller than others of its kind synonyms—diminutive, dwarf, midget, mite, peewee sounds like—aren't, b**, bunt, errant, front

TA

  1. TA5 — to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults synonyms—bait, hassle, haze, heckle, needle sounds like—daunt, gaunt, haunt, jaunt, tent
  2. TA4 — stretched with little or no give synonyms—rigid, tense, tight sounds like—fought, naught, ought, sought, teat

TO

  1. TO4 — a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position synonyms—hitch, stint, tenure, term sounds like—boor, lure, moor, poor, sure
  2. TO4 — to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to provide publicity for synonyms—ballyhoo, blow up, crack up, cry up, glorify sounds like—bout, doubt, gout, out, pout

TR

  1. TR5 — a brightly colored golden-yellow * (Oncorhynchus aguabonita synonym Salmo aguabonita) with red markings on the sides and belly that is native to waters of the southern Sierra Nevada but has been introduced in other upland waters of western North America sounds like—drought, kraut, rout, tout
  2. TR6 — not present at a mandatory time and place synonyms—AWOL, absent, away, missing, out sounds like—ardent, aren't, brunt, errant, fluent

TU

  1. TU4 — a food made by mixing chopped ** with mayonnaise
  2. TU4 — to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis; to change the course or direction of (something); to change one's course or direction synonyms—pivot, revolve, roll, rotate, spin sounds like—burn, burne, churn, durn, earn
  3. TU7 — to leave one's bed; to remove the dirt from; to drive or force out synonyms—arise, get up, rise, roll out, uprise sounds like—burnout
  4. TU5 — to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field; to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed synonyms—educate, indoctrinate, instruct, lesson, school sounds like—neuter, shooter, suitor, tatter, teeter
  5. TU4 — as in hoot, howl synonyms—bark, bay, bellow, blat, bleat sounds like—tattoo

UN

  1. UN5sounds like—attach, attack, nag, snag, stag
  2. UN4 — a person who acts in a way that shows he or she does not care what kind of behavior other people think is acceptable sounds like—anew, into, onto

argonaut, augur, aunt, aura, aurora, auto, gargantuan, gaunt, gout, grout, grunt, guano, guar, guarantor, guru, nougat, noun, orangutan, outgo, outgun, outran, outro, outrun, ragout, rotgut, rout, rung, runout, runt, taunt, taut, tour, tout, trout, truant, tuna, turn, turnout, tutor, tutu, untag, unto