NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Thu. 2 February, 2023

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

Letters: r  a  d  g  n  o  u

  • Total Answers: 51
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AD

  1. AD5 β€” to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; array; beautify; bedeck; bedizen

AG

  1. AG4 β€” sounds like actor, after, amber, anchor, anger
  2. AG5 β€” sounds like aboard, abort, accord, adore, adorn
  3. AG7 β€” resting on the shore or bottom of a body of water; beached; grounded; stranded sounds like ground

AN

  1. AN6 β€”

AR

  1. AR5 β€” depth of feeling; urgent desire or interest; intense sexual desire; ardency; emotion sounds like harder, larder, order
  2. AR5 β€” sounds like bargain, crayon, forgone, j*, organ
  3. AR6 β€” close to; in random positions within the boundaries of; on all sides or in every direction; about; by sounds like bound, earned, found, hound, mound

AU

  1. AU5 β€” one who predicts future events or developments; to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome; to tell of or describe beforehand; diviner; forecaster sounds like eager, offer
  2. AU4 β€” a special quality or impression associated with something; a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings; air; ambience; aroma sounds like era, oral, orb, ore
  3. AU6 β€” the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; day sounds like drawer, flora, roar, trauma

DA

  1. DA4 β€” An expletive: gosh *** it. sounds like barn, don, yarn

DO

  1. DO5 β€” one that helps another with gifts or money; angel; benefactor; donator; fairy godmother sounds like diner, dinner, loner, owner, toner
  2. DO4 β€” a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened; the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure; the means or right of entering or participating in; gate; hatch sounds like adore, boar, bore, chore, core
  3. DO6 β€” sounds like board, border, bored, chord, cord
  4. DO4 β€” harsh and threatening in manner or appearance; austere; fierce; flinty; forbidding sounds like bower, cower, hour, our

DR

  1. DR4 β€” **** and drop. sounds like brag, rag
  2. DR6 β€” a bad-tempered scolding woman; a bad-tempered scolding woman; battle-ax; fury; harpy sounds like organ, ragged, ration, wagon
  3. DR7 β€” to cause (a person) to give in to pressure; as in cavalryman, cuirassier; blackjack; coerce; compel
  4. DR4 β€” a substance or preparation used to treat disease; as in dose, care (for); as in wonder drug; cure; medicament sounds like dug, rug, shrug

DU

  1. DU5 β€” sounds like drug

GO

  1. GO6 β€” as in fishwife; fishwife; battle-ax; dragon lady; fury sounds like organ
  2. GO5 β€” having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; balmy; barmy; bats; batty sounds like board, bored, chord, cord, ford

GR

  1. GR4 β€” Informal way to describe someone who has just completed a phase of education. sounds like brad, glad
  2. GR4 β€” sounds like bran
  3. GR5 β€” French for big. sounds like brand, gland
  4. GR7 β€” Your father's father. sounds like branded
  5. GR8 β€” Alternate spelling for: your father's father. sounds like branded
  6. GR5 β€” a crying out in grief; a long low sound indicating pain or grief; to utter a moan; howl; keen sounds like crone, drone
  7. GR4 β€” a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk; alcohol; aqua vitae; ardent spirits; booze sounds like frog
  8. GR6 β€” the area around and belonging to a building; matter that settles to the bottom of a body of liquid; something (as a belief) that serves as the basis for another thing; demesne; park sounds like a**, drowned, round

GU

  1. GU4 β€” sounds like are, bar, car, char, czar
  2. GU5 β€” a person or group that watches over someone or something; a position of readiness to oppose actual or expected attack; a protective device (as on a weapon) to prevent accidental operation; custodian; guardian sounds like bard, card, charred, garb, god
  3. GU4 β€” a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field; one who brings an art or science to full realization; ace; adept; artist sounds like grew

OD

  1. OD4 β€” a special quality or impression associated with something; the quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose; overall quality as seen or judged by people in general; air; ambience sounds like loader, ochre, older, over, owner

OR

  1. OR5 β€” sounds like rang
  2. OR5 β€” a publication that appears at regular intervals; something used to achieve an end; as in pianist, guitarist; book; bulletin

RA

  1. RA5 β€” Bats and submarines use this to locate things.
  2. RA5 β€”
  3. RA4 β€” sounds like saga
  4. RA4 β€” Currency of South Africa; also the first name of a US Senator from the state of Kentucky. sounds like and, band, b, canned, g
  5. RA4 β€” to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates; to form a circle around; to travel completely around; bonged; chimed sounds like bang, dang, fang, gang, hang

RO

  1. RO4 β€” a passage cleared for public vehicular travel; a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel; a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective; arterial; artery sounds like bode, code, erode, goad, load
  2. RO4 β€” as in blotchy, piebald; as in palomino, chestnut; blotched; blotchy; piebald sounds like bone, cone, crone, drone, g**
  3. RO4 β€” 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
  4. RO5 β€” sounds like condo
  5. RO4 β€” sounds like could, good, hood, raid, read
  6. RO5 β€” a circular strip; a series of events or actions that repeat themselves regularly and in the same order; something with a perfectly round circumference; band; circle sounds like a*, bound, drowned, found, g*

RU

  1. RU9 β€” as in circumvention, sidestepping; to be greater, better, or stronger than; to defeat by a large margin; bypassing; circumvention sounds like renowned, turnaround
  2. RU4 β€” 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; to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates; degree; echelon sounds like dung, hung, lung, rang, ring

UN

  1. UN8 β€” sounds like aground

adorn, agar, agora, aground, angora, ardor, argon, around, augur, aura, aurora, darn, donor, door, dorado, dour, drag, dragon, dragoon, drug, durag, gorgon, gourd, grad, gran, grand, grandad, granddad, groan, grog, ground, guar, guard, guru, odor, orang, organ, radar, radon, raga, rand, rang, road, roan, roar, rondo, rood, round, runaround, rung, unground