Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Thu. 20 April, 2023

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

Letters: n  a  e  h  m  o  p

  • Total Answers: 48
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AE

  1. AE4 β€” a long or seemingly long period of time; age; blue moon; coon's age; cycle sounds like neon

AM

  1. AM4 β€” sounds like again, aim, cayenne, den, glen

AN

  1. AN7 β€” sounds like adman, ammo, bemoan, intone, known
  2. AN4 β€” at or within a short time; on some occasions; a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; before long; by and by sounds like upon

AP

  1. AP6 β€” sounds like pummel, summon, thiamin
  2. AP6 β€” sounds like lemon, oppression, penman
  3. AP5 β€” sounds like acne, mania

EN

  1. EN5 β€”

HA

  1. HA6 β€” to take place; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face; be; befall sounds like apple, ashen, aspen, baron, barren

HE

  1. HE5 β€”

HO

  1. HO9 β€” sounds like headphone, muffin, omen, showman, telephone
  2. HO4 β€” to make sharp or sharper; to make smooth by friction; as in set, home (in on); edge; grind sounds like bone, cone, hen

MA

  1. MA6 β€” sounds like famine, salmon
  2. MA4 β€” sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
  3. MA5 β€” a source of great satisfaction; something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing; delectation; delight; feast

ME

  1. ME4 β€” to communicate or convey (as an idea) to the mind; to be of importance; to have in mind as a purpose or goal; denote; express sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean

MO

  1. MO4 β€” a long low sound indicating pain or grief; a crying out in grief; an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; groan; wail sounds like bone, cone, hone, known, loan
  2. MO4 β€”
  3. MO4 β€” a long or seemingly long period of time; a long or seemingly long period of time; not often; aeon; age sounds like boon, dune, goon, loon, main

NA

  1. NA4 β€” sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
  2. NA4 β€” a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known; an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings; outward and often deceptive indication; appellation; appellative sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
  3. NA4 β€” sounds like manna
  4. NA4 β€” sounds like ape, cape, nip, rape, shape

NE

  1. NE4 β€” sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
  2. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
  3. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon

NO

  1. NO4 β€” certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
  2. NO4 β€” the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known
  3. NO4 β€” sounds like cope, dope, gnome, hope, knoll

OM

  1. OM4 β€” something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event; augury; auspice; boding; foreboding sounds like ocean, open, showman

OP

  1. OP4 β€” to change from a closed to an open position; to make passage through (something) possible by removing obstructions; to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area; unclose; clear sounds like ocean, omen, pun, spun

PA

  1. PA5 β€” a formal expression of praise; accolade; citation; commendation; dithyramb sounds like eon, peony, pun
  2. PA6 β€” as in sombrero, beret; baseball cap; beret; billycock; biretta
  3. PA4 β€” sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

PE

  1. PE6 β€” sounds like paean
  2. PE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
  3. PE6 β€” a person who creates a written work; one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts; author; litterateur; pen
  4. PE6 β€” a person who creates a written work; one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts; a person who creates a written work; authors; litterateurs
  5. PE5 β€” sounds like den, hen, pain, pair, pan
  6. PE4 β€” a person who does very hard or dull work; dogsbody; drone; drudge; drudger sounds like neon, paean

PH

  1. PH6 β€” sounds like funnel
  2. PH9 β€” something extraordinary or surprising; something extraordinary or surprising; cautions; flashes; marvels
  3. PH10 β€” something extraordinary or surprising; caution; flash; marvel; miracle
  4. PH5 β€” to make a telephone call to; call; dial; ring (up); telephone sounds like bone, cone, fan, fawn, feign
  5. PH7 β€”
  6. PH5 β€” sounds like fun, fund, funny

PO

  1. PO7 β€”
  2. PO4 β€” sounds like bony, penny, phoney, phony, tony

aeon, amen, anemone, anon, apeman, apemen, apnea, enema, happen, henna, homophone, hone, mammon, mane, manna, mean, moan, mono, moon, naan, name, nana, nape, neap, nene, neon, none, noon, nope, omen, open, paean, panama, pane, peahen, peen, penman, penmen, penne, peon, phenom, phenomena, phenomenon, phone, phoneme, phono, pompano, pone