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NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 24 November, 2022

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

Letters: p  i  l  n  o  r  u

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

LI

  1. LI4 — to perform suction on (a person or part of the body) : to remove by suction sounds like—depot, leap

LO

  1. LO8 — a piece of hard candy on the end of a stick; a piece of food served on the end of a stick; a round stop sign on a pole used to stop traffic (as at a school crossing) sounds like—hollyhock
  2. LO6 — to move with a light springing step synonyms—bounce, bound, hop, lope, skip sounds like—dollop, wallop
  3. LO4 — a circular strip synonyms—band, circle, eye, hoop, ring sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, lap

OP

  1. OP7 — an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; a position arrived at after consideration synonyms—belief, conviction, eye, feeling, judgment sounds like—dominion, minion, onion

PI

  1. PI4 — a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally; a person whose behavior is offensive to others synonyms—cap, capsule, lozenge, tablet, bastard sounds like—bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
  2. PI7 — a light saddle for women consisting chiefly of a cushion; a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle chiefly for a woman to ride on; a motorcycle or bicycle saddle for a passenger sounds like—billion, jillion, million
  3. PI6 — to confine or restrain with or as if with chains synonyms—bind, chain, enchain, enfetter, fetter sounds like—minion, o**
  4. PI5 — as in cover girl, bathing beauty synonyms—bathing beauty, cover girl, belle, charmer, peach
  5. PI6 — something very good of its kind synonyms—beaut, beauty, bee's knees, cat's meow, corker sounds like—begin, herein, kingpin, poplin, spin

PL

  1. PL4 — to throw or set down clumsily or casually synonyms—flop, flump, plank, plump, plunk sounds like—flop, glop, lop, pop, prop

PO

  1. PO5 — a condition that affects former * patients long after recovery from the disease and that is characterized by muscle weakness, joint and muscle pain, and fatigue
  2. PO4 — the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth synonyms—bean, block, dome, head, mazard sounds like—boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
  3. PO4 — sounds like—pillow, solo
  4. PO4 — a small often deep body of water synonyms—billabong, mere, puddle, stank, well sounds like—cool, fool, pail, pal, pale
  5. PO4 — solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal synonyms—dirt, doo-doo, dropping, dung, excrement sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop
  6. PO4 — lacking money or material possessions; producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation; less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable synonyms—beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-** sounds like—boor, lure, moor, pair, pare
  7. PO6 — a strong fabric in plain weave with crosswise ribs sounds like—pipeline
  8. PO4 — anti-**ography sounds like—born, corn, horn, mourn, pawn
  9. PO5 — *graphy —often used before another noun; a *graphic movie sounds like—born, corn, corner, corny, forego
  10. PO4 — to cause to flow in a stream; to move in a stream; to flow out in great quantities or with force synonyms—stream, flow, roll, run, stream sounds like—boar, bore, chore, core, door

PR

  1. PR5 — a glycoprotein found especially on the cell surface of neurons in the brain and spinal cord that sometimes occurs in an abnormal misfolded form which proliferates by inducing the normal protein to convert to the misfolded pathogenic form —abbreviation PrP sounds like—paean
  2. PR5 — coming before all others in importance; going before another in time or order synonyms—arch, big, capital, cardinal, central sounds like—drier, dryer, friar, fryer
  3. PR7 — a *** (such as I, you, or they) that expresses a distinction of person sounds like—renown
  4. PR4 — a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else synonyms—brace, buttress, mount, mounting, reinforcement sounds like—crop, drop, plop, pop

PU

  1. PU4 — a monetary subunit of the afghani
  2. PU4 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to draw out by force or with effort; to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure synonyms—drag, draw, hale, haul, lug sounds like—bull, full, pail, pal, pale
  3. PU4 — to cause to become a **y mass synonyms—crush, mash, squash sounds like—gulp
  4. PU5 — one who attends a school; one who follows the opinions or teachings of another synonyms—scholar, student, acolyte, adherent, convert sounds like—bugle, feudal, fuel, futile, papal
  5. PU4 — as in swirl, eddy synonyms—eddy, swirl, bubble, dribble, guggle sounds like—burl, curl, earl, girl, hurl
  6. PU7 — to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep synonyms—appropriate, boost, filch, heist, hook sounds like—loin, pearl, pearly, person, pertain
  7. PU4 — a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion synonyms—burr, buzz, chirr, churr, drone sounds like—burr, fir, fur, her, hour

UN

  1. UN5 — to remove a pin from; to loosen, free, or unfasten by or as if by removing a pin sounds like—annoying, appear, nine, onion, pin

UP

  1. UP4 — in or into contact with synonyms—against, on sounds like—spawn

lipo, lollipop, lollop, loop, opinion, pill, pillion, pinion, pinup, pippin, plop, polio, poll, polo, pool, poop, poor, poplin, porn, porno, pour, prion, prior, pronoun, prop, puli, pull, pulp, pupil, purl, purloin, purr, unpin, upon