NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 13 December, 2022

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

Letters: o  a  b  c  e  k  l

  • Total Answers: 54
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

  1. AL9 — to give as a share or portion; to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; to keep or intend for a special purpose synonyms—allot, allow, apportion, assign, distribute sounds like—applicable

  2. AL4 — agarwood; any of a large genus () of succulent chiefly southern African plants of the lily family with basal leaves and spicate flowers; the dried juice of the leaves of various s used especially formerly as a purgative —usually used in plural but singular in construction sounds like—ago, blow, floe, flow, glow

BA

  1. BA8 — an automatic valve whose opening and closing are controlled by a hollow float at the end of a lever sounds like—bloc, block

  2. BA6 — a broad-trunked tropical tree (Adansonia digitata) of the silk-cotton family that is native to Africa and has an edible acidic fruit resembling a gourd and bark used in making paper, cloth, and rope; also : any of several related trees chiefly of Madagascar and Australia sounds like—blob, blobby, bobby, bombast, buyback

BL

  1. BL4 — a small uneven mass; the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass synonyms—chunk, clod, clot, clump, dollop sounds like—lob, slob

  2. BL4 — a group of people acting together within a larger group; an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection synonyms—**k, body, coalition, faction, party sounds like—brok, clock, flock

  3. BL5 — a number of things considered as a unit; something that makes movement or progress difficult; the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth synonyms—array, assemblage, band, bank, batch sounds like—brok, clock, flock

  4. BL9 — sounds like—likable

  5. BL5 — an adult male human being synonyms—bastard, buck, cat, chap, chappie sounds like—baroque, broke

BO

  1. BO4 —

  2. BO6 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy synonyms—blunder, boo-boo, boob, brick, clanger sounds like—babble, bauble, bible, bubble, cobble

  3. BO5 — a game of Italian origin similar to lawn bowling played on a long narrow usually dirt court sounds like—base, bass, beau

  4. BO4 — a dark lager beer with a high alcohol content that has a strong flavor of malt and a mild flavor of hops and is typically sold in the winter or early spring sounds like—back, bake, balk, balm, bar

  5. BO4 — a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie —called also bolo sounds like—cola

  6. BO4 — Heinrich Theodor 1917—1985 German writer sounds like—bail, bale, ball, bawl, beau

  7. BO4 — as in machete, dagger synonyms—bayonet, bodkin, bowie knife, cutlass, dagger sounds like—bellow, below, billow, blow, follow

  8. BO4 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy synonyms—blunder, bobble, boo-boo, brick, clanger sounds like—babe, bib, buoy

  9. BO6 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy synonyms—blunder, bobble, boob, brick, clanger

  10. BO4 — a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction; a made up of the writings accepted by Christians as coming from God; a publication that appears at regular intervals synonyms—tome, volume, Bible, Good , Holy Writ sounds like—back, bake, balk, beak, bike

  11. BO8 — to arrange to have something (as a hotel room) held for one's future use; to leave a place often for another synonyms—bespeak, reserve, bail, bail out, begone sounds like—bearable, billable, bubble, durable, likable

CA

  1. CA5 — a dried, fermented, fatty seed of the fruit of a South American evergreen tree (Theobroma * of the family Sterculiaceae) that is used in making cocoa, chocolate, and cocoa butter : cocoa bean; a tree having small yellowish flowers followed by fleshy pods from which * is obtained sounds like—cocaine, coco, cocoa, cocoon, cuckoo

  2. CA8 — the edible young green leaves of a plant (such as taro or a member of the genus Xanthosoma) of the arum family used as greens; a soup or stew made with greens, onions, and crabmeat or pork

CE

  1. CE9 — sounds like—selfless

  2. CE5 — the bass member of the violin family tuned an octave below the viola sounds like—bellow, fellow, mellow, self, sell

CL

  1. CL6 — sewer; the common chamber into which the intestinal and urogenital tracts discharge especially in monotreme mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and elasmobranch fishes; also : a comparable chamber of an invertebrate; the enlarged terminal part of the posterior embryonic digestive tract of a mammal that gives rise to the rectum, upper anal canal, and urogenital sinus sounds like—coca

  2. CL5 — something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; a sleeveless garment worn so as to hang over the shoulders, arms, and back synonyms—blanket, cope, cover, covering, coverture sounds like—bloke

  3. CL5 — a device to measure time synonyms—chronometer, timekeeper, timepiece, timer sounds like—bloc, block, cock

CO

  1. CO4 — to burn to char : char; to supply with ; to take in ** sounds like—boll, bowl, call

  2. CO6 — to make or assemble roughly or hastily synonyms—jury-rig, patch (together), throw up sounds like—cable, gobble, hobble, wobble

  3. CO4 — any of several South American shrubs (genus Erythroxylon, family Erythroxylaceae); especially : one (E. ) that is the primary source of ine; dried leaves of a (especially Erythroxylon ) containing alkaloids including **ine

  4. CO4 — a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid synonyms—faucet, gate, spigot, stop**, tap sounds like—cake, calm, car, caught, cause

  5. CO6 — an annual hairy weed (Agrostemma githago) of the pink family with purplish-red flowers that is found in grain fields

  6. CO5 — a dried, fermented, fatty seed of the fruit of a South American tropical evergreen tree (Theobroma cacao of the family Sterculiaceae) that is used in making *, chocolate, and * butter : cacao

  7. CO4 — to change into ; to become or like ** sounds like—cake, choke, cloak

  8. CO4 —

  9. CO4 — to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of; to take place synonyms—bend, color, distort, falsify, fudge sounds like—book, cake, crook, hook, kick

  10. CO8 — to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of; to take place synonyms—bend, color, distort, falsify, fudge sounds like—capable, durable, likable, workable

  11. CO8 — a book of cooking directions and recipes; broadly : a book of detailed instructions sounds like—checkbook, kickback

  12. CO4 — having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; free from emotional or mental agitation; having a low or subnormal temperature synonyms—aloof, antisocial, asocial, buttoned-up, cold sounds like—call, cul

KA

  1. KA5 — cubes of meat (such as lamb or beef) marinated and cooked with vegetables usually on a skewer sounds like—cabin

KO

  1. KO5 — an Australian arboreal marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus) that has a broad head, large hairy ears, dense gray fur, and sharp claws and feeds on eucalyptus leaves —called also * bear sounds like—coal, coca, cold, colon, colt

  2. KO4 — sounds like—coal, coca, cold, colon, colt

  3. KO4 — a person of odd or whimsical habits synonyms—character, codger, crack, crackbrain, crackpot sounds like—cake, cock, coke, cook, cool

LO

  1. LO4 — a curved or rounded projection or division; specifically : a usually somewhat rounded projection or division of a bodily organ or part sounds like—g**, lab

  2. LO4 — gray wolf

  3. LO5 — as in regional synonyms—regional, aboriginal, autochthonous, born, domestic sounds like—focal, vocal

  4. LO6 — the area or space occupied by or intended for something; the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set synonyms—emplacement, locality, location, locus, place

  5. LO4 — as in bar, latch; as in wrap, fold synonyms—bar, batten (down), bolt, chain, fasten sounds like—bloc, b, chalk, c, cock

  6. LO8 — to put in or as if in prison synonyms—commit, confine, immure, imprison, incarcerate sounds like—likable

  7. LO4 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind synonyms—balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bedlam sounds like—coco, cocoa

  8. LO4 — to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing synonyms—droop, flag, hang, sag, swag sounds like—doll, lat, lull, pall

  9. LO4 — to give the impression of being; to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion); to have in mind as a purpose or goal synonyms—act, appear, come across (as), come off (as), feel sounds like—book, cook, hook, lack, lak

OB

  1. OB4 — a double-reed woodwind instrument having a conical tube, a brilliant penetrating tone, and a usual range from B flat below middle C upward for over 21/2 octaves sounds like—beau, lobo

OL

  1. OL4 — margarine sounds like—polio

allocable, aloe, ballcock, baobab, blob, bloc, block, blockable, bloke, boba, bobble, bocce, bock, bola, boll, bolo, boob, booboo, book, bookable, cacao, callaloo, cellblock, cello, cloaca, cloak, clock, coal, cobble, coca, cock, cockle, cocoa, coke, cola, cook, cookable, cookbook, cool, kabob, koala, kola, kook, lobe, lobo, local, locale, lock, lockable, loco, loll, look, oboe, oleo