NYT π CluesβTue. 17 January, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: u a d l m o r
- Total Answers: 32
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AL
- AL5 β with one's normal voice speaking the words; audibly; out; out loud sounds like avowed, cloud, loud, plowed
- AL4 β sounds like annum, atom, glum, plum, plumb
AM
- AM5 β a brief romantic relationship; an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements; affair; fling; love sounds like adore, ashore, more
AR
- AR4 β sounds like bum, chum, come, drum, dumb
AU
- 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
- AU5 β of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing; acoustic; audial; audile; auditory sounds like choral, coral, laurel, moral, orally
- 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
- AU7 β the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; day sounds like corporal, oracle, oral
DO
- DO5 β sounds like duly
- DO4 β harsh and threatening in manner or appearance; austere; fierce; flinty; forbidding sounds like bower, cower, hour, our
DR
- DR4 β a metal container in the shape of a cylinder; to strike or cause to strike lightly and usually rhythmically; to drive or force out; barrel; can sounds like dumb, from, rum
- DR8 β sounds like crumble, crumple, dumbbell, grumble, patrol
DU
- DU4 β consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined; as in interstate, motorway; as in interstates, motorways; binary; bipartite sounds like dial, dowel, jewel
- DU4 β lacking sharpness of edge or point; causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; covered over by clouds; blunt; blunted sounds like addle, cul, cull, dale, deal
- DU7 β a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like colored, coloured
- DU6 β a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like amok, among, boredom, bumble, bundle
- DU5 β sounds like drum
LA
- LA4 β public acknowledgment or admiration for an achievement; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to proclaim the glory of; acclaim; accolade sounds like awed, flawed, lead, led, lewd
LO
- LO4 β marked by a high volume of sound; excessively showy; as in loudly, flamboyantly; blaring; blasting sounds like allowed, a, bowed, c, lad
LU
- LU4 β as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
- LU4 β a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- LU4 β something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
MA
- MA6 β to search through with the intent of committing robbery; despoil; loot; pillage; plunder sounds like erode, mode, road, rode
- MA4 β to abuse physically; to strike repeatedly; as in hammer, sledgehammer; maltreat; manhandle sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
MO
- MO7 β having parts that can be connected or combined in different ways; adjustable; flexible; mobile; movable sounds like nodular
MU
- MU7 β
- MU4 β to reduce to fine particles; as in duff; to give serious and careful thought to; atomize; beat sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- MU5 β a usually large painting that is done directly on the surface of a wall; fresco; panorama; canvas; oil sounds like mitral, moral, neural, plural, rural
- MU6 β an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; speech that is not clear enough to be understood; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; beef; bitch sounds like firmer, mercer, merger
- MU6 β as in sundress, housedress; chemise; coatdress; granny dress; housedress sounds like amok, among, animal, animate, gunman
RU
- RU5 β information or opinion that is widely disseminated without any authority or confirmation of accuracy; to make (as a piece of information) the subject of common talk without any authority or confirmation of accuracy; buzz; dish; gossip sounds like boomer, roemer, roofer, room, roomier
- RU5 β of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people; as in special deliveries, registered mails; as in special delivery, registered mail; bucolic; country sounds like neural