NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• catchup
• chap crack due to dehydration
• chuppah
• chutzpah (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity
• cuppa a cup of tea
• cutup
• pact a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
• papa an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
• patch provide with a patch; also used metaphorically
• path a line or route along which something travels or moves
• phat
• pupa an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
• putt strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter
• putz (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot
• tapa the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus