NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 31 March, 2023

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

Letters: y  a  b  g  i  n  r

  • Total Answers: 35
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AI

  1. AI4 — resembling air in lightness; open to the free circulation of air; located at a greater height than average or usual; ethereal; fluffy sounds like any, area, berry, brie, bury

AN

  1. AN5 — feeling or showing anger; angered; apoplectic; ballistic; cheesed off sounds like agree, degree, hungry

AR

  1. AR5 — a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; dressy clothing; assemblage; band sounds like awry, bay, day, earl, earn

  2. AR8 — to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes; to put into a particular arrangement; adorning; beautifying sounds like paying

BA

  1. BA4 — a recently born person; a member of the human race; a successful result brought about by hard work; babe; bambino sounds like bobby, booby, maybe

  2. BA7 — as in coddling, pampering; to treat with great or excessive care; to treat with great or excessive care; coddling; pampering sounds like being, lobbying, neighboring

  3. BA5 — as in saggy, blousy; blousy; saggy; detached; free sounds like biggie, bogey, boogie, buggy, shaggy

  4. BA6 — sounds like canyon

  5. BA6 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a long loud mournful sound; to speak so as to be heard at a distance; bawling; bellowing sounds like being, bring, buying, paying

BI

  1. BI6 — consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined; as in neutron star, white dwarf; as in neutron stars, white dwarfs; bipartite; double sounds like finery, winery

  2. BI7 — sounds like brainy, brawny, breezy, briefly, bronze

BR

  1. BR6 — as in boastful, cocky; to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess; blusterous; blustery; boastful sounds like baggy, craggy

  2. BR6 — having or showing quickness of mind; alert; bright; brilliant; clever sounds like grainy, rainy

  3. BR4 — to reduce to fine particles; as in bleat, howl; atomize; beat; comminute sounds like bay

  4. BR7 — to reduce to fine particles; to reduce to fine particles; atomizing; beating; comminuting

  5. BR6 —

  6. BR5 — of, relating to, or containing salt; brackish; saline; salt; salty

GA

  1. GA5 — fond of talking or conversation; blabby; chatty; conversational; garrulous sounds like abbey, shabby, tabby

GR

  1. GR6 — having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions; likely to attract attention; acquisitive; avaricious; avid sounds like crabby

  2. GR6 — made up of large particles; coarse; grained; granular; granulated sounds like brainy, rainy

  3. GR7 — sounds like coronary, cranberry, gooseberry, honorary, ordinary

  4. GR6 — as in sweaterdress, kirtle; as in sweaterdresses, kirtles; as in garden apartment, duplex apartment; chemise; coatdress sounds like cranny

  5. GR4 — of the color gray; causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer; as in get along, get on; argentine; grayish sounds like fray, gay

  6. GR7 — as in getting along, getting on; getting along; getting on; advancing; evolving

NA

  1. NA5 — sounds like baggy, shaggy

  2. NA5 — a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children; babysitter; dry nurse; nurse; nursemaid sounds like canny, fanny

  3. NA8 — sounds like carrying, landing, panting, rallying, tanning

  4. NA4 — sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

NI

  1. NI5 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a stupid person; berk; booby; charlie sounds like guinea, nanny, tinny

RA

  1. RA5 — marked by or abounding with rain; as in emergency; pouring; precipitating; stormy sounds like b*, g*, reign, rein, zany

  2. RA5 — being tall, thin and usually loose-jointed; having considerable extent; gangling; gangly; lanky

  3. RA6 — to emit rays of light; to extend outwards from or as if from a central point; to emit rays of light; beaming; radiating sounds like paying, ring, rowing, wring

RI

  1. RI5 — sounds like really, ruby

YA

  1. YA4 — sounds like bang, dang, fang, gang, hang

  2. YA4 — a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally; a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel; anecdote; story; tale sounds like barn, darn

airy, angry, array, arraying, baby, babying, baggy, banyan, baying, binary, biryani, braggy, brainy, bray, braying, briary, briny, gabby, grabby, grainy, granary, granny, gray, graying, naggy, nanny, nannying, nary, ninny, rainy, rangy, raying, ribby, yang, yarn