Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 4 August, 2023

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

Letters: b  a  d  e  g  h  i

  • Total Answers: 32
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AB

  1. AB4 β€”
  2. AB5 β€” to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; to have a home; to put up with (something painful or difficult); dwell; hang around sounds like allied, aside, bide
  3. AB6 β€” to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; to have a home; to put up with (something painful or difficult); dwelled; hung around sounds like avoided

BA

  1. BA5 β€” sounds like aid, aide
  2. BA4 β€” sounds like bobby
  3. BA4 β€” a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; a recently born person; a lovely woman; abecedarian; apprentice
  4. BA6 β€” to treat with great or excessive care; to treat with great or excessive care; cockered; coddled; cosseted sounds like abbey
  5. BA6 β€” a mean, evil, or unprincipled person; beast; brute; caitiff; devil sounds like beady, birdie, body, buddy, daddy
  6. BA4 β€” to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority; to request the presence or participation of; to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority; adjured; bossed (around) sounds like aid, aide
  7. BA5 β€” as in insignia, crest; as in medal, trophy; coat of arms; cognizance; crest
  8. BA6 β€”
  9. BA7 β€” as in luggage, bags; bags; luggage; carryall; carry-on sounds like adage, agate
  10. BA6 β€” to extend outward beyond a usual point; to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly; to give up (a job or office); ballooned; beetled sounds like gagged, jag, jagged, tagged
  11. BA6 β€” sounds like biggie, bogey, boogie, buggy, shaggy

BE

  1. BE4 β€” the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass; as in pearl, pellet; to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface; blob; driblet sounds like bad, bade
  2. BE6 β€” as in pearled, pelleted; pearled; pelleted; pelletized; bunched sounds like needed
  3. BE6 β€” to go to one's bed in order to sleep; to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter; to go to one's bed in order to sleep; crashed; dossed (down) sounds like wedded
  4. BE7 β€” sounds like redhead
  5. BE6 β€” to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner; to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner; as in applied (for), wished (for); appealed (to); beseeched sounds like bagged, pegged
  6. BE6 β€” to cut off the head of; decapitate; guillotine; head sounds like ahead
  7. BE8 β€” to cut off the head of; to cut off the head of; decapitated; guillotined; headed sounds like ahead, avoided, blended, boarded, bonded
  8. BE5 β€” lacking in distinctive features or qualities; characterless; faceless; featureless; indistinctive sounds like babe, bade, bail, bait, bake

BI

  1. BI4 β€” to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state; to put up with (something painful or difficult); to remain in place in readiness or expectation of something; abide; continue sounds like a**, bad, bade, bead, bed
  2. BI5 β€” to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state; to put up with (something painful or difficult); to remain in place in readiness or expectation of something; abided; continued sounds like bearded
  3. BI6 β€” one of high position or importance within a group; big; big boy; big cheese; big gun sounds like baggy, bogey, boogie, buggy, busy
  4. BI7 β€” an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements; amour propre; complacence; complacency; conceit sounds like bagged, bed, beget, behead, bled
  5. BI9 β€” having too high an opinion of oneself; an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements; assured; biggety; complacent sounds like bearded, blended, boarded, bonded, bounded

DA

  1. DA6 β€” as in smeared, slathered; as in tapped, tipped; anointed; bedaubed; besmeared sounds like jabbed

EB

  1. EB5 β€” to become worse or of less value; to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually; to become worse or of less value; atrophied; crumbled sounds like bed

GA

  1. GA6 β€” to engage in casual or rambling conversation; to engage in casual or rambling conversation; babbled; blabbed; cackled sounds like jabbed

GI

  1. GI4 β€” to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter; as in taunt, quip; to be in agreement on every point; deride; jeer sounds like jab, jive, job, vibe
  2. GI5 β€” to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter; to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter; derided; jeered; laughed (at) sounds like jabbed, ribbed

abed, abide, abided, baaed, baba, babe, babied, baddie, bade, badge, badged, baggage, bagged, baggie, bead, beaded, bedded, bedhead, begged, behead, beheaded, beige, bide, bided, biggie, bighead, bigheaded, dabbed, ebbed, gabbed, gibe, gibed