Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 9 June, 2023

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

Letters: n  a  i  j  m  r  u

  • Total Answers: 26
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AI

  1. AI6 β€” one who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft; aviator; birdman; flier; pilot sounds like ch**

AN

  1. AN5 β€” sounds like alma, asthma, edema, prima

IN

  1. IN5 β€” as in immure; immure; bury; entomb; hearse

JI

  1. JI4 β€” as in genies, angels; as in genie, angel; angels; daimones; familiars sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin
  2. JI5 β€” as in genie, angel; angel; daimon; familiar; genie sounds like genie, gin, guinea, journey, tinny

MA

  1. MA4 β€” coming before all others in importance; muscular strength; one of the great divisions of land on the globe or the main part of such a division; arch; big sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
  2. MA5 β€” a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life; something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned; aberration; dementia; derangement
  3. MA5 β€” a source of great satisfaction; something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing; delectation; delight; feast
  4. MA9 β€”
  5. MA6 β€” an area of water where privately owned boats (such as yachts) are kept; basin; dock; moorage; mooring sounds like arena
  6. MA8 β€” sounds like canard, monarch, regard, regatta, sonata

MI

  1. MI4 β€” a very small automobile; as in small, little; as in department store, chain store; compact; coupe sounds like genie, many, mealy, mean, meaner
  2. MI5 β€” as in tiny, minuscule; as in smidgen, iota; bitty; inappreciable; infinitesimal
  3. MI6 β€” as in semblances, modicums; hoots; iotas; jots; minims sounds like cinema, edema, mania
  4. MI7 β€” being the least in amount, number, or size possible; as in semblance, modicum; an amount of money that is the least amount of money per hour that workers must be paid according to the law; fewest; littlest
  5. MI5 β€” sounds like grin

NA

  1. NA4 β€” sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
  2. NA4 β€” sounds like manna

NI

  1. NI5 β€” sounds like binge, dingy, ginger, hinge, injure

RA

  1. RA4 β€” a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity; a heavy fall of objects; to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds; cloudburst; deluge sounds like arraign, bane, b**, cane, chain
  2. RA4 β€” sounds like rocky

RU

  1. RU4 β€” to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts; to bring destruction to (something) through violent action; to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of; bankrupt; break sounds like rayon

UN

  1. UN5 β€” sounds like alarm
  2. UN5 β€” sounds like adjudge, angel, annum, anthem, dungeon
  3. UN5 β€” to deprive of courage or confidence; to lessen the courage or confidence of; demoralize; emasculate; paralyze sounds like g*, onion

UR

  1. UR7 β€” sounds like geranium

airman, anima, inurn, jinn, jinni, main, mania, manna, marijuana, marina, marinara, mini, minim, minima, minimum, mirin, naan, nana, ninja, rain, rani, ruin, unarm, unjam, unman, uranium