NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 23 January, 2023

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

Letters: h  a  b  i  l  t  u

  • Total Answers: 23
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

BA

  1. BA4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; bang; bash; beat
  2. BA4 — a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste; as in powder room; alluvion; cataclysm
  3. BA7 — as in red-eye, rotgut; as in red-eyes, rotguts; red-eye; rotgut; bootleg

BL

  1. BL4 — language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; the state of being bored; as in soggy, barren; applesauce; balderdash

HA

  1. HA5 — a usual manner of behaving or doing; a physiological need for certain drugs; the type of body that a person has; custom; fashion sounds like abbot, rabbit
  2. HA7 — the place where a plant or animal is usually or naturally found; home; niche; range; territory
  3. HA8 — being such by habit and not likely to change; appearing or occurring repeatedly from time to time; bred-in-the-bone; chronic; confirmed
  4. HA4 — to declare enthusiastic approval of; to demand or request the presence or service of; a heavy fall of objects; acclaim; accredit sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  5. HA5
  6. HA7sounds like fallible
  7. HA4 — the entrance room of a building; a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building; a large room or building for enclosed public gatherings; entranceway; entry sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  8. HA4 — to bring (something) to a standstill; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to come to an end; arrest; bring up sounds like fault, hilt, malt, salt, vault
  9. HA4sounds like bath
  10. HA5sounds like bath, gala, gamma
  11. HA4 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to support and take from one place to another; the total amount collected or obtained especially at one time; drag; draw sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

HI

  1. HI4 — a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; an area of high ground; an upward slope; cock; heap sounds like bill, c**, dill, fill, hail
  2. HI4 — as in shaft; with all power or resources being used; to a full extent or degree; shaft; bail sounds like built, gilt, guilt, halt, jilt

HU

  1. HU6 — a state of noisy, confused activity; a violent shouting; ado; alarums and excursions; ballyhoo sounds like above, abuzz, bubble, double, habit
  2. HU4sounds like cholla, cola, cool, cooled, cooler
  3. HU4 — something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; to remove the natural covering of; armor; capsule; case sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hail

LA

  1. LA4sounds like bath

TH

  1. TH4 — to a great degree; as in other, far; to the degree that; achingly; almighty sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, hat

TI

  1. TI5sounds like filth

baht, bath, bathtub, blah, habit, habitat, habitual, hail, halal, halibut, hall, halt, hath, hatha, haul, hill, hilt, hubbub, hula, hull, lath, that, tilth