Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” as in red-eye, rotgut; as in red-eyes, rotguts; red-eye; rotgut; bootleg

BL

  1. BL4 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” the place where a plant or animal is usually or naturally found; home; niche; range; territory
  3. HA8 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€”
  6. HA7 β€” sounds like fallible
  7. HA4 β€” 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 β€” 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. HA4 β€” sounds like bath
  10. HA5 β€” sounds like bath, gala, gamma
  11. HA4 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” a state of noisy, confused activity; a violent shouting; ado; alarums and excursions; ballyhoo sounds like above, abuzz, bubble, double, habit
  2. HU4 β€” sounds like cholla, cola, cool, cooled, cooler
  3. HU4 β€” 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. LA4 β€” sounds like bath

TH

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

TI

  1. TI5 β€” sounds 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