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

Letters: n  o  r  w  a  b  i

• Total Answers: 40
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AN

1. AN5 — sounds like canyon, onion
2. AN4 — at or within a short time; on some occasions; a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; before long; by and by sounds like upon

BA

4. BA6 — sounds like buffoon
5. BA6 — as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza
6. BA9 — not civilized; an uncivilized person; barbaric; barbarous; heathen sounds like agrarian, arboreal
7. BA4 — sounds like born, borrow, darn, yarn
8. BA5 — a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; captain; czar; king; lion

BO

10. BO6 — sounds like robin
11. BO6 — sounds like bargain, carbon, robin
12. BO6 — sounds like banjo, barb, barbed, barber, barrio
13. BO4 — likely to seek or enjoy the company of others; a thing that helps; an act of kind assistance; clubbable; clubby sounds like ban, bane, bean, been, bin
14. BO4 — being such from birth or by nature; belonging to a particular place by birth or origin; to bring forth from the womb; congenital; natural sounds like barn, corn, horn, mourn, shorn
15. BO5 — sounds like bun, burden, burgeon, burn, burne

BR

17. BR5 — a very smart person; the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems; the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons; brainiac; genius sounds like bane
18. BR4 — sounds like ban
19. BR5 — muscular strength; beef; main; muscle; thew sounds like drawn
20. BR5 — having a skin color darkened by the sun; as in neutron star, white dwarf; as in neutron stars, white dwarfs; bronzed; suntanned sounds like crown, drown, frown

IN

22. IN6 — being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing; genetically passed or capable of being passed from parent to offspring; built-in; constitutional; constitutive sounds like unborn

IR

24. IR4 — as in sand, grit; not showing weakness or uncertainty; as in tie, secure; backbone; fortitude sounds like burn, burne, churn, durn, earn

NA

26. NA4 — sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
27. NA5 — one of high position or importance within a group; big; big boy; big cheese; big gun sounds like abbot, babble, cabin, dabble, habit
28. NA4 — sounds like manna
29. NA6 — being of less than usual width; not broad or open in views or opinions; having distinct or certain limits; fine; hairline sounds like faro, marrow

NO

31. NO4 — sounds like afar, ajar, are, bar, car
32. NO4 — sounds like knew, knob, lube, nab, new
33. NO4 — the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known
34. NO4 — sounds like gory, naughty

ON

36. ON5 — sounds like undone

RA

38. RA4 — 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
39. RA7 — a wide range or assortment; marked by a variety of usually vivid colors; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup sounds like reign
40. RA4 — sounds like rocky

RI

42. RI6 — a long narrow piece of material; to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it; of the very best kind; list; slip sounds like rebuff, rebut, robin, written

RO

44. RO4 — as in blotchy, piebald; as in palomino, chestnut; blotched; blotchy; piebald sounds like bone, cone, crone, drone, g**
45. RO5 — a meeting featuring a group discussion; colloquy; conference; council; forum sounds like ribbon
46. RO5 — sounds like rayon, ruin, run

WA

48. WA5 — sounds like donna, mana
49. WA4 — to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk; advise; alert; caution; forewarn sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

WI

51. WI6 — to remove less desirable choices from a group or list; cull; discard; jettison; throw away
52. WI4 — as in drinker, drunkard; alcoholic; alkie; boozehound; boozer sounds like keno, wean

WO

54. WO4 — depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; to use up all the physical energy of; to damage or diminish by continued friction; all in; aweary sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn