Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sun. 16 April, 2023

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

Letters: u  a  b  e  l  m  t

  • Total Answers: 54
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AB

  1. AB4 β€” to be adjacent to; adjoin; border (on); butt (on or against); flank sounds like but, butt

AL

  1. AL5 β€” a collection of writings; anthology; collectanea; compendium; compilation
  2. AL4 β€” sounds like annum, atom, glum, plum, plumb

AM

  1. AM8 β€” to go on foot; foot (it); hoof (it); leg (it); pad sounds like emulate, tabulate
  2. AM9 β€”
  3. AM6 β€” something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil; charm; fetish; mascot; mojo sounds like emulate, simulate

BA

  1. BA6 β€” as in skiff, pirogue; caΓ―que; canoe; catamaran; coracle sounds like beta
  2. BA6 β€” a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest; bibelot; curio; curiosity; doodad sounds like bible, bubble

BE

  1. BE4 β€” a male romantic companion; a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance; a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance; boy; boyfriend sounds like bay, bio, blow, boa, boat
  2. BE5 β€” something very good of its kind; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow; corker sounds like ate, bait, bat, bay, bit

BL

  1. BL4 β€” depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society; feeling unhappiness; hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent; bawdy; coarse sounds like boo, brew, clue, flew, flu
  2. BL8 β€” sounds like allowable, alphabet, bearable, billable, bubble

BU

  1. BU5 β€”
  2. BU6 β€” to flow in a broken irregular stream; a state of noisy, confused activity; dribble; guggle; gurgle sounds like babble, bauble, bible, double, rubble
  3. BU4 β€” a stupid person; a glass bulb or tube that produces light when it is supplied with electricity; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead sounds like bely
  4. BU4 β€” an order publicly issued by an authority; a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level; boastful speech or writing; decree; diktat sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, bell
  5. BU6 β€” a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm; something that very quickly and easily solves a serious problem β€”usually singular; as in silver bullet; ball; pellet sounds like ballot, billet
  6. BU6 β€” to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound; to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually; burr; buzz sounds like fumble, humble, jumble, mumble, rumble
  7. BU9 β€” sounds like humbly
  8. BU4 β€” the part of the body upon which someone sits; a person or thing that is made fun of; a person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule; backside; behind sounds like abbot, bait, bat, beat, beet
  9. BU5 β€” a type of hill with a flat top and steep sides that is found in the southwestern U.S.; mesa; plateau; table; tableland sounds like abbot, bait, bat, beat, beet

EM

  1. EM7 β€” to be the same in meaning or effect; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; add up (to); amount (to); come (to) sounds like amulet, escalate, regulate

LU

  1. LU4 β€” as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
  2. LU4 β€” sounds like lab, lewd, lob, lobe, loom
  3. LU4 β€” a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
  4. LU4 β€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
  5. LU4 β€” sounds like boot, chute, f**, hoot, jute
  6. LU6 β€” sounds like booty, boutique, duty, litle, little

MA

  1. MA8 β€” sounds like commute, molecule
  2. MA4 β€” to abuse physically; to strike repeatedly; as in hammer, sledgehammer; maltreat; manhandle sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

MU

  1. MU4 β€” as in coyote, gunrunner; as in hinny; as in cross, hybrid; coyote; gunrunner sounds like mew
  2. MU4 β€” to reduce to fine particles; as in duff; to give serious and careful thought to; atomize; beat sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
  3. MU6 β€” sounds like gullet
  4. MU6 β€” speech that is not clear enough to be understood; to speak softly and unclearly; grunt; grunting; murmur sounds like bumble, fumble, humble, jumble, rumble
  5. MU7 β€” likely to change frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly; capricious; changeable; changeful; fickle sounds like im***
  6. MU6 β€” to pass from one form, state, or level to another; change; fluctuate; shift; snap sounds like butane
  7. MU4 β€” unable to speak; deliberately refraining from speech; a device on a musical instrument that deadens or softens its tone; inarticulate; speechless sounds like cute, mew, moot
  8. MU4 β€” a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like but, butt, cut, gut, hut
  9. MU6 β€” used or done by a number of people as a group; collaborative; collective; combined; common sounds like usual
  10. MU6 β€” as in sundress, housedress; chemise; coatdress; granny dress; housedress sounds like amok, among, animal, animate, gunman

TA

  1. TA7 — as in mise-en-scène; as in spectacle, montage; mise-en-scène; backdrop; scenery sounds like blow, bubbly, doubly, hello, tobacco
  2. TA8 β€” to arrange information in an organized way so that it can be studied, recorded, etc.; arrange; assort; catalog; categorize
  3. TA4 β€” stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat

TU

  1. TU4 β€”
  2. TU5 β€” sounds like ruble, table
  3. TU4 β€” a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; channel; conduit sounds like lube, tab, tomb, too, tool
  4. TU6 β€” sounds like lobule
  5. TU5 β€” as in lace, fishnet; bobbinet; Brussels lace; filigree; fishnet sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
  6. TU6 β€” an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; the act of going down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily; a state in which everything is out of order; agglomerate; agglomeration sounds like bumble, fumble, humble, jumble, mumble
  7. TU6 β€” a state of noisy, confused activity; a violent disturbance (as of the political or social order); a violent shouting; ado; alarums and excursions sounds like adult, ailment, camel, comet, coolant
  8. TU5 β€” sounds like booty, duty, sooty
  9. TU4 β€” as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo

UL

  1. UL7 β€” to make a long loud mournful sound; bay; howl; keen; wail sounds like accumulate, alienate, calculate, circulate, emulate

UM

  1. UM6 β€” sounds like about, alert, alight, allot, allow

abut, album, alum, ambulate, ambulette, amulet, bateau, bauble, beau, beaut, blue, bluebell, bubba, bubble, bulb, bull, bullet, bumble, bumblebee, butt, butte, emulate, luau, lube, lull, lulu, lute, luteal, malamute, maul, mule, mull, mullet, mumble, mutable, mutate, mute, mutt, mutual, muumuu, tableau, tabulate, taut, tuba, tubal, tube, tubule, tulle, tumble, tumult, tutee, tutu, ululate, umlaut