NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 19 March, 2023

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

Letters: l  b  f  g  o  r  u

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

BL

  1. BL4 — a small uneven mass; the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass; chunk; clod; clot sounds like lob, slob

  2. BL4 — a website on which someone writes about personal opinions, activities, and experiences; annals; diary; journal; log sounds like bog, clog, slog

  3. BL5 — being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or manner; a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice; to cause to believe what is untrue; abrupt; blunt sounds like bailiff, buff, fluff, slough

  4. BL4 — to make (something) unclear to the understanding; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; as in spot, stain; becloud; befog sounds like boiler, bower, burr

  5. BL5 — a short description that praises something (such as a book) so that people will want to buy it; as in feature, pitch; advertising; billing; come-on

BO

  1. BO4 — sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, beau

  2. BO4 — as in machete, dagger; bayonet; bodkin; bowie knife; cutlass sounds like bellow, below, billow, blow, follow

BU

  1. BU4 — a stupid person; a glass bulb or tube that produces light when it is supplied with electricity; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead sounds like bely

  2. BU6 — sounds like vulgar

  3. BU4 — 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

  4. BU8 — sounds like baleful, belfry, fulcrum

  5. BU4 — sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, bell

FL

  1. FL4 — to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; to strike repeatedly; to move heavily or clumsily; birch; cowhide sounds like clog, fog, frog, slog

  2. FL5 — the surface upon which a body of water lies; to cause an unpleasant surprise for; to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected; bed; bottom sounds like for, fore, four, lore

  3. FL5 — sounds like glower

  4. FL4 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; to make a mistake; blunder; bobble sounds like club

  5. FL5 — a soft airy substance or covering; an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; to make a mistake; down; floss sounds like bluff, slough

FO

  1. FO4 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a person formerly kept in a royal or noble household to amuse with jests and pranks; a person with a strong and habitual liking for something; berk; booby sounds like cool, fail, fall, feel, fell

  2. FO4 — marked by wet and windy conditions; not being in accordance with the rules or standards of what is fair in sport; causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment; bleak; dirty sounds like fail, fall, feel, fell, file

FU

  1. FU4 — containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible; of the highest degree; having one's appetite completely satisfied; brimful; brimming sounds like bull, fail, fall, feel, fell

  2. FU4 — as in curl, twirl; annulet; becket; coil; curl sounds like burl, curl, earl, fail, fall

GL

  1. GL4 — a small uneven mass; the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass; blob; chunk; clod sounds like blob, gob, lob, slob

  2. GL4 — sounds like lug, plug, slug

GO

  1. GO4 — sounds like gulf

  2. GO6 — sounds like gaggle, giggle, gurgle

GU

  1. GU4 — a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline; an immeasurable depth or space; a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage; arm; bay sounds like golf

  2. GU4 — one who is easily deceived or cheated; to cause to believe what is untrue; chump; dupe; mug sounds like cul, cull, dull, eagle, gal

LO

  1. LO4 —

  2. LO4 — a device, design, or figure used as an identifying mark; emblem; ensign; hallmark; impresa

  3. LO7 — sounds like patrol

  4. LO4 — to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall

LU

  1. LU4 — a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull

  2. LU4 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled

RO

  1. RO4 — to form into a round compact mass; to make a low heavy rolling sound; to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions; agglomerate; ball sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

blob, blog, bluff, blur, blurb, boll, bolo, bulb, bulgur, bull, bullfrog, burl, flog, floor, flour, flub, fluff, fool, foul, full, furl, glob, glug, golf, googol, gulf, gull, lobo, logo, logroll, loll, lull, lulu, roll