NYT π CluesβSun. 22 October, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: b a d e k m n
- Total Answers: 39
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AB
- AB4 β
AM
- AM5 β
- AM6 β sounds like asset, ebb, mare, mesh, mess
BA
- BA5 β sounds like aid, aide
- BA4 β sounds like bobby
- BA4 β a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; a recently born person; a lovely woman; abecedarian; apprentice
- BA5 β sounds like bobby, box, vodka
- BA4 β to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority; to request the presence or participation of; to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority; adjured; bossed (around) sounds like aid, aide
- BA4 β as in tea, supper; as in cremate, incinerate; clambake; cocktail party; hen party sounds like ache
- BA5 β as in dehydrated, parched; as in cremated, incinerated; showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; dehydrated; parched
- BA6 β as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza
- BA4 β a circular strip; something that physically prevents free movement; a line or long narrow section differing in color from the background; circle; eye sounds like and, bend, bind, bland, bond
- BA7 β a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief
- BA8 β a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief
- BA6 β having stripes; to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; barred; streaked sounds like bonded, bounded, candid
- BA4 β a source of harm or misfortune; a substance that by chemical action can kill or injure a living thing; affliction; curse; nemesis sounds like arraign
- BA4 β a number of things considered as a unit; a series of people or things arranged side by side; a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow); array; assemblage sounds like blank, bunk, dank, hank, rank
- BA6 β to form into a pile or ridge of earth; to put in an account; to form into a pile or ridge of earth; hilled; mounded sounds like ranked
- BA6 β that may not be permitted; to order not to do or use or to be done or used; to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of; barred; forbidden sounds like and, bend, bind, bland, bond
BE
- BE4 β the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass; as in pearl, pellet; to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface; blob; driblet sounds like bad, bade
- BE6 β as in pearled, pelleted; pearled; pelleted; pelletized; bunched sounds like needed
- BE4 β the jaws of a bird together with their hornlike covering; the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity; a public official having authority to decide questions of law; bill; neb sounds like back, bake, balk
- BE6 β the jaws of a bird together with their hornlike covering; the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity; a public official having authority to decide questions of law; bill; neb sounds like backed, baked, peaked
- BE4 β a narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object; to emit rays of light; to express an emotion (as amusement) by curving the lips upward; ray; shaft sounds like balm, bam
- BE6 β to emit rays of light; to express an emotion (as amusement) by curving the lips upward; to emit rays of light; radiated; rayed sounds like themed
- BE4 β the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; active strength of body or mind; language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; block; dome sounds like ban, bane
- BE6 β as in brained, skulled; brained; conked; skulled; caned sounds like band, bind, bond, bound, burned
- BE6 β to go to one's bed in order to sleep; to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter; to go to one's bed in order to sleep; crashed; dossed (down) sounds like wedded
- BE4 β to have life; to occupy a place or location; to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes; breathed; existed sounds like ban, bane, bib, bid, big
- BE4 β to cause to turn away from a straight line; to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention; to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal; arch; bow sounds like band, bind, blend, bond, bound
DA
- DA6 β as in smeared, slathered; as in tapped, tipped; anointed; bedaubed; besmeared sounds like jabbed
EB
- EB5 β to become worse or of less value; to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually; to become worse or of less value; atrophied; crumbled sounds like bed
EM
- EM6 β as in collect, gather; accumulate; amass; assemble; collect sounds like bank
- EM8 β as in collected, gathered; accumulated; amassed; assembled; collected sounds like banked
- EM5 β to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter; bed; enroot; entrench; fix sounds like bed, imbibe, imbue, impair, impaired
- EM8 β as in implanted, instilled; to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter; to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter; implanted; inculcated sounds like bedding, breaded, dreaded, leaded, medic
KE
- KE5 β sounds like cab, carob, crab
MA
- MA5 β as in rattlesnake, cobra; adder; anaconda; asp; black racer
NA
- NA6 β to take or keep under one's control by authority of law; to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly; to take or keep under one's control by authority of law; apprehended; arrested sounds like jabbed