Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sun. 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! 🀣

AB

  1. AB4 β€”

AM

  1. AM5 β€”
  2. AM6 β€” sounds like asset, ebb, mare, mesh, mess

BA

  1. BA5 β€” sounds like aid, aide
  2. BA4 β€” sounds like bobby
  3. BA4 β€” a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; a recently born person; a lovely woman; abecedarian; apprentice
  4. BA5 β€” sounds like bobby, box, vodka
  5. 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
  6. BA4 β€” as in tea, supper; as in cremate, incinerate; clambake; cocktail party; hen party sounds like ache
  7. BA5 β€” as in dehydrated, parched; as in cremated, incinerated; showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; dehydrated; parched
  8. BA6 β€” as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza
  9. 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
  10. BA7 β€” a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief
  11. BA8 β€” a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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

  1. 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
  2. BE6 β€” as in pearled, pelleted; pearled; pelleted; pelletized; bunched sounds like needed
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. BE6 β€” as in brained, skulled; brained; conked; skulled; caned sounds like band, bind, bond, bound, burned
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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

  1. DA6 β€” as in smeared, slathered; as in tapped, tipped; anointed; bedaubed; besmeared sounds like jabbed

EB

  1. 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

  1. EM6 β€” as in collect, gather; accumulate; amass; assemble; collect sounds like bank
  2. EM8 β€” as in collected, gathered; accumulated; amassed; assembled; collected sounds like banked
  3. EM5 β€” to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter; bed; enroot; entrench; fix sounds like bed, imbibe, imbue, impair, impaired
  4. 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

  1. KE5 β€” sounds like cab, carob, crab

MA

  1. MA5 β€” as in rattlesnake, cobra; adder; anaconda; asp; black racer

NA

  1. 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

abed, ameba, amebae, baaed, baba, babe, babka, bade, bake, baked, banana, band, bandana, bandanna, banded, bane, bank, banked, banned, bead, beaded, beak, beaked, beam, beamed, bean, beaned, bedded, been, bend, dabbed, ebbed, embank, embanked, embed, embedded, kebab, mamba, nabbed