NYT π CluesβThu. 10 August, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: o a b e k l n
- Total Answers: 55
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AB
- AB7 β sounds like baloney
AE
- AE4 β a long or seemingly long period of time; age; blue moon; coon's age; cycle sounds like neon
AL
- AL4 β sounds like ago, blow, flow, glow, hello
- AL5 β without aid or support; for nothing other than; not being in the company of others; independently; single-handed sounds like atone, blown, clone, clones, cologne
AN
- AN9 β sounds like alkaline, cologne
- AN4 β 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
- BA6 β sounds like buffoon
- BA7 β to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number; to extend outward beyond a usual point; accelerate; accumulate; appreciate sounds like buffoon, saloon
- BA6 β sounds like blob, blobby, bobby, bombast, buyback
BL
- BL4 β a small uneven mass; the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass; chunk; clod; clot sounds like lob, slob
- BL5 β an adult male human being; bastard; buck; cat; chap sounds like baroque, broke
BO
- BO4 β
- BO6 β an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; to make short up-and-down movements; blunder; boo-boo sounds like babble, bauble, bible, bubble, cobble
- BO4 β sounds like cola
- BO4 β sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, beau
- BO4 β as in machete, dagger; bayonet; bodkin; bowie knife; cutlass sounds like bellow, below, billow, blow, follow
- BO6 β sounds like bargain, carbon, robin
- BO4 β a habitual attraction to some activity or thing; a small cube marked on each side with one to six spots and usually played in pairs in various games; the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions; affection; affinity sounds like ban, bane, bean, beau, been
- BO4 β to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; bang; bash; bat; belt sounds like bank, bark, bronc, bunk, honk
- BO6 β sounds like banjo, barb, barbed, barber, barrio
- BO4 β an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; to make a mistake; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; blunder; bobble sounds like babe, bib, buoy
- BO6 β an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; blunder; bobble; boob; brick
- BO4 β a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction; a book made up of the writings accepted by Christians as coming from God; a publication that appears at regular intervals; tome; volume sounds like back, bake, balk, beak, bike
- BO8 β to arrange to have something (as a hotel room) held for one's future use; to leave a place often for another; bespeak; reserve; bail sounds like bearable, billable, bubble, durable, likable
- BO4 β 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
EB
- EB4 β sounds like auburn, balm, ban, bane, bar
EN
- EN7 β to assign a high status or value to; aggrandize; canonize; deify; dignify sounds like noble
KA
- KA5 β sounds like cabin
KE
- KE4 β sounds like wino
KN
- KN4 β a small uneven mass; the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; one of high position or importance within a group; blob; chunk sounds like gob, hob, job, lob, mob
- KN5 β a small hill; foothill; hillock; hummock; knob sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
KO
- KO5 β sounds like coal, coca, cold, colon, colt
- KO4 β sounds like bone, can, cane, clone, clones
- KO4 β sounds like coal, coca, cold, colon, colt
- KO4 β a person of odd or whimsical habits; character; codger; crack; crackbrain sounds like cake, cock, coke, cook, cool
LL
- LL5 β a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; campo; champaign; down(s); grassland sounds like blond, blonde, bond, borrow, capo
LO
- LO4 β as in advance; to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned; advance; bribe; douceur sounds like alone, blown, bone, clone, clones
- LO8 β to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned; advance; lend sounds like laudable, legible, liable, likable, livable
- LO4 β sounds like g**, lab
- LO4 β
- LO4 β 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
- LO4 β being the one or ones of a class with no other members; not being in the company of others; a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs; alone; one sounds like a, blown, bone, c, c**s
- LO4 β to give the impression of being; to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion); to have in mind as a purpose or goal; act; appear sounds like book, cook, hook, lack, lak
- LO4 β one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person; bug; crackbrain; crazy sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
NA
- NA5 β one of high position or importance within a group; big; big boy; big cheese; big gun sounds like abbot, babble, cabin, dabble, habit
NE
- NE4 β sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon
NO
- NO5 β of high birth, rank, or station; having, characterized by, or arising from a dignified and generous nature; following the accepted rules of moral conduct; aristocratic; blue-blooded sounds like mobile, nibble
- NO4 β the season celebrating Christmas; as in anthem, hymn; Christmastide; Christmastime; yuletide sounds like knoll, null
- NO4 β certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
- NO4 β sounds like knew, knob, lube, nab, new
- NO4 β a hollowed-out space in a wall; alcove; niche; recess sounds like book, cook, hook, knack, knock
- NO4 β 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
OA
- OA5 β sounds like action, ashen, backup, bacon, baron
OB
- OB4 β sounds like beau, lobo
OL
- OL4 β sounds like polio