Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Thu. 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! 🀣

AB

  1. AB7 β€” sounds like baloney

AE

  1. AE4 β€” a long or seemingly long period of time; age; blue moon; coon's age; cycle sounds like neon

AL

  1. AL4 β€” sounds like ago, blow, flow, glow, hello
  2. 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

  1. AN9 β€” sounds like alkaline, cologne
  2. 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

  1. BA6 β€” sounds like buffoon
  2. 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
  3. BA6 β€” sounds like blob, blobby, bobby, bombast, buyback

BL

  1. BL4 β€” a small uneven mass; the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass; chunk; clod; clot sounds like lob, slob
  2. BL5 β€” an adult male human being; bastard; buck; cat; chap sounds like baroque, broke

BO

  1. BO4 β€”
  2. 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
  3. BO4 β€” sounds like cola
  4. BO4 β€” sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, beau
  5. BO4 β€” as in machete, dagger; bayonet; bodkin; bowie knife; cutlass sounds like bellow, below, billow, blow, follow
  6. BO6 β€” sounds like bargain, carbon, robin
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. BO6 β€” sounds like banjo, barb, barbed, barber, barrio
  10. 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
  11. BO6 β€” an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; blunder; bobble; boob; brick
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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

  1. EB4 β€” sounds like auburn, balm, ban, bane, bar

EN

  1. EN7 β€” to assign a high status or value to; aggrandize; canonize; deify; dignify sounds like noble

KA

  1. KA5 β€” sounds like cabin

KE

  1. KE4 β€” sounds like wino

KN

  1. 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
  2. KN5 β€” a small hill; foothill; hillock; hummock; knob sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

KO

  1. KO5 β€” sounds like coal, coca, cold, colon, colt
  2. KO4 β€” sounds like bone, can, cane, clone, clones
  3. KO4 β€” sounds like coal, coca, cold, colon, colt
  4. KO4 β€” a person of odd or whimsical habits; character; codger; crack; crackbrain sounds like cake, cock, coke, cook, cool

LL

  1. LL5 β€” a broad area of level or rolling treeless country; campo; champaign; down(s); grassland sounds like blond, blonde, bond, borrow, capo

LO

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. LO4 β€” sounds like g**, lab
  4. LO4 β€”
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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

  1. 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

  1. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon

NO

  1. 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
  2. NO4 β€” the season celebrating Christmas; as in anthem, hymn; Christmastide; Christmastime; yuletide sounds like knoll, null
  3. NO4 β€” certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
  4. NO4 β€” sounds like knew, knob, lube, nab, new
  5. NO4 β€” a hollowed-out space in a wall; alcove; niche; recess sounds like book, cook, hook, knack, knock
  6. 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

  1. OA5 β€” sounds like action, ashen, backup, bacon, baron

OB

  1. OB4 β€” sounds like beau, lobo

OL

  1. OL4 β€” sounds like polio

abalone, aeon, aloe, alone, anklebone, anon, baboon, balloon, baobab, blob, bloke, boba, bobble, bola, boll, bolo, bonbon, bone, bonk, bonobo, boob, booboo, book, bookable, boon, ebon, ennoble, kabob, keno, knob, knoll, koala, koan, kola, kook, llano, loan, loanable, lobe, lobo, loll, lone, look, loon, nabob, neon, noble, noel, none, noob, nook, noon, oaken, oboe, oleo