NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 18 May, 2023

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

Letters: l  b  g  i  n  r  u

  • Total Answers: 49
  • Pangrams: 4
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

BI

  1. BI4 — a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due; a piece of printed paper used as money in the United States; a sheet bearing an announcement for posting in a public place; account; check sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, been

  2. BI7 — as in advertising, message; as in nestling, cuddling; as in calling, declaring; advertising; blurb sounds like belong, building, chilling, killing, schilling

BL

  1. BL4 — as in crepe, blintze; blintze; crepe; oatcake; wheat cake sounds like been, bin

  2. BL5 — decorative objects (such as earrings, rings, necklaces, and bracelets) worn on the body; bijouterie; ice; jewelry; accessory sounds like billing, budding, bugging, bulging, buzzing

  3. BL5 — as in crepes, blintzes; blintzes; crepes; oatcakes; wheat cakes sounds like baloney, beady, bean, beefy, bikini

  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

  6. BL8 — as in confusion; to make (something) unclear to the understanding; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; confusion; beclouding

BU

  1. BU8 — to flow in a broken irregular stream; to flow in a broken irregular stream; dribbling; guggling; gurgling

  2. BU7 —

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

  4. BU7 — as in dilated, protuberant; as in bursting, crammed; to extend outward beyond a usual point; dilated; protuberant sounds like balding, billing, bluing, bridging

  5. BU6 — sounds like vulgar

  6. 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

  7. BU8 — sounds like balding, bearing, billing, bluing, booking

  8. BU8 — showing or marked by a lack of skill and tact (as in dealing with a situation); to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; awkward; botched sounds like dangling

  9. BU8 — as in prattling, blabbering; blabbering; blabbing; blithering; bumbling sounds like baffling, bottling, tabling

  10. BU8 — to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent; to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully; to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent; breaking in; burglarizing sounds like baffling, beguiling, bottling

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

GI

  1. GI8 — as in smiling, amused; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; amused; beaming sounds like beguiling, guzzling, middling, piddling, sizzling

  2. GI4 — a female romantic companion; a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage; a natural body of running water smaller than a river; gal; girl sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, gal

  3. GI7 — sounds like billing, chilling, galling, killing, schilling

  4. GI4 — a young unmarried woman; a female person who has not yet reached adulthood; a female romantic companion; damsel; demoiselle sounds like burl, curl, earl, gal, gale

GL

  1. GL4 — said or done in a way that lacks thought or is not sincere; facile; superficial; empty; hollow

  2. GL4 — sounds like lug, plug, slug

  3. GL8 — sounds like bugging, flagging, galloping, grudging, lagging

  4. GL6 — as in cementing; as in binding, fastening; cementing; adhesiveness; attachment sounds like bluing

GR

  1. GR5 — to put a series of questions to; to put a question or questions to; a public establishment where meals are served to paying customers for consumption on the premises; catechize; examine sounds like drill, frill, rill

  2. GR8 — as in challenge, cross-examination; to put a series of questions to; to put a question or questions to; challenge; cross-examination sounds like drilling, thrilling

GU

  1. 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

  2. GU7 — to cause to believe what is untrue; to cause to believe what is untrue; bamboozling; beguiling; bluffing sounds like galling

  3. GU8 — to flow in a broken irregular stream; to flow in a broken irregular stream; bubbling; dribbling; guggling

LI

  1. LI8 — sounds like bikini, singly

  2. LI6 — as in quilting, interlining; as in lining up, aligning; as in surrounding, embracing; interlining; quilting sounds like dining, fining, shining

LU

  1. LU6 — sounds like losing, tubing

  2. LU7 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to support and take from one place to another; to cause to follow by applying steady force on; dragging; drawing sounds like bugging, lagging, logging, loving, mugging

  3. LU6 — sounds like lodging, losing

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

  5. LU7 — tending to calm the emotions and relieve stress; to free from distress or disturbance; to free from distress or disturbance; calming; comforting sounds like loving

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

  7. LU4 — sounds like c, dung, f, hung, long

  8. LU7 — as in plunging, diving; diving; plunging; settling; sinking sounds like bulging, fudging, lodging, longing, loving

  9. LU6 — having an often mysterious or magical power to attract; to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; alluring; appealing sounds like bring, earring, ring, wring

NI

  1. NI8 — to eat reluctantly and in small bites; to crush or grind with the teeth; to consume or wear away gradually; pecking; picking sounds like middling, piddling, sibling, sizzling, tabling

  2. NI8 — so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention; to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant; to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant; chicken; de minimis sounds like beguiling, middling, piddling, sizzling

NU

  1. NU4 — having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness; to put an end to by formal action; bad; inoperative sounds like annul, cul, cull, dull, gull

RI

  1. RI6 — causing annoyance; to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts; to make angry; abrasive; aggravating sounds like filing, piling, railing, roiling, rolling

  2. RI4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill

RU

  1. RU6 — a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard; an order publicly issued by an authority; held by or applicable to a majority of the people; doom; finding sounds like railing, roiling, rolling, roofing

bill, billing, blin, bling, blini, blur, blurb, blurring, bubbling, bugling, bulb, bulging, bulgur, bull, bullring, bungling, burbling, burgling, burl, giggling, gill, gilling, girl, glib, glug, glugging, gluing, grill, grilling, gull, gulling, gurgling, linguini, lining, lubing, lugging, luging, lull, lulling, lulu, lung, lunging, luring, nibbling, niggling, null, riling, rill, ruling