Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Tue. 25 April, 2023

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

Letters: d  a  b  g  i  l  n

  • Total Answers: 52
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AB

  1. AB7 β€” having an existence or validity that does not change or diminish; to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; to have a home; ageless; continuing sounds like bedding, biking, binding, biting, budding

AD

  1. AD6 β€” to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; to combine (numbers) into a single sum; to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; adjoining; annexing sounds like budding
  2. AD7 β€” to throw into a state of mental uncertainty; to throw into a state of mental uncertainty; baffling; bamboozling; beating sounds like baffling, coddling, dazzling, duckling, maddening

AI

  1. AI6 β€” as in helping; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; helping; computerized sounds like dang, dear, deer, dick, did

BA

  1. BA7 β€”
  2. BA4 β€” lacking a usual or natural covering; free from all additions or embellishment; not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; bare; denuded sounds like billed, board, boiled, bold, bored
  3. BA7 β€” sounds like building
  4. BA6 β€” a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment; ditty; jingle; lay; lyric sounds like blood, pallid, salad, valid
  5. 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
  6. BA9 β€” to cover with a bandage; to cover with a bandage; binding; dressing; swathing
  7. BA7 β€” a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief
  8. BA8 β€” a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief
  9. BA7 β€” to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; to make stripes on; begirding; belting sounds like binding, landing

BI

  1. BI7 β€” as in direction, instruction; to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority; to request the presence or participation of; charging; decreeing sounds like bedding, budding, building
  2. BI6 β€” as in continuing, enduring; to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state; to put up with (something painful or difficult); abiding; continuing sounds like a**, bedding, budding, buying, guiding
  3. BI4 β€” to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; to cover with a bandage; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; chain; enchain sounds like band, bend, blind, bond, bound
  4. BI5 β€” sounds like bandy
  5. BI7 β€” as in good, valid; as in tape, belt; to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; good; valid sounds like blinding, winding

BL

  1. BL7 β€”
  2. BL5 β€” not harsh or stern especially in nature or effect; balmy; benign; delicate; gentle sounds like band, brand, gland, land
  3. BL5 β€” lacking the power of sight; being under the influence of alcohol; to overpower with light; eyeless; sightless sounds like aligned, bind, lined
  4. BL8 β€” as in shimmering, glittering; to overpower with light; to overpower with light; agleam; aglitter sounds like binding

DA

  1. DA7 β€” as in smearing, slathering; as in tapping, tipping; anointing; bedaubing; besmearing
  2. DA8 β€” as in silly, goofy; to take part in an activity in a superficial way; to take part in an activity in a superficial way; frivolous; goofy
  3. DA4 β€” deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure; to a great degree; as in dash, darn; accursed; blasted sounds like bang, dung, fang, gang, hang
  4. DA8 β€” extending freely from a support from above; to place on an elevated point without support from below; to place on an elevated point without support from below; dependent; hanging

DI

  1. DI4 β€” to make a telephone call to; as in face, gauge; as in button, switch; call; phone sounds like dowel, dual, duel, dull, vial
  2. DI7 β€” to make a telephone call to; to make a telephone call to; calling; phoning; ringing (up) sounds like darling, dazzling, drilling, drubbing, duckling
  3. DI8 β€” to move or act slowly; to rob by the use of trickery or threats; to move or act slowly; crawling; creeping sounds like middling, piddling
  4. DI7 β€” to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth; to take pleasure in; to have a clear idea of; excavating; shoveling sounds like rigging
  5. DI4 β€” sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear
  6. DI4 β€” as in clang, clink; as in dent, dint; a person who lacks good sense or judgment; chink; clang sounds like dang, dear, deer
  7. DI7 β€” as in clanging, clinking; as in denting, dinting; chinking; clanging; clanking sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, winning
  8. DI6 β€” to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal; to take a meal; eating; faring sounds like dyeing, dying, fining, shining

GA

  1. GA7 β€” to move about from place to place aimlessly; bat; cruise; drift; float sounds like guiding, padding
  2. GA8 β€” sounds like languid, mangled, tangled

GI

  1. GI4 β€” as in whitewash, varnish; as in paint, appliquΓ©; a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest; gloss (over); varnish sounds like billed, build, chilled, filled, gold
  2. GI7 β€” as in whitewashing, varnishing; as in painting, appliquΓ©ing; glossing (over); varnishing; whitewashing sounds like building

GL

  1. GL4 β€” experiencing pleasure, satisfaction, or delight; having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action); serving to lift one's spirits; blissful; chuffed sounds like clad, grad, lad, plaid
  2. GL5 β€” sounds like bland, grand, land, planned
  3. GL7 β€” as in hanging, hovering; as in skydiving, ballooning; to move or proceed smoothly and readily; awash; drifting sounds like guiding, sliding

ID

  1. ID6 β€” as in lounging, loafing; to spend time doing nothing; to spend time doing nothing; loafing; lounging sounds like ailing, billing, ceiling, chilling, cling

IN

  1. IN6 β€” as in installed, inset; cut in; inset; installed; edged in
  2. IN6 β€” sounds like bland, gland, land, lowland, ma**

LA

  1. LA6 β€” a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported; to lift out with something that holds liquid; to place a weight or burden on; burden; cargo sounds like budding, leading, loving
  2. LA7 β€” to lift out with something that holds liquid; to lift out with something that holds liquid; bucketing; dipping; lading sounds like fiddling, leading, padding, seedling
  3. LA4 β€” to arrange something in a certain spot or position; to cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid); to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; deposed; deposited sounds like aid, aide, bade, blade, fade
  4. LA4 β€” a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government; a broad geographical area; the solid part of our planet's surface as distinguished from the sea and air; commonwealth; country sounds like and, band, b, canned, g
  5. LA7 β€” a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers; to stop at or near a place along the shore; to get to a destination; dock; float sounds like lending

LI

  1. LI9 β€” sounds like befuddle, duodenal, original, rebuttal, vaginal

NA

  1. NA4 β€” sounds like nod
  2. NA5 β€” a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; a young wingless often wormlike form (as a grub or caterpillar) that hatches from the egg of many insects; dryad; hamadryad; nymph sounds like acid, added, arid, avid, blood

abiding, adding, addling, aiding, badging, bald, balding, ballad, band, bandaging, bandana, bandanna, banding, bidding, biding, bind, bindi, binding, blading, bland, blind, blinding, dabbing, dabbling, dang, dangling, dial, dialing, diddling, digging, dill, ding, dinging, dining, gadding, gangland, gild, gilding, glad, gland, gliding, idling, inlaid, inland, lading, ladling, laid, land, landing, libidinal, nada, naiad