NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 3 January, 2023

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

Letters: a  b  i  r  t  u  y

  • Total Answers: 40
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AB

  1. AB4 — to be adjacent to synonyms—adjoin, border (on), butt (on or against), flank, fringe sounds like—but, butt

AI

  1. AI4 — resembling air in lightness; open to the free circulation of air; located at a greater height than average or usual synonyms—ethereal, fluffy, gossamer, gossamery, light sounds like—any, area, berry, brie, bury

AR

  1. AR9 — having or showing a tendency to force one's will on others without any regard to fairness or necessity; lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern; exercising power or authority without interference by others synonyms—dictatorial, high-handed, imperious, peremptory, willful

  2. AR4 — a melody in an opera sung by one person synonyms—art song, barcarole, blues, chanson, chant

  3. AR5 — a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; dressy clothing synonyms—assemblage, band, bank, batch, battery sounds like—awry, bay, day, earl, earn

  4. AR4 — artillery sounds like—he, p

AT

  1. AT5 — as in peristyles, gallerias synonyms—gallerias, parvises, peristyles, closes, courts sounds like—area, aria, outreach, streak, stream

  2. AT5 — a sweet or pleasant smell synonyms—aroma, balm, bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy sounds like—butter, cutter, eater, gutter, mutter

AU

  1. AU4 — a special quality or impression associated with something; a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings synonyms—air, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, climate sounds like—era, oral, orb, ore

BA

  1. BA4 — a rich cake soaked in a rum and sugar syrup sounds like—bobby

  2. BA4 — a recently born person; a member of the human race; a successful result brought about by hard work synonyms—babe, bambino, child, infant, neonate sounds like—bobby, booby, maybe

  3. BA4 — something used to attract animals to a hook or into a trap; something that persuades one to perform an action for pleasure or gain synonyms—decoy, lure, allurement, come-on, enticement sounds like—abate, ate

  4. BA4 — an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings synonyms—affront, brickbat, cut, dart, dig sounds like—borrow, garb

  5. BA9 — disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others synonyms—atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, brutality, cruelness sounds like—brevity, rarity

  6. BA5 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind synonyms—balmy, barmy, bats, bedlam, bonkers sounds like—booty, catty, chatty, fatty, natty

BR

  1. BR4 — as in nuisance, disrupter synonyms—disrupter, misbehaver, nuisance, ragamuffin, juvenile delinquent sounds like—bat, rat

  2. BR6 — as in offensive, mischievous synonyms—brattish, mischievous, offensive, troublesome, upsetting sounds like—ratty

  3. BR4 — to reduce to fine particles synonyms—atomize, beat, comminute, crush, disintegrate sounds like—bay

  4. BR5 — a plant (such as a rose, blackberry, or greenbrier) having a usually woody and thorny or prickly stem; a mass of *s; a branch or twig of a * sounds like—barrier

  5. BR6 — a plant (such as a rose, blackberry, or greenbrier) having a usually woody and thorny or prickly stem; a mass of briars; a branch or twig of a briar

BU

  1. BU5 — redneck

  2. BU7 — sounds like—barrage, beta, blot, bottle, bottom

RA

  1. RA5 — as in teacher, scholar synonyms—brain, genius, highbrow, intellect, intellectual sounds like—abbey, ally, buy, cab, crab

  2. RA6 — as in raccoon, fox synonyms—badger, beaver, chamois, chinchilla, ermine sounds like—abbot, habit, rebut

  3. RA5 — sounds like—beta

  4. RA6 — something strange or unusual that is an object of interest; something that is different from what is ordinary or expected synonyms—curio, curiosity, exotic, objet d'art, oddity sounds like—parity, verity

  5. RA7 — a rapid succession of knocking, tapping, or cracking sounds sounds like—habitat

  6. RA5 — showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; worn or torn into or as if into rags; easily irritated or annoyed synonyms—beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TA

  1. TA5 — as in corded synonyms—corded, banded, barred, streaked, striped sounds like—abbey, shabby

  2. TA5 — a temporary residing as another's guest synonyms—sojourn, stay, visit sounds like—airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  3. TA4 — causing or characterized by the one of the basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings synonyms—acid, acidic, acidulous, sour, sourish sounds like—art, cart, chart, dart, heart

  4. TA6 — a native or inhabitant of **y; tatar; a person of irritable or violent temper sounds like—barter, charter, garter, martyr, starter

  5. TA5 — showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect synonyms—beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

  6. TA4 — stretched with little or no give synonyms—rigid, tense, tight sounds like—fought, naught, ought, sought, teat

TI

  1. TI5 — as in anadem synonyms—anadem, chaplet, coronal, coronet, crown sounds like—rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra

  2. TI5 — the inner and usually larger of the two bones of the vertebrate hind or lower limb between the knee and ankle; the fourth joint of the leg of an insect between the femur and tarsus sounds like—phobia, tabby, trivia, tuba

TR

  1. TR5 — something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind synonyms—affection, attribute, attribution, character, characteristic sounds like—crate, freight, grate, great, irate

  2. TR4 — as in plate, bowl synonyms—bowl, casserole, charger, cup, plate sounds like—fray, gray, grey, pray, prey

  3. TR9 — a stream that flows into a larger body of water synonyms—affluent, bayou, branch, confluent, feeder sounds like—arbitrary, contributory, dignitary, military, salutary

TU

  1. TU4 — a large low-pitched brass instrument usually oval in shape and having a conical tube, a cup-shaped mouthpiece, and a usual range an octave lower than that of the euphonium

abut, airy, arbitrary, aria, array, arty, atria, attar, aura, baba, baby, bait, barb, barbarity, batty, brat, bratty, bray, briar, briary, bubba, burrata, rabbi, rabbit, raita, rarity, ratatat, ratty, tabby, tarry, tart, tartar, tatty, taut, tiara, tibia, trait, tray, tributary, tuba