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

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• 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

2. 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

3. 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
4. AR4 — a melody in an opera sung by one person synonyms—art song, barcarole, blues, chanson, chant
5. 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
6. AR4 — artillery sounds like—he, p

AT

7. AT5 — as in peristyles, gallerias synonyms—gallerias, parvises, peristyles, closes, courts sounds like—area, aria, outreach, streak, stream
8. AT5 — a sweet or pleasant smell synonyms—aroma, balm, bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy sounds like—butter, cutter, eater, gutter, mutter

AU

9. 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

10. BA4 — a rich cake soaked in a rum and sugar syrup sounds like—bobby
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. BA9 — disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others synonyms—atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, brutality, cruelness sounds like—brevity, rarity
15. 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

16. BR4 — as in nuisance, disrupter synonyms—disrupter, misbehaver, nuisance, ragamuffin, juvenile delinquent sounds like—bat, rat
17. BR6 — as in offensive, mischievous synonyms—brattish, mischievous, offensive, troublesome, upsetting sounds like—ratty
18. BR4 — to reduce to fine particles synonyms—atomize, beat, comminute, crush, disintegrate sounds like—bay
19. 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
20. 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

21. BU5 — redneck
22. BU7 — sounds like—barrage, beta, blot, bottle, bottom

RA

23. RA5 — as in teacher, scholar synonyms—brain, genius, highbrow, intellect, intellectual sounds like—abbey, ally, buy, cab, crab
24. RA6 — as in raccoon, fox synonyms—badger, beaver, chamois, chinchilla, ermine sounds like—abbot, habit, rebut
25. RA5 — sounds like—beta
26. 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
27. RA7 — a rapid succession of knocking, tapping, or cracking sounds sounds like—habitat
28. 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

29. TA5 — as in corded synonyms—corded, banded, barred, streaked, striped sounds like—abbey, shabby
30. TA5 — a temporary residing as another's guest synonyms—sojourn, stay, visit sounds like—airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
31. 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
32. TA6 — a native or inhabitant of **y; tatar; a person of irritable or violent temper sounds like—barter, charter, garter, martyr, starter
33. 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
34. TA4 — stretched with little or no give synonyms—rigid, tense, tight sounds like—fought, naught, ought, sought, teat

TI

35. TI5 — as in anadem synonyms—anadem, chaplet, coronal, coronet, crown sounds like—rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra
36. 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

37. 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
38. TR4 — as in plate, bowl synonyms—bowl, casserole, charger, cup, plate sounds like—fray, gray, grey, pray, prey
39. 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

40. 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