NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 5 October, 2022

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

Letters: b  a  d  h  i  r  t

  • Total Answers: 24
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

BA

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

  2. BA4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment synonyms—bang, bash, beat, belt, biff

  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. BA4 — a person who writes poetry synonyms—minstrel, muse, poet, poetaster, rhymester sounds like—beard, board, bond, bored

  6. BA4 — a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste synonyms—alluvion, cataclysm, cataract, deluge, flood

BI

  1. BI4 — a member of the human race; a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval synonyms—baby, being, bod, body, character sounds like—bad, bade, bead, bed, berg

  2. BI8 — a usually ornamental basin set up for birds to bathe in sounds like—bourbon, burden

  3. BI5 — the act or instance of being born; the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended; the point at which something begins synonyms—geniture, nativity, ancestry, blood, bloodline sounds like—bath, berg, booth, borough, both

BR

  1. BR4 — to fasten with **s sounds like—bad

  2. BR5 — a length of something formed of three or more strands woven together synonyms—lace, lacing, plait, plat sounds like—bade, blade

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

  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

DR

  1. DR4 — causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest synonyms—arid, boring, colorless, dreary, drudging sounds like—crab, grab

  2. DR4 — a small amount —usually used in the phrase s and drabs sounds like—crib, rib

HA

  1. HA5 — a usual manner of behaving or doing; a physiological need for certain drugs; the type of body that a person has synonyms—custom, fashion, *ude, pattern, practice sounds like—abbot, rabbit

  2. HA7 — the place where a plant or animal is usually or naturally found synonyms—home, niche, range, territory

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 — being very far from the center of public opinion; feeling or showing anger; marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity synonyms—extreme, extremist, fanatic, radical, revolutionary sounds like—batted, bid, cabbage, crabbed, forbid

RI

  1. RI6 — sounds like—rebut

TA

  1. TA6 — a short loose-fitting sleeveless or short-sleeved coat or cape: such as; a tunic worn by a knight over his armor and emblazoned with his arms; a herald's official cape or coat emblazoned with his lord's arms sounds like—auburn, bird, cupboard, honored, labored

TI

  1. 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

  2. TI6 — something that is pleasing to eat because it is rare or a luxury; a small piece or quantity of food synonyms—bit, cate, dainty, delectable, delicacy sounds like—admit, audit, befit, bit, deadbeat

baba, baht, bait, barb, bard, bath, bird, birdbath, birth, brad, braid, brat, briar, drab, drib, habit, habitat, rabbi, rabbit, rabid, ribbit, tabard, tibia, tidbit