Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 27 January, 2023

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

Letters: n  a  i  j  o  r  t

  • Total Answers: 62
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AN

  1. AN5 β€” sounds like canyon, onion
  2. AN10 β€” a written explanation, observation, etc. that is added to something (such as a book); comment; note; reflection; remark sounds like agitation, connotation, imitation, inhalation, innovation
  3. AN9 β€” as in analyst, commentator; to add notes or comments to (a text, book, drawing, etc.); analyst; columnist; commentator sounds like agitator, innovator
  4. AN6 β€” to rub an oily or sticky substance over; bedaub; besmear; daub; smear sounds like appoint
  5. AN4 β€” at or within a short time; on some occasions; a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; before long; by and by sounds like upon
  6. AN4 β€” opposed to; not for; as in bigot, misogynist; as in bigots, misogynists; against; agin sounds like aunt, p**e, shanty

AR

  1. AR6 β€” having no exceptions or restrictions; absolute; all-out; blank; blooming sounds like bunt, current, hunt, punt, urgent

AT

  1. AT6 β€” to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to receive as return for effort; achieve; bag; chalk up sounds like obtain, stain
  2. AT9 β€” a gradual weakening, loss, or destruction; corrosion; erosion; undermining; waste sounds like accretion, addition, aggression, contrition, edition

IN

  1. IN10 β€” the process or an instance of being formally placed in an office or organization; baptism; inaugural; inauguration; induction sounds like affiliation, delineation, enumeration
  2. IN9 β€” a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor; to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of; to impart knowledge of a new thing or situation to; author; begetter
  3. IN4 β€” in addition to what has been said; to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; additionally; again sounds like ensue, onto, unto
  4. IN10 β€” as in inflection; inflection; accent; accentuation; emphasis
  5. IN5 β€” a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part; exordium; foreword; introduction; preamble sounds like encroach, engross, entice, entire, entre

IR

  1. IR4 β€” as in sand, grit; not showing weakness or uncertainty; as in tie, secure; backbone; fortitude sounds like burn, burne, churn, durn, earn
  2. IR8 β€” something that is a source of irritation; aggravation; aggro; annoyance; bother sounds like arrogant, immanent, imminent, impotent, innocent
  3. IR10 β€” the feeling of impatience or anger caused by another's repeated disagreeable acts; aggravation; aggro; annoyance; bother sounds like imitation, invitation, limitation, rotation

JA

  1. JA7 β€” a person who takes care of a property sometimes for an absent owner; a person who tends a door; caretaker; custodian; guardian sounds like amateur, banter, canister, canter, catheter

JI

  1. JI4 β€” as in genies, angels; as in genie, angel; angels; daimones; familiars sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin
  2. JI5 β€” as in genie, angel; angel; daimon; familiar; genie sounds like genie, gin, guinea, journey, tinny

JO

  1. JO4 β€” to be adjacent to; to become a member of; to come together to form a single unit; abut; adjoin sounds like ad**, coin, gene, gin, loin
  2. JO5 β€” used or done by a number of people as a group; a place where two or more things are united; a building, room, or suite of rooms occupied by a service business; collaborative; collective sounds like jaunt, point

NA

  1. NA4 β€” sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
  2. NA4 β€” sounds like manna
  3. NA9 β€” a relating of events usually in the order in which they happened; account; chronicle; chronology; commentary sounds like cessation, duration, gyration, notation, oration
  4. NA8 β€” to give an oral or written account of in some detail; chart; chronicle; describe; recite
  5. NA6 β€” sounds like latent
  6. NA6 β€” a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government; a people having a common language, culture, and body of traditions; a form of political organization in which a group of people who share the same history, traditions, or language live in a particular area under one government; commonwealth; country sounds like notion

NI

  1. NI5 β€” sounds like binge, dingy, ginger, hinge, injure
  2. NI5 β€” sounds like gyro, knight, knightly, maestro, metro

NO

  1. NO4 β€” sounds like afar, ajar, are, bar, car
  2. NO6 β€” sounds like monarch
  3. NO4 β€” the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known
  4. NO4 β€” sounds like gory, naughty
  5. NO8 β€” a usually brief written reminder; jotting; memo; memorandum; note sounds like rotation
  6. NO7 β€” sounds like narrator, rotate
  7. NO6 β€” small useful items; a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action; an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; etceteras; novelties sounds like lotion, motion, nation, ocean, potion

ON

  1. ON5 β€” sounds like undone
  2. ON4 β€” as in hit (upon), pitch (upon); as in hit (upon), pitched (upon); as in hitting (upon), pitching (upon); chance (upon); encounter sounds like into, unto

OR

  1. OR7 β€” a usually formal discourse delivered to an audience; address; declamation; harangue; peroration sounds like brazen, craven, creation, duration, elation

RA

  1. RA4 β€” a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity; a heavy fall of objects; to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds; cloudburst; deluge sounds like arraign, bane, b**, cane, chain
  2. RA4 β€” sounds like rocky
  3. RA4 β€” a long angry speech or scolding; boastful speech or writing; to talk loudly and wildly; diatribe; harangue sounds like ant, aunt, can't, chant, g**
  4. RA6 β€” to give as a share or portion; as in lot; as in dole out, mete (out); allocate; allot sounds like ashen, fashion, passion
  5. RA6 β€” as in birch, cowhide; birch; blacksnake; bullwhip; cat-o'-nine-tails sounds like cotton, gotten, robin, written

RO

  1. RO4 β€” as in blotchy, piebald; as in palomino, chestnut; blotched; blotchy; piebald sounds like bone, cone, crone, drone, g**
  2. RO8 β€” a rapid turning about on an axis or central point; gyration; pirouette; reel; revolution sounds like notation
  3. RO6 β€” sounds like protein

TA

  1. TA5 β€” a mark of guilt or disgrace; to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable; blot; brand sounds like faint, feint, paint, saint, tent
  2. TA6 β€”
  3. TA7 β€”
  4. TA6 β€”
  5. TA9 β€” sounds like starvation, toleration
  6. TA6 β€” sounds like carton, hearten

TI

  1. TI4 β€” a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; to give color or a different color to; cast; color; hue sounds like hint, lint, mint, s**, taint
  2. TI5 β€” something that is unusually large and powerful; behemoth; blockbuster; colossus; dinosaur sounds like heighten, lighten
  3. TI9 β€” sounds like citation, gyration, hydration, migration, vibration

TO

  1. TO4 β€” a lower limb of an animal; a portion of a trip; pin; lap; stage sounds like attune, boon, dune, goon, loon
  2. TO4 β€” to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it; to separate or remove by forceful pulling; to proceed or move quickly; rent; ribboned sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn
  3. TO7 β€” sounds like corny, courtly, crony, hormone, martini

TR

  1. TR5 β€” a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person; a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management; a series of persons or things arranged one behind another; cortege; entourage sounds like brain, crane, drain, grain, rain
  2. TR6 β€” sounds like brighten, frighten, tighten, titan

anion, annotation, annotator, anoint, anon, anti, arrant, attain, attrition, initiation, initiator, into, intonation, intro, iron, irritant, irritation, janitor, jinn, jinni, join, joint, naan, nana, narration, narrator, natant, nation, ninja, nitro, noir, nonart, noon, nori, notation, notator, notion, onion, onto, oration, rain, rani, rant, ration, rattan, roan, rotation, rotini, taint, tannin, tantara, tantra, tarnation, tartan, tint, titan, titration, toon, torn, tortoni, train, triton