NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 2 October, 2023

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

Letters: i  b  d  e  g  o  t

  • Total Answers: 41
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

BE

  1. BE5 — lacking in distinctive features or qualities; characterless; faceless; featureless; indistinctive sounds like babe, bade, bail, bait, bake

  2. BE6 — to take place; be; befall; chance; come

  3. BE7 — to take place; to take place; befell; came; came about sounds like blended, bloodied, boarded, bonded, bottled

BI

  1. BI4 — to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state; to put up with (something painful or difficult); to remain in place in readiness or expectation of something; abide; continue sounds like a**, bad, bade, bead, bed

  2. BI5 — to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state; to put up with (something painful or difficult); to remain in place in readiness or expectation of something; abided; continued sounds like bearded

  3. BI5 —

  4. BI6 — one of high position or importance within a group; big; big boy; big cheese; big gun sounds like baggy, bogey, boogie, buggy, busy

  5. BI5 — one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices; dogmatist; dogmatizer; partisan; sectarian sounds like begat, beget, begun

  6. BI7 — unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints; one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices; illiberal; intolerant; narrow sounds like belated, benighted

  7. BI4 — a harsh or sharp quality; a small piece or quantity of food; an uncomfortable degree of coolness; acerbity; acidity sounds like bait, bat, beat, beet, bet

BO

  1. BO6 — to represent in visible form; to represent in visible form; enjoying health and vigor; embodied; epitomized

  2. BO6 — as in shuffle, jive; bop; fox-trot; gavotte; jig sounds like baggy, biggie, buggy, buoy

  3. BO7 — as in shuffled, jived; bopped; fox-trotted; gavotted; jigged

  4. BO6 — the part of the body upon which someone sits; valuables stolen or taken by force; backside; behind; bottom sounds like beauty, buoy, duty, sooty

DE

  1. DE5 — a feature of someone or something that creates difficulty for achieving success; disadvantage; disbenefit; downside; drawback sounds like bit, daring

  2. DE7 — sounds like adjusted, awaited, buttock, button, committed

DI

  1. DI4 — to stop living; to come to an end; to stop functioning; checked out; conked (out) sounds like bide, chide, dad, dead, deed

  2. DI4 — the things that a person or animal eats considered as a whole; as in slimming, nonfattening; as in fast; nourishment; nurture sounds like riot

  3. DI6 — as in fasted; fasted sounds like cheated, dotted, heated, seated

  4. DI5 — a character used to represent a mathematical value; figure; integer; number; numeral sounds like bigot, billet, dearest, deduct, defeat

  5. DI5 — sounds like abode, anode, bide, bind, bio

  6. DI5 — having qualities in common; in like manner; to say after another; akin; alike sounds like deter

DO

  1. DO6 — a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes; canine; dog; hound; pooch

  2. DO5 — sounds like bogey, fogy

  3. DO6 — sounds like booby, derby, duly, duty, ruby

ED

  1. ED6 — as in swirled, purled; purled; swirled; bubbled; dribbled sounds like deed, readied

  2. ED4 — to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; redraft; revamp

  3. ED6 — to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; redrafted; revamped sounds like dotted, oedipal

GE

  1. GE5 — sounds like annoyed, avoid, bead, cede, deed

GI

  1. GI4 — to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter; as in taunt, quip; to be in agreement on every point; deride; jeer sounds like jab, jive, job, vibe

  2. GI5 — to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter; to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter; derided; jeered; laughed (at) sounds like jabbed, ribbed

  3. GI6 — as in drove, rode; bused; cabbed; coached; cruised sounds like gagged, guild, rigged

GO

  1. GO6 — something that is pleasing to eat because it is rare or a luxury; bit; cate; dainty; delectable sounds like gaudy, giddy

ID

  1. ID5 — a stupid person; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; airhead; birdbrain

IO

  1. IO6 —

OB

  1. OB4 — a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account; necrology; obituary sounds like bit, omit

TI

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

  2. TI4 — a prevailing or general movement or inclination; a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; current; direction; drift sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied

  3. TI5 — sounds like guided

  4. TI6 — being clean and in good order; as in picked up, uncluttered; to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like bodied, busied, deed, divvied, giddy

  5. TI4 — as in bound, attached; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; to produce something equal to (as in quality or value); attached; bound sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied

beige, betide, betided, bide, bided, bidet, biggie, bigot, bigoted, bite, bodied, boogie, boogied, bootie, debit, debited, died, diet, dieted, digit, diode, ditto, doggie, dogie, doobie, eddied, edit, edited, geoid, gibe, gibed, gigged, goodie, idiot, iodide, obit, tidbit, tide, tided, tidied, tied