NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 11 June, 2023

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

Letters: n  a  b  i  l  t  y

  • Total Answers: 43
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AN

  1. AN4 — extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; as in perversity, waywardness; anal-retentive; obsessive sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null

  2. AN6 —

  3. AN5 — sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null

  4. AN4 — opposed to; not for; as in bigot, misogynist; as in bigots, misogynists; against; agin sounds like aunt, p**e, shanty

AT

  1. AT6 — to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to receive as return for effort; achieve; bag; chalk up sounds like obtain, stain

  2. AT13 — as in accessibility, obtainability; to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to receive as return for effort; accessibility; availableness sounds like availability

BA

  1. BA5 — lacking in qualities that make for spirit and character; used or heard so often as to be dull; flat; insipid; milk-and-water sounds like bizarre, bubble, buckle, bun, bunch

  2. BA8 — an idea or expression that has been used by many people; bromide; chestnut; cliché; commonplace sounds like tenacity

  3. BA7 — lacking in qualities that make for spirit and character; used or heard so often as to be dull; flat; insipid; milk-and-water sounds like bluntly, bodily, bubble, bubbly, buckle

  4. BA6 — as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza

  5. BA6 — sounds like canyon

BL

  1. BL7 — engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest; very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad; caterwauling; clamant; clamorous sounds like latent

  2. BL9 — as in loudly, vociferously; engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest; very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad; bloody murder; boisterously

  3. BL4 — as in crepe, blintze; blintze; crepe; oatcake; wheat cake sounds like been, bin

  4. BL5 — as in crepes, blintzes; blintzes; crepes; oatcakes; wheat cakes sounds like baloney, beady, bean, beefy, bikini

IN

  1. IN9 — the lack of sufficient ability, power, or means; impotence; inadequacy; incapability; incapacity sounds like disability, durability, immobility, liability, stability

  2. IN7 — a foolish act or idea; lack of good sense or judgment; absurdity; asininity; bêtise

  3. IN7 — coming before all others in time or order; as in inscribe; earliest; first; foremost

  4. IN9 — in the beginning; coming before all others in time or order; firstly; originally; primarily

  5. IN5 — as in install, inset; cut in; inset; install; edge in

LA

  1. LA4 — to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction; to occupy a place or location; to remain out of sight; borne; extended sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

  2. LA5 — a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot

  3. LA7 — sounds like antenna

LI

  1. LI4 — a soft airy substance or covering; down; floss; fluff; fur sounds like f, g, hint, leant, learnt

  2. LI5 — as in fluffy, fuzzy; a soft airy substance or covering; downy; fluffy; fuzzy sounds like f*

  3. LI6 — a long stated list of things one after another; an address to a deity or religious figure; enumeration; recital; recitation sounds like bitten, botany, gluttony, kitten, latent

NA

  1. NA4 — sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock

  2. NA4 — to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to make final, definite, or beyond dispute; to reveal the true nature of; bang; bash sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  3. NA4 — sounds like manna

  4. NA5 — a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children; babysitter; dry nurse; nurse; nursemaid sounds like canny, fanny

  5. NA5 — sounds like fatal, nettle

  6. NA8 — sounds like fatality, neutrality, totality, vitality

  7. NA6 — sounds like latent

  8. NA7 — in a strikingly neat and trim manner; being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance; dashingly; sharply; smartly sounds like anatomy, battle, cattle, family, fatally

  9. NA5 — being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance; dapper; sharp; smart; snappy sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, knotty, nutty

NI

  1. NI5 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a stupid person; berk; booby; charlie sounds like guinea, nanny, tinny

TA

  1. TA5 — 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 —

TI

  1. TI6 — very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like busily, eerily, eternally, finally, finicky

  2. TI5 — as in thin, peeping; peeping; thin; high-pitched; piping sounds like guinea, tony, tourney

  3. TI4 — 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

  4. TI4 — very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like shiny, tony, tourney

  5. TI5 — something that is unusually large and powerful; behemoth; blockbuster; colossus; dinosaur sounds like heighten, lighten

anal, anally, annal, anti, attain, attainability, banal, banality, banally, banana, banyan, blatant, blatantly, blin, blini, inability, inanity, initial, initially, inlay, lain, lanai, lantana, lint, linty, litany, naan, nail, nana, nanny, natal, natality, natant, nattily, natty, ninny, taint, tannin, tinily, tinny, tint, tiny, titan