Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sun. 4 June, 2023

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

Letters: b  a  d  i  m  n  r

  • Total Answers: 35
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AR

  1. AR7 β€” sounds like farmhand, farmland

BA

  1. BA4 β€” sounds like bobby
  2. BA6 β€” as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza
  3. BA4 β€” a circular strip; something that physically prevents free movement; a line or long narrow section differing in color from the background; circle; eye sounds like and, bend, bind, bland, bond
  4. BA7 β€” a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief
  5. BA8 β€” a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief
  6. BA4 β€” an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings; affront; brickbat; cut; dart sounds like borrow, garb
  7. BA9 β€” not civilized; an uncivilized person; barbaric; barbarous; heathen sounds like agrarian, arboreal
  8. BA4 β€” a person who writes poetry; minstrel; muse; poet; poetaster sounds like beard, board, bond, bored
  9. BA7 β€” sounds like arcade, armed, armored, borrowed, braid
  10. BA6 β€” as in bartender, barkeep; barkeep; bartender; waitress; sommelier
  11. BA4 β€” sounds like born, borrow, darn, yarn

BI

  1. BI4 β€” to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; to cover with a bandage; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; chain; enchain sounds like band, bend, blind, bond, bound
  2. BI5 β€” sounds like bandy
  3. BI4 β€” a member of the human race; a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; to go after or on the track of; baby; being sounds like bad, bade, bead, bed, berg
  4. BI9 β€” a silly flighty person; a stupid person; cuckoo; ditz; featherbrain sounds like bourbon, brain, burden, drain, membrane

BR

  1. BR4 β€” sounds like bad
  2. BR5 β€” a length of something formed of three or more strands woven together; to form into a braid; lace; lacing; plait sounds like bade, blade
  3. BR5 β€” a very smart person; the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems; the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons; brainiac; genius sounds like bane
  4. BR4 β€” sounds like ban
  5. BR5 β€” a device (as a word) identifying the maker of a piece of merchandise and legally reserved for the exclusive use of that person or company; a mark of guilt or disgrace; a hand weapon with a length of metal sharpened on one or both sides and usually tapered to a sharp point; trademark; blot sounds like band, bland, grand
  6. BR5 β€” sounds like barrier
  7. BR4 β€” the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something; the projecting front part of a hat or cap; to be copiously supplied; border; borderline sounds like grim, prim, rim, trim

DR

  1. DR4 β€” causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; a woman who engages in sexual activities for money; arid; boring; colorless sounds like crab, grab
  2. DR4 β€” sounds like crib, rib

IA

  1. IA4 β€” sounds like bam, dam, damn, ham, jam
  2. IA5 β€” sounds like abbey, amber, bamboo, mammary, shabby

MA

  1. MA5 β€” as in rattlesnake, cobra; adder; anaconda; asp; black racer
  2. MA7 β€” sounds like aroma, bimbo, charisma, gorilla, guerilla

MI

  1. MI8 β€” sounds like membrane
  2. MI6 β€”
  3. MI7 β€”

NI

  1. NI5 β€” a special quality or impression associated with something; an artistic rendering of radiant light around the head or body of a sacred personage; a special quality or impression associated with something; airs; ambiences

RA

  1. RA5 β€” as in teacher, scholar; brain; genius; highbrow; intellect sounds like abbey, ally, buy, cab, crab
  2. RA5 β€” being very far from the center of public opinion; feeling or showing anger; marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity; extreme; extremist sounds like batted, bid, cabbage, crabbed, forbid

armband, baba, banana, band, bandana, bandanna, barb, barbarian, bard, barmaid, barman, barn, bind, bindi, bird, birdbrain, brad, braid, brain, bran, brand, briar, brim, drab, drib, iamb, iambi, mamba, marimba, midbrain, midrib, minibar, nimbi, rabbi, rabid