NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 2 May, 2023

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

Letters: t  a  b  n  o  u  y

  • Total Answers: 43
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AB

  1. AB5 — as in bishop, archbishop; archbishop; archpriest; bishop; dean sounds like agate, but, butt, habit, rabbit

  2. AB5 — having to do with; close to; in random positions within the boundaries of; apropos; apropos of sounds like bout, rubout

  3. AB4 — to be adjacent to; adjoin; border (on); butt (on or against); flank sounds like but, butt

AT

  1. AT7 — sounds like annoy, boy, busboy, chubby, cowboy

AU

  1. AU4 — sounds like act, and, ante, apt, can't

  2. AU5 — sounds like ante, j*

  3. AU4 — a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels; automobile; bus; car; horseless carriage sounds like ought, stow, toe, tow

BA

  1. BA6 — sounds like busboy

  2. BA5 — a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; bastinado; bat; billy; billy club sounds like button

  3. BA5 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; balmy; barmy; bats; bedlam sounds like booty, catty, chatty, fatty, natty

BO

  1. BO4 — a small buoyant structure for travel on water; a large craft for travel by water; to travel on water in a vessel; bottom; craft sounds like bait, bat, beat, beau, beet

  2. BO4 — a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings; to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; to drive or force out; bang; charge sounds like bait, bat, beat, beet, bet

  3. BO5 — valuables stolen or taken by force; the part of the body upon which someone sits; loot; pillage; plunder sounds like beauty, buoy, duty, sooty

  4. BO6 — sounds like beaten, bitten, bunny, button, colony

  5. BO6 — something offered or given in return for a service performed; the quality or state of being generous; the total amount collected or obtained especially at one time; price; reward sounds like county

  6. BO4 — a competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize; a sudden experiencing of a physical or mental disorder; competition; contest; event sounds like a**, bait, bat, beat, beet

BU

  1. BU4 — as in tap, flick; flick; stroke; tap; scuff sounds like bent, blunt, brunt

  2. BU7 — having or showing a good mood or disposition; joyously unrestrained; blithe; blithesome; bright sounds like blunt, brunt

  3. BU4 — the part of the body upon which someone sits; a person or thing that is made fun of; a person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule; backside; behind sounds like abbot, bait, bat, beat, beet

  4. BU6 — as in switch, key; as in color, badge; as in do up, belay; dial; key sounds like baton, beaten, bitten, mutton

  5. BU6 — sounds like bite, bout, byte

NA

  1. NA7 — sounds like cannot, robot

  2. NA6 — sounds like latent

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

NU

  1. NU5 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; balmy; barmy; bats sounds like knotty, natty, naughty, putty

OA

  1. OA4 — sounds like eighty, goatee, tea, tee

ON

  1. ON4 — 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

TA

  1. TA5 — as in corded; as in alley cat; corded; banded; barred sounds like abbey, shabby

  2. TA5 — as in no-no; as in anathema, abomination; that may not be permitted; no-no; ban

  3. TA6 —

  4. TA5 — showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; beat-up; bombed-out; dilapidated; dog-eared sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

  5. TA5 — as in quip, jeer; to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; catcall; gibe; jeer sounds like daunt, gaunt, haunt, jaunt, tent

  6. TA4 — stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat

TO

  1. TO4 — sounds like bony, phoney, phony, pony, s**

  2. TO4 — a lower limb of an animal; a portion of a trip; pin; lap; stage sounds like attune, boon, dune, goon, loon

  3. TO4 — a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking; bender; binge; bust; carousal sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot

  4. TO4 — to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to provide publicity for; ballyhoo; blow up sounds like bout, doubt, gout, out, pout

TU

  1. TU4 —

  2. TU5 — having an excess of body fat; blubbery; chubby; corpulent; fat sounds like chubby, hubby, s*, tabby, touchy

  3. TU4 —

  4. TU4 — as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo

UN

  1. UN8 — as in unfold, unfurl; unclench; unfold; unfurl; unzip sounds like button

  2. UN4 — sounds like anew, into, onto

abbot, about, abut, attaboy, aunt, aunty, auto, batboy, baton, batty, boat, boot, booty, botany, bounty, bout, bunt, buoyant, butt, button, buyout, nanobot, natant, natty, nutty, oaty, onto, tabby, taboo, tattoo, tatty, taunt, taut, tony, toon, toot, tout, tuba, tubby, tuna, tutu, unbutton, unto