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

Letters: r  a  b  d  i  j  l

• Total Answers: 34
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AI

1. AI7 — sounds like aerial, arable, ball, bawl, brawl

AJ

3. AJ4 — sounds like afar, jar

AR

5. AR4 — a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson
6. AR4 — causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; marked by little or no precipitation or humidity; boring; colorless; drab sounds like acid, added, avid
7. AR4 — sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, aural

BA

9. BA4 — an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings; affront; brickbat; cut; dart sounds like borrow, garb
10. BA4 — a person who writes poetry; minstrel; muse; poet; poetaster sounds like beard, board, bond, bored

BI

12. BI8 — sounds like beleaguered, beloved, blurred, build, builder
13. BI8 — sounds like radial
14. BI4 — 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

BR

16. BR4 — sounds like bad
17. BR5 — a length of something formed of three or more strands woven together; to form into a braid; lace; lacing; plait sounds like bade, blade
18. BR5 — sounds like barrier
19. BR6 — a ceremony in which two people are united in matrimony; as in prenuptial; espousal; marriage; nuptial(s) sounds like beadle, bible

DR

21. DR4 — causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; a woman who engages in sexual activities for money; arid; boring; colorless sounds like crab, grab
22. DR4 — sounds like crib, rib
23. DR5 — an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity; something done over and over in order to develop skill; to make a hole or series of holes in; grind; groove sounds like dill, frill, grill, grille, rill

JA

25. JA8 — a person convicted as a criminal and serving a prison sentence; con; convict sounds like labored, tailored

LA

27. LA4 — a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others; the shelter or resting place of a wild animal; a place set aside for sleeping; concealment; covert sounds like air, bare, bear, blare, care
28. LA4 — as in weave, interline; as in pitch, tar; interfile; interline; weave sounds like bard, card, charred, guard, hard

LI

30. LI4 — a person who tells lies; fabricator; fabulist; fibber; prevaricator sounds like buyer, fire, flier, flyer, higher
31. LI4 — sounds like leery

RA

33. RA5 — as in teacher, scholar; brain; genius; highbrow; intellect sounds like abbey, ally, buy, cab, crab
34. RA5 — 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
35. RA5 —
36. RA6 —
37. RA5 — as in diameters; diameters; equators; perimeters; peripheries sounds like audio, bodied, body, oddly, readied
38. RA4 — a sudden attack on and entrance into hostile territory; the act or action of setting upon with force or violence; to enter for conquest or plunder; descent; foray sounds like aid, aide, bade, b**, fade
39. RA4 — a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports; a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel; as in revile, rant; balustrade; banister sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
40. RA8 — sounds like labored, tailored
41. RA4 — as in prince, baron; baron; baronet; count; duke sounds like cholla, comma, dodge, donna, drama

RI

43. RI4 — sounds like dial, royal, t**, vial
44. RI6 — depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society; hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent; bawdy; blue; coarse
45. RI4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill