Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 2 August, 2023

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

Letters: t  a  b  c  e  j  l

  • Total Answers: 51
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AB

  1. AB5 β€” to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually; to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent; to put an end to by formal action; de-escalate; decline sounds like await, bait, debate
  2. AB4 β€” to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; brew; ferment; foment sounds like bet
  3. AB7 β€” sounds like battle, beetle, bevel, bottle, kettle
  4. AB6 β€” showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissiveness; base; humble; menial; servile sounds like object
  5. AB6 β€” sounds like bait, blade, blame, blase, blaze

AC

  1. AC6 β€” sounds like subtle, unsubtle
  2. AC7 β€” sounds like agitate, annotate

BA

  1. BA6 β€” sounds like valet
  2. BA4 β€” as in take off, abate; abate; deduct; knock off; remove sounds like a**, ate
  3. BA6 β€” a forceful effort to reach a goal or objective; a physical dispute between opposing individuals or groups; active fighting during the course of a war; fight; fray sounds like beetle, bottle, cattle, rattle

BE

  1. BE4 β€” to strike repeatedly; to achieve a victory over; to be greater, better, or stronger than; bash; baste sounds like bait, bat
  2. BE8 β€” to strike repeatedly; to achieve a victory over; to be greater, better, or stronger than; bash; baste sounds like billable, bubble, feasible, notable, peaceable
  3. BE4 β€” sounds like bait, bat
  4. BE6 β€” to extend outward beyond a usual point; as in hammer, sledgehammer; bag; balloon; belly sounds like battle, bottle, cheetal, fetal
  5. BE6 β€” sounds like abate, alert, alight, allay, allot
  6. BE4 β€” a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time; a strip of flexible material (as leather) worn around the waist; bang; bash sounds like bolt, built, dealt
  7. BE4 β€” sounds like bait
  8. BE5 β€” sounds like battle, bottle, hotel, kettle

BL

  1. BL4 β€” to utter with a sudden burst of strong feeling; as in bleat, honk; blurt (out); bolt; cry (out) sounds like bat, brat, flat, slat
  2. BL5 β€” an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to utter feeble plaintive cries; beef; bitch sounds like beat, beet

CA

  1. CA7 β€” a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; as in deride, jeer; bird; boo; Bronx cheer
  2. CA6 β€” as in trash, rabble; proletariat; rabble; rabblement; ragtag and bobtail sounds like battle, kettle, rattle

CL

  1. CL5 β€” sounds like elite, fleet, klieg, pleat, sleet

EA

  1. EA7 β€” suitable for use as food; comestible; eating; edible; esculent sounds like stubble

EC

  1. EC5 β€” as in extravaganza, mummery; extravaganza; mummery; pageant; parade sounds like cat, clad, clam, clan, clang

EJ

  1. EJ5 β€” to drive or force out; to violently throw out or off (something from within); banish; boot (out); bounce sounds like effect, elect, erect, inject, r*
  2. EJ6 β€”
  3. EJ9 β€” to drive or force out; to violently throw out or off (something from within); banish; boot (out); bounce sounds like delectable, detectable

EL

  1. EL5 β€” to fill with great joy; elevate; enrapture; exhilarate; intoxicate sounds like innate, late, plate, r*, slate
  2. EL5 β€” to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities; singled out from a number or group as more to one's liking; individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class; cherry-pick; choose sounds like effect, eject, erect
  3. EL9 β€” sounds like collectible
  4. EL7 β€” sounds like affect, aplenty, collect, collector, plenty

JE

  1. JE4 β€” sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat

LA

  1. LA7 β€” sounds like backdate, dictate, locate
  2. LA7 β€” sounds like act, actor, backed, fact, factor
  3. LA4 β€” not arriving, occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper time; having been such at some previous time; no longer living; behind; behindhand sounds like ate, bait, date, eight, e**
  4. LA5 β€” sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, flat

TA

  1. TA5 β€”
  2. TA5 β€” as in figure, calculate; as in reserve, hold off; a leg-mounted piece of furniture with a broad flat top designed for the serving of food; calculate; cipher sounds like able, cable, fable, gable, hable
  3. TA6 β€” a number of sheets of writing paper glued together at one edge; a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally; notepad; pad; cap sounds like abbot, ballot, giblet, habit, hamlet
  4. TA5 β€” sounds like facet
  5. TA4 β€” the ability to deal with others in touchy situations without offending them; diplomacy; tactfulness sounds like act, backed, fact, packed, pact
  6. TA4 β€” sounds like torque
  7. TA4 β€” a rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature; a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally; a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive; canard; story sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  8. TA4 β€” extending to a great distance upward; requiring considerable physical or mental effort; as in yacht, sailboat; altitudinous; high sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  9. TA6 β€” information or opinion that is widely disseminated without any authority or confirmation of accuracy; to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature; as in run on, blabber; buzz; dish sounds like battle, cattle, rattle, title, total
  10. TA10 β€” a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; betrayer; canary; deep throat; fink sounds like telltale

TE

  1. TE4 β€” sounds like deal, eel, feel, heal, heel
  2. TE4 β€” sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
  3. TE4 β€” to give an oral or written account of in some detail; to express (a thought or emotion) in words; to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added; chart; chronicle sounds like bell, cell, dell, fell, gel
  4. TE8 β€” indicating something; a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others; a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; denotative; denoting sounds like entail

abate, abet, abettal, abject, ablate, acetal, acetate, ballet, bate, battle, beat, beatable, beet, beetle, belate, belt, beta, betel, blat, bleat, catcall, cattle, cleat, eatable, eclat, eject, ejecta, ejectable, elate, elect, electable, electee, jete, lactate, lacteal, late, latte, tabla, table, tablet, tacet, tact, talc, tale, tall, tattle, tattletale, teal, teat, tell, telltale