Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 5 July, 2023

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

Letters: n  b  e  f  i  l  o

  • Total Answers: 45
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

BE

  1. BE7 β€” a quickly followed straight or direct course; as in put, take off; as in arrow; dash; scramble sounds like byline, feline
  2. BE4 β€” to have life; to occupy a place or location; to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes; breathed; existed sounds like ban, bane, bib, bid, big

BI

  1. BI7 β€” sounds like bullion, jillion, million

BL

  1. BL4 β€” as in crepe, blintze; blintze; crepe; oatcake; wheat cake sounds like been, bin
  2. BL5 β€” as in crepes, blintzes; blintzes; crepes; oatcakes; wheat cakes sounds like baloney, beady, bean, beefy, bikini

BO

  1. BO6 β€” sounds like robin
  2. BO6 β€” sounds like bargain, carbon, robin
  3. BO4 β€” a habitual attraction to some activity or thing; a small cube marked on each side with one to six spots and usually played in pairs in various games; the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions; affection; affinity sounds like ban, bane, bean, beau, been
  4. BO6 β€” sounds like banjo, barb, barbed, barber, barrio
  5. BO4 β€” likely to seek or enjoy the company of others; a thing that helps; an act of kind assistance; clubbable; clubby sounds like ban, bane, bean, been, bin

EB

  1. EB4 β€” sounds like auburn, balm, ban, bane, bar

EL

  1. EL5 β€” having an often mysterious or magical power to attract; alluring; appealing; attractive; bewitching sounds like coffin, delphic, fin, selfish, sellin

EN

  1. EN8 β€” to diminish the physical strength of; debilitate; devitalize; enervate; etiolate sounds like feeble
  2. EN7 β€” to assign a high status or value to; aggrandize; canonize; deify; dignify sounds like noble

FE

  1. FE6 β€” a small domestic animal known for catching mice; moving easily; cat; house cat; kitty sounds like airline, align, byline, fallen, field
  2. FE5 β€” a person who has committed a serious crime; criminal; crook; culprit; lawbreaker sounds like fallen, melon
  3. FE6 β€” sounds like final, funnel, kennel

FI

  1. FI4 β€” consisting of very small particles; made or done with extreme care and accuracy; being of less than usual width; dusty; floury sounds like dine, fan, fawn, feign, fern

IN

  1. IN6 β€” sounds like fill, refill
  2. IN4 β€” a report of recent events or facts not previously known; 411; advice(s); gen; information
  3. IN5 β€” sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy

LE

  1. LE7 β€” sounds like any, benzene, bony, crony

LI

  1. LI4 β€” sounds like bean, clean, dean, gene, glean
  2. LI8 β€”
  3. LI4 β€” a series of persons or things arranged one behind another; a way of acting or proceeding; the activity by which one regularly makes a living; column; cue sounds like align, dine, fine, lain, lane
  4. LI5 β€” as in dirty laundry; dirty laundry; dirt; gossip; scuttlebutt
  5. LI4 β€” a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; the largest part or quantity of something; a large tawny cat of the wild; baron; captain sounds like ion, scion

LO

  1. LO4 β€” sounds like coin, join, lain, lane, lawn
  2. LO4 β€” being the one or ones of a class with no other members; not being in the company of others; a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs; alone; one sounds like a, blown, bone, c, c**s
  3. LO4 β€” one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person; bug; crackbrain; crazy sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
  4. LO6 β€” sounds like lucy, lunar

NE

  1. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
  2. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon

NI

  1. NI6 β€” a small piece or quantity of food; to eat reluctantly and in small bites; to crush or grind with the teeth; bite; morsel sounds like noble
  2. NI4 β€” as in last word, hot ticket; as in last words, hot tickets; as in wage earner, wage slave; buzz; chic sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin

NO

  1. NO5 β€” of high birth, rank, or station; having, characterized by, or arising from a dignified and generous nature; following the accepted rules of moral conduct; aristocratic; blue-blooded sounds like mobile, nibble
  2. NO4 β€” the season celebrating Christmas; as in anthem, hymn; Christmastide; Christmastime; yuletide sounds like knoll, null
  3. NO9 β€” refusal to accept something as true; disbelief; incredulity; unbelief sounds like wobbly
  4. NO4 β€” certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
  5. NO9 β€” sounds like billion, civilian, jillion, million, pavilion
  6. NO4 β€” sounds like knew, knob, lube, nab, new
  7. NO4 β€” the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known

OF

  1. OF7 β€” sounds like airline, align, awfully, byline, feline

ON

  1. ON5 β€” sounds like undone
  2. ON6 β€” being in effective operation; a series of persons or things arranged one behind another; a way of acting or proceeding; active; alive sounds like airline, align, byline, feline, incline

beeline, been, billion, blin, blini, bobbin, bonbon, bone, bonobo, boon, ebon, elfin, enfeeble, ennoble, feline, felon, fennel, fine, infill, info, innie, leonine, lien, lifeline, line, linen, lion, loin, lone, loon, loonie, nene, neon, nibble, nine, noble, noel, nonbelief, none, nonillion, noob, noon, offline, onion, online