NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 24 July, 2023

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

Letters: n  o  r  w  a  b  i

  • Total Answers: 40
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AN

  1. AN5 — sounds like canyon, onion

  2. AN4 — at or within a short time; on some occasions; a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded; before long; by and by sounds like upon

BA

  1. BA6 — sounds like buffoon

  2. BA6 — as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza

  3. BA9 — not civilized; an uncivilized person; barbaric; barbarous; heathen sounds like agrarian, arboreal

  4. BA4 — sounds like born, borrow, darn, yarn

  5. BA5 — a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; captain; czar; king; lion

BO

  1. BO6 — sounds like robin

  2. BO6 — sounds like bargain, carbon, robin

  3. BO6 — sounds like banjo, barb, barbed, barber, barrio

  4. BO4 — 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

  5. BO4 — being such from birth or by nature; belonging to a particular place by birth or origin; to bring forth from the womb; congenital; natural sounds like barn, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

  6. BO5 — sounds like bun, burden, burgeon, burn, burne

BR

  1. BR5 — 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

  2. BR4 — sounds like ban

  3. BR5 — muscular strength; beef; main; muscle; thew sounds like drawn

  4. BR5 — having a skin color darkened by the sun; as in neutron star, white dwarf; as in neutron stars, white dwarfs; bronzed; suntanned sounds like crown, drown, frown

IN

  1. IN6 — being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing; genetically passed or capable of being passed from parent to offspring; built-in; constitutional; constitutive sounds like unborn

IR

  1. IR4 — as in sand, grit; not showing weakness or uncertainty; as in tie, secure; backbone; fortitude sounds like burn, burne, churn, durn, earn

NA

  1. NA4 — sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock

  2. NA5 — one of high position or importance within a group; big; big boy; big cheese; big gun sounds like abbot, babble, cabin, dabble, habit

  3. NA4 — sounds like manna

  4. NA6 — being of less than usual width; not broad or open in views or opinions; having distinct or certain limits; fine; hairline sounds like faro, marrow

NO

  1. NO4 — sounds like afar, ajar, are, bar, car

  2. NO4 — sounds like knew, knob, lube, nab, new

  3. NO4 — 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

  4. NO4 — sounds like gory, naughty

ON

  1. ON5 — sounds like undone

RA

  1. RA4 — a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity; a heavy fall of objects; to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds; cloudburst; deluge sounds like arraign, bane, b**, cane, chain

  2. RA7 — a wide range or assortment; marked by a variety of usually vivid colors; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup sounds like reign

  3. RA4 — sounds like rocky

RI

  1. RI6 — a long narrow piece of material; to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it; of the very best kind; list; slip sounds like rebuff, rebut, robin, written

RO

  1. RO4 — as in blotchy, piebald; as in palomino, chestnut; blotched; blotchy; piebald sounds like bone, cone, crone, drone, g**

  2. RO5 — a meeting featuring a group discussion; colloquy; conference; council; forum sounds like ribbon

  3. RO5 — sounds like rayon, ruin, run

WA

  1. WA5 — sounds like donna, mana

  2. WA4 — to give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk; advise; alert; caution; forewarn sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

WI

  1. WI6 — to remove less desirable choices from a group or list; cull; discard; jettison; throw away

  2. WI4 — as in drinker, drunkard; alcoholic; alkie; boozehound; boozer sounds like keno, wean

WO

  1. WO4 — depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; to use up all the physical energy of; to damage or diminish by continued friction; all in; aweary sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

anion, anon, baboon, banana, barbarian, barn, baron, bobbin, bonbon, bonobo, boon, born, boron, brain, bran, brawn, brown, inborn, iron, naan, nabob, nana, narrow, noir, noob, noon, nori, onion, rain, rainbow, rani, ribbon, roan, robin, rowan, wanna, warn, winnow, wino, worn