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5-Letter Words (91):
baddy (12 points)
Heavy in a Western
TV villain: Slang.
Villain in book or film
B·3+A·1+D·2+D·2+Y·4 = 12 pts
badly (11 points)
In an inept way
To a great extent
In an unskilled way
B·3+A·1+D·2+L·1+Y·4 = 11 pts
baffy (16 points)
Four-wood
Fourwood
B·3+A·1+F·4+F·4+Y·4 = 16 pts
baggy (12 points)
A couple of sizes too big
Like clowns clothing
Falling in loose folds
B·3+A·1+G·2+G·2+Y·4 = 12 pts
baldy (11 points)
Nickname for an eagle (wordplay)
Eagle's nickname (wordplay)
Person without hair (informal)
B·3+A·1+L·1+D·2+Y·4 = 11 pts
balky (14 points)
Like a stubborn mule
Obstinate, as a mule
Stubborn, like a mule
B·3+A·1+L·1+K·5+Y·4 = 14 pts
bally (10 points)
No good: Brit. slang
Big name in arcade games
Slot machine name
B·3+A·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
balmy (12 points)
Like the Tropics
Mild, weather-wise
Mild, as weather
B·3+A·1+L·1+M·3+Y·4 = 12 pts
bandy (11 points)
Bow (legged); swap (angry words)
Give and take, in a way
Bat back and forth
B·3+A·1+N·1+D·2+Y·4 = 11 pts
banty (10 points)
Small chicken.
Small chicken
B·3+A·1+N·1+T·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
barky (14 points)
Descriptive of trees
B·3+A·1+R·1+K·5+Y·4 = 14 pts
barmy (12 points)
Mad (like footballing 'army')
Stop! Compiler's out to lunch!
Mad reservists (wordplay)
B·3+A·1+R·1+M·3+Y·4 = 12 pts
barny (10 points)
Big and drafty
B·3+A·1+R·1+N·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
barye (10 points)
A unit of pressure
B·3+A·1+R·1+Y·4+E·1 = 10 pts
bassy (10 points)
Deep, as a tone
Like some speakers and headphones
Having strong low tones, as headphones
B·3+A·1+S·1+S·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
batty (10 points)
Like an eccentric slugger (wordplay)
Like pipistrelle nuts (wordplay)
Crazy chiropteran Nora (wordplay)
B·3+A·1+T·1+T·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
bawdy (14 points)
Full of double entendres, say
Like some vaudeville humor
Like sex farces
B·3+A·1+W·4+D·2+Y·4 = 14 pts
bawty (13 points)
A dog
B·3+A·1+W·4+T·1+Y·4 = 13 pts
bayed (11 points)
Sang in the moonlight maybe
Reacted to a full moon, perhaps
Saluted the moon, perhaps
B·3+A·1+Y·4+E·1+D·2 = 11 pts
bayou (10 points)
Watery area (US)
Marshy inlet of your creation say
Hideout for Lafitte
B·3+A·1+Y·4+O·1+U·1 = 10 pts
beady (11 points)
Like a criminal's eyes
Like snakes' eyes.
Small, globular and glittering.
B·3+E·1+A·1+D·2+Y·4 = 11 pts
beaky (14 points)
Having a conspicuous nose
Describing the toucan.
(Of a nose) hooked
B·3+E·1+A·1+K·5+Y·4 = 14 pts
beamy (12 points)
Sending out light
Radiant
Massive.
B·3+E·1+A·1+M·3+Y·4 = 12 pts
beefy (13 points)
Athletic and muscular (non-vegetarian?)
Muscular like some bully (wordplay)
Not slightly bovine (wordplay)
B·3+E·1+E·1+F·4+Y·4 = 13 pts
beery (10 points)
Full of suds (wordplay)
Like a tavern's smell, perhaps
Tipsy name in Hollywood (wordplay)
B·3+E·1+E·1+R·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
beigy (11 points)
Relating to the color beige
B·3+E·1+I·1+G·2+Y·4 = 11 pts
belay (10 points)
Secure (a rope)
Secure around a rock, say
Stop Bailey? Not I!
B·3+E·1+L·1+A·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
belly (10 points)
Food processor (wordplay)
Beer storage (wordplay)
Navel base (wordplay)
B·3+E·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
bendy (11 points)
Band with the 2012 #1 hit 'We Are Young'
Highly flexible as wire strips
Easy to flex
B·3+E·1+N·1+D·2+Y·4 = 11 pts
benny (10 points)
Comedian who never reached 40 (wordplay)
Well utterer Jack
Hill of British comedy
B·3+E·1+N·1+N·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
berry (10 points)
Chuck who sang "Maybellene"
Maybellene singer Chuck
Tomato, for one.
B·3+E·1+R·1+R·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
beryl (10 points)
Aquamarine, for one
Emerald for one
Emerald, for one
B·3+E·1+R·1+Y·4+L·1 = 10 pts
bialy (10 points)
Bagel-like roll
Oniony breakfast roll
Deli baked item
B·3+I·1+A·1+L·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
biddy (12 points)
Fussy cackler (wordplay)
Fussy old hen (wordplay)
Fussy old woman
B·3+I·1+D·2+D·2+Y·4 = 12 pts
biffy (16 points)
A toilet
B·3+I·1+F·4+F·4+Y·4 = 16 pts
bigly (11 points)
With wide scope
On a large scale
On a large scale, to Trump
B·3+I·1+G·2+L·1+Y·4 = 11 pts
bilgy (11 points)
Like stagnant seawater
Like sea water
B·3+I·1+L·1+G·2+Y·4 = 11 pts
billy (10 points)
Goat's name (wordplay)
Crystal known for cracks (wordplay)
Word with club or goat (*)
B·3+I·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
bitsy (10 points)
Half minute (wordplay)
Part of a phrase meaning "small"
Bryan Grant of tennis fame.
B·3+I·1+T·1+S·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
bitty (10 points)
In small pieces
Tiny local babysitter drops bears
Made of small parts
B·3+I·1+T·1+T·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
blimy (12 points)
Expressing surprise
B·3+L·1+I·1+M·3+Y·4 = 12 pts
blowy (13 points)
Like a March day, perhaps
Like a March day perhaps
Like March days
B·3+L·1+O·1+W·4+Y·4 = 13 pts
bluey (10 points)
Childs name for a certain blanket
Child's name for a certain blanket
Azurous.
B·3+L·1+U·1+E·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
blype (12 points)
A shred
B·3+L·1+Y·4+P·3+E·1 = 12 pts
bobby (14 points)
AKA Robert Allan (Curtola)
- Moore; - Charlton (footballers)
London fuzz (wordplay)
B·3+O·1+B·3+B·3+Y·4 = 14 pts
bogey (11 points)
Menace in the air maybe
Result of a three-putt, maybe
See grid (nonverbal)
B·3+O·1+G·2+E·1+Y·4 = 11 pts
boggy (12 points)
Soft and waterlogged
Like a swamp
Wet and spongy
B·3+O·1+G·2+G·2+Y·4 = 12 pts
boney (10 points)
Very thin (var.)
s disco group M
Very thin var
B·3+O·1+N·1+E·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
bonny (10 points)
Healthy-looking (Scots)
Pretty (in Scotland)
Attractive, to Scots
B·3+O·1+N·1+N·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
booby (12 points)
Kin of a pelican
Kind of trap
Seabird of the gannet family
B·3+O·1+O·1+B·3+Y·4 = 12 pts
boogy (11 points)
""To dance to rock music, also BOOGIE, BOOGEY""
B·3+O·1+O·1+G·2+Y·4 = 11 pts
boomy (12 points)
Excessively resonant
Resounding
B·3+O·1+O·1+M·3+Y·4 = 12 pts
booty (10 points)
Rear of a disco (wordplay)
Ill-gotten gains
Any rich gain, however taken.
B·3+O·1+O·1+T·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
boozy (19 points)
Drinking lots of alcohol
Happy young man touring Australia
Like many wedding toasts
B·3+O·1+O·1+Z·10+Y·4 = 19 pts
borty (10 points)
Relating to bort
B·3+O·1+R·1+T·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
bosky (14 points)
Like a dell
Covered with bushes
Abounding in shrubs
B·3+O·1+S·1+K·5+Y·4 = 14 pts
bossy (10 points)
Jersey girl (wordplay)
Made to order (wordplay)
Always placing orders (wordplay)
B·3+O·1+S·1+S·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
bothy (13 points)
Scottish mountain hut
Scots mountain hut
One-roomed hut or temporary dwelling
B·3+O·1+T·1+H·4+Y·4 = 13 pts
bousy (10 points)
""Inclined to booze, also BOOZY, BOOZEY""
B·3+O·1+U·1+S·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
boyar (10 points)
An aristocrat, in Czarist Russia
Noble of old Russia.
Former Russian aristocrat.
B·3+O·1+Y·4+A·1+R·1 = 10 pts
boyla (10 points)
A witch doctor
B·3+O·1+Y·4+L·1+A·1 = 10 pts
boyos (10 points)
Killarney kiddies
Young Dai and Rhys say so before lout's kicked over
B·3+O·1+Y·4+O·1+S·1 = 10 pts
braky (14 points)
Abounding in shrubs or ferns
B·3+R·1+A·1+K·5+Y·4 = 14 pts
braxy (17 points)
Sheep fever
B·3+R·1+A·1+X·8+Y·4 = 17 pts
brays (10 points)
Donkey serenade (wordplay)
Sounds like Eeyore
Pleasure Island sounds
B·3+R·1+A·1+Y·4+S·1 = 10 pts
briny (10 points)
Adjective for seawater
Like salt water
Word for the deep.
B·3+R·1+I·1+N·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
brosy (10 points)
Smeared with brose
B·3+R·1+O·1+S·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
buddy (12 points)
Friend (mainly US)
Close friend (US)
Pal's sprout to dry right out
B·3+U·1+D·2+D·2+Y·4 = 12 pts
buffy (16 points)
"Family Affair" character
Family Affair character
Willow's friend
B·3+U·1+F·4+F·4+Y·4 = 16 pts
buggy (12 points)
Vehicle infected (wordplay)
Pioneer wheels (wordplay)
Vehicle that's infested (wordplay)
B·3+U·1+G·2+G·2+Y·4 = 12 pts
bulgy (11 points)
Ill-fitting in a way
Like Major Hoople
Swollen in spots
B·3+U·1+L·1+G·2+Y·4 = 11 pts
bulky (14 points)
Like a heavy parka
Large and cumbersome
Like a heavy sweater
B·3+U·1+L·1+K·5+Y·4 = 14 pts
bully (10 points)
Cow, like her mate (wordplay)
Sort of beef well done for you!
Big man on campus (wordplay)
B·3+U·1+L·1+L·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
bumpy (14 points)
My pub (anagram)
(Of surface) uneven
Uneven (surface); jolting
B·3+U·1+M·3+P·3+Y·4 = 14 pts
bunny (10 points)
Bugs this pet!
Sort of hug for friend of raffles, say
Bugs for one
B·3+U·1+N·1+N·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
bunya (10 points)
Australian conifer
B·3+U·1+N·1+Y·4+A·1 = 10 pts
buoys (10 points)
Gulls' perches, often
Encourages, with 'up'
Lifts, as spirits
B·3+U·1+O·1+Y·4+S·1 = 10 pts
burly (10 points)
Not at all sylphic
Strongly and heavily built
Like Paul Bunyan
B·3+U·1+R·1+L·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
burry (10 points)
{prickly=adj}
B·3+U·1+R·1+R·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
busby (12 points)
Mil. bearskin (colloq.)
Bearskin cap (colloq.)
Tall fur hat
B·3+U·1+S·1+B·3+Y·4 = 12 pts
bushy (13 points)
Be you blushing but not bald (wordplay)
Thick, like George (wordplay)
Thick, like the US President (wordplay)
B·3+U·1+S·1+H·4+Y·4 = 13 pts
busty (10 points)
Like West or Parton
With a heavy chest
With a substantial rack
B·3+U·1+S·1+T·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
butty (10 points)
Races in to purchase a sandwich
Sandwich; towed barge
Sandwich; freight barge
B·3+U·1+T·1+T·1+Y·4 = 10 pts
butyl (10 points)
Synthetic rubber used in footballs
Modern substitute for rubber.
Industry's answer to a rubber shortage.
B·3+U·1+T·1+Y·4+L·1 = 10 pts
buyer (10 points)
Ill take it sayer
One to beware (wordplay)
Record store visitor, maybe
B·3+U·1+Y·4+E·1+R·1 = 10 pts
bylaw (13 points)
Constitution part perhaps
Constitution part, perhaps
Charter member (wordplay)
B·3+Y·4+L·1+A·1+W·4 = 13 pts
byres (10 points)
Cow barns, in England
Stables for cows.
British cow barns
B·3+Y·4+R·1+E·1+S·1 = 10 pts
byrls (10 points)
Byrl
B·3+Y·4+R·1+L·1+S·1 = 10 pts
byssi (10 points)
Byssus
B·3+Y·4+S·1+S·1+I·1 = 10 pts
bytes (10 points)
More than a few bits (wordplay)
Computer mouthfuls (wordplay)
Computer lunches (wordplay)
B·3+Y·4+T·1+E·1+S·1 = 10 pts
byway (16 points)
Scenic route perhaps
Scenic route, perhaps
Road less traveled
B·3+Y·4+W·4+A·1+Y·4 = 16 pts

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