NYT ๐Ÿ Cluesโ€”Fri. 11 August, 2023

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

Letters: i  d  l  q  t  u  y

  • Total Answers: 27
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! ๐Ÿคฃ

DI

  1. DI6 โ€” the smallest amount or part imaginable; the smallest amount or part imaginable; the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes sounds like deadly, dearly
  2. DI4 โ€” sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear
  3. DI5 โ€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like chili, chilly, daily, dally, dearly
  4. DI5 โ€” a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment; as in shopping bag, garment bag; as in shopping bags, garment bags; ballad; jingle sounds like city, deter, duty, kitty, pity

ID

  1. ID4 โ€” as in inactively; not being in a state of use, activity, or employment; not easily aroused to action or work; inactively; lifelessly sounds like oddly, widely
  2. ID4 โ€” a time or instance of carefree fun; binge; fling; frisk; frolic sounds like addle, aisle, awhile, beguile, bile
  3. ID5 โ€” a time or instance of carefree fun; binge; fling; frisk; frolic sounds like addle, dull, sidle, tidal

IL

  1. IL8 โ€” sounds like liquid
  2. IL11 โ€” sounds like liquidity
  3. IL4 โ€” sounds like alley, chili, ch**, early, eerie

IT

  1. IT4 โ€” very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy

LI

  1. LI4 โ€” the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern; as in croon, warble; movement; sway; swing sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt
  2. LI4 โ€” having or showing a shameful lack of courage; free from guilt or blame; chicken; chicken-livered; chickenhearted sounds like chili, chilly, filly, hilly, leery
  3. LI6 โ€” capable of moving like a liquid; easily seen through; flowing; fluent; fluid sounds like il**, wicked
  4. LI9 โ€” capable of moving like a liquid; easily seen through; flowing; fluent; fluid sounds like il*
  5. LI8 โ€” capable of moving like a liquid; easily seen through; flowing; fluent; fluid sounds like wickedly

QU

  1. QU4 โ€” a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another; a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another; back-and-forth; barter; commutation sounds like kid, s**
  2. QU8 โ€” an odd or peculiar habit; the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is; crotchet; curiosity; eccentricity sounds like acidity, liquidity
  3. QU5 โ€” as in pike, bayonet; bayonet; dirk; gimlet; pike sounds like kill, will
  4. QU5 โ€” as in comforter, puff; as in knit, crochet; an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; comforter; puff sounds like kilt, wilt
  5. QU4 โ€” to give up (a job or office); to stop doing (something) permanently; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; bag; chuck sounds like ac**, kit

TI

  1. TI6 โ€” as in neatly, orderly; being clean and in good order; of a size greater than average of its kind; neatly; orderly sounds like bodily, busily, eerily, fiddle, middle
  2. TI4 โ€” as in pick up, unclutter; being clean and in good order; of a size greater than average of its kind; pick up; straighten (up) sounds like teddy
  3. TI4 โ€” up to (a particular time); to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); until; up till sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
  4. TI4 โ€” the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; as in gyroplane, convertiplane; angling; bend sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

TU

  1. TU5 โ€” sounds like nutty, putty, touchy

UT

  1. UT7 โ€” as in other, new; the capacity for being useful for some purpose; as in sports car, wagon; different; other sounds like f***

diddly, dill, dilly, ditty, idly, idyl, idyll, illiquid, illiquidity, illy, itty, lilt, lily, liquid, liquidity, liquidly, quid, quiddity, quill, quilt, quit, tidily, tidy, till, tilt, tutti, utility