NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 26 December, 2022

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

Letters: v  a  i  l  n  o  p

  • Total Answers: 20
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AN

  1. AN5 — a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering); incus; the *—shaped top of a cumulonimbus

AV

  1. AV5 — the capacity for being useful for some purpose synonyms—account, mileage, service, serviceability, serviceableness sounds like—assail, unveil, veil

  2. AV5 — a bird when considered as the survivor of a lineage of theropod dinosaurs sounds like—alien

LA

  1. LA4 — a decorative lamp constructed of a transparent glass container filled with liquid and wax that is heated by an incandescent bulb which melts the wax and causes it to form random moving shapes within the liquid sounds like—java

NA

  1. NA5 — of or relating to a country's navy synonyms—GI, gladiatorial, mercenary, soldierly, martial sounds like—novel

NO

  1. NO4 — a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness and then within a few months or years becomes less bright again synonyms—binary star, brown dwarf, dwarf, fixed star, gasser sounds like—aroma, boa, coca, cola, coma

OV

  1. OV4 — having the shape of an egg synonyms—elliptical, ovate, ovoid sounds like—evil, ogle

PA

  1. PA8 — a freestanding airy structure in a scenic setting (as a park) typically offering commanding views synonyms—alcove, belvedere, casino, gazebo, kiosk sounds like—civilian

  2. PA7 — Anna 1882—1931 Russian ballerina sounds like—alcove, alma, alpha, anchovy, clove

VA

  1. VA4 — having too high an opinion of oneself; producing no results; having no usefulness synonyms—assured, biggety, bigheaded, complacent, conceited sounds like—arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

  2. VA7 — lacking in distinctive features or qualities synonyms—beige, characterless, faceless, featureless, indistinctive sounds like—manila

  3. VA8 — a crystalline phenolic aldehyde C8H8O3 that is extracted from vanilla beans or prepared synthetically and is used especially in flavoring and in perfumery

  4. VA7 — an arrangement by which a group of people commute to work in a van

VI

  1. VI4 — a small closed or closable vessel especially for liquids sounds like—dial, vowel

  2. VI5 — a large impressive residence synonyms—castle, château, estate, hacienda, hall

  3. VI7 — a mean, evil, or unprincipled person synonyms—baddie, beast, brute, caitiff, devil sounds like—billon

  4. VI4 — a bowed stringed instrument chiefly of the 16th and 17th centuries made in treble, alto, tenor, and bass sizes and distinguished from members of the **in family especially in having a deep body, a flat back, sloping shoulders, usually six strings, a fretted fingerboard, and a low-arched bridge sounds like—dial, vowel

  5. VI5 — a bass member of the viol family having a range approximating the cello sounds like—cola, iota, payola, phyla, volt

  6. VI6 — a bowed stringed instrument having four strings tuned at intervals of a fifth and a usual range from G below middle C upward for more than 41/2 octaves and having a shallow body, shoulders at right angles to the neck, a fingerboard without frets, and a curved bridge

VO

  1. VO5 — that's all sounds like—villa

anvil, avail, avian, lava, naval, nova, oval, pavilion, pavlova, vain, vanilla, vanillin, vanpool, vial, villa, villain, viol, viola, violin, voila