NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 27 February, 2023

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

Letters: a  d  k  l  r  w  y

  • Total Answers: 37
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

  1. AL5 — to make more bearable or less severe; alleviate; assuage; ease; help sounds like away, clay, fillet, lay, play
  2. AL4 — someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support; to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members; abettor; backer; bedfellow sounds like fly, lie, lye, ply, sleigh

AR

  1. AR5 — a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; dressy clothing; assemblage; band sounds like awry, bay, day, earl, earn

AW

  1. AW5 — something given in recognition of achievement; a position arrived at after consideration; to give something as a token of gratitude or admiration for a service or achievement; accolade; blue ribbon sounds like aboard, accord, afford, toward, ward
  2. AW4 — from this or that place; not close in time or space; not at a certain place; down; fro sounds like allay, sway, way, weigh
  3. AW7 — lacking social grace and assurance; showing or marked by a lack of skill and tact (as in dealing with a situation); causing embarrassment; clumsy; gauche sounds like acquired, armored, backward, byword, coward
  4. AW9 — as in clumsily, ineptly; as in ungracefully; lacking social grace and assurance; clumsily; gracelessly sounds like cowardly, inwardly, outwardly, upwardly
  5. AW4 — inclined or twisted to one side; off the desired or intended path or course; askew; aslant; atilt sounds like arise, array, arrive, buy, die

DA

  1. DA5 — a male human parent; something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed; one that helps another with gifts or money; dad; father sounds like dowdy, paddy
  2. DA5 — to engage in activity for amusement; to move or act slowly; to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun; disport; frolic sounds like alley, duly, galley, rally, sally
  3. DA4 — being without light or without much light; not having a light complexion; causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer; black; caliginous sounds like arc, bark, dock, lark, mark
  4. DA6 — as in somberly, blackly; being without light or without much light; not having a light complexion; blackly; dismally sounds like barley, dearly, donkey, dryly, hardly

DR

  1. DR4 — to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface; to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to give a representation or account of in words; picture; drag
  2. DR5 — to speak slowly with vowel sounds that are longer than usual; breathe; chirp; gasp; lip sounds like brawl, crawl, thrall
  3. DR6
  4. DR4 — as in oxcart, jolt-wagon; jolt-wagon; oxcart; spring wagon; wagonette sounds like day, fray, gray, grey, pray
  5. DR5 — a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; hamadryad; naiad; nymph
  6. DR7

DY

  1. DY4 — two things of the same or similar kind that match or are considered together; brace; couple; couplet; duo sounds like dial, diet, dud

KA

  1. KA5 — as in canoe, raft; as in canoe; bateau; caïque; canoe sounds like crack, quack

LA

  1. LA4 — an adult female human being; a female partner in a marriage; a woman of high birth or social position; female; skirt sounds like shady
  2. LA4 — as in weave, interline; as in pitch, tar; interfile; interline; weave sounds like bard, card, charred, guard, hard
  3. LA4 — a time or instance of carefree fun; to play and run about happily; binge; fling; frisk sounds like arc, bark, dark, loch, lock
  4. LA7 — to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place; as in installment plan; cache; hoard; lay by sounds like away, byway, hideaway, highway, leeway

RA

  1. RA5
  2. RA5 — an act of gathering forces together to renew or attempt an effort; a mass meeting for the purpose of displaying or arousing support for a cause or person; the process or period of gradually regaining one's health and strength; marshaling; mobilization sounds like alley, dally, galley, really, sally
  3. RA5 — not cooked; being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refining; lacking in adult experience or maturity; uncooked; crude sounds like really, wrongly, wryly

WA

  1. WA4 — to go on foot; to refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet demands; a relaxed journey on foot for exercise or pleasure; ambulate; foot (it) sounds like balk, hawk, talk, weak, week
  2. WA7 — a path for walking; walk; approach; avenue; passage sounds like doorway, hallway, weekday, workday
  3. WA4 — a physical object that blocks the way; means or method of defending; as in close in, cordon (off); barricade; barrier sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  4. WA4 — means or method of defending; responsibility for the safety and well-being of someone or something; to drive danger or attack away from; aegis; ammunition sounds like a**, board, bored, chord, cord
  5. WA4 — having or showing a close attentiveness to avoiding danger or trouble; alert; careful; cautious; chary sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
  6. WA6 — to lie in wait for and attack by surprise; ambuscade; ambush; surprise sounds like melee, whale
  7. WA7 — given to resisting authority or another's control; given to resisting control or discipline by others; balky; contrary; contumacious sounds like awkward, byword, catered, favored, inward
  8. WA9 — given to resisting authority or another's control; given to resisting control or discipline by others; balky; contrary; contumacious sounds like awkwardly, inwardly, outwardly, upwardly

YA

  1. YA4 — an open space wholly or partly enclosed (as by buildings or walls); the area around and belonging to a building; a considerable amount; close; court sounds like bard, card, charred, guard, hard
  2. YA4 — as in yacht, ketch; brigantine; bugeye; caïque; caravel sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

allay, ally, array, award, away, awkward, awkwardly, awry, daddy, dally, dark, darkly, draw, drawl, drawly, dray, dryad, drywall, dyad, kayak, lady, lard, lark, layaway, radar, rally, rawly, walk, walkway, wall, ward, wary, waylay, wayward, waywardly, yard, yawl