NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Mon. 7 August, 2023

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

Letters: l  o  y  a  d  h  i

  • Total Answers: 43
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AI

  1. AI5 β€” sounds like holy, idly, lowly, wholly

AL

  1. AL5 β€” to make more bearable or less severe; alleviate; assuage; ease; help sounds like away, clay, fillet, lay, play
  2. AL5 β€” a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things; admixture; amalgam; amalgamation; blend sounds like cloy, ploy
  3. AL4 β€” 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
  4. AL5 β€” sounds like ultra

DA

  1. DA6 β€” sounds like aria, cholera, cholla, colleague, collie
  2. DA5 β€” occurring, done, produced, or appearing every day; a person hired to perform household or personal services; as in regimen; day-to-day; diurnal sounds like duly, gaily
  3. DA5 β€” 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
  4. DA7 β€” sounds like fatally, racially

DI

  1. DI4 β€” to make a telephone call to; as in face, gauge; as in button, switch; call; phone sounds like dowel, dual, duel, dull, vial
  2. DI6 β€” the smallest amount or part imaginable; the smallest amount or part imaginable; the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes sounds like deadly, dearly
  3. DI5 β€” sounds like below, billed, billow, build, builder
  4. DI4 β€” sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear
  5. DI5 β€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like chili, chilly, daily, dally, dearly
  6. DI10 β€” to move or act slowly; to spend time doing nothing; crawl; creep; dally sounds like illegally

DO

  1. DO5 β€” sounds like coyly, daily, dally, duly, oily
  2. DO4 β€” a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; a physically attractive person; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; action figure; dolly sounds like dale, deal, dell, dill
  3. DO5 β€” a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; a lovely woman; a lovely woman; action figure; doll sounds like collie, daily, dally, duly, folly

HA

  1. HA4 β€” to declare enthusiastic approval of; to demand or request the presence or service of; a heavy fall of objects; acclaim; accredit sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  2. HA5 β€”
  3. HA4 β€” the entrance room of a building; a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building; a large room or building for enclosed public gatherings; entranceway; entry sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  4. HA4 β€” a special quality or impression associated with something; an artistic rendering of radiant light around the head or body of a sacred personage; as in enhalo; air; ambience sounds like hello, hollow

HI

  1. HI4 β€” a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; an area of high ground; an upward slope; cock; heap sounds like bill, c**, dill, fill, hail
  2. HI5 β€” having many hills; craggy; hillocky; mountainous; scarped sounds like chili, c*, filly, holy, hurley

HO

  1. HO4 β€” to have or keep in one's hands; to continue to have in one's possession or power; to have as an opinion; clench; cling (to) sounds like bold, cold, fold, gold, held
  2. HO7 β€” a period during which the usual routine of school or work is suspended; to take or spend a vacation; as in feast, holy day; break; hols sounds like solid
  3. HO5 β€” sounds like collie, folly, golly, highly, hilly
  4. HO4 β€” showing a devotion to God and to a life of virtue; set apart or worthy of veneration by association with God; of, relating to, or being God; devout; godly sounds like highly, hilly, hurley, lowly, whole

ID

  1. ID4 β€” 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 β€” a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion; god; hero; icon sounds like addle, dull, sidle, tidal
  3. ID4 β€” a time or instance of carefree fun; binge; fling; frisk; frolic sounds like addle, aisle, awhile, beguile, bile
  4. ID5 β€” a time or instance of carefree fun; binge; fling; frisk; frolic sounds like addle, dull, sidle, tidal

IL

  1. IL4 β€” sounds like alley, chili, ch**, early, eerie

LA

  1. LA4 β€” an adult female human being; a female partner in a marriage; a woman of high birth or social position; female; woman sounds like shady
  2. LA4 β€” to arrange something in a certain spot or position; to cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid); to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; deposed; deposited sounds like aid, aide, bade, blade, fade

LI

  1. LI4 β€” having or showing a shameful lack of courage; free from guilt or blame; chicken; chicken-livered; chickenhearted sounds like chili, chilly, filly, hilly, leery

LO

  1. LO4 β€” to place a weight or burden on; to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained; a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported; burden; encumber sounds like bode, code, goad, lad, lade
  2. LO4 β€” to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall
  3. LO5 β€” firm in one's allegiance to someone or something; constant; dedicated; devoted; devout sounds like lull, royal
  4. LO7 β€” firm in one's allegiance to someone or something; constant; dedicated; devoted; devout

OD

  1. OD5 β€” as in strangely, weirdly; funnily; peculiarly; queerly; strangely sounds like awfully, idly

OI

  1. OI4 β€” overly or insincerely flattering; adulatory; fulsome; gushing; gushy sounds like alley, coyly, early, flea, flee

OL

  1. OL4 β€” an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup; assortment sounds like audio

aioli, allay, alloy, ally, aloha, dahlia, daily, dally, daylily, dial, diddly, dildo, dill, dilly, dillydally, doily, doll, dolly, hail, halal, hall, halo, hill, hilly, hold, holiday, holly, holy, idly, idol, idyl, idyll, illy, lady, laid, lily, load, loll, loyal, loyally, oddly, oily, olio