NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 14 August, 2022

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

Letters: d  a  g  i  n  p  r

  • Total Answers: 55
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AD

  1. AD6 — to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; to combine (numbers) into a single sum synonyms—adjoining, annexing, appending, subjoining, tacking (on) sounds like—budding

AI

  1. AI6 — as in helping synonyms—helping, computerized, easing, relieving, mechanical sounds like—dang, dear, deer, dick, did

AR

  1. AR4 — causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; marked by little or no precipitation or humidity synonyms—boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging sounds like—acid, added, avid

DA

  1. DA4 — deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure synonyms—accursed, blasted, confounded, cursed, cussed sounds like—bang, dung, fang, gang, hang

  2. DA7 —

  3. DA6 — inclined or willing to take risks synonyms—adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, dashing sounds like—bearing, caring, chairing, derrick, during

  4. DA4 — the smallest amount or part imaginable synonyms—beans, bubkes, continental, damn, diddly sounds like—barn, don, yarn

  5. DA7 — as in sewing, mending synonyms—closing, filling, healing, knitting, mending

DI

  1. DI7 — to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth; to take pleasure in; to have a clear idea of synonyms—excavating, shoveling, adoring, delighting (in), enjoying sounds like—rigging

  2. DI5 — a gold coin formerly used in countries of southwest Asia and north Africa; the basic monetary unit of Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia, and Tunisia; a monetary subunit of the rial (Iran) sounds like—defer, demur, deny, deter

  3. DI4 — as in clang, clink; as in dent, dint synonyms—chink, clang, clank, clash, clink sounds like—dang, dear, deer

  4. DI7 — as in clanging, clinking; as in denting, dinting synonyms—chinking, clanging, clanking, clashing, clinking sounds like—ginning, inning, sinning, winning

  5. DI6 — to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal synonyms—eating, faring, feeding, partaking, refreshing sounds like—dyeing, dying, fining, shining

  6. DI7 — as in sinking, slumping synonyms—sinking, slumping, dangling, falling, pendent sounds like—whipping

DR

  1. DR4 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to move or act slowly; to move slowly synonyms—draw, hale, haul, lug, pull sounds like—brag, rag

  2. DR8 — moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed synonyms—crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, dilatory sounds like—cracking, dashing, flagging

  3. DR5 — to remove (liquid) gradually or completely; to make complete use of; to use up all the physical energy of synonyms—bleed, draft, draw (off), pump, siphon sounds like—brain, crane, grain, rain, reign

  4. DR8 — as in exhausting, fatiguing synonyms—enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearing, palling sounds like—training

  5. DR7 — to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming synonyms—adorning, arraying, beautifying, bedecking, bedizening sounds like—breaking, craving, creeping, damping

  6. DR4 — someone or something boring; the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass synonyms—bore, drag, droner, dullsville, nudnik sounds like—dip, grip, rip, trip

  7. DR8 — containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water synonyms—awash, bathed, bedraggled, doused, drenched sounds like—gripping

GA

  1. GA7 — to move about from place to place aimlessly synonyms—bat, cruise, drift, float, gallivant sounds like—guiding, padding

GI

  1. GI4 — an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings synonyms—affront, barb, brickbat, cut, dart sounds like—bird, curd, goad, god, good

  2. GI7 — to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt; to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity; to form a circle around synonyms—banding, be***, belting, en***, engirdling sounds like—guiding, wording

GR

  1. GR4 — an individual part of a process, series, or ranking; degree of excellence; one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic synonyms—chapter, cut, degree, inch, notch sounds like—brad, glad

  2. GR7 — to arrange or assign according to type; to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes synonyms—assorting, breaking down, categorizing, classifying, classing

  3. GR5 — large and impressive in size, *eur, extent, or conception; coming before all others in importance; not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it synonyms—august, baronial, epic, gallant, glorious sounds like—brand, gland

  4. GR7 — grandfather sounds like—branded

  5. GR8 — grandfather sounds like—branded

  6. GR7 — the father of one's father or mother grandfather — often used as a form of address

  7. GR9 —

  8. GR4 — a set of bars placed over a shallow hole that is used to stop cattle from crossing a road : cattle guard

  9. GR5 — a harsh grating sound; a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; very hard or unpleasant work synonyms—creak, jar, rasp, scrape, scratch sounds like—rind

  10. GR8 — as in rough, abrasive synonyms—abrasive, cacophonous, discordant, jarring, rough sounds like—binding, blinding, guiding, riding, winding

NA

  1. NA4 — nothing sounds like—nod

  2. NA5 — the lowest point or level; the lowest part, place, or point synonyms—bedrock, bottom, depth, rock bottom, zero sounds like—neighbor, raider

  3. NA5 — a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; a young wingless often wormlike form (as a grub or caterpillar) that hatches from the egg of many insects synonyms—dryad, hamadryad, nymph, oread, wood nymph sounds like—acid, added, arid, avid, blood

PA

  1. PA7 — soft material that is used to fill the hollow parts of something; the representation of something in terms that go beyond the facts synonyms—fill, filler, filling, stuffing, wadding sounds like—pudding

  2. PA4 — as in expensive, high synonyms—costly, dear, expensive, high sounds like—aid, aide, bade, fade, jade

  3. PA5 — a police patrol car

  4. PA8 — as in display, showing synonyms—display, exhibition, exposure, showing, disinterment sounds like—pending

PI

  1. PI6 — as in colloquial, vernacular synonyms—colloquial, colloquialism, idiom, localism, parlance

PR

  1. PR7 — to think highly of (oneself) synonyms—flattering, piquing, pluming sounds like—riding

RA

  1. RA5 — a device designed to alert the operator of a vehicle when it has been targeted by a * beam (as from a police officer's * gun); * gun

  2. RA6 — a unit of plane angular measurement that is equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc whose length equals the radius or approximately 57.3 degrees

  3. RA5 — as in diameters synonyms—diameters, equators, perimeters, peripheries, waistlines sounds like—audio, bodied, body, oddly, readied

  4. RA4 — a sudden attack on and entrance into hostile territory; the act or action of setting upon with force or violence synonyms—descent, foray, incursion, inroad, invasion sounds like—aid, aide, bade, b**, fade

  5. RA7 — as in looting, pillaging synonyms—depredation, despoilment, despoliation, looting, marauding sounds like—fading, reading, riding, rodding, shading

  6. RA4 — Ayn 1905—1982 American (Russian-born) writer sounds like—and, band, b, canned, g

  7. RA5 — moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed synonyms—blistering, breakneck, breathless, brisk, dizzy

RI

  1. RI7 — to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers synonyms—clearing, disburdening, disencumbering, divesting, freeing sounds like—rowing, wring

  2. RI7 — as in drifting, banking synonyms—banking, drifting, agglutinating, clumping, lumping sounds like—b***, raging

  3. RI6 — to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; to make fun of in a good-natured way; to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air synonyms—baiting, hassling, hazing, heckling, needling sounds like—guiding, reading, rodding, writhing

  4. RI5 — not allowing for any exceptions or loosening of standards; given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint; having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressure synonyms—brassbound, cast-iron, exacting, hard-line, inflexible sounds like—f*

  5. RI4 — a small piece of pig skin that is fried and usually eaten cold as a snack : chicharron sounds like—bind, find, g**, hind, kind

adding, aiding, arid, dang, dapping, daring, darn, darning, digging, dinar, ding, dinging, dining, dipping, drag, dragging, drain, draining, draping, drip, dripping, gadding, gird, girding, grad, grading, grand, grandad, granddad, grandpa, grandpapa, grid, grind, grinding, nada, nadir, naiad, padding, paid, panda, parading, pidgin, priding, radar, radian, radii, raid, raiding, rand, rapid, ridding, ridging, riding, rigid, rind