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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sun. 15 October, 2023

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

Letters: t  a  g  i  r  v  y

  • Total Answers: 26
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AG

  1. AG5 β€” an uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble; agitation; anxiety; anxiousness; apprehension sounds like cheetah, fajita

AR

  1. AR4 β€” sounds like he, p

AT

  1. AT5 β€” as in peristyles, gallerias; gallerias; parvises; peristyles; closes sounds like area, aria, outreach, streak, stream
  2. AT5 β€” a sweet or pleasant smell; aroma; balm; bouquet; fragrance sounds like butter, cutter, eater, gutter, mutter

AV

  1. AV6 β€” a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality); abstract; embodier; embodiment; epitome sounds like actor, after, amateur, aster, hotter

GA

  1. GA4 β€” the rate at which activities are pursued; clip; pace; rate; tempo sounds like ate, bait, date, eight, fate

GI

  1. GI4 β€” to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt; to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt; to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity; band; begird sounds like curt, dirt, gait, gate, get

GR

  1. GR7 β€” a mental state free of jesting or trifling; earnest; earnestness; graveness; intentness sounds like brevity, cavity, travesty
  2. GR4 β€” the strength of mind that enables a person to endure pain or hardship; to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound; backbone; constancy; fiber
  3. GR6 β€” as in unflinching, resolute; as in earthy, sandy; as in vivid, graphic; determined; firm sounds like pretty

IT

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

RA

  1. RA6 β€” consisting of many things of different sorts; wearing torn or worn out clothes; people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class; assorted; eclectic
  2. RA5 β€” sounds like beta
  3. RA6 β€” something strange or unusual that is an object of interest; something that is different from what is ordinary or expected; curio; curiosity; exotic sounds like parity, verity
  4. RA7 β€” sounds like habitat
  5. RA5 β€” showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; worn or torn into or as if into rags; easily irritated or annoyed; beat-up; bombed-out sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TA

  1. TA5 β€” sounds like tiger, toga
  2. TA5 β€” as in pitchy; a temporary residing as another's guest; to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; pitchy; gelatinous sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
  3. TA4 β€” causing or characterized by the one of the basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings; a woman who engages in sexual activities for money; acid; acidic sounds like art, cart, chart, dart, heart
  4. TA6 β€” sounds like barter, charter, garter, martyr, starter
  5. TA5 β€” showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; beat-up; bombed-out; dilapidated; dog-eared sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TI

  1. TI5 β€” as in anadem; anadem; chaplet; coronal; coronet sounds like rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra

TR

  1. TR5 β€” something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind; affection; attribute; attribution; character sounds like crate, freight, grate, great, irate
  2. TR4 β€” as in plate, bowl; bowl; casserole; charger; cup sounds like fray, gray, grey, pray, prey
  3. TR4 β€” being clean and in good order; antiseptic; bandbox; crisp; groomed sounds like brig, rig, twig
  4. TR6 β€” as in nonsense, trash; bunk; claptrap; drivel; follies

agita, arty, atria, attar, avatar, gait, girt, gravity, grit, gritty, itty, ragtag, raita, rarity, ratatat, ratty, taiga, tarry, tart, tartar, tatty, tiara, trait, tray, trig, trivia