NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 23 April, 2023

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

Letters: w  a  d  e  l  n  o

  • Total Answers: 60
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

  1. AL5 — to give permission for or to approve of; to give permission to; to fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference; green-light; have sounds like plough, plow

  2. AL7 — as in permitted, authorized; to give permission for or to approve of; to give permission to; accredited; authorized sounds like avowed, cloud, loud, plowed

AN

  1. AN4 — yet another time; to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress; to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another; afresh; again sounds like canoe, knew, new, undo, undue

AW

  1. AW4 — filled with amazement or wonder; as in amazed, astounded; amazed; astonished; astounded sounds like add, aid, aide, all, laud

DA

  1. DA6 — to move or act slowly; to spend time doing nothing; crawl; creep; dally sounds like addle, aural, bauble, beadle, causal

  2. DA7 — to move or act slowly; to spend time doing nothing; to move or act slowly; crawled; crept

  3. DA4 — the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; the point at which something begins; to come into existence; aurora; cockcrow sounds like dean, den, din, dine, doff

  4. DA6 — to come into existence; to come into existence; to enter the mind of; actualized; appeared sounds like dogged

DE

  1. DE8 — discarded or useless material; chaff; debris; dreck; dross sounds like redwood

DO

  1. DO5 — sounds like bowel, dial, dual, duel, dull

  2. DO4 — toward or in a lower position; from this or that place; brought or having come to an end; below; downward sounds like dawn, dean, den, din, dine

  3. DO6 — to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall; to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat; to reject by or as if by a vote; bowled (down or over); dropped sounds like around, bound, drowned, found, hound

  4. DO8 — sounds like unload

  5. DO10 — sounds like unloaded

DW

  1. DW5 — to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; to have a home; to speak or write about insistently and usually tiresomely; abide; hang around sounds like dell, quell, swell, well

  2. DW7 — to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; to have a home; to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; abided; hung around sounds like swelled, weld

EN

  1. EN5 — to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income; to provide money for; bless; endue

  2. EN7 — to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income; to provide money for; blessed; endued

LA

  1. LA4 — an area of ground (such as the ground around a house or in a garden or park) that is covered with short grass; grass; green; greensward; clearing sounds like dawn, fawn, gone, lean, learn

LE

  1. LE4 — depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society; having a strong sexual desire; hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent; bawdy; blue sounds like allude, elude, food, lad, lade

LO

  1. LO7 — information not generally available to the public; not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency; 411; book; dope sounds like showdown, s***

  2. LO5 — sounds like bode, code, goad, lad, lade

  3. LO7 — an area where the land is at, near, or below the level of the sea and where there are not usually mountains or large hills—usually plural; bottom; bottomland; flat; campo sounds like bland, gland, homeland, inland, land

NE

  1. NE5 — sounds like dual, duel, jewel, noodle, null

OW

  1. OW4 — not yet paid; outstanding; overdue; owing; payable sounds like add, aid, aide, awed, bode

  2. OW5 — as in retained, possessed; to keep, control, or experience as one's own; to keep, control, or experience as one's own; possessed; retained sounds like and, earned, end, honed, ode

WA

  1. WA6 — to form into a round compact mass; to form into a round compact mass; agglomerated; balled; rolled sounds like wedded

  2. WA6 — to move forward while swaying from side to side; careen; dodder; lurch; reel sounds like coddle, model, t**, wobble

  3. WA7 — to move forward while swaying from side to side; to move forward while swaying from side to side; careened; doddered; lurched sounds like modeled

  4. WA4 — as in trudge; to start work on energetically; as in slog (through); trudge; eke out sounds like aid, aide, bade, fade, jade

  5. WA5 — as in trudged; to start work on energetically; as in slogged (through); trudged; eked out sounds like faded, jaded, wedded

  6. WA4 — something that is unusually large and powerful; behemoth; blockbuster; colossus; dinosaur sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  7. 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

  8. WA6 — as in closed in, cordoned (off); as in picketed, buffered; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; circumscribed; closed in sounds like bald, called, weld, wheeled, wield

  9. WA6 — a sunken and often wet area like that used by animals to roll in; to completely give (oneself) over to something (such as an emotion); to roll around in an ungainly manner; borehole; chuckhole sounds like follow, hollow, s**, willow

  10. WA8 — to completely give (oneself) over to something (such as an emotion); to roll around in an ungainly manner; to completely give (oneself) over to something (such as an emotion); basked; luxuriated sounds like followed

  11. WA4 — sounds like bond, conned, fond, pond, wind

  12. WA4 — to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually; as in retreat, ebb; abate; de-escalate; decline sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

  13. WA5 — to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually; to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually; abated; declined; decreased sounds like chained, feigned, gained, pained, wind

  14. WA5 — sounds like donna, mana

WE

  1. WE4 — the state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success; good; interest; welfare; well-being sounds like deal, eel, feel, heal, heel

  2. WE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean

  3. WE6 — as in disaccustomed; disaccustomed; inexperienced; new; unseasoned sounds like fiend, wand, wheeled, wield, wiener

  4. WE6 — of or relating to marriage; to give in marriage; to perform the ceremony of marriage for; conjugal; connubial sounds like added, dud, edit, ended, faded

  5. WE4 — as in comb (out); comb (out); check off; disregard; deter sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed

  6. WE6 — as in winnowed (out), picked over; as in combed (out); culled; picked over; screened sounds like needed

  7. WE4 — as in combine, fuse; cement; coalesce; combine; fuse sounds like felled, held, meld, shelled, swelled

  8. WE6 — as in combined, fused; cemented; coalesced; combined; fused

  9. WE4 — in a satisfactory way; in a generous manner; in a skillful or expert manner; acceptably; adequately sounds like bell, cell, dell, d**, fell

  10. WE6 — as in ran over, boiled over; boiled over; ran over; spilled; overfilled sounds like felled, held, meld, shelled, s**

  11. WE4 — to move from one place to another; journey; pass; repair; run sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend

  12. WE6 — to move from one place to another; to move from one place to another; journeyed; passed; ran sounds like ended, tended, wounded

WO

  1. WO4 — tree logs as prepared for human use; a dense growth of trees and shrubs covering a large area; a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; lumber; timber sounds like could, good, hood, should, wad

  2. WO6 —

  3. WO6 — lacking social grace and assurance; awkward; clumsy; gauche; graceless sounds like widen

  4. WO8 — a dense growth of trees and shrubs covering a large area; forest; forestland; timber; timberland sounds like midland, wetland

  5. WO5 — to act so as to make (something) more likely; to act so as to make (something) more likely; asked (for); courted; flirted (with) sounds like food, lewd, mood, nude, rude

  6. WO4 — the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick; being such by habit and not likely to change; to cause to believe what is untrue; coat; fleece sounds like bull, full, pull, wail, wale

  7. WO6 —

  8. WO5 — sounds like bowed, loud, wad, wade, wed

allow, allowed, anew, awed, dawdle, dawdled, dawn, dawned, deadwood, dowel, down, downed, download, downloaded, dwell, dwelled, endow, endowed, lawn, lewd, lowdown, lowed, lowland, newel, owed, owned, wadded, waddle, waddled, wade, waded, wale, wall, walled, wallow, wallowed, wand, wane, waned, wanna, weal, wean, weaned, wedded, weed, weeded, weld, welded, well, welled, wend, wended, wood, wooded, wooden, woodland, wooed, wool, woolen, wowed