NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 4 September, 2022

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

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  • Total Answers: 66
  • Pangrams: 4
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AD

  1. AD8 — produced by a series of additions of identical or similar things synonyms—accretive, accumulative, conglomerative, cumulative, incremental sounds like—active, narrative, sedative

AL

  1. AL5 — having or showing life; marked by much life, movement, or activity; being in effective operation synonyms—animate, breathing, live, living, quick sounds like—live
  2. AL9 — to make more bearable or less severe synonyms—allay, assuage, ease, help, mitigate sounds like—deviate
  3. AL10 — as in eased, lightened synonyms—eased, lightened, toned (down), moderated, qualified sounds like—abbreviated

AV

  1. AV5 — the capacity for being useful for some purpose synonyms—account, mileage, service, serviceability, serviceableness sounds like—assail, unveil, veil
  2. AV7 — to provide with something useful or desirable synonyms—advantaged, benefited, helped, profited, served sounds like—unveiled, veiled
  3. AV6 — to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings synonyms—fly, glide, plane, soar, wing
  4. AV7 — to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings synonyms—flew, glided, planed, soared, winged sounds like—created, radiated
  5. AV4 — having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions; showing urgent desire or interest synonyms—acquisitive, avaricious, coveting, covetous, grabby sounds like—acid, added, arid

DA

  1. DA6 — a ** case or form sounds like—additive

DE

  1. DE5 — a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface synonyms—antre, cave, cavern, grot, grotto sounds like—shelve
  2. DE6 — as in dug, excavated synonyms—dug, excavated, shoveled, burrowed, clawed sounds like—shelved
  3. DE7 — departing from some accepted standard of what is normal synonyms—aberrant, aberrational, abnormal, anomalous, atypical sounds like—alleviate, mediate, obviate
  4. DE8 — to change one's course or direction synonyms—detoured, diverged, sheered, swerved, swung
  5. DE5 — the supreme personification of evil often represented as the ruler of hell; an evil spirit; a member of the human race synonyms—archfiend, Beelzebub, fiend, Lucifer, Old Nick sounds like—bevel, level, revel
  6. DE7 — as in got, tormented synonyms—aggravated, annoyed, be***, chafed, dogged sounds like—divide, reviled

DI

  1. DI4 — a usually glamorous woman who is preeminent in her field of activity synonyms—goddess, princess, queen sounds like—arena, beaver, cheetah, deacon, deal
  2. DI4 — an act or instance of diving; the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude synonyms—pitch, plunge, descent, dip, down sounds like—arrive, chive, derive
  3. DI5 — to cast oneself head first into deep water; to go to a lower level especially abruptly synonyms—pitched, plunged, sounded, crashed, cratered sounds like—lived
  4. DI6 — to set or force apart; to go or move in different directions from a central point synonyms—break up, decouple, disassociate, disconnect, disjoin sounds like—decide, deride, device, devise, devoid
  5. DI7 — disagreeing with each other synonyms—disunited, split sounds like—decided, delighted, devoted
  6. DI7 — as in dished out, measured (out) synonyms—admeasured, allotted, allowed, appropriated, assigned sounds like—devoid

EA

  1. EA4 — the lower border of a roof that overhangs the wall —usually used in plural; a projecting edge (as of a hill) —usually used in plural sounds like—eel, eke, h, l, thieve

EL

  1. EL7 — to fill with great joy; to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to move higher in rank or position synonyms—elate, enrapture, exhilarate, intoxicate, transport
  2. EL8 — being positioned above a surface; very dignified in form, tone, or style; being at a higher level than average synonyms—lifted, raised, uplifted, upraised, eloquent sounds like—renovated

EV

  1. EV5 — to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery synonyms—avoid, dodge, duck, elude, escape sounds like—invade
  2. EV6 — to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery synonyms—avoided, dodged, ducked, eluded, escaped sounds like—avoided, divided, elated, eroded, faded
  3. EV4 — that which is morally unacceptable synonyms—bad, doing, ill, immorality, iniquity sounds like—eagle, easel, oval, we

IV

  1. IV5 — overgrown with ivy; academic sounds like—divvied, evade

LA

  1. LA4 — a decorative lamp constructed of a transparent glass container filled with liquid and wax that is heated by an incandescent bulb which melts the wax and causes it to form random moving shapes within the liquid sounds like—java
  2. LA4 — to flow along or against synonyms—bathe, lap, lip, splash, wash sounds like—cave, gave
  3. LA5 — as in flushed, rinsed synonyms—flushed, irrigated, rinsed, sluiced, steeped sounds like—lived, loved, paved

LE

  1. LE5 — to cause to remain behind; to give by means of a will; to give up (a job or office) synonyms—abandon, desert, forsake, maroon, quit sounds like—eave, eve, heave
  2. LE5 — a bank of earth constructed to control water; a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers synonyms—dam, dike, embankment, head, dock sounds like—bevy, heavy
  3. LE5 — the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement synonyms—degree, echelon, footing, place, position sounds like—bevel, devil, revel
  4. LE7 — to make equal in amount, degree, or status; to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal synonyms—balanced, equalized, equated, evened, evened
  5. LE6 — to pick especially for required military service; to establish or apply as a charge or penalty synonyms—conscribed, conscripted, drafted, assessed, charged
  6. LE8 — to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation; to cause to ** sounds like—devastate, hesitate, meditate
  7. LE9 — to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation; to cause to levitate sounds like—devastated

LI

  1. LI4 — to have a home; to have life synonyms—abide, dwell, reside, be, breathe sounds like—a**, arrive, chive, dive, five
  2. LI5 — to have a home; to have life synonyms—abided, dwelled, resided, breathed, existed sounds like—loved
  3. LI5 — feeling or showing anger; lacking a healthy skin color synonyms—angered, angry, apoplectic, ballistic, cheesed off

TI

  1. TI8 — to make smart or spruce; smarten, spruce sounds like—litigate
  2. TI9 — to make smart or spruce; smarten, spruce sounds like—activated, motivated

VA

  1. VA4 — an area of lowland between hills or mountains synonyms—dale, dene, hollow, valley sounds like—ail, ale, avail, bail, bale
  2. VA5 — as in butler, footman synonyms—butler, footman, groom, houseboy, houseman sounds like—ballet
  3. VA7 — to serve as a valet sounds like—talented, volatile
  4. VA5 — according to the rules of logic; based on sound reasoning or information synonyms—analytic, coherent, consequent, good, logical sounds like—ballad, pallid, salad
  5. VA8 — to give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of; to show the existence or truth of by evidence synonyms—argue, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify sounds like—allocate
  6. VA9 — as in valid, demonstrated synonyms—attested, authenticated, confirmed, demonstrated, established
  7. VA5 — a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid synonyms—cock, faucet, gate, spigot, stopcock

VE

  1. VE4 — to kill and dress (a calf) for ** sounds like—deal, eel, feel, heal, heel
  2. VE4 — something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth synonyms—blanket, cloak, cope, cover, cover-up sounds like—ail, ale, avail, bail, bale
  3. VE6 — as in covered synonyms—covered, appareled, attired, clad, clothed sounds like—failed, jailed, mailed, paled
  4. VE4 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country synonyms—campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath sounds like—felled, held, meld, shelled, weld
  5. VE5 — a broad area of level or rolling treeless country synonyms—campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath sounds like—belt, dealt, felt, knelt, melt
  6. VE6 — a clothing and upholstery fabric (as of silk, rayon, or wool) characterized by a short soft dense warp pile; something suggesting **; a characteristic (such as softness or smoothness) of **
  7. VE6 — to evaluate for possible approval or acceptance; to subject to usually expert appraisal or correction; to provide veterinary care for (an animal) : to subject (an animal) to veterinary examination sounds like—bated, batted, booted, dated, fetid

VI

  1. VI4 — a small closed or closable vessel especially for liquids sounds like—dial, vowel
  2. VI4 — to engage in a contest synonyms—battled, competed, contended, faced off, fought sounds like—bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  3. VI4 — not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable; not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency; unpleasant to look at synonyms—bad, dark, evil, immoral, iniquitous sounds like—aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
  4. VI5 — a large impressive residence synonyms—castle, château, estate, hacienda, hall
  5. VI5 — having active strength of body or mind; having much high-spirited energy and movement; impossible to do without synonyms—dynamic, energetic, flush, gingery, lusty sounds like—litle, title
  6. VI7 — to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; to lower in character, dignity, or quality synonyms—blemish, darken, mar, poison, spoil sounds like—initiate, officiate
  7. VI8 — as in harmed, marred synonyms—blemished, broken, crippled, damaged, defaced sounds like—affiliated, created, elated, nauseated, radiated
  8. VI5 — producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description synonyms—delineated, graphic, pictorial, picturesque, visual sounds like—avid, civil, devoid, divide, divvied

additive, alive, alleviate, alleviated, avail, availed, aviate, aviated, avid, dative, delve, delved, deviate, deviated, devil, deviled, diva, dive, dived, divide, divided, divvied, eave, elevate, elevated, evade, evaded, evil, ivied, lava, lave, laved, leave, levee, level, leveled, levied, levitate, levitated, live, lived, livid, titivate, titivated, vale, valet, valeted, valid, validate, validated, valve, veal, veil, veiled, veld, veldt, velvet, vetted, vial, vied, vile, villa, vital, vitiate, vitiated, vivid