NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 6 August, 2023

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

Letters: l  a  d  g  h  i  n

  • Total Answers: 57
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AD

  1. AD7 — to throw into a state of mental uncertainty; to throw into a state of mental uncertainty; baffling; bamboozling; beating sounds like baffling, coddling, dazzling, duckling, maddening

AI

  1. AI6 — chronically or repeatedly suffering from poor health; temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body; to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy; invalid; sickly sounds like aching, aging, cling, fling, m**

AL

  1. AL4 —

  2. AL5 — sounds like angle

  3. AL5 — to bring to or be in a state of agreement; to set in order; agree; accord; check sounds like assign, line, m*

  4. AL8 — as in alignment, lining up; to bring to or be in a state of agreement; to set in order; alignment; lining up sounds like abiding, adjoining, blinding, cleaning, clowning

AN

  1. AN4 — extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; as in perversity, waywardness; anal-retentive; obsessive sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null

  2. AN7 — the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; bend; cock sounds like d***

  3. AN5 — sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null

DA

  1. DA6 — sounds like aria, cholera, cholla, colleague, collie

  2. DA8 — extending freely from a support from above; to place on an elevated point without support from below; to place on an elevated point without support from below; dependent; hanging

DI

  1. DI4 — to make a telephone call to; as in face, gauge; as in button, switch; call; phone sounds like dowel, dual, duel, dull, vial

  2. DI7 — to make a telephone call to; to make a telephone call to; calling; phoning; ringing (up) sounds like darling, dazzling, drilling, drubbing, duckling

  3. DI8 — to move or act slowly; to rob by the use of trickery or threats; to move or act slowly; crawling; creeping sounds like middling, piddling

  4. DI4 — sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear

GA

  1. GA4 — a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something; carnival; celebration; fest; festival

  2. GA8 — sounds like glottal, goggle

  3. GA4 — a deep-seated ill will; shameless boldness; to damage or diminish by continued friction; animosity; animus sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

  4. GA7 — causing annoyance; hard to accept or bear especially emotionally; to damage or diminish by continued friction; abrasive; aggravating sounds like ailing, appalling, balding, billing, boring

  5. GA8 — sounds like languid, mangled, tangled

  6. GA7 —

  7. GA8 — being tall, thin and usually loose-jointed; gangly; lanky; rangy; spindling sounds like dangling

GI

  1. GI8 — as in smiling, amused; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; amused; beaming sounds like beguiling, guzzling, middling, piddling, sizzling

  2. GI4 — as in whitewash, varnish; as in paint, appliqué; a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest; gloss (over); varnish sounds like billed, build, chilled, filled, gold

  3. GI7 — as in whitewashing, varnishing; as in painting, appliquéing; glossing (over); varnishing; whitewashing sounds like building

  4. GI4 — a female romantic companion; a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage; a natural body of running water smaller than a river; gal; girl sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, gal

  5. GI7 — sounds like billing, chilling, galling, killing, schilling

GL

  1. GL4 — experiencing pleasure, satisfaction, or delight; having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action); serving to lift one's spirits; blissful; chuffed sounds like clad, grad, lad, plaid

  2. GL5 — sounds like bland, grand, land, planned

  3. GL4 —

  4. GL7 — as in hanging, hovering; as in skydiving, ballooning; to move or proceed smoothly and readily; awash; drifting sounds like guiding, sliding

HA

  1. HA8 — as in bargaining, dealing; to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase; to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase; bargaining; dealing sounds like baffling, dangling, dazzling, paneling

  2. HA4 — 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

  3. HA7 — to declare enthusiastic approval of; to demand or request the presence or service of; to declare enthusiastic approval of; acclaiming; accrediting sounds like ailing, healing, mailing, railing, veiling

  4. HA5 —

  5. HA4 — 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

  6. HA8 — the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something; to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently; to behave toward in a stated way; administration; care sounds like foundling, hindering, landing, paneling

  7. HA8 — sounds like angle, ankle, annul, channel, dangle

HI

  1. HI8 — an area of high ground; altitude(s); elevation; eminence; height sounds like heightened, island

  2. HI4 — 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

  3. HI7 — to form into a pile or ridge of earth; to form into a pile or ridge of earth; banking; mounding; bank sounds like billing, c***, healing, hearing, killing

ID

  1. ID6 — as in lounging, loafing; to spend time doing nothing; to spend time doing nothing; loafing; lounging sounds like ailing, billing, ceiling, chilling, cling

IN

  1. IN8 — to swallow or eat greedily; to swallow or eat greedily; bolting; cramming; devouring sounds like engulfing

  2. IN6 — as in installed, inset; cut in; inset; installed; edged in

  3. IN6 — sounds like bland, gland, land, lowland, ma**

LA

  1. LA6 — a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported; to lift out with something that holds liquid; to place a weight or burden on; burden; cargo sounds like budding, leading, loving

  2. LA7 — to lift out with something that holds liquid; to lift out with something that holds liquid; bucketing; dipping; lading sounds like fiddling, leading, padding, seedling

  3. LA7 — moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed; to lose bodily strength or vigor; to move or act slowly; crawling; creeping sounds like f***, logging, nagging, sagging

  4. LA4 — 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

  5. LA4 — to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction; to occupy a place or location; to remain out of sight; borne; extended sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

  6. LA5 — a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot

  7. LA4 — a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government; a broad geographical area; the solid part of our planet's surface as distinguished from the sea and air; commonwealth; country sounds like and, band, b, canned, g

  8. LA7 — a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers; to stop at or near a place along the shore; to get to a destination; dock; float sounds like lending

LI

  1. LI6 — as in quilting, interlining; as in lining up, aligning; as in surrounding, embracing; interlining; quilting sounds like dining, fining, shining

NA

  1. NA4 — to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to make final, definite, or beyond dispute; to reveal the true nature of; bang; bash sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  2. NA7 — to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to make final, definite, or beyond dispute; to reveal the true nature of; banging; bashing sounds like ailing, mailing, railing, veiling, whaling

NI

  1. NI8 — so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention; to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant; to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant; chicken; de minimis sounds like beguiling, middling, piddling, sizzling

addling, ailing, alga, algal, align, aligning, anal, angling, annal, dahlia, dangling, dial, dialing, diddling, dill, gala, galangal, gall, galling, gangland, ganglia, gangling, giggling, gild, gilding, gill, gilling, glad, gland, glia, gliding, haggling, hail, hailing, halal, hall, handling, hangnail, highland, hill, hilling, idling, inhaling, inlaid, inland, lading, ladling, lagging, laid, lain, lanai, land, landing, lining, nail, nailing, niggling