NYT π CluesβSun. 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! π€£
AD
- AD7 β 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
- AI6 β 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
- AL4 β
- AL5 β sounds like angle
- AL5 β to bring to or be in a state of agreement; to set in order; agree; accord; check sounds like assign, line, m*
- AL8 β 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
- AN4 β 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
- AN7 β 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***
- AN5 β sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
DA
- DA6 β sounds like aria, cholera, cholla, colleague, collie
- DA8 β 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
- DI4 β to make a telephone call to; as in face, gauge; as in button, switch; call; phone sounds like dowel, dual, duel, dull, vial
- DI7 β to make a telephone call to; to make a telephone call to; calling; phoning; ringing (up) sounds like darling, dazzling, drilling, drubbing, duckling
- DI8 β 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
- DI4 β sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear
GA
- GA4 β a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something; carnival; celebration; fest; festival
- GA8 β sounds like glottal, goggle
- GA4 β a deep-seated ill will; shameless boldness; to damage or diminish by continued friction; animosity; animus sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
- GA7 β 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
- GA8 β sounds like languid, mangled, tangled
- GA7 β
- GA8 β being tall, thin and usually loose-jointed; gangly; lanky; rangy; spindling sounds like dangling
GI
- GI8 β 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
- GI4 β as in whitewash, varnish; as in paint, appliquΓ©; a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest; gloss (over); varnish sounds like billed, build, chilled, filled, gold
- GI7 β as in whitewashing, varnishing; as in painting, appliquΓ©ing; glossing (over); varnishing; whitewashing sounds like building
- GI4 β 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
- GI7 β sounds like billing, chilling, galling, killing, schilling
GL
- GL4 β 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
- GL5 β sounds like bland, grand, land, planned
- GL4 β
- GL7 β as in hanging, hovering; as in skydiving, ballooning; to move or proceed smoothly and readily; awash; drifting sounds like guiding, sliding
HA
- HA8 β 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
- HA4 β 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
- HA7 β 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
- HA5 β
- HA4 β 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
- HA8 β 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
- HA8 β sounds like angle, ankle, annul, channel, dangle
HI
- HI8 β an area of high ground; altitude(s); elevation; eminence; height sounds like heightened, island
- HI4 β 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
- HI7 β 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
- ID6 β as in lounging, loafing; to spend time doing nothing; to spend time doing nothing; loafing; lounging sounds like ailing, billing, ceiling, chilling, cling
IN
- IN8 β to swallow or eat greedily; to swallow or eat greedily; bolting; cramming; devouring sounds like engulfing
- IN6 β as in installed, inset; cut in; inset; installed; edged in
- IN6 β sounds like bland, gland, land, lowland, ma**
LA
- LA6 β 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
- LA7 β 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
- LA7 β 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
- LA4 β 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
- LA4 β 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
- LA5 β a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot
- LA4 β 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
- LA7 β 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
- LI6 β as in quilting, interlining; as in lining up, aligning; as in surrounding, embracing; interlining; quilting sounds like dining, fining, shining
NA
- NA4 β 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
- NA7 β 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
- NI8 β 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