NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Thu. 27 July, 2023

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

Letters: l  e  n  o  u  v  y

  • Total Answers: 36
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

EE

  1. EE4 β€” sounds like alley, early, easy, flea, flee

EL

  1. EL6 β€” sounds like leaven

EV

  1. EV6 β€” as in uniformly; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities; uniformly; equally sounds like avidly, easily, heavenly, openly, un**
  2. EV6 β€” to gradually become clearer or more detailed; to throw or give off; develop; elaborate; unfold sounds like involve

LE

  1. LE5 β€” a bank of earth constructed to control water; a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers; dam; dike; embankment sounds like bevy, heavy
  2. LE5 β€” the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement; to make equal in amount, degree, or status; to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; degree; echelon sounds like bevel, devil, revel
  3. LE7 β€” having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities; free from emotional or mental agitation; even; flat; flush sounds like heavily
  4. LE4 β€” a charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use; to pick especially for required military service; to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; assessment; duty sounds like bevy, heavy

LO

  1. LO4 β€” to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall
  2. LO4 β€” being the one or ones of a class with no other members; not being in the company of others; a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs; alone; one sounds like a, blown, bone, c, c**s
  3. LO6 β€” not being in the company of others; sad from lack of companionship or separation from others; causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer; alone; lone sounds like only
  4. LO4 β€” one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person; bug; crackbrain; crazy sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
  5. LO5 β€” one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; bug; crackbrain sounds like lucy, lunar
  6. LO4 β€” to hold dear; to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for; to take pleasure in; appreciate; cherish sounds like dove, g**, leave, live, luck
  7. LO6 β€” of the very best kind; very pleasing to look at; as in beauty, goddess; A-OK; A1 sounds like lively
  8. LO5 β€” appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way; the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion); chocolate-box; cloying; corny sounds like levee, levy, lucky

LU

  1. LU4 β€” a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
  2. LU4 β€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
  3. LU4 β€” sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane

NO

  1. NO4 β€” the season celebrating Christmas; as in anthem, hymn; Christmastide; Christmastime; yuletide sounds like knoll, null
  2. NO8 β€” as in fashionable, stylish; fashionable; happening; in; modish sounds like knell, naval, navel, nutshell
  3. NO5 β€” as in story, tale; as in pulp, novelette; not known or experienced before; anecdote; narrative sounds like naval, navel
  4. NO7 β€”

NU

  1. NU4 β€” having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness; to put an end to by formal action; bad; inoperative sounds like annul, cul, cull, dull, gull

NY

  1. NY5 β€” sounds like pylon

OL

  1. OL4 β€” sounds like polio

ON

  1. ON4 β€” for nothing other than; not long ago; nothing more than; alone; exclusively sounds like lonely

OV

  1. OV5 β€” sounds like mule, view, viewer

UN

  1. UN8 β€” as in unequally, differently; not having a level or smooth surface; not staying constant; diversely; unequally sounds like evenly
  2. UN7 β€” sounds like upheaval
  3. UN8 β€” not giving pleasure to the mind or senses; unpleasant to look at; bad; bitter; disagreeable sounds like lovely

VE

  1. VE6 β€” sounds like ennui, fennel, kennel

VO

  1. VO4 β€” sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
  2. VO6 β€” a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once; barrage; blitz; blitzkrieg; bombardment sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, valley

YE

  1. YE4 β€” to cry out loudly and emotionally; to speak so as to be heard at a distance; a loud vocal expression of strong emotion; howl; scream sounds like bell, cell, dell, fell, gel

YU

  1. YU4 β€” as in nativity, Xmas; Christmas; nativity; Xmas; Christmastide sounds like mule

eely, eleven, evenly, evolve, levee, level, levelly, levy, loll, lone, lonely, loon, loony, love, lovely, lovey, lull, lulu, lune, noel, nouvelle, novel, novelly, null, nylon, oleo, only, ovule, unevenly, unlevel, unlovely, venule, vole, volley, yell, yule