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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Thu. 6 July, 2023

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

Letters: r  a  d  i  l  p  y

  • Total Answers: 41
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AI

  1. AI6 β€” in a quick and spirited manner; resembling air in lightness; open to the free circulation of air; animatedly; animately sounds like eerily, merrily, orally, warily, wearily
  2. AI7 β€”
  3. AI4 β€” resembling air in lightness; open to the free circulation of air; located at a greater height than average or usual; ethereal; fluffy sounds like any, area, berry, brie, bury

AP

  1. AP6 β€” sounds like aviary, parry, query, speedy, spree

AR

  1. AR4 β€” a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson
  2. AR4 β€” causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; marked by little or no precipitation or humidity; boring; colorless; drab sounds like acid, added, avid
  3. AR4 β€” sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, aural
  4. AR5 β€” a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; dressy clothing; assemblage; band sounds like awry, bay, day, earl, earn

DA

  1. DA5 β€” sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dowry

DI

  1. DI5 β€” a record of personal experiences, reflections, or ideas kept regularly for private use; daybook; journal sounds like fiery

DR

  1. DR4 β€” as in oxcart, jolt-wagon; jolt-wagon; oxcart; spring wagon; wagonette sounds like day, fray, gray, grey, pray
  2. DR5 β€” an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity; something done over and over in order to develop skill; to make a hole or series of holes in; grind; groove sounds like dill, frill, grill, grille, rill
  3. DR4 β€” someone or something boring; the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass; to fall or let fall in or as if in drops; bore; drag sounds like dip, grip, rip, trip
  4. DR6 β€” appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way; chocolate-box; cloying; corny; fruity
  5. DR5 β€” a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; hamadryad; naiad; nymph
  6. DR5 β€” marked by little or no precipitation or humidity; causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; arid; droughty sounds like wryly

LA

  1. LA4 β€” a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others; the shelter or resting place of a wild animal; a place set aside for sleeping; concealment; covert sounds like air, bare, bear, blare, care
  2. LA8 β€” sounds like capillary
  3. LA4 β€” as in weave, interline; as in pitch, tar; interfile; interline; weave sounds like bard, card, charred, guard, hard

LI

  1. LI4 β€” a person who tells lies; fabricator; fabulist; fibber; prevaricator sounds like buyer, fire, flier, flyer, higher
  2. LI4 β€” sounds like leery

PA

  1. PA4 β€” as in combine, fit; two things of the same or similar kind that match or are considered together; two things of the same or similar kind that match or are considered together; amalgamate; blend sounds like air, bare, bear, care, chair
  2. PA6 β€” sounds like cadre, carry, happy
  3. PA6 β€” to use or develop (something) to get something else that has greater value; follow up; accelerate; add (to); aggrandize
  4. PA5 β€” as in avoid, evade; avoid; elude; escape; evade sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

PI

  1. PI6 β€” an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure; something or someone to which one looks for support; column; pier; pilaster sounds like filler, killer, polar, tiller

PR

  1. PR4 β€” to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner; appeal (to); beg; beseech; besiege sounds like fray, gray, grey, pay, play

RA

  1. RA5 β€”
  2. RA6 β€”
  3. RA8 β€”
  4. RA5 β€” as in diameters; diameters; equators; perimeters; peripheries sounds like audio, bodied, body, oddly, readied
  5. RA4 β€” a sudden attack on and entrance into hostile territory; the act or action of setting upon with force or violence; to enter for conquest or plunder; descent; foray sounds like aid, aide, bade, b**, fade
  6. RA4 β€” a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports; a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel; as in revile, rant; balustrade; banister sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  7. RA5 β€” an act of gathering forces together to renew or attempt an effort; a mass meeting for the purpose of displaying or arousing support for a cause or person; the process or period of gradually regaining one's health and strength; marshaling; mobilization sounds like alley, dally, galley, really, sally
  8. RA5 β€” moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed; moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed; as in dreaming; blistering; breakneck
  9. RA7 β€” with great speed; moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed; apace; briskly; chop-chop sounds like acidly, avidly, happily, rhapsody, ruggedly

RI

  1. RI4 β€” sounds like dial, royal, t**, vial
  2. RI4 β€” a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill
  3. RI6 β€” sounds like really, reply
  4. RI5 β€” sounds like regal, renal

YA

  1. YA4 β€” an open space wholly or partly enclosed (as by buildings or walls); the area around and belonging to a building; a considerable amount; close; court sounds like bard, card, charred, guard, hard

airily, airplay, airy, apiary, aria, arid, aril, array, dairy, diary, dray, drill, drip, drippy, dryad, dryly, lair, lapidary, lard, liar, lira, pair, papyri, parlay, parry, pillar, pray, radar, radial, radially, radii, raid, rail, rally, rapid, rapidly, rial, rill, ripply, riyal, yard