NYT π CluesβThu. 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! π€£
AI
- 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
- AI7 β
- 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
- AP6 β sounds like aviary, parry, query, speedy, spree
AR
- AR4 β a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson
- 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
- AR4 β sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, aural
- 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
- DA5 β sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dowry
DI
- DI5 β a record of personal experiences, reflections, or ideas kept regularly for private use; daybook; journal sounds like fiery
DR
- DR4 β as in oxcart, jolt-wagon; jolt-wagon; oxcart; spring wagon; wagonette sounds like day, fray, gray, grey, pray
- 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
- 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
- DR6 β appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way; chocolate-box; cloying; corny; fruity
- 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
- 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
- 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
- LA8 β sounds like capillary
- LA4 β as in weave, interline; as in pitch, tar; interfile; interline; weave sounds like bard, card, charred, guard, hard
LI
- LI4 β a person who tells lies; fabricator; fabulist; fibber; prevaricator sounds like buyer, fire, flier, flyer, higher
- LI4 β sounds like leery
PA
- 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
- PA6 β sounds like cadre, carry, happy
- PA6 β to use or develop (something) to get something else that has greater value; follow up; accelerate; add (to); aggrandize
- PA5 β as in avoid, evade; avoid; elude; escape; evade sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
PI
- 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
- 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
- RA5 β
- RA6 β
- RA8 β
- RA5 β as in diameters; diameters; equators; perimeters; peripheries sounds like audio, bodied, body, oddly, readied
- 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
- 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
- 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
- RA5 β moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed; moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed; as in dreaming; blistering; breakneck
- RA7 β with great speed; moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed; apace; briskly; chop-chop sounds like acidly, avidly, happily, rhapsody, ruggedly
RI
- RI4 β sounds like dial, royal, t**, vial
- RI4 β a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill
- RI6 β sounds like really, reply
- RI5 β sounds like regal, renal
YA
- 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