NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 27 June, 2023

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

Letters: a  d  k  o  r  w  y

  • Total Answers: 36
  • Pangrams: 4
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AR

  1. AR5 — depth of feeling; urgent desire or interest; intense sexual desire; ardency; emotion sounds like harder, larder, order

  2. AR5 — 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

  3. AR5 — as in beeline; as in prude, fuddy-duddy; beeline; catch up; fast-forward sounds like ammo, b*, crow, grow, h*

  4. AR6 — as in runoff, freshet; billabong; fresh; freshet; runoff

AW

  1. AW5 — something given in recognition of achievement; a position arrived at after consideration; to give something as a token of gratitude or admiration for a service or achievement; accolade; blue ribbon sounds like aboard, accord, afford, toward, ward

  2. AW4 — from this or that place; not close in time or space; not at a certain place; down; fro sounds like allay, sway, way, weigh

  3. AW7 — lacking social grace and assurance; showing or marked by a lack of skill and tact (as in dealing with a situation); causing embarrassment; clumsy; gauche sounds like acquired, armored, backward, byword, coward

  4. AW4 — inclined or twisted to one side; off the desired or intended path or course; askew; aslant; atilt sounds like arise, array, arrive, buy, die

DA

  1. DA5 — a male human parent; something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed; one that helps another with gifts or money; dad; father sounds like dowdy, paddy

  2. DA4 — being without light or without much light; not having a light complexion; causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer; black; caliginous sounds like arc, bark, dock, lark, mark

  3. DA7 — sounds like quirk, rework, wayward, work

DO

  1. DO6 — a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember; a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest; something that decorates or beautifies; dingus; doohickey sounds like dad

  2. DO7 — the means or right of entering or participating in; the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure; access; accession; admission sounds like airway, fairway, foray, hallway, walkway

  3. DO8 — as in backyard, churchyard; backyard; churchyard; campus; close sounds like courtyard

  4. DO6 — sounds like board, border, bored, chord, cord

DR

  1. DR4 — to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface; to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to give a representation or account of in words; picture; drag

  2. DR4 — as in oxcart, jolt-wagon; jolt-wagon; oxcart; spring wagon; wagonette sounds like day, fray, gray, grey, pray

  3. DR5 — 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

DY

  1. DY4 — two things of the same or similar kind that match or are considered together; brace; couple; couplet; duo sounds like dial, diet, dud

KA

  1. KA5 — as in canoe, raft; as in canoe; bateau; caïque; canoe sounds like crack, quack

OA

  1. OA4 — sounds like hokey, key, ochre, okay, pokey

OK

  1. OK4 — being to one's liking; of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards; in a satisfactory way; agreeable; all right sounds like oak, obey, ochre

  2. OK4 — sounds like opera

RA

  1. RA5 —

RO

  1. RO4 — a passage cleared for public vehicular travel; a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel; a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective; arterial; artery sounds like bode, code, erode, goad, load

  2. RO7 — a passage cleared for public vehicular travel; arterial; artery; avenue; boulevard sounds like headway, midway, raceway, railway, runway

  3. RO8 — sounds like beadwork, homework, rework, woodwork

  4. RO4 — a violent shouting; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; clamor; howl sounds like boar, bore, chore, core, door

WA

  1. WA4 — means or method of defending; responsibility for the safety and well-being of someone or something; to drive danger or attack away from; aegis; ammunition sounds like a**, board, bored, chord, cord

  2. WA4 — having or showing a close attentiveness to avoiding danger or trouble; alert; careful; cautious; chary sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  3. WA7 — given to resisting authority or another's control; given to resisting control or discipline by others; balky; contrary; contumacious sounds like awkward, byword, catered, favored, inward

WO

  1. WO8 — being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events; having to do with the practical details of regular life; not designed to be worn only on special occasions; average; common

  2. WO7 — sounds like weekday

YA

  1. YA4 — 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

  2. YA8 — sounds like artwork

  3. YA6 —

ardor, array, arrow, arroyo, award, away, awkward, awry, daddy, dark, daywork, doodad, doorway, dooryard, dorado, draw, dray, dryad, dyad, kayak, oaky, okay, okra, radar, road, roadway, roadwork, roar, ward, wary, wayward, workaday, workday, yard, yardwork, yarrow