NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 30 August, 2023

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

Letters: a  d  i  l  n  t  y

  • Total Answers: 59
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AL

  1. AL4 β€” to come to rest after descending from the air; to come down from something (as a vehicle); to come to rest after descending from the air; landed; lit sounds like eyelet, glut, gullet
  2. AL5 β€” to make more bearable or less severe; alleviate; assuage; ease; help sounds like away, clay, fillet, lay, play
  3. AL4 β€” someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support; to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members; abettor; backer; bedfellow sounds like fly, lie, lye, ply, sleigh

AN

  1. 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
  2. AN6 β€”
  3. AN5 β€” sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
  4. AN4 β€” opposed to; not for; as in bigot, misogynist; as in bigots, misogynists; against; agin sounds like aunt, p**e, shanty

AT

  1. AT5 β€” inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt
  2. AT6 β€” to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to receive as return for effort; achieve; bag; chalk up sounds like obtain, stain

DA

  1. DA5 β€” 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. DA5 β€” occurring, done, produced, or appearing every day; a person hired to perform household or personal services; as in regimen; day-to-day; diurnal sounds like duly, gaily
  3. DA8 β€” hard to please; having qualities that appeal to a refined taste; satisfying or pleasing because of fineness or mildness; choosy; delicate sounds like dental, faintly, fatally, hastily, jauntily
  4. DA6 β€” hard to please; having qualities that appeal to a refined taste; satisfying or pleasing because of fineness or mildness; choosy; delicate sounds like ante, bounty, county, deity
  5. DA5 β€” to engage in activity for amusement; to move or act slowly; to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun; disport; frolic sounds like alley, duly, galley, rally, sally
  6. DA7 β€” sounds like handily
  7. DA5 β€” of the very best kind; a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance; something very good of its kind; A-OK; A1 sounds like bandy, candy, handy, sandy
  8. DA4 β€” a collection of factual knowledge about something; a single piece of information; facts; information; detail sounds like donna, dot, dotted
  9. DA7 β€” sounds like fatally, racially
  10. DA6 β€”

DI

  1. 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
  2. DI10 β€” to move or act slowly; to spend time doing nothing; crawl; creep; dally sounds like illegally

DY

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

IN

  1. IN7 β€” a foolish act or idea; lack of good sense or judgment; absurdity; asininity; bΓͺtise
  2. IN7 β€” coming before all others in time or order; as in inscribe; earliest; first; foremost
  3. IN9 β€” in the beginning; coming before all others in time or order; firstly; originally; primarily
  4. IN6 β€” as in installed, inset; cut in; inset; installed; edged in
  5. IN6 β€” sounds like bland, gland, land, lowland, ma**
  6. IN5 β€” as in install, inset; cut in; inset; install; edge in

LA

  1. LA4 β€” an adult female human being; a female partner in a marriage; a woman of high birth or social position; female; woman sounds like shady
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. LA5 β€” the people of a religion who are not priests, ministers, etc.; flock; parish; assembly; church sounds like dainty, deity, eighty, hasty
  5. LA5 β€” a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot
  6. 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
  7. LA8 β€” as in landlord, proprietor; landlord; lessor; letter; renter sounds like blandly, handmade
  8. LA7 β€” sounds like antenna

LI

  1. LI6 β€” a long stated list of things one after another; an address to a deity or religious figure; enumeration; recital; recitation sounds like bitten, botany, gluttony, kitten, latent

NA

  1. NA4 β€” sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
  2. NA4 β€” sounds like nod
  3. NA5 β€” a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; a young wingless often wormlike form (as a grub or caterpillar) that hatches from the egg of many insects; dryad; hamadryad; nymph sounds like acid, added, arid, avid, blood
  4. 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
  5. NA4 β€” sounds like manna
  6. NA5 β€” a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children; babysitter; dry nurse; nurse; nursemaid sounds like canny, fanny
  7. NA5 β€” sounds like fatal, nettle
  8. NA8 β€” sounds like fatality, neutrality, totality, vitality
  9. NA6 β€” sounds like latent
  10. NA7 β€” in a strikingly neat and trim manner; being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance; dashingly; sharply; smartly sounds like anatomy, battle, cattle, family, fatally
  11. NA5 β€” being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance; dapper; sharp; smart; snappy sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, knotty, nutty

TA

  1. TA4 β€” a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person; the part of the body upon which someone sits; a behind part or surface; cortege; entourage sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  2. TA5 β€” a mark of guilt or disgrace; to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable; blot; brand sounds like faint, feint, paint, saint, tent
  3. TA4 β€” sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee
  4. TA4 β€” extending to a great distance upward; requiring considerable physical or mental effort; as in yacht, sailboat; altitudinous; high sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  5. TA6 β€”
  6. TA5 β€” a total number obtained or recorded by noting each thing as it was being added; to be in agreement on every point; to gain (as points or runs in a game) as credit towards one's total number of points; census; count sounds like alley, dally, galley, rally, sally
  7. TA6 β€”
  8. TA5 β€” showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; beat-up; bombed-out; dilapidated; dog-eared sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TI

  1. TI5 β€” as in tsunami; as in tsunamis; tsunami; billow; surge sounds like idle, idol, idyll, sidle
  2. TI7 β€” sounds like bodily, busily, eerily, fiddle, middle
  3. TI5 β€” something that is unusually large and powerful; behemoth; blockbuster; colossus; dinosaur sounds like heighten, lighten

alit, allay, ally, anal, anally, annal, anti, atilt, attain, daddy, daily, daintily, dainty, dally, dandily, dandy, data, daylily, daylit, dial, dillydally, dyad, inanity, initial, initially, inlaid, inland, inlay, lady, laid, lain, laity, lanai, land, landlady, lantana, litany, naan, nada, naiad, nail, nana, nanny, natal, natality, natant, nattily, natty, tail, taint, tali, tall, tallit, tally, tannin, tatty, tidal, tidally, titan