NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 9 August, 2023

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

Letters: n  a  d  e  l  y  z

  • Total Answers: 42
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AD

  1. AD6 β€” sounds like amend, append, ascend, attend, offend
  2. AD7 β€” a part added at the end of a book or periodical; something added (as by growth); a part added at the end of a book or periodical; afterwords; appendixes sounds like agenda

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. AN7 β€” to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships; anatomize; assay; break down; cut sounds like panelize
  4. AN8 β€” to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships; to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships; anatomized; assayed; broke down
  5. AN5 β€” sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
  6. AN6 β€” to make stronger (as through hardship); temper; fortify; harden; indurate sounds like aunt
  7. AN8 β€” as in seasoned, tempered; to make stronger (as through hardship); to make stronger (as through hardship); seasoned; tempered sounds like addled, paneled

DA

  1. 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

DE

  1. DE6 β€” to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality; to reduce or weaken in strength or feeling; castrate; damp; dampen sounds like leaden
  2. DE8 β€” as in drugged, stupefied; to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality; to reduce or weaken in strength or feeling; anesthetized; cocainized sounds like diamond, didn't, errand, hadn't, leaden
  3. DE4 β€” the senior member of a group; doyen; elder; elder statesman; Γ©minence grise sounds like bean, dawn, din, dine, don
  4. DE4 β€” to declare not to be true; to be unwilling to grant; to refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as one's responsibility; contradict; disaffirm sounds like din, dinner

DY

  1. DY4 β€” sounds like dawn, dean, den, dice, die

EL

  1. EL4 β€” as in passion, ardor; as in life, world soul; ardor; fervor; fire sounds like align, alone, oven, sullen
  2. EL5 β€” sounds like aligned, bland, gland, land, planned

EN

  1. EN5 β€” brought or having come to an end; to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; complete; completed sounds like t*
  2. EN6 β€” sounds like any, knead, need

LA

  1. LA5 β€” to place a weight or burden on; to lift out with something that holds liquid; to place a weight or burden on; burden; encumber sounds like leaden, maiden
  2. 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
  3. LA6 β€” as in grounded, stranded; to stop at or near a place along the shore; to get to a destination; aground; beached sounds like candid
  4. LA8 β€” as in landlord, proprietor; landlord; lessor; letter; renter sounds like blandly, handmade
  5. LA4 β€” as in byway, laneway; bypath; byway; laneway; approach sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

LE

  1. LE6 β€” causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; of the color gray; arid; boring; colorless sounds like laden
  2. LE8 β€” causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; of the color gray; arid; boring; colorless sounds like evenly, suddenly
  3. LE4 β€” to set or cause to be at an angle; to show a liking or proneness (for something); to place reliance or trust; angle; cant sounds like bean, c, dean, gene, g
  4. LE6 β€” to set or cause to be at an angle; to show a liking or proneness (for something); to place reliance or trust; angled; canted sounds like fiend, land, lien, lined
  5. LE6 β€” having a noticeably small amount of body fat; bony; fatless; lithe; skinny sounds like c**, keenly, lonely
  6. LE4 β€” to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned; advance; loan sounds like bend, b**, end, fend, land

NA

  1. NA4 β€” sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
  2. NA4 β€” sounds like nod
  3. NA4 β€” sounds like manna
  4. NA5 β€” a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children; babysitter; dry nurse; nurse; nursemaid sounds like canny, fanny

NE

  1. NE4 β€” to have as a requirement; to be under necessity or obligation to; a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful; bear; challenge sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  2. NE6 β€” impossible to do without; to have as a requirement; to have as a requirement; all-important; critical
  3. NE6 β€” a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin; an arrow-shaped piece on a dial or scale for registering information; to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; hype; hypodermic sounds like beadle, noodle
  4. NE7 β€” to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders; to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; baited; hassled
  5. NE5 β€” lacking money or material possessions; beggared; beggarly; broke; destitute sounds like beady, knead, reedy, seedy
  6. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead

YE

  1. YE6 β€” to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; ache (for); covet; crave; desiderate sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend

ZA

  1. ZA4 β€” showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; a comically dressed performer (as at a circus) who entertains with playful tricks and ridiculous behavior; a person of odd or whimsical habits; absurd; asinine sounds like rainy

addend, addenda, anal, anally, analyze, analyzed, annal, anneal, annealed, dandy, deaden, deadened, dean, deny, dyne, elan, eland, ended, ennead, laden, land, landed, landlady, lane, leaden, leadenly, lean, leaned, leanly, lend, naan, nada, nana, nanny, need, needed, needle, needled, needy, nene, yenned, zany