NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 21 April, 2023

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

Letters: i  a  l  r  t  u  v

  • Total Answers: 40
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

  1. AL4 — 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

AR

  1. AR4 — a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson

  2. AR4 — sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, aural

  3. AR7 — the act of coming upon a scene; advent; appearance; coming; incoming sounds like rival

AT

  1. AT5 — inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt

  2. AT5 — as in peristyles, gallerias; gallerias; parvises; peristyles; closes sounds like area, aria, outreach, streak, stream

  3. AT6 — sounds like trial

AV

  1. AV5 — the capacity for being useful for some purpose; to provide with something useful or desirable; producing no results; account; mileage sounds like assail, unveil, veil

LA

  1. LA4 — 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. LA6 — a rope or long leather thong with a noose used especially for catching livestock; lasso; reata; riata sounds like chariot

LI

  1. LI4 — a person who tells lies; fabricator; fabulist; fibber; prevaricator sounds like buyer, fire, flier, flyer, higher

  2. LI4 — the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern; as in croon, warble; movement; sway; swing sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

  3. LI4 — sounds like leery

RA

  1. RA4 — 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

  2. RA5 — sounds like beta

  3. RA7 — sounds like retail

RI

  1. RI4 — sounds like dial, royal, t**, vial

  2. RI4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill

  3. RI6 — a usual manner of behaving or doing; an oft-repeated action or series of actions performed in accordance with tradition or a set of rules; as in religious, spiritual; custom; fashion sounds like renewal

  4. RI5 — one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value; one that takes a position opposite another in a competition or conflict; one who strives for the same thing as another; coequal; compeer sounds like ar*, revel

TA

  1. TA4 — 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. TA4 — sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee

  3. TA6 —

TI

  1. TI5 — as in anadem; anadem; chaplet; coronal; coronet sounds like rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra

  2. TI4 — up to (a particular time); to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); until; up till sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

  3. TI4 — the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; as in gyroplane, convertiplane; angling; bend sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

  4. TI7 — being something in name or form only; formal; nominal; paper sounds like bachelor, similar, stickler

TR

  1. TR5 — a rough course or way formed by or as if by repeated footsteps; a mark or series of marks left on a surface by something that has passed along it; to go after or on the track of; footpath; path sounds like frail, rail, tail, tale

  2. TR5 — something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind; affection; attribute; attribution; character sounds like crate, freight, grate, great, irate

  3. TR7 — a state of great suffering of body or mind; very hard or unpleasant work; the act or process of giving birth to children; affliction; agony sounds like avail, prevail

  4. TR5 — a test of faith, patience, or strength; a private performance or session in preparation for a public appearance; a procedure or operation carried out to resolve an uncertainty; cross; crucible

  5. TR5 — as in ripple, warble; to sing with the alternation of two musical tones; to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings of; chirr; ripple sounds like drill, frill, grill, grille, rill

  6. TR6 — as in nonsense, trash; bunk; claptrap; drivel; follies

  7. TR7 — lacking importance; so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention; as in vernacular; fiddling; foolish

TU

  1. TU5 — sounds like nutty, putty, touchy

VI

  1. VI4 — sounds like dial, vowel

  2. VI5 — a large impressive residence; castle; château; estate; hacienda

  3. VI5 —

  4. VI7 — very close to being something without actually being it; so-called; apparent; assumed; evident

  5. VI5 — having active strength of body or mind; having much high-spirited energy and movement; impossible to do without; dynamic; energetic sounds like litle, title

alit, aria, aril, arrival, atilt, atria, atrial, avail, lair, lariat, liar, lilt, lira, rail, raita, rattail, rial, rill, ritual, rival, tail, tali, tallit, tiara, till, tilt, titular, trail, trait, travail, trial, trill, trivia, trivial, tutti, vial, villa, viral, virtual, vital