NYT π CluesβFri. 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! π€£
AL
- 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
AR
- AR4 β a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson
- AR4 β sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, aural
- AR7 β the act of coming upon a scene; advent; appearance; coming; incoming sounds like rival
AT
- AT5 β inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt
- AT5 β as in peristyles, gallerias; gallerias; parvises; peristyles; closes sounds like area, aria, outreach, streak, stream
- AT6 β sounds like trial
AV
- AV5 β 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
- 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
- LA6 β a rope or long leather thong with a noose used especially for catching livestock; lasso; reata; riata sounds like chariot
LI
- LI4 β a person who tells lies; fabricator; fabulist; fibber; prevaricator sounds like buyer, fire, flier, flyer, higher
- LI4 β 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
- LI4 β sounds like leery
RA
- 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 sounds like beta
- RA7 β sounds like retail
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 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
- RI5 β 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
- 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
- TA4 β sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee
- TA6 β
TI
- TI5 β as in anadem; anadem; chaplet; coronal; coronet sounds like rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra
- TI4 β 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
- TI4 β 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
- TI7 β being something in name or form only; formal; nominal; paper sounds like bachelor, similar, stickler
TR
- TR5 β 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
- TR5 β something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind; affection; attribute; attribution; character sounds like crate, freight, grate, great, irate
- TR7 β 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
- TR5 β 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
- TR5 β 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
- TR6 β as in nonsense, trash; bunk; claptrap; drivel; follies
- TR7 β lacking importance; so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention; as in vernacular; fiddling; foolish
TU
- TU5 β sounds like nutty, putty, touchy
VI
- VI4 β sounds like dial, vowel
- VI5 β a large impressive residence; castle; chΓ’teau; estate; hacienda
- VI5 β
- VI7 β very close to being something without actually being it; so-called; apparent; assumed; evident
- VI5 β having active strength of body or mind; having much high-spirited energy and movement; impossible to do without; dynamic; energetic sounds like litle, title