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

Letters: a  d  k  l  r  w  y

• Total Answers: 37
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

1. AL5 — to make more bearable or less severe; alleviate; assuage; ease; help sounds like away, clay, fillet, lay, play
2. AL4 — 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

AR

4. 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

AW

6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. AW9 — as in clumsily, ineptly; as in ungracefully; lacking social grace and assurance; clumsily; gracelessly sounds like cowardly, inwardly, outwardly, upwardly
10. 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

12. 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
13. DA5 — 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
14. 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
15. DA6 — as in somberly, blackly; being without light or without much light; not having a light complexion; blackly; dismally sounds like barley, dearly, donkey, dryly, hardly

DR

17. 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
18. DR5 — to speak slowly with vowel sounds that are longer than usual; breathe; chirp; gasp; lip sounds like brawl, crawl, thrall
19. DR6 —
20. DR4 — as in oxcart, jolt-wagon; jolt-wagon; oxcart; spring wagon; wagonette sounds like day, fray, gray, grey, pray
21. 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
22. DR7 —

DY

24. 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

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

LA

28. LA4 — an adult female human being; a female partner in a marriage; a woman of high birth or social position; female; skirt sounds like shady
29. LA4 — as in weave, interline; as in pitch, tar; interfile; interline; weave sounds like bard, card, charred, guard, hard
30. LA4 — a time or instance of carefree fun; to play and run about happily; binge; fling; frisk sounds like arc, bark, dark, loch, lock
31. LA7 — to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place; as in installment plan; cache; hoard; lay by sounds like away, byway, hideaway, highway, leeway

RA

33. RA5 —
34. RA5 — an act of gathering forces together to renew or attempt an effort; a mass meeting for the purpose of displaying or arousing support for a cause or person; the process or period of gradually regaining one's health and strength; marshaling; mobilization sounds like alley, dally, galley, really, sally
35. RA5 — not cooked; being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refining; lacking in adult experience or maturity; uncooked; crude sounds like really, wrongly, wryly

WA

37. WA4 — to go on foot; to refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet demands; a relaxed journey on foot for exercise or pleasure; ambulate; foot (it) sounds like balk, hawk, talk, weak, week
38. WA7 — a path for walking; walk; approach; avenue; passage sounds like doorway, hallway, weekday, workday
39. WA4 — a physical object that blocks the way; means or method of defending; as in close in, cordon (off); barricade; barrier sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
40. 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
41. WA4 — having or showing a close attentiveness to avoiding danger or trouble; alert; careful; cautious; chary sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
42. WA6 — to lie in wait for and attack by surprise; ambuscade; ambush; surprise sounds like melee, whale
43. 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
44. WA9 — given to resisting authority or another's control; given to resisting control or discipline by others; balky; contrary; contumacious sounds like awkwardly, inwardly, outwardly, upwardly

YA

46. 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
47. YA4 — as in yacht, ketch; brigantine; bugeye; caïque; caravel sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall