Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 15 April, 2023

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

Letters: l  d  i  o  r  w  y

  • Total Answers: 48
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

DI

  1. DI6 β€” the smallest amount or part imaginable; the smallest amount or part imaginable; the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes sounds like deadly, dearly
  2. DI5 β€” sounds like below, billed, billow, build, builder
  3. DI4 β€” sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear
  4. DI5 β€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like chili, chilly, daily, dally, dearly

DO

  1. DO5 β€” sounds like coyly, daily, dally, duly, oily
  2. DO4 β€” a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; a physically attractive person; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; action figure; dolly sounds like dale, deal, dell, dill
  3. DO5 β€” a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; a lovely woman; a lovely woman; action figure; doll sounds like collie, daily, dally, duly, folly
  4. DO5 β€” deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved; affliction; anguish; dolefulness; grief sounds like color, dealer, duffer, dull, dumber
  5. DO7 β€” in a careless or unfashionable manner; lacking neatness in dress or person; marked by an obvious lack of style or good taste; sloppily; slovenly sounds like bodily, dawdle, deadly, loudly, readily

DR

  1. DR5 β€” an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity; something done over and over in order to develop skill; to make a hole or series of holes in; grind; groove sounds like dill, frill, grill, grille, rill
  2. DR5 β€” causing or intended to cause laughter; a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor; antic; chucklesome; comedic sounds like dole, role, roll
  3. DR6 β€” causing or intended to cause laughter; antic; chucklesome; comedic; comic
  4. DR5 β€” language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; the fluid that is secreted into the mouth by certain glands; to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth; applesauce; balderdash sounds like rule
  5. DR6 β€” sounds like cruelly, duly, truly
  6. DR5 β€” marked by little or no precipitation or humidity; causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; arid; droughty sounds like wryly

ID

  1. ID4 β€” as in inactively; not being in a state of use, activity, or employment; not easily aroused to action or work; inactively; lifelessly sounds like oddly, widely
  2. ID4 β€” a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion; god; hero; icon sounds like addle, dull, sidle, tidal
  3. ID4 β€” a time or instance of carefree fun; binge; fling; frisk; frolic sounds like addle, aisle, awhile, beguile, bile
  4. ID5 β€” a time or instance of carefree fun; binge; fling; frisk; frolic sounds like addle, dull, sidle, tidal

IL

  1. IL4 β€” sounds like alley, chili, ch**, early, eerie

LI

  1. LI4 β€” having or showing a shameful lack of courage; free from guilt or blame; chicken; chicken-livered; chickenhearted sounds like chili, chilly, filly, hilly, leery

LO

  1. LO4 β€” to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall
  2. LO4 β€” a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe; a man of high birth or social position; baron; captain sounds like board, bored, chord, cord, ford
  3. LO6 β€” having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude; having or displaying feelings of scorn for what is regarded as beneath oneself; having, characterized by, or arising from a dignified and generous nature; arrogant; assumptive sounds like courtly, hardly, largely, laundry, laurel
  4. LO5 β€”
  5. LO5 β€” sounds like glory, gory, leery
  6. LO5 β€” belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank; not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness; in a manner showing no signs of pride or self-assertion; baseborn; common sounds like holy, lily, s*, wholly

OD

  1. OD5 β€” as in strangely, weirdly; funnily; peculiarly; queerly; strangely sounds like awfully, idly

OI

  1. OI4 β€” overly or insincerely flattering; adulatory; fulsome; gushing; gushy sounds like alley, coyly, early, flea, flee

OL

  1. OL4 β€” an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup; assortment sounds like audio

RI

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

RO

  1. RO4 β€” to be in a state of violent rolling motion; to make angry; boil; churn; moil sounds like boil, b**, coil, foil, oil
  2. RO4 β€” to form into a round compact mass; to make a low heavy rolling sound; to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions; agglomerate; ball sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
  3. RO7 β€” being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way; boisterous; hell-raising; knockabout; rambunctious sounds like readily

WI

  1. WI4 β€” living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans; existing without human habitation or cultivation; marked by turmoil or disturbance especially of natural elements; feral; savage sounds like child, mild, piled, tiled, walled
  2. WI6 β€” in a confused and reckless manner; to a great degree; amok; berserk; berserkly sounds like mildly, worldly
  3. WI8 β€” as in greenwood; greenwood; brake; brushwood; chaparral sounds like childhood, worldwide
  4. WI4 β€” to give by means of a will; to see fit; the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions; bequeath; leave sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
  5. WI6 β€” sounds like below, billow, pillow, wallow
  6. WI7 β€” able to bend easily without breaking; bendy; flexible; limber; lissome
  7. WI4 β€” clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means; artful; beguiling; cagey; crafty sounds like highly, shyly, while, whitely, woolly

WO

  1. WO4 β€” the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick; being such by habit and not likely to change; to cause to believe what is untrue; coat; fleece sounds like bull, full, pull, wail, wale
  2. WO6 β€” made of or resembling hair; covered with or as if with hair; being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way; furry; fuzzy sounds like bully, fully, pulley, willy, wily
  3. WO7 β€” as in diffusely, long-windedly; using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea; of or relating to words or language; diffusely; long-windedly sounds like bodily, girdle, hurdle, readily, warily
  4. WO5 β€” human beings in general; the celestial body on which we live; the whole body of things observed or assumed; folks; humanity sounds like walled, weld, wheeled, whirl, whorl
  5. WO7 β€” having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience; having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven; having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience; cosmopolitan; smart sounds like wildly

WR

  1. WR5 β€” sounds like dryly, highly, rally, really, rightly

YO

  1. YO4 β€” a loud vocal expression of strong emotion; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to make a long loud mournful sound; cry; holler sounds like foul, fowl, howl, jowl, owl

diddly, dildo, dill, dilly, doily, doll, dolly, dolor, dowdily, drill, droll, drolly, drool, drooly, dryly, idly, idol, idyl, idyll, illy, lily, loll, lord, lordly, lordy, lorry, lowly, oddly, oily, olio, rill, roil, roll, rowdily, wild, wildly, wildwood, will, willow, willowy, wily, wool, woolly, wordily, world, worldly, wryly, yowl