NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 15 July, 2023

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

Letters: v  a  d  e  i  n  t

  • Total Answers: 66
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AD

  1. AD8 β€” produced by a series of additions of identical or similar things; as in supplement, complement; accretive; accumulative; conglomerative sounds like active, narrative, sedative
  2. AD6 β€” the act of coming upon a scene; appearance; arrival; coming; incoming sounds like dent, event, invent, vent

AT

  1. AT9 β€” having the mind fixed on something; given to or made with heedful anticipation of the needs and happiness of others; paying close attention usually for the purpose of anticipating approaching danger or opportunity; absorbed; deep sounds like authentic, in*, offensive, tenting

AV

  1. AV5 β€” sounds like alien
  2. AV6 β€” to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; fly; glide; plane; soar
  3. AV7 β€” to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; flew; glided; planed sounds like created, radiated
  4. AV4 β€” having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions; showing urgent desire or interest; acquisitive; avaricious; coveting sounds like acid, added, arid

DA

  1. DA6 β€” sounds like additive

DE

  1. DE6 β€” sounds like divine
  2. DE8 β€”
  3. DE7 β€” departing from some accepted standard of what is normal; a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs; aberrant; aberrational; abnormal
  4. DE7 β€” departing from some accepted standard of what is normal; a person who has sunk below the normal moral standard; to change one's course or direction; aberrant; aberrational sounds like alleviate, mediate, obviate
  5. DE8 β€” to change one's course or direction; to change one's course or direction; detoured; diverged; sheered

DI

  1. DI4 β€” a usually glamorous woman who is preeminent in her field of activity; goddess; princess; queen sounds like arena, beaver, cheetah, deacon, deal
  2. DI5 β€” a long upholstered piece of furniture designed for several sitters; chesterfield; couch; davenport; lounge
  3. DI4 β€” an act or instance of diving; the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude; to cast oneself head first into deep water; pitch; plunge sounds like arrive, chive, derive
  4. DI5 β€” to cast oneself head first into deep water; to go to a lower level especially abruptly; to cast oneself head first into deep water; pitched; plunged sounds like lived
  5. DI6 β€” to set or force apart; to go or move in different directions from a central point; as in debate, argument; break up; decouple sounds like decide, deride, device, devise, devoid
  6. DI7 β€” disagreeing with each other; to set or force apart; to go or move in different directions from a central point; disunited; split sounds like decided, delighted, devoted
  7. DI8 β€” something given in addition to what is ordinarily expected or owed; bonus; cumshaw; donative; extra sounds like defend, depend, descend
  8. DI6 β€” of the very best kind; of, relating to, or being God; a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church; A-OK; A1 sounds like define, design, device, devise
  9. DI7 β€” to realize or know about beforehand; to realize or know about beforehand; anticipated; forefelt; foreknew sounds like defined
  10. DI7 β€” as in dished out, measured (out); admeasured; allotted; allowed; appropriated sounds like devoid

EA

  1. EA4 β€” sounds like eel, eke, h, l, thieve

EN

  1. EN6 β€” sounds like dive, indict
  2. EN6 β€” to have a resentful awareness of and desire for (another's possessions or advantages) or to feel resentment toward (someone) over possessions or advantages; to have a resentful awareness of and desire for (another's possessions or advantages) or to feel resentment toward (someone) over possessions or advantages; begrudged; resented; begrudge

EV

  1. EV5 β€” to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery; avoid; dodge; duck; elude sounds like invade
  2. EV6 β€” to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery; to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery; avoided; dodged; ducked sounds like avoided, divided, elated, eroded, faded
  3. EV4 β€” not merely this but also; to a full extent or degree; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; indeed; nay sounds like been, bin, chin, din, easing
  4. EV6 β€” to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; to make equal in amount, degree, or status; to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; flattened; leveled sounds like almond, avenue, avid, eaten, eon
  5. EV5 β€” something that happens; something that might happen; a competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize; affair; circumstance sounds like invent, vent
  6. EV7 β€” appearing to be true on the basis of evidence that may or may not be confirmed; not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; not needing proof in order to be accepted; apparent; assumed

IN

  1. IN11 β€” as in absent, heedless; absent; absentminded; abstracted; heedless sounds like attentive
  2. IN10 β€” readiness to engage in daring or difficult activity; without aid or support; action; aggressiveness; ambition
  3. IN6 β€” to enter for conquest or plunder; foray (into); overrun; raid sounds like evade
  4. IN7 β€” to enter for conquest or plunder; to enter for conquest or plunder; forayed (into); overran; raided
  5. IN6 β€” to create or think of by clever use of the imagination; concoct; construct; contrive; cook (up) sounds like event
  6. IN8 β€” not real and existing only in the imagination; to create or think of by clever use of the imagination; to create or think of by clever use of the imagination; chimerical; fabulous
  7. IN9 β€” showing a noteworthy use of the imagination and creativity especially in inventing; having the skill and imagination to create new things; artful; clever; creative
  8. IN6 β€” to request the presence or participation of; to act so as to make (something) more likely; a request for the presence or participation of someone at a specified time and place; ask; bid
  9. IN7 β€” to request the presence or participation of; to act so as to make (something) more likely; to request the presence or participation of; asked; bade sounds like environ, excited
  10. IN7 β€” as in guest, visitor; caller; drop-in; frequenter; guest sounds like annuity, cavity, devotee, enmity, entity

IV

  1. IV5 β€” sounds like divvied, evade

NA

  1. NA5 β€” lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; free from any intent to deceive or impress others; readily taken advantage of; aw-shucks; dewy sounds like achieve, arrive, chive, dive, eave
  2. NA7 β€” the quality or state of being simple and sincere; readiness to believe the claims of others without sufficient evidence; artlessness; greenness; guilelessness sounds like novel, novelty, novice
  3. NA6 β€” belonging to a particular place by birth or origin; being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refining; being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing; aboriginal; autochthonous sounds like active, bated, dated, furtive, knotted
  4. NA4 β€” sounds like cave, gave, nerve, pave, rave

TE

  1. TE9 β€” determined by something else; conditional; contingent (on or upon); dependent; subject (to) sounds like sensitive

TI

  1. TI8 β€” sounds like litigate
  2. TI9 β€” sounds like activated, motivated

VA

  1. VA4 β€” having too high an opinion of oneself; producing no results; having no usefulness; assured; biggety sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
  2. VA4 β€” sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

VE

  1. VE4 β€” a distinctive way of putting ideas into words; fashion; locution; manner; mode sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
  2. VE6 β€” as in marbled, moirΓ©; marbled; moirΓ©; spangled; chromatic sounds like chained, feigned, gained, pained, vain
  3. VE4 β€” to offer for sale to the public; deal (in); market; merchandise; put up sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend
  4. VE6 β€” to offer for sale to the public; to offer for sale to the public; dealt (in); marketed; merchandised sounds like ended, tended
  5. VE8 β€” a series of acts done to harm a disliked person or group; feud; argument; altercation; argle-bargle sounds like indebted, vignette
  6. VE4 β€” to find emotional release for; to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion); to throw or give off; loose; release sounds like bent, cent, dent, e**, lent
  7. VE6 β€” as in atmosphered; to find emotional release for; to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion); atmosphered; airy sounds like rented
  8. VE6 β€” sounds like bated, batted, booted, dated, fetid

VI

  1. VI5 β€” something that is pleasing to eat because it is rare or a luxury; substances intended to be eaten; bit; cate; dainty sounds like beyond, blond, blonde, bond, conned
  2. VI4 β€” to engage in a contest; to engage in a contest; battled; competed; contended sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  3. VI4 β€” to be unsuccessful; to be unsuccessful; to be unsuccessful; bomb; collapse sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine
  4. VI7 β€” to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; to lower in character, dignity, or quality; blemish; darken sounds like initiate, officiate
  5. VI8 β€” as in harmed, marred; to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; blemished; broken sounds like affiliated, created, elated, nauseated, radiated
  6. VI5 β€” producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description; delineated; graphic; pictorial; picturesque sounds like avid, civil, devoid, divide, divvied

additive, advent, attentive, avian, aviate, aviated, avid, dative, devein, deveined, deviant, deviate, deviated, diva, divan, dive, dived, divide, divided, dividend, divine, divined, divvied, eave, endive, envied, evade, evaded, even, evened, event, evident, inattentive, initiative, invade, invaded, invent, invented, inventive, invite, invited, invitee, ivied, naive, naivete, native, nave, tentative, titivate, titivated, vain, vane, vein, veined, vend, vended, vendetta, vent, vented, vetted, viand, vied, vine, vitiate, vitiated, vivid