NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 18 February, 2023

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

Letters: n  a  d  i  l  u  v

  • Total Answers: 33
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AN

  1. AN4 β€” extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; as in perversity, waywardness; anal-retentive; obsessive sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
  2. AN5 β€” sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
  3. AN6 β€” occurring once every year; a book or magazine that is published once a year; yearly; bimonthly; biweekly sounds like manual
  4. AN5 β€” to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective; to put an end to by formal action; cancel (out); compensate (for); correct sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
  5. AN6 β€” sounds like newly
  6. AN5 β€”

AV

  1. AV5 β€” sounds like alien

DI

  1. DI5 β€” a long upholstered piece of furniture designed for several sitters; chesterfield; couch; davenport; lounge

IN

  1. IN10 β€” a member of the human race; one that has a real and independent existence; of, relating to, or belonging to a single person; baby; being
  2. IN6 β€” as in installed, inset; cut in; inset; installed; edged in
  3. IN6 β€” sounds like bland, gland, land, lowland, ma**
  4. IN7 β€” chronically or repeatedly suffering from poor health; having no legal or binding force; not being in agreement with what is true; ailing; sickly

LA

  1. LA4 β€” to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction; to occupy a place or location; to remain out of sight; borne; extended sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
  2. LA5 β€” a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot
  3. LA4 β€” a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government; a broad geographical area; the solid part of our planet's surface as distinguished from the sea and air; commonwealth; country sounds like and, band, b, canned, g

LU

  1. LU4 β€” sounds like loon, loony, tuna
  2. LU6 β€” sounds like lonely, loon, loony, loosely, manila

NA

  1. NA4 β€” sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
  2. NA4 β€” sounds like nod
  3. NA5 β€” a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; a young wingless often wormlike form (as a grub or caterpillar) that hatches from the egg of many insects; dryad; hamadryad; nymph sounds like acid, added, arid, avid, blood
  4. NA4 β€” to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to make final, definite, or beyond dispute; to reveal the true nature of; bang; bash sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  5. NA4 β€” sounds like manna
  6. NA5 β€” of or relating to a country's navy; GI; gladiatorial; mercenary; soldierly sounds like novel

NU

  1. NU4 β€” having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness; to put an end to by formal action; bad; inoperative sounds like annul, cul, cull, dull, gull

UL

  1. UL4 β€” sounds like alas, alert, alight, align, aligned

UN

  1. UN5 β€” to deprive of courage or confidence; to disengage the knotted parts of; to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy; demoralized; emasculated
  2. UN6 β€” to separate the various strands of; to separate the various strands of; disentangled; raveled (out); unbraided sounds like inlaid

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. VA6 β€” a person who damages or destroys property on purpose; defacer sounds like candle, handle, sandal
  3. VA7 β€” lacking in distinctive features or qualities; free from all additions or embellishment; beige; characterless; faceless sounds like manila
  4. VA8 β€”

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. VI7 β€” a mean, evil, or unprincipled person; baddie; beast; brute; caitiff sounds like billon

anal, annal, annual, annul, annuli, anvil, avian, divan, individual, inlaid, inland, invalid, lain, lanai, land, luna, lunula, naan, nada, naiad, nail, nana, naval, null, ulna, undid, unlaid, vain, vandal, vanilla, vanillin, viand, villain