NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 25 February, 2023

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

Letters: a  d  i  l  n  t  u

  • Total Answers: 53
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AD

  1. AD5 β€” a fully grown person; relating to or typical of adults; displaying proper maturity; dealing in or with explicitly sexual material; grown-up; grown-up

AL

  1. 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
  2. AL11 β€” the distance of something or someone from bottom to top; an area of high ground; elevation; height; inches sounds like longitudinal

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. AN4 β€” opposed to; not for; as in bigot, misogynist; as in bigots, misogynists; against; agin sounds like aunt, p**e, shanty

AT

  1. AT5 β€” inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt
  2. AT6 β€” to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to receive as return for effort; achieve; bag; chalk up sounds like obtain, stain
  3. AT11 β€” sounds like longitudinal

AU

  1. AU5 β€” a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition; to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition); check; checkup; examination
  2. AU4 β€” sounds like act, and, ante, apt, can't

DA

  1. DA4 β€” a collection of factual knowledge about something; a single piece of information; facts; information; detail sounds like donna, dot, dotted
  2. DA5 β€” to lessen the courage or confidence of; chill; demoralize; discourage; dishearten sounds like dent, don't, gaunt, haunt, jaunt

DI

  1. DI4 β€” to make a telephone call to; as in face, gauge; as in button, switch; call; phone sounds like dowel, dual, duel, dull, vial

DU

  1. DU4 β€” consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined; as in interstate, motorway; as in interstates, motorways; binary; bipartite sounds like dial, dowel, jewel

IN

  1. IN7 β€” coming before all others in time or order; as in inscribe; earliest; first; foremost
  2. IN6 β€” as in installed, inset; cut in; inset; installed; edged in
  3. IN6 β€” sounds like bland, gland, land, lowland, ma**

LA

  1. LA4 β€” to arrange something in a certain spot or position; to cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid); to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; deposed; deposited sounds like aid, aide, bade, blade, fade
  2. 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
  3. LA5 β€” a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot
  4. 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
  5. LA7 β€” sounds like antenna
  6. LA11 β€” an allowable margin of freedom or variation; the right to act or move freely; leeway; slack; space sounds like longitudinal
  7. LA4 β€” public acknowledgment or admiration for an achievement; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to proclaim the glory of; acclaim; accolade sounds like awed, flawed, lead, led, lewd

LU

  1. LU4 β€” as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
  2. LU4 β€” sounds like loon, loony, tuna
  3. 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€” sounds like fatal, nettle
  7. NA6 β€” sounds like latent
  8. NA7 β€” sounds like knightly, neatly, nightly, steely

TA

  1. 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
  2. TA5 β€” a mark of guilt or disgrace; to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable; blot; brand sounds like faint, feint, paint, saint, tent
  3. TA4 β€” sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee
  4. TA4 β€” extending to a great distance upward; requiring considerable physical or mental effort; as in yacht, sailboat; altitudinous; high sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  5. TA6 β€”
  6. TA6 β€”
  7. TA5 β€” to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; as in quip, jeer; bait; hassle; haze sounds like daunt, gaunt, haunt, jaunt, tent
  8. TA4 β€” stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat

TI

  1. TI5 β€” as in tsunami; as in tsunamis; tsunami; billow; surge sounds like idle, idol, idyll, sidle
  2. TI5 β€” something that is unusually large and powerful; behemoth; blockbuster; colossus; dinosaur sounds like heighten, lighten

TU

  1. TU4 β€”

UL

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

UN

  1. UN8 β€” rising and falling in a wavelike pattern; undulating; undulatory; wavy; rolling sounds like indolent, insolent, vigilant
  2. UN6 β€” to separate the various strands of; to separate the various strands of; disentangled; raveled (out); unbraided sounds like inlaid

adult, alit, altitudinal, anal, annal, annual, annul, annuli, anti, atilt, attain, attitudinal, audit, aunt, data, daunt, dial, dual, initial, inlaid, inland, laid, lain, lanai, land, lantana, latitudinal, laud, luau, luna, lunula, naan, nada, naiad, nail, nana, natal, natant, nautili, tail, taint, tali, tall, tallit, tannin, taunt, taut, tidal, titan, tuna, ulna, undulant, unlaid