NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 25 June, 2023

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

Letters: a  e  i  l  n  v  y

  • Total Answers: 57
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

  1. AL5 — being, relating to, or characteristic of a country other than one's own; not being a vital part of or belonging to something; to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring; foreign; nonnative

  2. AL5 — having or showing life; marked by much life, movement, or activity; being in effective operation; animate; breathing sounds like live

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

  4. AL6 — sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, lull

  5. AL5 — a narrow passage between buildings; someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support; as in tabby; alleyway; arterial sounds like abbey, assay, dally, early, flea

  6. 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

AN

  1. AN4 — 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. AN6 —

  3. AN5 — sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null

  4. AN6 — to make stronger (as through hardship); temper; fortify; harden; indurate sounds like aunt

  5. AN5 —

AV

  1. AV5 — the capacity for being useful for some purpose; to provide with something useful or desirable; producing no results; account; mileage sounds like assail, unveil, veil

  2. AV5 — sounds like alien

EA

  1. EA4 — sounds like eel, eke, h, l, thieve

EL

  1. EL4 — as in passion, ardor; as in life, world soul; ardor; fervor; fire sounds like align, alone, oven, sullen

IN

  1. IN5 — having no meaning; as in vacuum; empty; meaningless; pointless

  2. IN7 — having no meaning; empty; meaningless; pointless; senseless sounds like manly, nanny

  3. IN5 — as in install, inset; cut in; inset; install; edge in

LA

  1. LA4 — 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 — a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot

  3. LA4 — as in byway, laneway; bypath; byway; laneway; approach sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

  4. LA4 — sounds like java

  5. LA4 — to flow along or against; bathe; lap; lip; splash sounds like cave, gave

LE

  1. LE4 — to set or cause to be at an angle; to show a liking or proneness (for something); to place reliance or trust; angle; cant sounds like bean, c, dean, gene, g

  2. LE6 — having a noticeably small amount of body fat; bony; fatless; lithe; skinny sounds like c**, keenly, lonely

  3. LE5 — to cause to remain behind; to give by means of a will; to give up (a job or office); abandon; desert sounds like eave, eve, heave

  4. LE6 — as in enliven, invigorate; animate; charge; enliven; invigorate sounds like eleven, heaven, seven

LI

  1. LI6 — as in straight, linear; linear; right; straight

  2. LI8 —

NA

  1. NA4 — sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock

  2. NA4 — 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

  3. NA5 — 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

  4. NA7 — without any attempt to impress by deception or exaggeration; lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; free from any intent to deceive or impress others; artlessly; guilelessly sounds like neatly, nobly

  5. NA4 — sounds like manna

  6. NA5 — a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children; babysitter; dry nurse; nurse; nursemaid sounds like canny, fanny

  7. NA5 — of or relating to a country's navy; GI; gladiatorial; mercenary; soldierly sounds like novel

  8. NA4 — sounds like cave, gave, nerve, pave, rave

  9. NA5 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; excessive interest in oneself; axis; base; capital sounds like novel

  10. NA4 — as in convoy, flotilla; argosy; convoy; flotilla; armada sounds like nervy, wavy

VA

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

  2. VA6 — having too high an opinion of oneself; producing no results; having no usefulness; assured; biggety sounds like mainly

  3. VA4 — an area of lowland between hills or mountains; dale; dene; hollow; valley sounds like ail, ale, avail, bail, bale

  4. VA6 — an area of lowland between hills or mountains; as in canyon, gorge; dale; dene; hollow sounds like alley, dally, galley, rally, sally

  5. VA5 — a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid; cock; faucet; gate; spigot

  6. VA4 — sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

  7. VA7 — lacking in distinctive features or qualities; free from all additions or embellishment; beige; characterless; faceless sounds like manila

  8. VA8 —

VE

  1. VE4 — sounds like deal, eel, feel, heal, heel

  2. VE5 — open to improper influence and especially bribery; bribable; corruptible; dirty; purchasable sounds like penal, renal, vinyl

  3. VE7 — open to improper influence and especially bribery; bribable; corruptible; dirty; purchasable sounds like evenly, finale, finally, funnel, luckily

  4. VE6 — worthy of forgiveness; condonable; excusable; forgivable; pardonable sounds like genial

  5. VE8 — worthy of forgiveness; condonable; excusable; forgivable; pardonable sounds like menial

VI

  1. VI4 — sounds like dial, vowel

  2. VI5 — a large impressive residence; castle; château; estate; hacienda

  3. VI7 — a mean, evil, or unprincipled person; baddie; beast; brute; caitiff sounds like billon

  4. VI8 — that which is morally unacceptable; bad; evil; evildoing; ill sounds like colony, felony, peony, sealant

  5. VI10 — as in sonnet, ode; anacreontic; clerihew; dithyramb; eclogue sounds like venal

alien, alive, allay, allele, alley, ally, anal, anally, annal, anneal, anvil, avail, avian, eave, elan, inane, inanely, inlay, lain, lanai, lane, lava, lave, lean, leanly, leave, leaven, lineal, lineally, naan, nail, naive, naively, nana, nanny, naval, nave, navel, navy, vain, vainly, vale, valley, valve, vane, vanilla, vanillin, veal, venal, venally, venial, venially, vial, villa, villain, villainy, villanelle