Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Tue. 16 May, 2023

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

Letters: l  a  d  h  i  n  y

  • Total Answers: 36
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AL

  1. AL5 β€” to make more bearable or less severe; alleviate; assuage; ease; help sounds like away, clay, fillet, lay, play
  2. AL4 β€” 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 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. AN6 β€”
  3. AN5 β€” sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null

DA

  1. DA6 β€” sounds like aria, cholera, cholla, colleague, collie
  2. DA5 β€” occurring, done, produced, or appearing every day; a person hired to perform household or personal services; as in regimen; day-to-day; diurnal sounds like duly, gaily
  3. DA5 β€” to engage in activity for amusement; to move or act slowly; to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun; disport; frolic sounds like alley, duly, galley, rally, sally
  4. DA7 β€” sounds like handily
  5. DA7 β€” sounds like fatally, racially

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
  2. 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
  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
  5. DI10 β€” to move or act slowly; to spend time doing nothing; crawl; creep; dally sounds like illegally

HA

  1. HA4 β€” to declare enthusiastic approval of; to demand or request the presence or service of; a heavy fall of objects; acclaim; accredit sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  2. HA5 β€”
  3. HA4 β€” the entrance room of a building; a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building; a large room or building for enclosed public gatherings; entranceway; entry sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  4. HA7 β€” without difficulty; easily; easy; effortlessly; facilely

HI

  1. HI4 β€” a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; an area of high ground; an upward slope; cock; heap sounds like bill, c**, dill, fill, hail
  2. HI5 β€” having many hills; craggy; hillocky; mountainous; scarped sounds like chili, c*, filly, holy, hurley

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 time or instance of carefree fun; binge; fling; frisk; frolic sounds like addle, aisle, awhile, beguile, bile
  3. 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

IN

  1. IN6 β€” as in installed, inset; cut in; inset; installed; edged in
  2. IN6 β€” sounds like bland, gland, land, lowland, ma**
  3. IN5 β€” as in install, inset; cut in; inset; install; edge in

LA

  1. LA4 β€” an adult female human being; a female partner in a marriage; a woman of high birth or social position; female; woman sounds like shady
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. LA5 β€” a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot
  5. 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
  6. LA8 β€” as in landlord, proprietor; landlord; lessor; letter; renter sounds like blandly, handmade

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

NA

  1. 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

allay, ally, anal, anally, annal, dahlia, daily, dally, dandily, daylily, dial, diddly, dill, dilly, dillydally, hail, halal, hall, handily, hill, hilly, idly, idyl, idyll, illy, inlaid, inland, inlay, lady, laid, lain, lanai, land, landlady, lily, nail