NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 9 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  f  i  n  w

  • Total Answers: 31
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

  1. AL7 —

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

DI

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

  2. DI4 — sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear

FA

  1. FA4 — to stop functioning; to be unsuccessful; to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of; break; break down sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  2. FA4 — to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily; to yield to the control or power of enemy forces; to go to a lower level especially abruptly; slip; stumble sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, feel

FI

  1. FI6 — sounds like bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful

  2. FI4 — to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained; to close up so that no empty spaces remain; to do what is required by the terms of; brim; charge sounds like bill, chill, dill, fail, fall

  3. FI5 — following all others of the same kind in order or time; having been established and usually not subject to change; as in semifinal, play-off; bottommost; closing sounds like fennel, funnel, vinyl

  4. FI6 — sounds like lineal

FL

  1. FL5 — to move or cause to move with a striking motion; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; as in bludgeon, cudgel; beat; flap sounds like fail, frail

  2. FL4 — sounds like clan, fan, plan

  3. FL4 — something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; as in hamartia; blemish; blight sounds like claw

IN

  1. IN6 — sounds like fill, refill

  2. IN6 — as in installed, inset; cut in; inset; installed; edged in

  3. IN6 — sounds like bland, gland, land, lowland, ma**

LA

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

  4. LA4 — 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. LA8 —

  6. LA8 — a place where discarded materials (as trash) are dumped; a place where discarded materials (as trash) are dumped; dump; sanitary landfill; tip

  7. LA4 — an area of ground (such as the ground around a house or in a garden or park) that is covered with short grass; grass; green; greensward; clearing sounds like dawn, fawn, gone, lean, learn

NA

  1. 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

WA

  1. WA4 — a crying out in grief; a long low sound indicating pain or grief; an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; groan; howl sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  2. WA4 — a physical object that blocks the way; means or method of defending; as in close in, cordon (off); barricade; barrier sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

WI

  1. WI4 — living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans; existing without human habitation or cultivation; marked by turmoil or disturbance especially of natural elements; feral; savage sounds like child, mild, piled, tiled, walled

  2. WI8 — sounds like childless, highland, island, sidelined, woodland

  3. WI4 — to give by means of a will; to see fit; the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions; bequeath; leave sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

  4. WI8 — something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing; benediction; benefit; blessing; boon sounds like landfall

alfalfa, anal, annal, dial, dill, fail, fall, filial, fill, final, finial, flail, flan, flaw, infill, inlaid, inland, laid, lain, lanai, land, landfall, landfill, lawn, nail, wail, wall, wild, wildland, will, windfall