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NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 12 August, 2022

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

Letters: g  d  h  n  o  t  u

  • Total Answers: 28
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

DO

  1. DO5 — in hiding to avoid notice or detection—used chiefly in the phrase lie *
  2. DO4 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment synonyms—berk, booby, charlie, cuckoo, ding-a-ling sounds like—dang, daub, dawn, dung, long
  3. DO5 — something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment synonyms—bread, bucks, cabbage, cash, change sounds like—beau, day, dew, die
  4. DO8 — a small usually ring-shaped piece of sweet fried dough; something (such as a mathematical torus) that has a round shape like a **; a controlled skid that sends an automobile into a tight circle of at least 360 degrees —usually used in the phrase do **s

DU

  1. DU6 — an aquatic, herbivorous, usually brownish-gray mammal (** dugon) that inhabits warm coastal waters chiefly of southern Asia, Australia, and eastern Africa and resembles the related manatee but differs in having a notched tail divided into two lobes and upper incisors which grow into small tusks in the male sounds like—daylong
  2. DU6 — as in canoe, raft; as in bunker synonyms—bateau, caïque, canoe, catamaran, coracle sounds like—about, cutout, debate, deceit, devout
  3. DU4 — solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal synonyms—dirt, doo-doo, dropping, excrement, excreta sounds like—dang, done, dove

GO

  1. GO7 — the quality or state of being divine synonyms—deity, divinity, godhead
  2. GO4 — as in ding, clang synonyms—chink, clang, clank, clash, clink sounds like—gall, gang, gauze, long, pong
  3. GO4 — based on sound reasoning or information; conforming to a high standard of morality or virtue; according to the rules of logic synonyms—commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensical, firm, hard sounds like—could, gird, guide, hood, should
  4. GO4 — to take place; to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point synonyms—be, befall, betide, chance, come sounds like—boon, dune, gain, gun
  5. GO4 — **ic sounds like—both, girth
  6. GO4 — a metabolic disease marked by a painful inflammation of the joints, deposits of urates in and around the joints, and usually an excessive amount of uric acid in the blood; a mass or aggregate especially of something fluid often gushing or bursting forth sounds like—bout, doubt, gait, gate, gauss

HO

  1. HO6 — to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior synonyms—act up, clown (around), cut up, fool around, horse around sounds like—watchdog

HU

  1. HU4 — bending downward or forward synonyms—bowed, bowing, declined, declining, descendant sounds like—dung, hang

NO

  1. NO6 — the numerical symbol 0 or the absence of number or quantity represented by it synonyms—aught, cipher, goose egg, nil, nothing sounds like—fought, gnaw, knight, knit, knot

OU

  1. OU5 — to be under necessity or obligation to synonyms—have (to), must, need, shall, should sounds like—all, ate, auto, awed, eat
  2. OU5 — a payment made in the course of achieving a result; the act of leaving a place synonyms—charge, cost, disbursement, expenditure, expense
  3. OU6 — to be greater, better, or stronger than synonyms—beat, better, eclipse, exceed, excel
  4. OU10 — to get the better of through cleverness synonyms—foxed, outfoxed, outmaneuvered, outslicked, outsmarted

TH

  1. TH5 — a strip especially of leather or hide; a sandal held on the foot by a * fitting between the toes and connected to a strap across the top or around the sides of the foot; an article of swimwear or underwear with the back portion consisting of a narrow strip of cloth that passes between the buttocks and connects with a waistband sounds like—long, pong, song, wrong
  2. TH6 — in spite of that synonyms—even so, howbeit, however, nevertheless, nonetheless sounds like—beau, doe, dough, foe, hoe
  3. TH7 — a careful weighing of the reasons for or against something; something imagined or pictured in the mind synonyms—account, advisement, consideration, debate, deliberation sounds like—fought, naught, ought, sought, taught
  4. TH4 — a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang synonyms—bully, gangbanger, gangsta, gangster, goon sounds like—bug, chug, dug, hug, jug

TO

  1. TO4 — to take, gather, hold, or handle with s; to use s especially in taking or gathering something sounds like—long, pong, song, talk, tall
  2. TO5 — not easily chewed; able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure; difficult to endure synonyms—chewy, leathery, cast-iron, hard, hard-bitten sounds like—buff, cuff, huff, muff, puff

UN

  1. UN6 —
  2. UN9 — to put out of mind sounds like—astute, naught, taught, taut

doggo, dong, dough, doughnut, dugong, dugout, dung, godhood, gong, good, goon, goth, gout, hotdog, hung, nought, ought, outgo, outgun, outthought, thong, though, thought, thug, tong, tough, unhung, unthought