NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 14 October, 2022
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: u a g i l n r
- Total Answers: 58
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AL
- AL8 — having an often mysterious or magical power to attract synonyms—appealing, attractive, bewitching, captivating, charismatic sounds like—clearing, during, flaring, flooring, glaring
AN
- AN7 — having a noticeably small amount of body fat such that the bones are prominent in appearance; having one or more angles synonyms—rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, bony, fatless sounds like—regular, singular, wrangler
- AN6 — occurring once every year synonyms—yearly, bimonthly, biweekly, daily, monthly sounds like—manual
- AN5 — to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective; to put an end to by formal action synonyms—cancel (out), compensate (for), correct, counteract, counterbalance sounds like—addle, agile, apple, channel, null
- AN7 — as in circular, discoidal synonyms—circular, disciform, discoid, discoidal, disklike
- AN6 — ring; a part, structure, or marking resembling a ring: such as; a line of cells around a fern sporangium that ruptures the sporangium by contracting sounds like—newly
- AN9 — to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective; to put an end to by formal action synonyms—canceling (out), compensating (for), correcting, counteracting, counterbalancing sounds like—paneling
AR
- AR7 — to state (something) as a reason in support of or against something under consideration; to express different opinions about something often angrily; to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests synonyms—asserting, contending, maintaining, pleading, reasoning
- AR7 — a yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herb (Eruca vesicaria sativa) of the mustard family cultivated for its foliage which is used especially in salads —called also garden rocket, rocket, roquette, rugola sounds like—frugal, frugally, gala, google, regal
AU
- AU5 — one who predicts future events or developments synonyms—diviner, forecaster, foreseer, foreteller, fortune-teller sounds like—eager, offer
- AU8 — a declaration that something will happen in the future synonyms—augury, bodement, cast, forecast, forecasting sounds like—gathering, offering
- AU4 — a special quality or impression associated with something; a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings synonyms—air, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, climate sounds like—era, oral, orb, ore
- AU5 — of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing synonyms—acoustic, audial, audile, auditory, auricular sounds like—choral, coral, laurel, moral, orally
GA
- GA7 — to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement; to find out the size, extent, or amount of synonyms—calculating, calling, conjecturing, estimating, figuring
GL
- GL4 — to flow or pour with a gurgling sound; to drink quickly sounds like—lug, plug, slug
- GL8 — to flow or pour with a gurgling sound; to drink quickly sounds like—bugging, flagging, galloping, grudging, lagging
- GL6 — as in cementing synonyms—cementing, adhesiveness, attachment, cohesiveness, tenacity sounds like—bluing
GR
- GR8 — made up of large particles synonyms—coarse, grained, grainy, granulated sounds like—glandular
GU
- GU4 — a drought-tolerant legume (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) cultivated in warm regions as a vegetable, for forage, and for its seeds which produce ** gum sounds like—are, bar, car, char, czar
- GU5 — as in concentration camp, stalag synonyms—concentration camp, labor camp, prison camp, stalag, work camp sounds like—flag, gag, ghoulish, glad, glass
- GU4 — one who is easily deceived or cheated synonyms—chump, dupe, mug, patsy, pigeon sounds like—cul, cull, dull, eagle, gal
- GU7 — to cause to believe what is untrue synonyms—bamboozling, beguiling, bluffing, buffaloing, burning sounds like—galling
- GU7 — to strike with a missile from a gun synonyms—drilling, plugging, popping, shooting sounds like—cunning, running
- GU8 — to flow in a broken irregular stream synonyms—bubbling, dribbling, guggling, lapping, plashing
- GU4 — a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field; one who brings an art or science to full realization synonyms—ace, adept, artist, authority, cognoscente sounds like—grew
IG
- IG6 — a fertilizer containing the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats; broadly : excrement especially of seabirds or bats sounds like—donna, icon, mana, swan, wan
IN
- IN9 — coming before all others in time or order synonyms—earliest, first, foremost, headmost, initial sounds like—doggerel, enamel, engulf, enigma, enormous
- IN7 — to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure synonyms—fortifying, hardening, indurating, seasoning, steeling sounds like—earring, ginning, sinning, winning
- IN5 — as in immure synonyms—immure, bury, entomb, hearse, inhume
- IN8 — as in immuring synonyms—immuring, burying, entombing, hearsing, inhuming sounds like—burning, discerning, turning, unnerving, yearning
LI
- LI8 — narrow flat pasta sounds like—bikini, singly
LU
- LU4 — as in barbecue, cookout synonyms—barbecue, clambake, cookout, fry, roast sounds like—lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
- LU7 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to support and take from one place to another synonyms—dragging, drawing, haling, hauling, pulling sounds like—bugging, lagging, logging, loving, mugging
- LU6 — a small sled that is ridden in a supine position and used especially in competition; also : the competition itself sounds like—lodging, losing
- LU4 — a momentary halt in an activity synonyms—break, breath, breather, interruption, pause sounds like—cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- LU7 — tending to calm the emotions and relieve stress synonyms—calming, comforting, dreamy, narcotic, pacifying sounds like—loving
- LU4 — something very good of its kind synonyms—beaut, beauty, bee's knees, cat's meow, corker sounds like—blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
- LU4 — a large mostly pale green American saturniid moth (Actias **) with long tails on the hind wings sounds like—loon, loony, tuna
- LU5 — a space vehicle module designed to carry astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back —called also * excursion module sounds like—learner, loner, loon, loony, looser
- LU4 — 1711—1799 Chinese emperor (1736—96) sounds like—c, dung, f, hung, long
- LU7 — as in p***, diving synonyms—diving, p***, settling, sinking, dipping sounds like—bulging, fudging, lodging, longing, loving
- LU6 — sounds like—lonely, loon, loony, loosely, manila
- LU6 — having an often mysterious or magical power to attract synonyms—al**, appealing, attractive, bewitching, captivating sounds like—bring, earring, ring, wring
NU
- NU4 — having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness synonyms—bad, inoperative, invalid, nonbinding, nonvalid sounds like—annul, cul, cull, dull, gull
RU
- RU4 — to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts; to bring destruction to (something) through violent action; to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of synonyms—bankrupt, break, bust, destroy, devastate sounds like—rayon
- RU5 — to feel sorry or dissatisfied about synonyms—bemoaning, deploring, lamenting, regretting, repenting sounds like—chewing, ring, roofing, rowing, wring
- RU7 — to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts; to bring destruction to (something) through violent action; to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of synonyms—bankrupting, breaking, busting, destroying, devastating
- RU6 — a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard; an order publicly issued by an authority synonyms—doom, finding, holding, judgment, sentence sounds like—railing, roiling, rolling, roofing
- RU4 — the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement; a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment synonyms—degree, echelon, footing, level, place sounds like—dung, hung, lung, rang, ring
- RU7 — being in effective operation; going on and on without any interruptions synonyms—active, alive, functional, functioning, going sounds like—cunning
- RU5 — of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people synonyms—bucolic, country, pastoral, rustic sounds like—neural
UL
- UL4 — a single bone in the forelimb of an amphibian (such as a frog) that represents fusion of the separate radius and ** of higher vertebrate forms sounds like—alas, alert, alight, align, aligned
- UL5 — a surgical procedure in which a torn * collateral ligament of the elbow is replaced with a tendon graft typically obtained from a superficial muscle of the forearm : tommy john surgery
UN
- UN10 — composed in or using one language only sounds like—bilingual, nightingale
- UN5 — to strip of rigging sounds like—abridge, annoying, brig, enrich, rig
- UN9 — to strip of rigging sounds like—rigging
UR
- UR6 — as in entreaty, exhortation; as in reminder, prompt synonyms—blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, entreaty sounds like—aging, s**
- UR6 — a vessel for receiving urine; a building or enclosure with facilities for urinating; a fixture used for urinating sounds like—colonel, funnel, journal, kernel, terminal