NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 23 June, 2023

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

Letters: i  a  g  l  n  y  z

  • Total Answers: 58
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AG

  1. AG5 — yet another time; in addition to what has been said; just the opposite being true; afresh; anew sounds like abet, adjoin, adjourn, affair, ahead

  2. AG5 — being of advanced years and especially past middle age; to become mature; to become mature; aged; ancient sounds like aching, ailing, p*, r*

AI

  1. AI6 — chronically or repeatedly suffering from poor health; temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body; to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy; invalid; sickly sounds like aching, aging, cling, fling, m**

AL

  1. AL5 — to bring to or be in a state of agreement; to set in order; agree; accord; check sounds like assign, line, m*

  2. AL8 — as in alignment, lining up; to bring to or be in a state of agreement; to set in order; alignment; lining up sounds like abiding, adjoining, blinding, cleaning, clowning

  3. AL8 — to make more bearable or less severe; to make more bearable or less severe; alleviating; assuaging; easing sounds like playing, slaying

  4. AL7 — to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members; to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members; associating; banding (together); clubbing sounds like ailing, annoying, appealing, appeasing, being

AN

  1. AN9 — to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships; to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships; anatomizing; assaying; breaking down sounds like agonizing, paneling, sanitizing, tantalizing

  2. AN6 — sounds like vagina

  3. AN7 — the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; bend; cock sounds like d***

GA

  1. GA7 — to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; to experience complete or partial blockage of the windpipe; to make jokes; barfing; heaving sounds like lagging, nagging, sagging

  2. GA5 — in a cheerful or happy manner; in a quick and spirited manner; in a manner that is colorful and tends to arouse gaiety; brightly; cheerfully sounds like daily, girlie, glee, golly, gulley

  3. GA4 — to gradually increase in; to receive as return for effort; to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness; build up; gather sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

  4. GA7 — as in continuing, advancing; to gradually increase in; to receive as return for effort; advancing; continuing sounds like caning

  5. GA6 — sounds like mainly, vainly

  6. GA7 — causing annoyance; hard to accept or bear especially emotionally; to damage or diminish by continued friction; abrasive; aggravating sounds like ailing, appalling, balding, billing, boring

  7. GA7 — as in joining, grouping; as in teaming (up), hanging together; as in swarming, mobbing; affiliating; allying sounds like changing, glancing, grudging, landing, managing

  8. GA7 —

  9. GA8 — being tall, thin and usually loose-jointed; gangly; lanky; rangy; spindling sounds like dangling

  10. GA6 — to look long and hard in wonder or surprise; to look long and hard in wonder or surprise; excessive interest in oneself; blinking; gaping sounds like grazing, raising

GI

  1. GI7 — as in driving, riding; busing; cabbing; coaching; cruising sounds like rigging

  2. GI8 — as in smiling, amused; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; amused; beaming sounds like beguiling, guzzling, middling, piddling, sizzling

  3. GI6 — as in happy, playful; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; exuberant; flippant; fluttery sounds like biggie, chili, chilly, dearly, degree

  4. GI4 — a female romantic companion; a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage; a natural body of running water smaller than a river; gal; girl sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, gal

  5. GI7 — sounds like billing, chilling, galling, killing, schilling

  6. GI7 — sounds like inning, sinning, winning

GL

  1. GL7 — as in coating, lacquering; coating; japanning; lacquering; varnishing sounds like blazing, buzzing, closing, galloping, grazing

  2. GL4 —

IL

  1. IL4 — sounds like alley, chili, ch**, early, eerie

IN

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

  2. IN8 — as in installing, insetting; cutting in; insetting; installing; edging in sounds like delaying, playing, slaying

  3. IN6 — sounds like earring, g**, s**, w**

LA

  1. LA7 — moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed; to lose bodily strength or vigor; to move or act slowly; crawling; creeping sounds like f***, logging, nagging, sagging

  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. LA12 — to move or act slowly; to move or act slowly; crawling; creeping; dallying sounds like flagging, rallying

  4. LA5 — a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot

  5. LA6 — 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; deposing; depositing sounds like paying, p**, s**

  6. LA6 — as in casually, languidly; not easily aroused to action or work; failing to give proper care and attention; casually; desultorily sounds like basil, busily, dazzle, dazzled, easily

  7. LA6 — as in sleep, snoozing; to spend time doing nothing; to spend time doing nothing; catnapping; dozing sounds like buzzing, losing, loving

LI

  1. LI4 — having or showing a shameful lack of courage; free from guilt or blame; chicken; chicken-livered; chickenhearted sounds like chili, chilly, filly, hilly, leery

  2. LI6 — as in quilting, interlining; as in lining up, aligning; as in surrounding, embracing; interlining; quilting sounds like dining, fining, shining

LY

  1. LY5 — telling or containing lies; as in mendacity, prevarication; to make a statement one knows to be untrue; dishonest; mendacious sounds like buying, dyeing, dying, f*, lighting

NA

  1. NA7 — causing worry or anxiety; to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; discomforting; discomposing sounds like lagging, sagging

  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. NA7 — 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; banging; bashing sounds like ailing, mailing, railing, veiling, whaling

  4. NA8 — sounds like carrying, landing, panting, rallying, tanning

NI

  1. NI8 — so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention; to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant; to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant; chicken; de minimis sounds like beguiling, middling, piddling, sizzling

  2. NI5 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a stupid person; berk; booby; charlie sounds like guinea, nanny, tinny

ZA

  1. ZA7 — to depart abruptly from a straight line or course; to depart abruptly from a straight line or course; breaking; cutting; sheering sounds like jogging

  2. ZA6 — showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; absurd; asinine; balmy; brainless sounds like finale, finally, funnel, luckily, monthly

ZI

  1. ZI7 — to depart abruptly from a straight line or course; to depart abruptly from a straight line or course; breaking; cutting; sheering sounds like rigging

  2. ZI6 — as in zigzagging; to move suddenly aside or to and fro; zigzagging; bending; crazy sounds like exam

  3. ZI10 — as in zigzag; to move suddenly aside or to and fro; to move suddenly aside or to and fro; zigzag; bending

  4. ZI8 —

  5. ZI4 — as in shoot, fly; active strength of body or mind; the quality or state of being stimulating to the mind or senses; dash; fly sounds like easing, king, owing, ping, ring

  6. ZI7 — as in shooting, flying; dashing; flying; sailing; shooting sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, winning

  7. ZI5 — sharp and pleasantly stimulating to the mind or senses; pert; piquant; poignant; pungent sounds like dingy

  8. ZI6 — sounds like beneath, guinea, lineage, lineal, linear

again, aging, ailing, align, aligning, allaying, allying, analyzing, angina, angling, gagging, gaily, gain, gaining, gainly, galling, ganging, ganglia, gangling, gazing, gigging, giggling, giggly, gill, gilling, ginning, glazing, glia, illy, inlay, inlaying, inning, lagging, lain, lallygagging, lanai, laying, lazily, lazing, lily, lining, lying, nagging, nail, nailing, nannying, niggling, ninny, zagging, zanily, zigging, zigzag, zigzagging, zigzaggy, zing, zinging, zingy, zinnia