NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 11 September, 2023

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

Letters: o  c  g  i  l  r  w

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

CL

  1. CL4 — something that makes movement or progress difficult; to prevent passage through by filling with something; to create difficulty for the work or activity of; balk; bar sounds like klieg, slog

CO

  1. CO5 — sounds like catchy

  2. CO4 — a state of noisy, confused activity; to follow a circular or spiral course; ado; alarums and excursions; ballyhoo sounds like boil, call, cul, cull, curl

  3. CO4 — sounds like car

  4. CO5 — as in cramps, gripes; cramps; gripes; bellyache; collywobbles sounds like click

  5. CO5 — a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; a substance used to color other materials; the hue or appearance of the skin and especially of the face; cast; hue sounds like caller, cul, cull

  6. CO4 — having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; free from emotional or mental agitation; having a low or subnormal temperature; aloof; antisocial sounds like call, cul

  7. CO5 — sounds like orgy

  8. CO7 — as in cowboy, cowpoke; buckaroo; cowboy; cowhand; cowherd sounds like curl, girl

  9. CO4 — as in poncho, capelet; as in hood, bonnet; burnoose; capelet; capuchin sounds like call, cul, cull, curl

CR

  1. CR4 — sounds like brok, clock, cock

  2. CR5 —

  3. CR4 — sounds like clog, frog

  4. CR4 — to feel or express joy or triumph; to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess; as in whoop; delight; exuberate sounds like arrow, chrome, grow, kayo, pro

GI

  1. GI6 — as in fancy man; fancy man; beloved; darling; dear sounds like jiggle

GL

  1. GL4 — the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible; to be on fire especially brightly; to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment); blaze; flare sounds like blow, flow, grow, low, slow

GO

  1. GO6 — sounds like gaggle, giggle, gurgle

GR

  1. GR4 — a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk; alcohol; aqua vitae; ardent spirits; booze sounds like frog

  2. GR4 — to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care; to become mature; to eventually have as a state or quality; crop; cultivate sounds like arrow, crow, glow

  3. GR5 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; to make a low heavy rolling sound; beef; bellyache sounds like prowl

IG

  1. IG5 — sounds like glue

IL

  1. IL7 — as in incoherence; incoherence; absurdity; brainlessness; insanity sounds like logic

LO

  1. LO4 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; the area or space occupied by or intended for something; a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axes; bases sounds like fussy, gussy, lacey, lacy, lucky

  2. LO4 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; to cause to go insane or as if insane; balmy; barmy; bats sounds like coco, cocoa

  3. LO5 — the thought processes that have been established as leading to valid solutions to problems; to cut into small pieces; to bring down by cutting; intellection; ratiocination sounds like il*

  4. LO4 — a device, design, or figure used as an identifying mark; emblem; ensign; hallmark; impresa

  5. LO7 — sounds like patrol

  6. LO4 — to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall

OL

  1. OL4 — an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup; assortment sounds like audio

RI

  1. RI5 — something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal; the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding (as in discipline or criticism); the quality or state of being very accurate; adversity; asperity sounds like bigger, digger, recur, trigger, vigor

RO

  1. RO6 — as in baroque, arabesque; arabesque; baroque; bedizened; florid sounds like coco, cocoa

  2. RO4 — to be in a state of violent rolling motion; to make angry; boil; churn; moil sounds like boil, b**, coil, foil, oil

  3. RO4 — to form into a round compact mass; to make a low heavy rolling sound; to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions; agglomerate; ball sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

WI

  1. WI5 —

  2. WI6 — sounds like below, billow, pillow, wallow

WO

  1. WO4 — the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick; being such by habit and not likely to change; to cause to believe what is untrue; coat; fleece sounds like bull, full, pull, wail, wale

clog, cocci, coil, coir, colic, color, cool, corgi, cowgirl, cowl, croc, croci, crog, crow, gigolo, glow, googol, grog, grow, growl, igloo, illogic, loci, loco, logic, logo, logroll, loll, olio, rigor, rococo, roil, roll, wilco, willow, wool