NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 19 September, 2022

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

Letters: w  b  g  i  l  n  o

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 4
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

BI

  1. BI6 — one of high position or importance within a group synonyms—big, big boy, big cheese, big gun, big leaguer sounds like—begin, bewitch

  2. BI6 — a moving ridge on the surface of water synonyms—surge, swell, wave sounds like—belie, bellow, blow, build, built

  3. BI9 — as in surging, swelling synonyms—surging, swelling, rolling, rippled, rippling sounds like—building

BL

  1. BL4 — to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty; to use up carelessly; to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure synonyms—gasp, heave, hyperventilate, pant, puff sounds like—beau, bellow, below, billow, bio

  2. BL7 — to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty; to use up carelessly; to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure synonyms—gasping, heaving, hyperventilating, panting, puffing sounds like—flowing, glowing

  3. BL5 — enlarged beyond normal from internal pressure synonyms—bloated, distended, overinflated, puffed, swollen sounds like—alone, bone, clone, clones, flown

BO

  1. BO6 — bending downward or forward synonyms—bowed, declined, declining, descendant, descending sounds like—being, bring, buying, going, knowing

  2. BO4 — a large usually roofless building for sporting events with tiers of seats for spectators synonyms—circus, coliseum, colosseum, stadium sounds like—bail, bale, ball, bawl, beau

  3. BO7 — to move or proceed smoothly and readily; to proceed or move quickly synonyms—breezing, brushing, coasting, cruising, drifting sounds like—billing, polling, rolling

  4. BO6 — loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound synonyms—babel, blare, bluster, brawl, bruit sounds like—barrow, beau, bellow, below, billow

GL

  1. GL4 — the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible synonyms—blaze, flare, fluorescence, glare, gleam sounds like—blow, floe, flow, grow, low

  2. GL7 — giving off or reflecting much light; having a healthy reddish skin tone; having or being an outward sign of good feelings (as of love, confidence, or happiness) synonyms—beaming, bedazzling, bright, brilliant, candescent sounds like—flowing, going, growing

GO

  1. GO4 — a garment with a joined blouse and skirt usually worn by a woman or girl; a loose pullover garment worn in bed synonyms—dress, frock, nightdress, night**, nightshirt sounds like—down, gain, gauss, gun, noun

  2. GO7 — to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes synonyms—appareling, arraying, attiring, bedecking, caparisoning sounds like—burning, caning, clowning, crowning, cunning

LO

  1. LO7 — a hand-drawn wooden bow held vertically and used especially by medieval English archers sounds like—limbo, lingo

  2. LO6 — moo sounds like—f**, g**, going, knowing, owing

OW

  1. OW5 — not yet paid synonyms—outstanding, overdue, owed, payable, unpaid sounds like—going, king, kn*, ping, ring

  2. OW6 — to keep, control, or experience as one's own synonyms—commanding, enjoying, having, holding, possessing sounds like—inning, outing

WI

  1. WI7 — to yield to mental or emotional stress synonyms—break down, break up, crack, flip (out), freak (out) sounds like—rigging, whipping

  2. WI8 — to make jerky or restless movements synonyms—fiddling, fidgeting, jerking, jigging, jiggling sounds like—beguiling, middling, piddling, sizzling

  3. WI4 — to give by means of a **; to see fit synonyms—bequeath, leave, choose, like, please sounds like—bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

  4. WI7 — having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action); having or showing the ability to respond without delay or hesitation; done, made, or given with one's own free will synonyms—amenable, disposed, fain, game, glad sounds like—billing, chilling, killing, schilling, shilling

  5. WI6 — a ** (such as the North American Salix discolor) having large cylindrical silky catkins sounds like—below, billow, pillow, wallow

  6. WI4 — a group of people acting together within a larger group synonyms—bloc, block, body, coalition, faction sounds like—king, o**, ping, ring, sing

  7. WI7 — to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings synonyms—aviating, flying, gliding, planing, soaring sounds like—ginning, inning, sinning, whipping

  8. WI6 — to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink synonyms—pledging, toasting, belting (down), drinking, gulping sounds like—dining, fining, shining

  9. WI7 — having qualities that tend to make one loved; likely or intended to win one's affection synonyms—adorable, darling, dear, disarming, endearing sounds like—ginning, inning, sinning, whipping

  10. WI6 — to remove less desirable choices from a group or list synonyms—cull, discard, jettison, throw away, throw out

  11. WI9 — to remove less desirable choices from a group or list synonyms—culling, discarding, jettisoning, throwing away, throwing out

  12. WI4 — as in drinker, drunkard synonyms—alcoholic, alkie, boozehound, boozer, dipsomaniac sounds like—keno, wean

WO

  1. WO8 — marked by or given to small uncontrollable bodily movements synonyms—aquiver, atremble, quaking, quavery, quivering sounds like—bottling, coddling, modeling, tabling, waffling

  2. WO6 — as in courting, seduction synonyms—charming, courting, massaging, romancing, seduction sounds like—chewing, wing

  3. WO4 — the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick synonyms—coat, fleece, fur, hair, jacket sounds like—bull, full, pull, wail, wale

  4. WO6 — to excite to enthusiastic admiration or approval sounds like—wing

bigwig, billow, billowing, blow, blowing, blown, bowing, bowl, bowling, bowwow, glow, glowing, gown, gowning, longbow, lowing, owing, owning, wigging, wiggling, will, willing, willow, wing, winging, wining, winning, winnow, winnowing, wino, wobbling, wooing, wool, wowing