NYT π CluesβMon. 20 March, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: n e g h i w z
- Total Answers: 41
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
EG
- EG6 β as in whipping, prompting; to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action; exhorting; flogging; goading sounds like etching
EN
- EN6 β a device that changes energy into mechanical motion; a sturdy and patient domestic mammal that is used especially to carry things; a stupid person; machine; motor
GE
- GE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gin, jeans, jeep
- GE5 β a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it; afreet; jinni; cacodemon; demon sounds like jeans, journey
- GE5 β a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it; a very smart person; a special and usually inborn ability; afreets; jinn sounds like any, enemy, ennui, envy, fennel
GI
- GI7 β as in driving, riding; busing; cabbing; coaching; cruising sounds like rigging
- GI7 β sounds like inning, sinning, winning
HE
- HE6 β the part of the body upon which someone sits; backside; behind; booty; bottom sounds like highly, hind, honey, shiny, tiny
- HE5 β sounds like hinge
- HE6 β to bring down by cutting; to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion; to bring down by cutting; chopping (down); cutting (down) sounds like bluing, c**, hacking, hanging, hatching
- HE4 β to bring down by cutting; to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion; to give steadfast support to; chop (down); cut (down) sounds like hue, huge
HI
- HI6 β to proceed or move quickly; to proceed or move quickly; barreling; belting; blasting sounds like being, healing, hurrying
- HI5 β to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); depend; hang; ride; turn sounds like binge
- HI7 β to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); depending; hanging; riding sounds like ginning, hearing, inning, sinning, winning
IN
- IN5 β sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy
- IN6 β sounds like earring, g**, s**, w**
NE
- NE5 β to make the cry typical of a horse; as in whinny, bleat; nicker; whicker; whinny sounds like array, bay, day, gay, gnaw
- NE8 β to make the cry typical of a horse; to make the cry typical of a horse; nickering; whickering; whinnying sounds like gnawing, knowing, paying
- NE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
NI
- NI4 β not being distant in time, space, or significance; at, within, or to a short distance or time; very close to but not completely; close; close-up sounds like awry, buy, die, dye, eye
- NI4 β as in last word, hot ticket; as in last words, hot tickets; as in wage earner, wage slave; buzz; chic sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin
WE
- WE6 β a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; bookworm; dink; dork; geek sounds like genie, wiener, wino
- WE8 β to be of importance; to give serious and careful thought to; to be of importance; counting; importing sounds like paying, waiting, waking, whaling, wing
WH
- WH8 β to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty; to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty; blowing; gasping; heaving sounds like easing, teasing
- WH4 β at or during the time that; just at the moment that; in spite of the fact that; as; so long as sounds like den, hen, one, pen, ten
- WH5 β an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; beef; bitch; bleat sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, one
- WH7 β as in complaining, protesting; as in whiny, squealing; as in crying, weeping; complaining; fussing sounds like dining, fining, shining, winding, winning
- WH8 β to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\; to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound; to make a sound like that of stretching out the speech sound \s\; fizzing; fizzling sounds like fitting, littering, missing, piercing, rinsing
WI
- WI6 β a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; bookworm; dink; dork; geek sounds like genie, wean
- WI7 β to yield to mental or emotional stress; break down; break up; crack; flip (out) sounds like rigging, whipping
- WI4 β as in sake, mead; to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; mead; sake; alcohol sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, one
- WI4 β a group of people acting together within a larger group; to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom; bloc; block sounds like king, o**, ping, ring, sing
- WI7 β to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; aviating; flying; gliding sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, whipping
- WI6 β to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; pledging; toasting; belting (down) sounds like dining, fining, shining
- WI7 β having qualities that tend to make one loved; likely or intended to win one's affection; as in win, victory; adorable; darling sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, whipping
- WI5 β as in shrivel, mummify; mummify; shrivel; dry; wilt
- WI8 β as in shriveling, mummifying; mummifying; shriveling; drying; wilting sounds like ripening, seasoning, weakening, worsening
ZI
- ZI7 β to depart abruptly from a straight line or course; to depart abruptly from a straight line or course; breaking; cutting; sheering sounds like rigging
- ZI4 β a publication that appears at regular intervals; book; bulletin; diurnal; gazette sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine
- ZI4 β active strength of body or mind; the quality or state of being stimulating to the mind or senses; as in shoot, fly; beans; bounce sounds like easing, king, owing, ping, ring
- ZI7 β as in shooting, flying; dashing; flying; sailing; shooting sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, winning