NYT π CluesβMon. 29 May, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: e g i k n o v
- Total Answers: 36
- 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
- EG6 β sounds like airbag, any, banal, bog, cannot
EK
- EK5 β to get with great difficulty; scrape (up or together); scrounge; squeeze; wrest sounds like aching, etching, king
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
- EN5 β sounds like adobe, anarchy, awoke, hokey, nosy
EV
- EV4 β not merely this but also; to a full extent or degree; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; indeed; nay sounds like been, bin, chin, din, easing
- EV7 β a later period of one's life; the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness; as in black-tie, white-tie; afterlife; afternoon sounds like burning, caning, cunning, dining, easing
- EV5 β to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); educe; elicit; inspire; raise sounds like invoke, r*
- EV7 β to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); educing; eliciting; inspiring sounds like choking, croaking, soaking, voting
GE
- GE4 β a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; a person with strong intellectual interests; a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field; bookworm; dink sounds like beak, cheek, chic, eke, leak
- GE7 β sounds like aching, beaming, being, biking, booking
- 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
- GI4 β to make a present of; to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another; to bring before the public in performance or exhibition; bestow; contribute sounds like gave, gear, sieve
- GI5 β being in the habit or custom; having a tendency to be or act in a certain way; known but not named; accustomed; habituated sounds like riven
GO
- GO4 β no longer existing; no longer living; no longer possessed; bygone; bypast sounds like dawn, fawn, gain, gall, gaunt
IN
- IN5 β sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy
- IN6 β to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); beget; breed; bring; bring about sounds like evoke
KE
- KE4 β able to sense slight impressions or differences; causing intense discomfort to one's skin; having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something; acute; delicate sounds like bean, can, cane, careen, clean
- KE7 β as in crying, wailing; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to make a long loud mournful sound; bawling; blubbering sounds like caning, cleaning, cunning, meaning
- KE4 β sounds like wino
KN
- KN4 β as in right, hand; as in push, kick; done instantly and without conscious thought or decision; body blow; hand sounds like any, bee, fee, gnaw, key
- KN7 β as in pushing, kicking; bumping; butting; jabbing; jostling sounds like being, gnawing
NE
- NE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
- NE4 β sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon
NI
- 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
NO
- NO4 β certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
- NO6 β sounds like boogie, newly
OG
- OG4 β sounds like edgy
OV
- OV4 β as in stove, microwave; as in oven, stove; as in oven, stove; broiler; fryer sounds like above, abuzz, adjoin, adjourn, adjudge
- OV5 β sounds like bean, b*, careen, clean, dean
VE
- VE6 β sounds like leggy, vary
- VE7 β to spend time doing nothing; to spend time doing nothing; bumming; chilling; dallying sounds like bearing, bedding, bugging, caring, chairing
- VE4 β a distinctive way of putting ideas into words; fashion; locution; manner; mode sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
VI
- VI4 β to be unsuccessful; to be unsuccessful; to be unsuccessful; bomb; collapse sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine