NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 5 September, 2022

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

Letters: l  d  h  i  n  o  w

  • Total Answers: 21
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

DI

  1. DI5 — an object resembling a penis used for sexual stimulation sounds like—below, billed, billow, build, builder

  2. DI4 — Sir John Greer 1881—1944 British general sounds like—bill, chill, dale, deal, dear

DO

  1. DO4 — a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; a physically attractive person synonyms—action figure, **y, poppet, puppet, babe sounds like—dale, deal, dell, dill

  2. DO8 — involving minimal difficulty or effort synonyms—cheap, easy, effortless, facile, fluent

HI

  1. HI4 — a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; an area of high ground; an upward slope synonyms—cock, heap, mound, mountain, pile sounds like—bill, c**, dill, fill, hail

HO

  1. HO4 — to have or keep in one's hands; to continue to have in one's possession or power; to have as an opinion synonyms—clench, cling (to), clutch, grip, keep sounds like—bold, cold, fold, gold, held

  2. HO6 — curved inward synonyms—concave, dented, depressed, dished, indented sounds like—follow, halo, hello, wallow

  3. HO4 — a crying out in grief; a loud vocal expression of strong emotion; a violent shouting synonyms—groan, keen, lament, lamentation, moan sounds like—foul, fowl, hail, hall, haul

ID

  1. ID4 — a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion synonyms—god, hero, icon sounds like—addle, dull, sidle, tidal

LI

  1. LI4 — a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field synonyms—baron, captain, czar, king, lord sounds like—ion, scion

LO

  1. LO4 — a portion of the hindquarter of beef immediately behind the ribs that is usually cut into steaks sounds like—coin, join, lain, lane, lawn

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

  3. LO4 — one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person synonyms—bug, crackbrain, crazy, fool, fruitcake sounds like—boon, dune, goon, lain, lane

  4. LO7 — information not generally available to the public synonyms—411, book, dope, inside, poop sounds like—showdown, s***

NO

  1. NO9 — a number equal to 1 followed by 30 zeros; also, British : a number equal to 1 followed by 54 zeros sounds like—billion, civilian, jillion, million, pavilion

OL

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

WI

  1. WI4 — living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans; existing without human habitation or cultivation; marked by turmoil or disturbance especially of natural elements synonyms—feral, savage, unbroken, undomesticated, untamed sounds like—child, mild, piled, tiled, walled

  2. WI8 — as in greenwood synonyms—greenwood, brake, brushwood, chaparral, coppice sounds like—childhood, worldwide

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

WO

  1. 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

dildo, dill, doll, downhill, hill, hold, hollow, howl, idol, lion, loin, loll, loon, lowdown, nonillion, olio, wild, wildwood, will, willow, wool