NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 9 October, 2023

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

Letters: g  c  h  i  l  n  t

  • Total Answers: 53
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CH

  1. CH8 — uncomfortably cool; to cause to lose heat; to get rid of nervous tension or anxiety; bitter; bleak sounds like billing, killing, s**, shilling, willing

  2. CH8 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation; to engage in casual or rambling conversation; babbling; blabbing; cackling sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, winning

CI

  1. CI8 — to make sure, certain, or safe; to make sure, certain, or safe; assuring; ensuring; guaranteeing sounds like sinning

  2. CI6 — to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; to give as an example; adducing; instancing sounds like biting, fighting, lighting, seating, sitting

CL

  1. CL9 — to make final, definite, or beyond dispute; to make final, definite, or beyond dispute; deciding; determining; nailing sounds like quenching

  2. CL5 — a physical sticking to as if by glue; to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion; to give steadfast support to; adherence; adhesion sounds like ailing, fling, killing

  3. CL8 — to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion; to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion; to give steadfast support to; adhering; cleaving

GI

  1. GI7 — as in driving, riding; busing; cabbing; coaching; cruising sounds like rigging

  2. GI8 — as in smiling, amused; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; amused; beaming sounds like beguiling, guzzling, middling, piddling, sizzling

  3. GI4 — a female romantic companion; a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage; a natural body of running water smaller than a river; gal; girl sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, gal

  4. GI7 — sounds like billing, chilling, galling, killing, schilling

  5. GI4 — as in glitter, bedizenment; covered in a thin layer of gold; coming from or characterized by wealth and luxury; bedizenment; glitter sounds like built, guild, guilty, hilt, jilt

  6. GI7 — sounds like inning, sinning, winning

GL

  1. GL5 — to shoot forth bursts of light; to take a quick or hasty look; as in glow, gleam; coruscate; flame sounds like flint, lint

  2. GL8 — as in glimmering, gleaming; to shoot forth bursts of light; to take a quick or hasty look; agleam; aglitter sounds like grinning, lifting, listing, printing, slanting

  3. GL6 — an unexpected and usually minor obstacle or difficulty; catch; hitch; pitfall; snag

  4. GL9 — sounds like clearing, clipping, flipping, grinning, gripping

HI

  1. HI4 — extending to a great distance upward; being at a higher level than average; located at a greater height than average or usual; altitudinous; lofty sounds like awry, buy, die, dye, eye

  2. HI9 — to indicate the importance of by centering attention on; as in break, clincher; as in feature, attraction; accent; accentuate sounds like alight, blight, byline, daylight, delight

  3. HI12 — to indicate the importance of by centering attention on; to indicate the importance of by centering attention on; accenting; accentuating; emphasizing sounds like halting, lighting

  4. HI7 — to form into a pile or ridge of earth; to form into a pile or ridge of earth; banking; mounding; bank sounds like billing, c***, healing, hearing, killing

  5. HI7 — 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

  6. HI7 — as in suggestive, implying; to convey an idea indirectly; to convey an idea indirectly; connoting; implying sounds like haunting

  7. HI8 — to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion; to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole; to put securely in place or in a desired position; bucking; hoicking sounds like hatching, hearing, witching

  8. HI7 — to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to come into usually forceful contact with something; to obtain (as a goal) through effort; banging; bashing sounds like fitting, hearing, sitting

IC

  1. IC5 — as in fringe benefit; to make sure, certain, or safe; to put to death deliberately; fringe benefit; award sounds like sing

IG

  1. IG8 — to set (something) on fire; to set (something) on fire; burning; enkindling; firing sounds like exciting, infighting, inviting

IN

  1. IN7 — as in imperceptible; as in plodding, ambling; to advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limits; imperceptible; progressive

  2. IN8 — serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction; to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to rouse to strong feeling or action; charged; edgy sounds like exciting

  3. IN9 — bending downward or forward; to set or cause to be at an angle; to show a liking or proneness (for something); bowed; bowing sounds like declining, reclining

  4. IN6 — sounds like earring, g**, s**, w**

IT

  1. IT7 — as in stinging, nagging; to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts; to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts; nagging; pinching sounds like earring, etching, inning, w***

LI

  1. LI5 — the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible; something that provides illumination; a person who is widely known and usually much talked about; blaze; flare sounds like a*, bite, b*, byte, cite

  2. LI8 — as in candle, spotlight; to set (something) on fire; to supply with light; arc lamp; candelabra sounds like biting, fighting, sighting

  3. LI9 — moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed; as in fall guy, whipping boy; as in fall guys, whipping boys; blistering; breakneck

  4. LI7 — as in musical, swaying; as in lively, sprightly; as in crooning, warbling; musical; swaying

  5. LI6 — as in quilting, interlining; as in lining up, aligning; as in surrounding, embracing; interlining; quilting sounds like dining, fining, shining

NI

  1. NI8 — so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention; to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant; to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant; chicken; de minimis sounds like beguiling, middling, piddling, sizzling

  2. NI4 — 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

  3. NI5 — the time from sunset to sunrise when there is no visible sunlight; a time or place of little or no light; the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness; dark; darkness sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height

  4. NI10 — sounds like footlight, highlight, knifelike, knightly, limelight

TH

  1. TH5 — as in calf, shin; as in panic, riot; as in panics, riots; calf; drumstick sounds like awry, buy, die, dye, eye

  2. TH5 — a member of the human race; one that has a real and independent existence; something done by someone; baby; being sounds like king, owing, ping, ring, sing

  3. TH8 — to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances; to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances; adulterating; cutting; diluting sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, winning

TI

  1. TI5 — not allowing penetration (as by gas, liquid, or light); firmly positioned in place and difficult to dislodge; giving or sharing as little as possible; impenetrable; impermeable sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height

  2. TI6 — sounds like filing, piling, styling

  3. TI7 — to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; cultivating; farming; tending sounds like billing, chilling, killing, schilling, shilling

  4. TI7 — running in a slanting direction; to set or cause to be at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; cant; canted sounds like billing, building, chilling, delaying, fitting

  5. TI7 — to give color or a different color to; to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, tanning, turning

  6. TI8 — as in prickly, needlelike; to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound; to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound; needlelike; prickly sounds like dangling

  7. TI7 — to give color or a different color to; to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing sounds like tenting

  8. TI7 — sounds like billing, chilling, earring, fishing, fitting

  9. TI7 — to give a name to; to give a name to; baptizing; calling; christening sounds like bottling, middling, piddling, sizzling, tabling

chilling, chinning, cinching, citing, clinching, cling, clinging, gigging, giggling, gill, gilling, gilt, ginning, glint, glinting, glitch, glitching, high, highlight, highlighting, hilling, hinging, hinting, hitching, hitting, icing, igniting, inching, inciting, inclining, inning, itching, light, lighting, lightning, lilting, lining, niggling, nigh, night, nightlight, thigh, thing, thinning, tight, tiling, tilling, tilting, tinging, tingling, tinting, tithing, titling