NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 17 September, 2022

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

Letters: g  e  h  n  o  t  u

  • Total Answers: 35
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

EG

  1. EG6 — a drink consisting of eggs beaten with sugar, milk or cream, and often alcoholic liquor sounds like—airbag, any, banal, bog, cannot

EN

  1. EN6 — in or to a degree or quantity that meets one's requirements or satisfaction; to some degree or extent; to a full extent or degree synonyms—adequately, satisfactorily, sufficiently, suitably, fairly sounds like—snuff

GE

  1. GE4 — a **tic process that involves nonreciprocal meiotic recombination in heterozygotes in which a mismatched DNA sequence from one heteroduplex DNA strand is replaced with a sequence complementary to the other strand resulting in aberrant gametic ratios (such as 3:1) and that is observed especially in ascomycetous fungi sounds like—bean, dean, gin, jeans, jeep

  2. GE4 — an adult male human being synonyms—bastard, bloke, buck, cat, chap sounds like—bent, cent, dent, jaunt, jest

GH

  1. GH4 — a semifluid clarified butter made especially in India sounds like—bee, fee, gay, gee, geek

  2. GH6 — as in hood, enclave synonyms—barrio, enclave, hood, district, nabe sounds like—get

GO

  1. GO4 — no longer existing; no longer living; no longer possessed synonyms—by**, bypast, dead, defunct, departed sounds like—dawn, fawn, gain, gall, gaunt

  2. GO4 — as in ding, clang synonyms—chink, clang, clank, clash, clink sounds like—gall, gang, gauze, long, pong

  3. GO4 — to take place; to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point synonyms—be, befall, betide, chance, come sounds like—boon, dune, gain, gun

  4. GO4 — **ic sounds like—both, girth

  5. GO6 — to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in; to become affected with (a disease or disorder); to become the father of synonyms—learn, master, pick up, catch, come down (with) sounds like—cotton, rotten

  6. GO5 — to charge (someone) too much for goods or services synonyms—overcharge, soak, sting, surcharge sounds like—gage, gauge, gauss

  7. GO4 — a metabolic disease marked by a painful inflammation of the joints, deposits of urates in and around the joints, and usually an excessive amount of uric acid in the blood; a mass or aggregate especially of something fluid often gushing or bursting forth sounds like—bout, doubt, gait, gate, gauss

HE

  1. HE5 — sounds like—hinge

HU

  1. HU4 — unusually large synonyms—astronomical, Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic sounds like—hew, hewn

  2. HU4 — bending downward or forward synonyms—bowed, bowing, declined, declining, descendant sounds like—dung, hang

NO

  1. NO6 — the numerical symbol 0 or the absence of number or quantity represented by it synonyms—aught, cipher, goose egg, nil, nothing sounds like—fought, gnaw, knight, knit, knot

NU

  1. NU6 — a small piece or quantity of food; a small uneven mass; a very small piece synonyms—bite, morsel, mouthful, nibble, taste sounds like—budget, bugging, commit, dugout, knit

OG

  1. OG4 — a molding with an S-shaped profile; a pointed arch having on each side a reversed curve near the apex sounds like—edgy, gee

OU

  1. OU5 — to be under necessity or obligation to synonyms—have (to), must, need, shall, should sounds like—all, ate, auto, awed, eat

  2. OU5 — a payment made in the course of achieving a result; the act of leaving a place synonyms—charge, cost, disbursement, expenditure, expense

  3. OU7 — to go beyond : outdo

  4. OU6 — to be greater, better, or stronger than synonyms—beat, better, eclipse, exceed, excel

  5. OU10 — to get the better of through cleverness synonyms—foxed, outfoxed, outmaneuvered, outslicked, outsmarted

TH

  1. TH5 — a strip especially of leather or hide; a sandal held on the foot by a * fitting between the toes and connected to a strap across the top or around the sides of the foot; an article of swimwear or underwear with the back portion consisting of a narrow strip of cloth that passes between the buttocks and connects with a waistband sounds like—long, pong, song, wrong

  2. TH6 — in spite of that synonyms—even so, howbeit, however, nevertheless, nonetheless sounds like—beau, doe, dough, foe, hoe

  3. TH7 — a careful weighing of the reasons for or against something; something imagined or pictured in the mind synonyms—account, advisement, consideration, debate, deliberation sounds like—fought, naught, ought, sought, taught

  4. TH4 — a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang synonyms—bully, gangbanger, gangsta, gangster, goon sounds like—bug, chug, dug, hug, jug

TO

  1. TO4 — to take, gather, hold, or handle with s; to use s especially in taking or gathering something sounds like—long, pong, song, talk, tall

  2. TO6 — the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication synonyms—language, lingo, mother **, speech, vocabulary sounds like—dung, hung, lung, rung, stung

  3. TO5 — not easily chewed; able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure; difficult to endure synonyms—chewy, leathery, cast-iron, hard, hard-bitten sounds like—buff, cuff, huff, muff, puff

  4. TO7 — to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical force; to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure; to make more harsh, uncompromising, or severe synonyms—beef (up), fortify, harden, strengthen, fortify sounds like—muffin

UN

  1. UN7 — as in cream, ointment synonyms—balm, cream, embrocation, liniment, lotion sounds like—account, adjust, adult, affront, agent

  2. UN6 —

  3. UN9 — to put out of mind sounds like—astute, naught, taught, taut

eggnog, enough, gene, gent, ghee, ghetto, gone, gong, goon, goth, gotten, gouge, gout, henge, huge, hung, nought, nugget, ogee, ought, outgo, outgone, outgun, outthought, thong, though, thought, thug, tong, tongue, tough, toughen, unguent, unhung, unthought