NYT π CluesβSat. 5 August, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: w d e h n o y
- Total Answers: 33
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
DE
- DE4 β lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; readily taken advantage of; aw-shucks; dewy-eyed sounds like buoy, doer, doo, doom, due
DO
- DO5 β lacking neatness in dress or person; marked by an obvious lack of style or good taste; blowsy; frowsy; slobbish sounds like daddy, howdy, rowdy
- DO4 β toward or in a lower position; from this or that place; brought or having come to an end; below; downward sounds like dawn, dean, den, din, dine
- DO6 β to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall; to take into the stomach through the mouth and throat; to reject by or as if by a vote; bowled (down or over); dropped sounds like around, bound, drowned, found, hound
- DO5 β smooth or delicate in appearance or feel; cottony; satin; satiny; silken
EN
- EN5 β to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income; to provide money for; bless; endue
- EN7 β to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income; to provide money for; blessed; endued
HE
- HE5 β to bring down by cutting; to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion; to bring down by cutting; chopped (down); cut (down) sounds like food, had, hadd, hid, hide
- 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
HO
- HO7 β as in square dance; square dance; blowout; celebration; event sounds like showdown
- HO8 β sounds like moneyed, monied, undo, undue
- HO5 β sounds like dowdy, heady, rowdy
NO
- NO5 β sounds like coco, cocoa, gnome, hoe, knoll
OW
- OW4 β not yet paid; outstanding; overdue; owing; payable sounds like add, aid, aide, awed, bode
- OW5 β as in retained, possessed; to keep, control, or experience as one's own; to keep, control, or experience as one's own; possessed; retained sounds like and, earned, end, honed, ode
WE
- WE6 β of or relating to marriage; to give in marriage; to perform the ceremony of marriage for; conjugal; connubial sounds like added, dud, edit, ended, faded
- WE4 β as in comb (out); comb (out); check off; disregard; deter sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
- WE6 β as in winnowed (out), picked over; as in combed (out); culled; picked over; screened sounds like needed
- WE5 β growing thickly and vigorously; lush; luxuriant; prosperous; rampant sounds like beady, needy, reedy, seedy, t*
- WE5 β very small in size; very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty sounds like genie, wiener, wino
- WE4 β to move from one place to another; journey; pass; repair; run sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend
- WE6 β to move from one place to another; to move from one place to another; journeyed; passed; ran sounds like ended, tended, wounded
WH
- WH4 β how delightful; glory; ha; hallelujah; hey sounds like bee, fee, key, knee, pea
- 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
- WH4 β sounds like boo, chew, coup, dew, doo
- WH4 β as in white-faced; white-faced; untanned; anemic; bloodless sounds like bee, fee, key, knee, pea
WO
- WO4 β tree logs as prepared for human use; a dense growth of trees and shrubs covering a large area; a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; lumber; timber sounds like could, good, hood, should, wad
- WO6 β
- WO6 β lacking social grace and assurance; awkward; clumsy; gauche; graceless sounds like widen
- WO5 β as in wagon, SUV; convertible; fastback; hardtop; hatchback sounds like goody
- WO5 β to act so as to make (something) more likely; to act so as to make (something) more likely; asked (for); courted; flirted (with) sounds like food, lewd, mood, nude, rude
- WO6 β sounds like guru, voodoo, who, whoop, whoosh
- WO5 β sounds like bowed, loud, wad, wade, wed