NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 16 October, 2022

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

Letters: z  a  g  i  l  n  o

  • Total Answers: 20
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AG

  1. AG9 — hard to accept or bear especially emotionally; intensely or unbearably painful synonyms—afflicting, bitter, cruel, excruciating, galling

AN

  1. AN11 — to describe as similar synonyms—assimilating, bracketing, comparing, equating, likening sounds like—agonizing, sanitizing, tantalizing, televising

GA

  1. GA9 — as in million, zillion synonyms—jillion, kazillion, million, thousands, trillion sounds like—billion, civilian, jillion, million, pavilion

  2. GA6 — to look long and hard in wonder or surprise synonyms—blinking, gaping, gawking, gawping, goggling sounds like—grazing, raising

GL

  1. GL7 — as in coating, lacquering synonyms—coating, japanning, lacquering, varnishing, buffing sounds like—blazing, buzzing, closing, galloping, grazing

GO

  1. GO5 — journalism that treats a subject in a very personal, unusual, and often shocking way sounds like—condo

IO

  1. IO8 — to convert wholly or partly into ions; to become ionized sounds like—agonizing

LA

  1. LA6 — as in sleep, snoozing synonyms—catnapping, dozing, napping, resting, sleep sounds like—buzzing, losing, loving

LI

  1. LI9 — to treat (someone) as a very important and famous person synonyms—apotheosizing, canonizing, dignifying, exalting, magnifying sounds like—agonizing

OO

  1. OO6 — to flow forth slowly through small openings; to move slowly synonyms—bleeding, exuding, percolating, seeping, straining sounds like—easing, losing

ZA

  1. ZA7 — to depart abruptly from a straight line or course synonyms—breaking, cutting, sheering, swerving, veering sounds like—jogging

ZI

  1. ZI7 — to depart abruptly from a straight line or course synonyms—breaking, cutting, sheering, swerving, veering sounds like—rigging

  2. ZI6 — to move suddenly aside or to and fro synonyms—dodge, duck, jink, sidestep, slalom sounds like—exam

  3. ZI10 — as in zigzag synonyms—zigzag, bending, crazy, crooked, curled

  4. ZI7 — as in million, ga*** synonyms—ga***, jillion, ka***, million, thousands sounds like—billion, jillion, million

  5. ZI4 — active strength of body or mind; the quality or state of being stimulating to the mind or senses synonyms—beans, bounce, brio, dash, drive sounds like—easing, king, owing, ping, ring

  6. ZI7 — as in shooting, flying synonyms—dashing, flying, sailing, shooting, speeding sounds like—ginning, inning, sinning, winning

  7. ZI6 — any of a genus (**) of tropical American composite herbs and low shrubs that have showy flower heads with long-lasting ray flowers sounds like—beneath, guinea, lineage, lineal, linear

ZO

  1. ZO5 — occurring between, existing between, or involving two or more zones sounds like—annul, awful, boggle, bonnet, bottle

  2. ZO6 — as in goofing (off), hanging (around or out) synonyms—bumming, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, droning sounds like—burning, caning, choking, coating, coding

agonizing, analogizing, gazillion, gazing, glazing, gonzo, ionizing, lazing, lionizing, oozing, zagging, zigging, zigzag, zigzagging, zillion, zing, zinging, zinnia, zonal, zoning