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

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

GA

3. GA9 — as in million, zillion synonyms—jillion, kazillion, million, thousands, trillion sounds like—billion, civilian, jillion, million, pavilion
4. GA6 — to look long and hard in wonder or surprise synonyms—blinking, gaping, gawking, gawping, goggling sounds like—grazing, raising

GL

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

GO

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

IO

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

LA

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

LI

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

OO

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

ZA

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

ZI

12. ZI7 — to depart abruptly from a straight line or course synonyms—breaking, cutting, sheering, swerving, veering sounds like—rigging
13. ZI6 — to move suddenly aside or to and fro synonyms—dodge, duck, jink, sidestep, slalom sounds like—exam
14. ZI10 — as in zigzag synonyms—zigzag, bending, crazy, crooked, curled
15. ZI7 — as in million, ga*** synonyms—ga***, jillion, ka***, million, thousands sounds like—billion, jillion, million
16. 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
17. ZI7 — as in shooting, flying synonyms—dashing, flying, sailing, shooting, speeding sounds like—ginning, inning, sinning, winning
18. 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

19. ZO5 — occurring between, existing between, or involving two or more zones sounds like—annul, awful, boggle, bonnet, bottle
20. ZO6 — as in goofing (off), hanging (around or out) synonyms—bumming, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, droning sounds like—burning, caning, choking, coating, coding