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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sun. 18 June, 2023

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

Letters: k  a  d  e  g  i  n

  • Total Answers: 38
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AK

  1. AK4 β€” having a close connection like that between family members; having qualities in common; affiliated; allied; kindred sounds like aching, kin, skin

DA

  1. DA4 β€” slightly or moderately wet; damp; dampish; moist; wettish sounds like bank, drank, dunk, hank, rank

DE

  1. DE4 β€” to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement; fake; fake out; juke sounds like buck, chuck, dick, dike, dock
  2. DE5 β€” to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement; to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement; faked; faked out; juked sounds like duck, dust
  3. DE6 β€” sounds like aching, beaming, being, biking, booking

DI

  1. DI4 β€” a bank of earth constructed to control water; a long narrow channel dug in the earth; as in fence, gate; dam; embankment sounds like bike, deck, dock
  2. DI4 β€” a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; as in obsolete, antiquated; bookworm; dork; geek sounds like dank, drink, dunk, ink, jink
  3. DI6 β€” sounds like linked
  4. DI7 β€” sounds like drinking, sinking, thinking

EK

  1. EK4 β€” to get with great difficulty; scrape (up or together); scrounge; squeeze; wrest sounds like act, east, eat, peaked
  2. EK5 β€” to get with great difficulty; scrape (up or together); scrounge; squeeze; wrest sounds like aching, etching, king

GE

  1. GE4 β€” a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; a person with strong intellectual interests; a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field; bookworm; dink sounds like beak, cheek, chic, eke, leak
  2. GE6 β€” showing urgent desire or interest; agog; antsy; anxious; ardent sounds like peaked
  3. GE7 β€” sounds like aching, beaming, being, biking, booking

IN

  1. IN5 β€” to write one's name on (as a document); to write one's name on (as a document); autographed; signed; subscribed sounds like l*
  2. IN6 β€” to write one's name on (as a document); to write one's name on (as a document); autographing; signing; subscribing sounds like s**, th**

KE

  1. KE4 β€” able to sense slight impressions or differences; causing intense discomfort to one's skin; having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something; acute; delicate sounds like bean, can, cane, careen, clean
  2. KE6 β€” to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to make a long loud mournful sound; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; beefed; bellyached sounds like canned, conned, fiend, kind
  3. KE7 β€” as in crying, wailing; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to make a long loud mournful sound; bawling; blubbering sounds like caning, cleaning, cunning, meaning

KI

  1. KI6 β€” to make fun of in a good-natured way; to make jokes; to make fun of in a good-natured way; chaffed; jived sounds like added, bearded, candid, coated, coddle
  2. KI6 β€” a young person who is between infancy and adulthood; bairn; bambino; bud; chap sounds like giddy
  3. KI7 β€” marked by or expressive of mild or good-natured teasing; as in mocking, fooling; to make fun of in a good-natured way; bantering; chaffing sounds like coding
  4. KI4 β€” a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common; one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic; given to or made with heedful anticipation of the needs and happiness of others; breed; class sounds like bind, canned, conned, find, hind
  5. KI5 β€”
  6. KI4 β€” a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe; unusually large; baron; captain sounds like aching, cling, owing, ping
  7. KI6 β€” sounds like canned, conned
  8. KI7 β€” sounds like caning, cunning, ginning, inning, kenning
  9. KI4 β€” a painful sudden tightening of a muscle; an odd or peculiar habit; a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action; charley horse; cramp sounds like ink, jink, link, mink, pink
  10. KI6 β€” as in twisted, twisting; as in turned, twisted; entwined; swirled; turned sounds like linked
  11. KI7 β€” as in turning, twisting; entwining; swirling; turning; twining sounds like sinking, thinking

KN

  1. KN5 β€” as in work, form; fashion; form; model; mold sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  2. KN7 β€” as in worked, formed; fashioned; formed; modeled; molded sounds like needle
  3. KN8 β€” as in working, forming; fashioning; forming; modeling; molding sounds like leading, nodding
  4. KN4 β€” as in right, hand; as in push, kick; done instantly and without conscious thought or decision; body blow; hand sounds like any, bee, fee, gnaw, key
  5. KN5 β€” as in pushed, kicked; lacking strength of will or character; bumped; butted; jabbed sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  6. KN7 β€” as in pushing, kicking; bumping; butting; jabbing; jostling sounds like being, gnawing

NA

  1. NA5 β€” lacking or shed of clothing; lacking a usual or natural covering; free from all additions or embellishment; au naturel; bare sounds like bacon, faded, jaded, knitted, knuckle
  2. NA7 β€” sounds like hanky, lanky, panky

akin, dank, deke, deked, deking, dike, dink, dinked, dinking, eked, eking, geek, geeked, geeking, inked, inking, keen, keened, keening, kidded, kiddie, kidding, kind, kinda, king, kinged, kinging, kink, kinked, kinking, knead, kneaded, kneading, knee, kneed, kneeing, naked, nankeen