NYT π CluesβSun. 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! π€£
AK
- AK4 β having a close connection like that between family members; having qualities in common; affiliated; allied; kindred sounds like aching, kin, skin
DA
- DA4 β slightly or moderately wet; damp; dampish; moist; wettish sounds like bank, drank, dunk, hank, rank
DE
- 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
- 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
- DE6 β sounds like aching, beaming, being, biking, booking
DI
- 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
- 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
- DI6 β sounds like linked
- DI7 β sounds like drinking, sinking, thinking
EK
- EK4 β to get with great difficulty; scrape (up or together); scrounge; squeeze; wrest sounds like act, east, eat, peaked
- EK5 β to get with great difficulty; scrape (up or together); scrounge; squeeze; wrest sounds like aching, etching, king
GE
- 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
- GE6 β showing urgent desire or interest; agog; antsy; anxious; ardent sounds like peaked
- GE7 β sounds like aching, beaming, being, biking, booking
IN
- 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*
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- KI6 β a young person who is between infancy and adulthood; bairn; bambino; bud; chap sounds like giddy
- 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
- 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
- KI5 β
- 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
- KI6 β sounds like canned, conned
- KI7 β sounds like caning, cunning, ginning, inning, kenning
- 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
- KI6 β as in twisted, twisting; as in turned, twisted; entwined; swirled; turned sounds like linked
- KI7 β as in turning, twisting; entwining; swirling; turning; twining sounds like sinking, thinking
KN
- KN5 β as in work, form; fashion; form; model; mold sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
- KN7 β as in worked, formed; fashioned; formed; modeled; molded sounds like needle
- KN8 β as in working, forming; fashioning; forming; modeling; molding sounds like leading, nodding
- 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
- KN5 β as in pushed, kicked; lacking strength of will or character; bumped; butted; jabbed sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
- KN7 β as in pushing, kicking; bumping; butting; jabbing; jostling sounds like being, gnawing
NA
- 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
- NA7 β sounds like hanky, lanky, panky