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

Letters: p  c  e  g  n  u  y

• Total Answers: 17
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

EG

1. EG6 — a cup for holding an egg that is to be eaten from the shell sounds like—backup, checkup, cup, escape, hiccup

EP

2. EP4 — a fencing or dueling sword having a bowl-shaped guard and a rigid blade of triangular section with no cutting edge that tapers to a sharp point blunted for fencing; the art or sport of fencing with the épée sounds like—easy, pea

EY

3. EY6 — a small oval cup with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye used for applying liquid remedies to the eyes; optic cup; a usually rubber cup at the eyepiece of an optical instrument (such as binoculars) for keeping out extraneous light sounds like—cup

GU

4. GU5 — a small bony fish (Poecilia reticulata of the family Poeciliidae) especially of Barbados, Trinidad, and Venezuela that is a live-bearer and is often kept as an aquarium fish sounds like—puppy, yuppie

PE

5. PE4 — to draw, bend, or flatten by or as if by hammering with a ** sounds like—bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
6. PE4 — an instance of looking especially briefly synonyms—cast, eye, gander, glance, glimpse sounds like—beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
7. PE5 — sounds like—dense, fence, hence, pounce, sense
8. PE5 — short thick diagonally cut tubular pasta sounds like—den, hen, pain, pair, pan
9. PE5 — a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money synonyms—cheapskate, churl, hunks, miser, niggard sounds like—any, many, parry, pony
10. PE5 — having active strength of body or mind; having much high-spirited energy and movement synonyms—dynamic, energetic, flush, gingery, lusty sounds like—parry, poppy, preppie, preppy, puppy

PU

11. PU4 — a dark red sounds like—pew, use
12. PU8 — a harsh or sharp quality; the quality or state of being stimulating to the mind or senses synonyms—acerbity, acidity, acidness, acridity, acridness sounds like—agency, emergency, poignancy, potency, progeny
13. PU5 — constituting or involving a pun sounds like—bunny, funny, gunny, honey, money
14. PU4 — of a size that is less than average synonyms—bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, fine sounds like—beauty, hewn, loony, penny, peony
15. PU5 — as in pup, * dog synonyms—lapdog, pup, * dog, whelp, bitch sounds like—guppy, peppy, poppy, yuppie

UN

16. UN5 — to remove a peg from; to unfasten by or as if by removing a peg sounds like—onion, snug
17. UN5 — sounds like—onion