NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 1 September, 2022

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

Letters: r  d  g  i  o  p  y

  • Total Answers: 32
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

DO

  1. DO4 — a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened; the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure; the means or right of entering or participating in synonyms—gate, hatch, portal, **way, entrance sounds like—adore, boar, bore, chore, core

  2. DO4 — as in skiff, rowboat synonyms—bateau, caïque, canoe, catamaran, coracle sounds like—dairy, gory

DR

  1. DR4 — someone or something boring; the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass synonyms—bore, drag, droner, dullsville, nudnik sounds like—dip, grip, rip, trip

  2. DR6 — appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way synonyms—chocolate-box, cloying, corny, fruity, gooey sounds like—dippy

  3. DR5 — an*

  4. DR5 — the extent to which something hangs or dips below a straight line synonyms—hang, sag, slack, slackness sounds like—dupe, group, troop, troup, troupe

  5. DR6 — bending downward or forward; not stiff in structure; feeling unhappiness synonyms—bowed, bowing, declined, declining, descendant sounds like—rupee

  6. DR4 — to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally; to go to a lower level especially abruptly; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end synonyms—depress, lower, throw, throw down, crash sounds like—crop, prop

GI

  1. GI4 — an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings synonyms—affront, barb, brickbat, cut, dart sounds like—bird, curd, goad, god, good

GO

  1. GO4 — a snack consisting of high-energy food (such as raisins and nuts) sounds like—warp

  2. GO4 — smeared or stained with blood synonyms—bloodstained, bloody sounds like—gaudy, gawky, glory

GR

  1. GR4 — a set of bars placed over a shallow hole that is used to stop cattle from crossing a road : cattle guard

  2. GR4 — a bag carried by hand and designed to hold a traveler's clothing and personal articles; the act or manner of holding; the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something synonyms—carry-on, carryall, handbag, holdall, portmanteau sounds like—drip

  3. GR6 —

  4. GR5 — sounds like—gaudy

  5. GR4 — a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk synonyms—alcohol, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, booze, bottle sounds like—frog

  6. GR6 — not able to think or move normally because of being tired, sick, etc. synonyms—addled, befuddled, confused, dazed, aswoon sounds like—craggy, foggy, frog, golly

GY

  1. GY4 — a member of a major international service club sounds like—arrow, barrow, bio, borrow, crow

OD

  1. OD4 — a special quality or impression associated with something; the quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose; overall quality as seen or judged by people in general synonyms—air, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, aura sounds like—loader, ochre, older, over, owner

OR

  1. OR4 — as in revelry, bacchanalia synonyms—bacchanalia, revel, revelry, blowout, kegger sounds like—airy, algae, army, arty, aura

PO

  1. PO4 — lacking money or material possessions; producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation; less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable synonyms—beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-** sounds like—boor, lure, moor, pair, pare

PR

  1. PR4 — someone who annoys people by being very careful about proper behavior and by criticizing the behavior of other people synonyms—fuddy-duddy, old maid, spoilsport, stuffed shirt, bluenose sounds like—brig, pig, rig

  2. PR5 — coming before all others in importance; going before another in time or order synonyms—arch, big, capital, cardinal, central sounds like—drier, dryer, friar, fryer

  3. PR6 — a residence for men under religious vows synonyms—abbey, cloister, friary, hermitage, monastery

  4. PR4 — to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed object; to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action synonyms—dig, goad, spur, egg (on), encourage sounds like—plod, pod, rod

  5. PR7 — something extraordinary or surprising synonyms—caution, flash, marvel, miracle, phenomenon

  6. PR4 — a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else synonyms—brace, buttress, mount, mounting, reinforcement sounds like—crop, drop, plop, pop

PY

  1. PY4 — fire : heat; produced by or as if by the action of heat; derived from a corresponding ortho acid by loss usually of one molecule of water from two molecules of acid sounds like—gyro, pro

RI

  1. RI5 — not allowing for any exceptions or loosening of standards; given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint; having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressure synonyms—brassbound, cast-iron, exacting, hard-line, inflexible sounds like—f*

  2. RI5 — something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal; the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding (as in discipline or criticism); the quality or state of being very accurate synonyms—adversity, asperity, difficulty, hardness, hardship sounds like—bigger, digger, recur, trigger, vigor

RO

  1. RO4 — a cross or crucifix symbolizing the cross on which Jesus Christ died; specifically : a large crucifix on a beam or screen at the entrance to the chancel of a church; any of various units of land area; especially : a British unit equal to 1/4 acre; any of various units of length; especially : a British unit equal to seven or eight yards or sometimes a rod sounds like—could, good, hood, raid, read

  2. RO4 — being of a consistency that resists flow synonyms—syrupy, thick, viscid, viscous sounds like—choppy, copy, poppy, rupee

door, dory, drip, drippy, droid, droop, droopy, drop, gird, gorp, gory, grid, grip, grippy, grody, grog, groggy, gyro, odor, orgy, poor, prig, prior, priory, prod, prodigy, prop, pyro, rigid, rigor, rood, ropy