Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Thu. 19 October, 2023

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

Letters: g  e  i  n  t  u  y

  • Total Answers: 39
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

EG

  1. EG6 β€” as in whipping, prompting; to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action; exhorting; flogging; goading sounds like etching
  2. EG4 β€” a member of the human race; baby; being; bird; bod sounds like airy, any, edgy, l**

EN

  1. EN6 β€” a device that changes energy into mechanical motion; a sturdy and patient domestic mammal that is used especially to carry things; a stupid person; machine; motor

EY

  1. EY6 β€” to keep one's eyes on; to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes; to give serious and careful thought to; following; observing sounds like buying, dyeing, dying, icing, king
  2. EY5 β€” to keep one's eyes on; to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes; to give serious and careful thought to; following; observing sounds like aching, aging, ailing, king, owing

GE

  1. GE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gin, jeans, jeep
  2. GE5 β€” a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it; afreet; jinni; cacodemon; demon sounds like jeans, journey
  3. GE5 β€” a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it; a very smart person; a special and usually inborn ability; afreets; jinn sounds like any, enemy, ennui, envy, fennel
  4. GE4 β€” an adult male human being; bastard; bloke; buck; cat sounds like bent, cent, dent, jaunt, jest
  5. GE7 β€” being exactly as appears or as claimed; free from any intent to deceive or impress others; existing in fact and not merely as a possibility; authentic; bona fide
  6. GE7 β€” to acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in; to become affected with (a disease or disorder); to become the father of; learning; mastering sounds like petting

GI

  1. GI7 β€” as in driving, riding; busing; cabbing; coaching; cruising sounds like rigging
  2. GI5 β€” sounds like gene, jeep, jeer, jig, jog
  3. GI7 β€” sounds like inning, sinning, winning

GU

  1. GU7 β€” to strike with a missile from a gun; to strike with a missile from a gun; as in killing, shooting; drilling; plugging sounds like cunning, running
  2. GU7 β€” to take the internal organs out of; to take the internal organs out of; to continue despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement; cleaning; disemboweling sounds like cutting

IG

  1. IG6 β€” to set (something) on fire; burn; enkindle; fire; inflame sounds like l**
  2. IG8 β€” to set (something) on fire; to set (something) on fire; burning; enkindling; firing sounds like exciting, infighting, inviting

IN

  1. IN7 β€” an innocent girl or young woman; babe; colt; cub; fledgling sounds like engender
  2. IN9 β€” the skill and imagination to create new things; cleverness; creativeness; creativity; imagination sounds like annuity, continuity
  3. IN6 β€” sounds like earring, g**, s**, w**
  4. IN9 β€” to have a clear idea of; to have a clear idea of; appreciating; apprehending; assimilating

NE

  1. NE7 β€” a fabric made of strands loosely twisted, knotted, or woven together at regular intervals; to catch or hold as if in a net; to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly; mesh; net sounds like petting

NU

  1. NU6 β€” a small piece or quantity of food; a small uneven mass; a very small piece; bite; morsel sounds like budget, bugging, commit, dugout, knit

TE

  1. TE6 β€” as in raging, vituperating; angering; fulminating; raging; ranting sounds like being
  2. TE7 β€” as in sleeping out; sleeping out; bivouacking; camping (out); encamping sounds like arresting, attentive, daunting, ending, fencing

TI

  1. TI5 β€” a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; to give color or a different color to; cast; color; hue sounds like binge, hinge, twinge
  2. TI8 β€” to give color or a different color to; to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing sounds like ginning, inning, rigging, rinsing, sinning
  3. TI7 β€” to give color or a different color to; to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, tanning, turning
  4. TI7 β€” to give color or a different color to; to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing sounds like tenting

TU

  1. TU7 β€” to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to devote serious and sustained effort; to cause to follow by applying steady force on; dragging; drawing sounds like bugging, mugging, touching
  2. TU6 β€” as in adapting; as in ignoring, passing over; to make small changes to (something) in order to improve the way it works or to make it exactly right; adapting; accommodating sounds like tanning
  3. TU7 β€” to hold an unfavorable opinion of; to hold an unfavorable opinion of; deprecate; disapprove (of); discountenance sounds like cutting, touching

TY

  1. TY5 β€” to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; to produce something equal to (as in quality or value); to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; banding; binding sounds like buying, dyeing, dying, timing, trying

UN

  1. UN7 β€” as in cream, ointment; balm; cream; embrocation; liniment sounds like account, adjust, adult, affront, agent
  2. UN7 β€” as in union, connection; to come together to form a single unit; to bring (something) to a central point or under a single control; combination; combining
  3. UN8 β€”
  4. UN7 β€” as in unfastening, unbinding; to disengage the knotted parts of; to disengage the knotted parts of; unbinding; unfastening sounds like annoying

YE

  1. YE7 β€” to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; ache (for); covet; crave; desiderate sounds like kenning, yawning

egging, eggy, engine, eyeing, eying, gene, genie, genii, gent, genuine, getting, gigging, gigue, ginning, gunning, gutting, ignite, igniting, ingenue, ingenuity, inning, intuiting, netting, nugget, teeing, tenting, tinge, tingeing, tinging, tinting, tugging, tuning, tutting, tying, unguent, uniting, untuning, untying, yenning