NYT π CluesβThu. 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! π€£
EG
- 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
- EG4 β a member of the human race; baby; being; bird; bod sounds like airy, any, edgy, l**
EN
- 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
- 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
- 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
- GE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gin, jeans, jeep
- 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
- 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
- GE4 β an adult male human being; bastard; bloke; buck; cat sounds like bent, cent, dent, jaunt, jest
- 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
- 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
- GI7 β as in driving, riding; busing; cabbing; coaching; cruising sounds like rigging
- GI5 β sounds like gene, jeep, jeer, jig, jog
- GI7 β sounds like inning, sinning, winning
GU
- 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
- 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
- IG6 β to set (something) on fire; burn; enkindle; fire; inflame sounds like l**
- IG8 β to set (something) on fire; to set (something) on fire; burning; enkindling; firing sounds like exciting, infighting, inviting
IN
- IN7 β an innocent girl or young woman; babe; colt; cub; fledgling sounds like engender
- IN9 β the skill and imagination to create new things; cleverness; creativeness; creativity; imagination sounds like annuity, continuity
- IN6 β sounds like earring, g**, s**, w**
- IN9 β to have a clear idea of; to have a clear idea of; appreciating; apprehending; assimilating
NE
- 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
- 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
- TE6 β as in raging, vituperating; angering; fulminating; raging; ranting sounds like being
- TE7 β as in sleeping out; sleeping out; bivouacking; camping (out); encamping sounds like arresting, attentive, daunting, ending, fencing
TI
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- TU7 β to hold an unfavorable opinion of; to hold an unfavorable opinion of; deprecate; disapprove (of); discountenance sounds like cutting, touching
TY
- 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
- UN7 β as in cream, ointment; balm; cream; embrocation; liniment sounds like account, adjust, adult, affront, agent
- 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
- UN8 β
- UN7 β as in unfastening, unbinding; to disengage the knotted parts of; to disengage the knotted parts of; unbinding; unfastening sounds like annoying
YE
- YE7 β to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; ache (for); covet; crave; desiderate sounds like kenning, yawning