Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Thu. 28 September, 2023

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

Letters: i  g  h  n  p  u  w

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

GI

  1. GI7 β€” as in driving, riding; busing; cabbing; coaching; cruising sounds like rigging
  2. 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

HI

  1. HI4 β€” extending to a great distance upward; being at a higher level than average; located at a greater height than average or usual; altitudinous; lofty sounds like awry, buy, die, dye, eye
  2. HI7 β€” to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); to be determined by, based on, or subject (to); depending; hanging; riding sounds like ginning, hearing, inning, sinning, winning

HU

  1. HU7 β€” to express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune; to put one's arms around and press tightly; to express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune; complimenting; congratulating sounds like bugging, mugging

IN

  1. IN6 β€” sounds like earring, g**, s**, w**

NI

  1. NI4 β€” not being distant in time, space, or significance; at, within, or to a short distance or time; very close to but not completely; close; close-up sounds like awry, buy, die, dye, eye
  2. NI7 β€” having a low or subnormal temperature; uncomfortably cool; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; algid; arctic sounds like whipping

PI

  1. PI7 β€” to eat greedily or to excess; to eat greedily or to excess; gorging; gormandizing; overeating sounds like rigging
  2. PI4 β€” as in ring, chime; as in ding, clang; chime; ding-dong; knell sounds like king, owing, pang, paying, peer
  3. PI7 β€” as in dinging, clanging; chinking; clanging; clanking; clashing sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, spinning, winning
  4. PI6 β€” as in longing, hankering; a strong wish for something; as in longing, yearning; ambitious; appetent sounds like dining, fining, shining
  5. PI7 β€” as in mounting, hooking; as in choosing, determining; as in charging, fathering (on); hooking; mounting sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, s***, winning
  6. PI5 β€” as in cover girl, bathing beauty; as in cover girls, bathing beauties; bathing beauty; cover girl; belle
  7. PI6 β€” as in pipeline, pipage; having a high musical pitch or range; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; pipage; pipeline
  8. PI6 β€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like begin, bidden, herein, kingpin, poplin

PU

  1. PU7 β€” sounds like cunning, opening, running

UN

  1. UN9 β€” to cause to go insane or as if insane; to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy; to cause to go insane or as if insane; cracking; crazing
  2. UN5 β€” as in uncool, untrendy; out; uncool; untrendy; geeky sounds like adhere, annoying, gunship, hip, nip
  3. UN5 β€” sounds like annoying, appear, nine, onion, pin
  4. UN9 β€” sounds like spinning

UP

  1. UP6 β€” to make greater in size, amount, or number; to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to move or extend upward; accelerating; adding (to) sounds like appear, ping

WH

  1. WH8 β€” to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; beefing; bellyaching; bitching sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, willing, witching
  2. WH7 β€” as in complaining, protesting; as in whiny, squealing; as in crying, weeping; complaining; fussing sounds like dining, fining, shining, winding, winning
  3. WH4 β€” a long thin or flexible tool for striking; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; to defeat by a large margin; flogger; lash sounds like chip, dip, hip, lip, nip
  4. WH8 β€” failure to win a contest; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; to defeat by a large margin; beating; defeat sounds like willing, winning, witching
  5. WH8 β€” to defeat by a large margin; to strike repeatedly; to defeat by a large margin; annihilating; blowing away

WI

  1. WI7 β€” to yield to mental or emotional stress; break down; break up; crack; flip (out) sounds like rigging, whipping
  2. WI4 β€” a group of people acting together within a larger group; to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom; bloc; block sounds like king, o**, ping, ring, sing
  3. WI7 β€” to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; aviating; flying; gliding sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, whipping
  4. WI6 β€” to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; pledging; toasting; belting (down) sounds like dining, fining, shining
  5. WI7 β€” having qualities that tend to make one loved; likely or intended to win one's affection; as in win, victory; adorable; darling sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, whipping
  6. WI6 β€” as in washing, brushing; as in reducing, wearing out; to destroy all traces of; brushing; combing sounds like piping, whipping, whopping

gigging, ginning, gunning, high, hinging, hugging, inning, nigh, nipping, pigging, ping, pinging, pining, pinning, pinup, piping, pippin, punning, unhinging, unhip, unpin, unpinning, upping, whinging, whining, whip, whipping, whupping, wigging, wing, winging, wining, winning, wiping