NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 31 August, 2023

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

Letters: e  g  h  m  n  o  y

  • Total Answers: 31
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

EG

  1. EG6 — sounds like airbag, any, banal, bog, cannot

  2. EG4 — a member of the human race; baby; being; bird; bod sounds like airy, any, edgy, l**

EN

  1. EN5 — one that is hostile toward another; adversary; antagonist; foe; hostile sounds like annum, any, crummy, dummy, ebony

GE

  1. GE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gin, jeans, jeep

  2. GE6 — sounds like gnome, jeans, keno, keynote, rename

GH

  1. GH4 — sounds like bee, fee, gay, geek, glee

GN

  1. GN5 — an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers; brownie; dwarf; elf; faerie sounds like comb, dome, foam, home, knoll

GO

  1. GO4 — no longer existing; no longer living; no longer possessed; bygone; bypast sounds like dawn, fawn, gain, gall, gaunt

  2. GO5 — appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way; something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental; chocolate-box; cloying; corny sounds like buoy, glee, suey

HE

  1. HE7 — sounds like regimen

  2. HE8 — controlling power or influence over others; ascendance; ascendancy; dominance; domination sounds like harmony

  3. HE4 — the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something; border; borderline; bound; boundary sounds like beam, deem, ham

  4. HE5 — sounds like hinge

HO

  1. HO4 — the place where one lives; the place where a plant or animal is usually or naturally found; the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship; abode; diggings sounds like comb, dome, foam, gnome, ham

  2. HO5 — comfortable or familiar like home; homelike; homely; intimate; comfortable sounds like foamy, wholly

  3. HO8 —

  4. HO4 — to make sharp or sharper; to make smooth by friction; as in set, home (in on); edge; grind sounds like bone, cone, hen

  5. HO5 — a lovely woman; something very good of its kind; a person with whom one is in love; babe; beauty sounds like bunny, funny, gunny, hubby, hunch

  6. HO9 —

  7. HO5 — language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; applesauce; balderdash; baloney; beans sounds like buoy, gooey, hurry, suey, who

HY

  1. HY5 — sounds like heighten

ME

  1. ME4 — sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom

  2. ME4 — a message on paper from one person or group to another; a usually brief written reminder; a written communication giving information or directions; dispatch; epistle sounds like demo, marrow

MO

  1. MO5 — something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; a wealthy person; yielding a profit; bread; bucks sounds like bunny, funny, gunny, honey, many

  2. MO8 — sounds like honeymoon

NE

  1. NE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead

  2. NE4 — sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon

NO

  1. NO4 — certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun

OG

  1. OG4 — sounds like edgy

OM

  1. OM4 — something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event; augury; auspice; boding; foreboding sounds like ocean, open, showman

YE

  1. YE6 — as in sharecroppers, crofters; crofters; croppers; gentlemen farmers; sharecroppers sounds like amen, demon, domain, foment, omen

eggnog, eggy, enemy, gene, genome, ghee, gnome, gone, gooey, hegemon, hegemony, heme, henge, home, homey, homogeny, hone, honey, honeymoon, hooey, hymen, meme, memo, money, moneymen, nene, neon, none, ogee, omen, yeomen