NYT π CluesβTue. 31 January, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: i d e n o p w
- Total Answers: 54
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
DE
- DE6 β as in rejected, refused; to declare not to be true; to be unwilling to grant; disallowed; refused sounds like any, bend, buried, dairy
DI
- DI4 β to stop living; to come to an end; to stop functioning; checked out; conked (out) sounds like bide, chide, dad, dead, deed
- DI4 β to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal; as in board, mess; eat; fare sounds like dawn, dean, den
- DI5 β to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal; to take a meal; ate; fared sounds like denude, deny
- DI4 β sounds like dean, depot, keno, wino
- DI5 β sounds like abode, anode, bide, bind, bio
- DI6 β as in splashed, dunked; to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid; to lift out with something that holds liquid; dunked; splashed sounds like chipped, doped, shipped, sipped, whipped
DO
- DO8 β being in the direction that the wind is blowing; leeward
ED
- ED6 β as in swirled, purled; purled; swirled; bubbled; dribbled sounds like deed, readied
IN
- IN6 β without any question; not merely this but also; to tell the truth; all right; alright sounds like bandied, bodied, deed, endear, ended
- IN5 β sounds like windy
- IN5 β sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy
IO
- IO6 β
NI
- NI4 β as in last word, hot ticket; as in last words, hot tickets; as in wage earner, wage slave; buzz; chic sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin
- NI7 β sounds like kingpin, linchpin
- NI6 β as in chilled; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points; chilled; asleep sounds like chipped, knit, shipped, sipped, whipped
ON
- ON5 β sounds like undone
OP
- OP5 β to make a statement of one's opinion; allow; comment; editorialize; note sounds like pine, spine
- OP6 β to make a statement of one's opinion; to make a statement of one's opinion; allowed; commented; editorialized
- OP7 β an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; a position arrived at after consideration; an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements; belief; conviction sounds like dominion, minion, onion
- OP6 β sounds like peed, speed
PI
- PI4 β having blotches of two or more colors; blotched; blotchy; dappled; marbled sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
- PI4 β as in long, yearn; to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; as in long (for), sigh; long; yearn sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, o**
- PI5 β as in longed, yearned; to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; as in longed (for), sighed; longed; yearned sounds like pained, pond, pound
- PI8 β sounds like inward, plywood
- PI6 β to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; bind; chain; enchain; enfetter sounds like minion, o**
- PI8 β to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; bound; chained; enchained sounds like minion, opinion, poignant
- PI6 β as in mounted, hooked; as in chose, determined; as in charged, fathered (on); hooked; mounted sounds like pained, pond, pound
- PI8 β sounds like inept, sniped
- PI4 β a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; channel; conduit sounds like hype, pap, peep, pop, pope
- PI5 β to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; canalized; channeled sounds like typed
- PI6 β something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like begin, bidden, herein, kingpin, poplin
PO
- PO6 β to give what is owed for; to give what is owed for; anted (up); balanced; cleared
WE
- WE6 β a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; bookworm; dink; dork; geek sounds like genie, wiener, wino
- WE6 β
WI
- WI4 β having a greater than usual measure across; having considerable extent; to a full extent or degree; broad; fat sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied
- WI5 β to increase the width, breadth, or scope of; broaden; enlarge; expand; elongate sounds like wooden
- WI7 β to increase the width, breadth, or scope of; to increase the width, breadth, or scope of; broadened; enlarged; expanded
- WI5 β as in woman, wife; helpmate; helpmeet; lady; madam sounds like weirdo
- WI7 β as in orphaned; orphaned; bereaved; bereft; distressed
- WI6 β a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; bookworm; dink; dork; geek sounds like genie, wean
- WI4 β noticeable movement of air in a particular direction; a prevailing or general movement or inclination; language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere; current; draft sounds like bind, find, hind, kind, lined
- WI6 β to follow a circular or spiral course; to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way; using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea; coil; corkscrew sounds like gilded, indeed, kindred, tinted, undid
- WI6 β as in space, pause; a deceptively attractive external appearance; as in shade, tapestry; caesura; comma sounds like weirdo
- WI8 β
- WI8 β sounds like indict, inspire, tintype
- WI4 β as in sake, mead; to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; mead; sake; alcohol sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, one
- WI5 β to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; pledged; toasted; belted (down) sounds like bind, find, hind, kind, lined
- WI6 β to remove less desirable choices from a group or list; cull; discard; jettison; throw away
- WI8 β to remove less desirable choices from a group or list; to remove less desirable choices from a group or list; as in screened, weeded (out); culled; discarded
- WI4 β as in drinker, drunkard; alcoholic; alkie; boozehound; boozer sounds like keno, wean
- WI4 β as in wash, brush; to destroy all traces of; to defeat by a large margin; brush; comb sounds like hype, pipe, ripe, s**, type
- WI5 β as in washed, brushed; depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; being under the influence of alcohol; brushed; combed sounds like typed, wept, whipped, white
WO
- WO8 β sounds like whirlwind