NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 4 October, 2022

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

Letters: c  g  h  i  m  n  o

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

CH

  1. CH4 — being in the latest or current fashion synonyms—à la mode, au courant, cool, exclusive, fashionable sounds like—beak, eke, geek, leak, meek

  2. CH6 — as in extravagant, ostentatious synonyms—extravagant, exuberant, fancified, flamboyant, frilly

  3. CH7 — as in bun, updo synonyms—beehive, big hair, bun, French twist, pageboy sounds like—begun, bigness, linen, signal

  4. CH7 — as in flowing, mellifluous synonyms—blending, flowing, mellifluent, mellifluous, canorous

  5. CH4 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation synonyms—babble, blab, cackle, chaffer, chat sounds like—been, bin, din

  6. CH8 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation synonyms—babbling, blabbing, cackling, chaffering, chattering sounds like—ginning, inning, sinning, winning

  7. CH5 — a usually khaki cotton or synthetic-fiber twill of the type used for military uniforms; an article of clothing made of * sounds like—keno, wino

CI

  1. CI5 — something that is easy to do; one that is certain to succeed synonyms—breeze, cake, cakewalk, child's play, cream puff sounds like—inch, lynch, pinch, sin, since

  2. CI8 — to make sure, certain, or safe synonyms—assuring, ensuring, guaranteeing, guarantying, icing sounds like—sinning

CO

  1. CO5 — a spherical bacterium sounds like—catchy

  2. CO6 — something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; something that serves as a protective barrier synonyms—armor, capsule, case, casing, cover sounds like—cuckoo

  3. CO9 — to surround or cover closely synonyms—bosoming, bowering, circumfusing, embosoming, embowering sounds like—cunning

  4. CO4 — a rather small Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) that has light-colored flesh and is native to both coasts of the North Pacific and is stocked in the Great Lakes —called also ** salmon, silver salmon

  5. CO4 — 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 synonyms—bread, bucks, cabbage, cash, change sounds like—can, cane, join, keen, kin

  6. CO7 — as in producing, designing; as in stamping, minting synonyms—designing, hatching, producing, concocting, constructing sounds like—caning, cunning, kenning

  7. CO5 — a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor; a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story; the amusing quality or element in something synonyms—card, comedian, droll, farceur, funnyman sounds like—calming

  8. CO6 — being soon to appear or take place; being the one that comes immediately after another; of a time after the present synonyms—approaching, forth**, imminent, impending, nearing sounds like—calming, cunning, cutting, numbing

  9. CO6 — often observed or encountered; being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events; belonging or relating to the whole synonyms—** or garden, **place, everyday, familiar, frequent sounds like—caution

  10. CO5 — any of various large spiral-shelled marine gastropod mollusks (as of the genus Strombus); also : its shell used especially for cameos; a native or resident of the Florida Keys; *a

  11. CO5 — a plane curve, line, pair of intersecting lines, or point that is the intersection of or bounds the intersection of a plane and a cone with two nappes; a curve generated by a point which always moves so that the ratio of its distance from a fixed point to its distance from a fixed line is constant sounds like—chronic, ionic, phonic, sonic, tonic

  12. CO7 — to commit to memory; to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition) synonyms—learning, memorizing, studying, auditing, checking (out) sounds like—caning, cutting, kenning, running

  13. CO6 — as in curring synonyms—curring, fizzing, hissing, murmuring, purring sounds like—chewing, cling, king

GN

  1. GN7 — dumplings usually made with potato or semolina and served with sauce sounds like—cocky, hockey, jockey, khaki, knock

HO

  1. HO6 — one of high position or importance within a group; the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do synonyms—big, big boy, big cheese, big gun, big leaguer sounds like—condo, han, hunch, hunched, macho

  2. HO5 — a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk synonyms—alcohol, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, booze, bottle sounds like—hatch, hitch, hutch, pooch, who

IC

  1. IC5 — as in fringe benefit synonyms—fringe benefit, award, prize, reward, favor sounds like—sing

  2. IC4 — a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion; a written or printed mark that is meant to convey information to the reader; a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) synonyms—god, hero, idol, character, glyph sounds like—con

  3. IC6 — correspondence between form and meaning sounds like—ionic, ironic

IN

  1. IN4 — a very small distance or degree; an individual part of a process, series, or ranking; the distance of something or someone from bottom to top synonyms—ace, hair, hairbreadth, hairline, hop, skip, and jump sounds like—c, itch, lynch, p

  2. IN7 — as in imperceptible; as in plodding, ambling synonyms—imperceptible, progressive, stepped, tapered, decrescent

  3. IN8 — the act of coming upon a scene; an increase usually measured in money that comes from labor, business, or property synonyms—advent, appearance, arrival, coming, earnings sounds like—oncoming

IO

  1. IO5 — a chemical bond formed between oppositely charged species because of their mutual electrostatic attraction sounds like—ironic, phonic, sonic, tonic

MI

  1. MI5 — to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior synonyms—burlesque, caricature, do, imitate, mock sounds like—gimmick, mythic

  2. MI7 — as in simpering, cute synonyms—cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, overrefined sounds like—rinsing

MO

  1. MO5 — a doughlike mass made from cooked and pounded glutinous rice used in Japan as an unbaked pastry sounds like—macho

  2. MO5 — to live by relying on someone else's generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility; to move about in a sly or secret manner; to move about from place to place aimlessly synonyms—freeload, sponge, lurk, mouse, pussyfoot sounds like—hooch, match, much, pooch

  3. MO8 — to live by relying on someone else's generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility; to move about in a sly or secret manner; to move about from place to place aimlessly synonyms—freeloading, sponging, lurking, mousing, pussyfooting sounds like—matching

NO

  1. NO6 — **missioned officer sounds like—calm, concave, condom, encore, gendarme

ON

  1. ON8 — being soon to appear or take place synonyms—approaching, coming, forthcoming, imminent, impending sounds like—incoming

chic, chichi, chignon, chiming, chin, chinning, chino, cinch, cinching, cocci, cocoon, cocooning, coho, coin, coining, comic, coming, common, conch, conic, conning, cooing, gnocchi, honcho, hooch, icing, icon, iconic, inch, inching, incoming, ionic, mimic, mincing, mochi, mooch, mooching, noncom, oncoming