NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Tue. 8 August, 2023

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

Letters: g  a  d  e  n  t  u

  • Total Answers: 49
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AD

  1. AD5 β€” an often stated observation regarding something from common experience; aphorism; apothegm; byword; epigram

AG

  1. AG5 β€” sounds like abbot, gut, maggot
  2. AG4 β€” being of advanced years and especially past middle age; dating or surviving from the distant past; to become mature; aging; ancient sounds like aid, aide, edged
  3. AG6 β€” a listing of things to be presented or considered (as at a concert or play); calendar; docket; program; schedule sounds like amend, append, ascend, attend, attendee
  4. AG5 β€” something used to achieve an end; a person who acts or does business for another; a person sent on a mission to represent another; agency; instrument sounds like urgent
  5. AG4 β€” sounds like ahs, are, awe, bog, egg

DA

  1. DA4 β€” deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure; to a great degree; as in dash, darn; accursed; blasted sounds like bang, dung, fang, gang, hang

DE

  1. DE6 β€” sounds like dang, dare, dung

DU

  1. DU4 β€” solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal; dirt; doo-doo; dropping; excrement sounds like dang, done, dove

ED

  1. ED4 β€” a harsh or sharp quality; the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something; the more favorable condition or position in a competition; acerbity; acidity sounds like age, air, ebb, egg, etch
  2. ED5 β€” having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something; to make sharp or sharper; to serve as a border for; cutting; edgy sounds like aged, end

EG

  1. EG4 β€” as in gadzooks, zounds; (the) deuce; gad; gadzooks; the devil sounds like eagle
  2. EG5 β€” as in whipped, prompted; to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action; exhorted; flogged; goaded sounds like edged, end, p*

EN

  1. EN6 β€” to hold the attention of; to enter into contest or conflict with; to obligate by prior agreement; absorb; bemuse
  2. EN7 β€” pledged in marriage; involved in often constant activity; to hold the attention of; affianced; bespoke

GA

  1. GA6 β€” to move about from place to place aimlessly; bat; cruise; drift; float sounds like added, guided, padded
  2. GA6 β€” an interesting and often novel device with a practical use; appliance; contraption; contrivance; gimmick
  3. GA4 β€” having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; filled with an intense or excessive love for; balmy; barmy; bats sounds like goggle, saga
  4. GA4 β€” something given or held to assure that the giver will keep a promise; to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement; to find out the size, extent, or amount of; guarantee; guaranty sounds like age, cage
  5. GA6 β€” to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; to experience complete or partial blockage of the windpipe; to make jokes; barfed; heaved sounds like bagged, jag, jagged, tagged
  6. GA4 β€” a group of people working together on a task; a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; a group involved in secret or criminal activities; army; band sounds like bang, dang, fang
  7. GA6 β€” as in joined, grouped; as in teamed (up), hung together; as in swarmed, mobbed; affiliated; allied sounds like and, anode, band, banjo, canned
  8. GA4 β€” a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened; the opening through which one can enter or leave a structure; a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid; door; hatch sounds like ate, bait, date, eight, fate
  9. GA6 β€” as in cake, galette; cake; croquette; cutlet; fritter sounds like ghetto
  10. GA5 β€” as in barricaded, blockaded; as in fenced, hedged; barricaded; blockaded; dammed sounds like rated
  11. GA5 β€” to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement; to find out the size, extent, or amount of; as in face, dial; calculate; call sounds like age, cage
  12. GA6 β€” to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement; to find out the size, extent, or amount of; to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement; calculated; called sounds like gourd
  13. GA5 β€” suffering extreme weight loss as a result of hunger or disease; cadaverous; emaciated; haggard; skeletal sounds like daunt, gone, haunt, jaunt, taunt

GE

  1. GE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gin, jeans, jeep
  2. GE4 β€” an adult male human being; bastard; bloke; buck; cat sounds like bent, cent, dent, jaunt, jest

GN

  1. GN4 β€” sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, hat

GU

  1. GU6 β€” to strike with a missile from a gun; a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder; large firearms (as cannons or rockets); drilled; plugged sounds like fund, gained
  2. GU6 β€” to take the internal organs out of; to take the internal organs out of; to continue despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement; cleaned; disemboweled sounds like buttock, button, cheated, coated, dotted

NA

  1. NA6 β€” to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders; dogged; henpecked sounds like bagged, gagged, jag, jagged, tagged

NE

  1. NE6 β€” to declare not to be true; to put an end to by formal action; to think not to be true or real; contradict; deny sounds like begat, beget, berate, bigot, elate
  2. NE7 β€” to declare not to be true; to put an end to by formal action; to think not to be true or real; contradicted; denied sounds like animated, awaited, created, decorated, elated

NU

  1. NU5 β€” to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing; to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action; as in jam, jerk; brush; graze sounds like budge, fudge, judge, none
  2. NU6 β€” to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing; to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action; to pass lightly across or touch gently especially in passing; brushed; grazed
  3. 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

TA

  1. TA6 β€” to attach an identifying slip to; to go after or on the track of; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; labeled; marked sounds like bagged, gagged, jag, jagged
  2. TA4 β€” as in ding, clang; an almost imperceptible sign of something; the quality or state of being stimulating to the mind or senses; chink; clang sounds like bang, dang, fang, gang, hang
  3. TA7 β€” as in tangential, peripheral; a departure from the subject under consideration; incidental; peripheral; tangential sounds like pageant, pungent, tenant, transient

TE

  1. TE7 β€” as in underage, preteen; ephebic; minor; preteen; subadult
  2. TE8 β€” as in underage, preteen; ephebic; minor; preteen; subadult

TU

  1. TU6 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; dragged; drew sounds like mugged, tagged, tongued

UN

  1. UN9 β€” sounds like engaged
  2. UN7 β€” as in cream, ointment; balm; cream; embrocation; liniment sounds like account, adjust, adult, affront, agent
  3. UN5 β€” sounds like attach, attack, nag, snag, stag
  4. UN8 β€” sounds like contained

adage, agate, aged, agenda, agent, ague, dang, dengue, dung, edge, edged, egad, egged, engage, engaged, gadded, gadget, gaga, gage, gagged, gang, ganged, gate, gateau, gated, gauge, gauged, gaunt, gene, gent, gnat, gunned, gutted, nagged, negate, negated, nudge, nudged, nugget, tagged, tang, tangent, teenage, teenaged, tugged, unengaged, unguent, untag, untagged