NYT π CluesβTue. 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! π€£
AD
- AD5 β an often stated observation regarding something from common experience; aphorism; apothegm; byword; epigram
AG
- AG5 β sounds like abbot, gut, maggot
- 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
- 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
- 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
- AG4 β sounds like ahs, are, awe, bog, egg
DA
- 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
- DE6 β sounds like dang, dare, dung
DU
- DU4 β solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal; dirt; doo-doo; dropping; excrement sounds like dang, done, dove
ED
- 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
- 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
- EG4 β as in gadzooks, zounds; (the) deuce; gad; gadzooks; the devil sounds like eagle
- 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
- EN6 β to hold the attention of; to enter into contest or conflict with; to obligate by prior agreement; absorb; bemuse
- EN7 β pledged in marriage; involved in often constant activity; to hold the attention of; affianced; bespoke
GA
- GA6 β to move about from place to place aimlessly; bat; cruise; drift; float sounds like added, guided, padded
- GA6 β an interesting and often novel device with a practical use; appliance; contraption; contrivance; gimmick
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- GA6 β as in cake, galette; cake; croquette; cutlet; fritter sounds like ghetto
- GA5 β as in barricaded, blockaded; as in fenced, hedged; barricaded; blockaded; dammed sounds like rated
- 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
- 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
- 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
- GE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gin, jeans, jeep
- GE4 β an adult male human being; bastard; bloke; buck; cat sounds like bent, cent, dent, jaunt, jest
GN
- GN4 β sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, hat
GU
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- TA7 β as in tangential, peripheral; a departure from the subject under consideration; incidental; peripheral; tangential sounds like pageant, pungent, tenant, transient
TE
- TE7 β as in underage, preteen; ephebic; minor; preteen; subadult
- TE8 β as in underage, preteen; ephebic; minor; preteen; subadult
TU
- 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
- UN9 β sounds like engaged
- UN7 β as in cream, ointment; balm; cream; embrocation; liniment sounds like account, adjust, adult, affront, agent
- UN5 β sounds like attach, attack, nag, snag, stag
- UN8 β sounds like contained