Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 10 May, 2023

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

Letters: a  c  g  i  l  o  z

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC6 β€” sounds like occasion
  2. AC4 β€” sounds like occur, sky

AG

  1. AG4 β€” having or showing signs of eagerly awaiting something; showing urgent desire or interest; agape; anticipant; anticipatory sounds like afar, ajar, allot, atop, awash

AI

  1. AI5 β€” sounds like holy, idly, lowly, wholly

AL

  1. AL4 β€”
  2. AL5 β€” sounds like angle

CA

  1. CA5 β€” sounds like cocaine, coco, cocoa, cocoon, cuckoo
  2. CA6 β€” as in speckled, streaked; blotted; brindled; specked; speckled sounds like cluck
  3. CA4 β€” to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like all, ball, bawl, coal, cog
  4. CA5 β€” to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like cola, gala
  5. CA8 β€”

CI

  1. CI4 β€” sounds like cheap, cheat, cheek, cheese, chief
  2. CI5 β€” sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly

CL

  1. CL6 β€” sounds like coca

CO

  1. CO4 β€” sounds like boll, bowl, call
  2. CO4 β€”
  3. CO5 β€”
  4. CO4 β€”

GA

  1. 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
  2. GA4 β€” a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something; carnival; celebration; fest; festival
  3. GA4 β€” a deep-seated ill will; shameless boldness; to damage or diminish by continued friction; animosity; animus sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

GL

  1. GL7 β€” having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; algid; arctic; bitter sounds like elation, facial, gable, gracious, label
  2. GL4 β€”

GO

  1. GO4 β€” something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; aim; ambition; aspiration; bourne sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

IL

  1. IL5 β€” sounds like black, bleak, clique, elite, flak
  2. IL9 β€” not using or following good reasoning; fallacious; illegitimate; inconsequent; inconsequential sounds like logical

LA

  1. LA4 β€” as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like lick
  2. LA6 β€” as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like cul, cull, local, loyal, lull

LI

  1. LI5 β€” sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack

LO

  1. LO5 β€” as in regional; a local unit of an organization; a usually longtime resident of a locality; regional; aboriginal sounds like focal, vocal
  2. LO6 β€” as in piazza, cloister; arcade; breezeway; cloister; piazza sounds like lava
  3. LO7 β€” according to the rules of logic; based on sound reasoning or information; analytic; coherent; consequent sounds like il***

ZI

  1. ZI6 β€” as in zigzagging; to move suddenly aside or to and fro; zigzagging; bending; crazy sounds like exam

ZO

  1. ZO10 β€” sounds like illogical, logical

acacia, acai, agog, aioli, alga, algal, cacao, calico, call, calla, callaloo, ciao, cilia, cloaca, coal, coca, cocoa, cola, gaga, gala, gall, glacial, glia, goal, iliac, illogical, laic, laical, lilac, local, loggia, logical, zigzag, zoological