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

Letters: p  e  g  i  n  u  x

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

EP

1. EP4 — sounds like easy, pea

EX

3. EX7 — to destroy all traces of; abolish; annihilate; black out; blot out sounds like sponge
4. EX9 — to destroy all traces of; to destroy all traces of; abolishing; annihilating; blacking out

NI

6. NI7 — sounds like kingpin, linchpin
7. NI7 — having a low or subnormal temperature; uncomfortably cool; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; algid; arctic sounds like whipping

PE

9. PE6 — sounds like being, paying, ping
10. PE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
11. PE4 — an instance of looking especially briefly; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cast; eye; gander sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
12. PE7 — as in thin, tinny; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; thin; tinny sounds like leaping, piping
13. PE7 — to arrange or assign according to type; to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm; to arrange or assign according to type; assorting; breaking down sounds like pairing
14. PE7 — sounds like lengthen, pagan
15. PE5 — sounds like den, hen, pain, pair, pan
16. PE7 — to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; to compose and set down on paper the words of; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; boxing (in); caging sounds like kenning, pairing
17. PE7 — to give life, vigor, or spirit to; amp (up); animate; brace; energize sounds like pairing, piping

PI

19. PI7 — to eat greedily or to excess; to eat greedily or to excess; gorging; gormandizing; overeating sounds like rigging
20. PI6 — a dirty or messy place; dump; hellhole; hole; pigsty sounds like begun, pagan
21. PI4 — 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**
22. PI4 — as in ring, chime; as in ding, clang; chime; ding-dong; knell sounds like king, owing, pang, paying, peer
23. PI7 — as in dinging, clanging; chinking; clanging; clanking; clashing sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, spinning, winning
24. PI6 — a strong wish for something; as in longing, hankering; as in longing, yearning; appetency; appetite sounds like dining, fining, shining
25. PI7 — as in mounting, hooking; as in choosing, determining; as in charging, fathering (on); hooking; mounting sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, s***, winning
26. PI5 — as in cover girl, bathing beauty; as in cover girls, bathing beauties; bathing beauty; cover girl; belle
27. PI4 — 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
28. PI6 — having a high musical pitch or range; as in pipeline, pipage; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; high-pitched; screeching
29. PI6 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like begin, bidden, herein, kingpin, poplin
30. PI5 — tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness; an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers; arch; devilish; elvish

PU

32. PU7 — sounds like cunning, opening, running

UN

34. UN5 — sounds like onion, snug
35. UN9 — sounds like appealing, appeasing
36. UN5 — sounds like onion
37. UN9 —
38. UN5 — sounds like annoying, appear, nine, onion, pin
39. UN9 — sounds like spinning

UP

41. UP6 — to make greater in size, amount, or number; to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to move or extend upward; accelerating; adding (to) sounds like appear, ping