NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 18 January, 2023

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

Letters: i  a  e  g  l  t  y

  • Total Answers: 46
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AG

  1. AG5 β€” moving easily; featly; feline; graceful; gracile sounds like addle, annul, apple
  2. AG7 β€” as in nimbly, spryly; moving easily; nimbly; spryly; breezily sounds like acidly, adjudge, adjust, adjuster, adult
  3. AG7 β€” ease and grace in physical activity; deftness; dexterity; nimbleness; sleight sounds like ability
  4. AG5 β€” an uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble; agitation; anxiety; anxiousness; apprehension sounds like cheetah, fajita
  5. AG7 β€” to cause (as a liquid) to move about in a circle especially repeatedly; to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy; to make a series of small irregular or violent movements; churn; stir sounds like acetate, annotate

AL

  1. AL4 β€” to come to rest after descending from the air; to come down from something (as a vehicle); to come to rest after descending from the air; landed; lit sounds like eyelet, glut, gullet

AT

  1. AT5 β€” inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt

EL

  1. EL5 β€” as in exclusive; individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class; the highest class in a society; exclusive; better sounds like cleat, delete, fleet, pleat, sleet

GA

  1. GA6 β€” dressy clothing; joyful or festive activity; a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter; array; best sounds like gusty
  2. GA5 β€” in a cheerful or happy manner; in a quick and spirited manner; in a manner that is colorful and tends to arouse gaiety; brightly; cheerfully sounds like daily, girlie, glee, golly, gulley
  3. GA4 β€” the rate at which activities are pursued; clip; pace; rate; tempo sounds like ate, bait, date, eight, fate

GE

  1. GE6 β€” sounds like jalopy, jealousy, jelly, jetty

GI

  1. GI6 β€” something said or done to cause laughter; an explosive sound that is a sign of amusement; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; boff; boffola sounds like gaggle, goggle, google, gurgle, jiggle
  2. GI6 β€” as in happy, playful; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; exuberant; flippant; fluttery sounds like biggie, chili, chilly, dearly, degree
  3. GI4 β€” a female romantic companion; a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage; a natural body of running water smaller than a river; gal; girl sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, gal
  4. GI4 β€” as in glitter, bedizenment; covered in a thin layer of gold; coming from or characterized by wealth and luxury; bedizenment; glitter sounds like built, guild, guilty, hilt, jilt

GL

  1. GL4 β€”

IL

  1. IL7 β€” contrary to or forbidden by law; not being in accordance with the rules or standards of what is fair in sport; criminal; felonious; illegitimate sounds like legal
  2. IL10 β€” as in abuse, criminality; contrary to or forbidden by law; not being in accordance with the rules or standards of what is fair in sport; abuse; criminality sounds like legality
  3. IL9 β€” as in dirty; contrary to or forbidden by law; not being in accordance with the rules or standards of what is fair in sport; dirty; ignobly sounds like legally
  4. IL4 β€” sounds like alley, chili, ch**, early, eerie

IT

  1. IT4 β€” very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy

LA

  1. LA5 β€” the people of a religion who are not priests, ministers, etc.; flock; parish; assembly; church sounds like dainty, deity, eighty, hasty

LE

  1. LE8 β€” the quality or state of being legal; lawfulness; legitimacy
  2. LE5 β€” to go on foot; permitted by law; ambulate; foot (it); hoof (it) sounds like adjudge, adjust, bludgeon, bucket, budget

LI

  1. LI5 β€” one who follows the opinions or teachings of another; one who follows the opinions or teachings of another; acolyte; adherent; convert sounds like leach, leaf, league, leak, lean
  2. LI6 β€” sounds like negate
  3. LI4 β€” the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern; as in croon, warble; movement; sway; swing sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt
  4. LI4 β€” having or showing a shameful lack of courage; free from guilt or blame; chicken; chicken-livered; chickenhearted sounds like chili, chilly, filly, hilly, leery
  5. LI4 β€” as in light; light; natural; plain; simple sounds like alight, bite, blight, byte, cite
  6. LI8 β€” sounds like mitigate
  7. LI6 β€” having relatively little height; lacking importance; not broad or open in views or opinions; low; low-lying sounds like whittle

TA

  1. TA11 β€” sounds like malleable, palliative
  2. TA5 β€” sounds like tiger, toga
  3. TA4 β€” a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person; the part of the body upon which someone sits; a behind part or surface; cortege; entourage sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  4. TA8 β€” as in dog, tail; dog; hound; shadow; tail sounds like stalemate, tolerate
  5. TA4 β€” sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee
  6. TA6 β€”

TI

  1. TI4 β€” as in drain, hydrant; drain; drainpipe; funnel; hydrant sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
  2. TI4 β€” to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); up to (a particular time); cultivate; farm sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
  3. TI7 β€” as in cultivation, horticulture; cultivation; culture; farmwork; gardening sounds like pillage
  4. TI4 β€” the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; as in gyroplane, convertiplane; angling; bend sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt
  5. TI9 β€” to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings; charge; electrify; excite; exhilarate sounds like distillate, mitigate
  6. TI5 β€” a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known; a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize; the position occupied by the one who comes in first in a competition; appellation; appellative sounds like litle, total, turtle, vital
  7. TI6 β€” a very small piece; the smallest amount or part imaginable; as in run on, blabber; atom; bit sounds like little, total, turtle, whittle

YE

  1. YE4 β€” sounds like jetty, petty

agile, agilely, agility, agita, agitate, alit, atilt, elite, gaiety, gaily, gait, gelati, giggle, giggly, gill, gilt, glia, illegal, illegality, illegally, illy, itty, laity, legality, legit, liege, ligate, lilt, lily, lite, litigate, little, tagliatelle, taiga, tail, tailgate, tali, tallit, tile, till, tillage, tilt, titillate, title, tittle, yeti