NYT π CluesβWed. 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! π€£
AG
- AG5 β moving easily; featly; feline; graceful; gracile sounds like addle, annul, apple
- AG7 β as in nimbly, spryly; moving easily; nimbly; spryly; breezily sounds like acidly, adjudge, adjust, adjuster, adult
- AG7 β ease and grace in physical activity; deftness; dexterity; nimbleness; sleight sounds like ability
- 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
- 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
- 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
- AT5 β inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt
EL
- 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
- 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
- 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
- GA4 β the rate at which activities are pursued; clip; pace; rate; tempo sounds like ate, bait, date, eight, fate
GE
- GE6 β sounds like jalopy, jealousy, jelly, jetty
GI
- 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
- GI6 β as in happy, playful; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; exuberant; flippant; fluttery sounds like biggie, chili, chilly, dearly, degree
- 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
- 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
- GL4 β
IL
- 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
- 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
- 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
- IL4 β sounds like alley, chili, ch**, early, eerie
IT
- IT4 β very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy
LA
- LA5 β the people of a religion who are not priests, ministers, etc.; flock; parish; assembly; church sounds like dainty, deity, eighty, hasty
LE
- LE8 β the quality or state of being legal; lawfulness; legitimacy
- LE5 β to go on foot; permitted by law; ambulate; foot (it); hoof (it) sounds like adjudge, adjust, bludgeon, bucket, budget
LI
- 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
- LI6 β sounds like negate
- 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
- 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
- LI4 β as in light; light; natural; plain; simple sounds like alight, bite, blight, byte, cite
- LI8 β sounds like mitigate
- LI6 β having relatively little height; lacking importance; not broad or open in views or opinions; low; low-lying sounds like whittle
TA
- TA11 β sounds like malleable, palliative
- TA5 β sounds like tiger, toga
- 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
- TA8 β as in dog, tail; dog; hound; shadow; tail sounds like stalemate, tolerate
- TA4 β sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee
- TA6 β
TI
- TI4 β as in drain, hydrant; drain; drainpipe; funnel; hydrant sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
- 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
- TI7 β as in cultivation, horticulture; cultivation; culture; farmwork; gardening sounds like pillage
- 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
- TI9 β to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings; charge; electrify; excite; exhilarate sounds like distillate, mitigate
- 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
- 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
- YE4 β sounds like jetty, petty