NYT π CluesβWed. 22 February, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: t g i l n p y
- Total Answers: 34
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
GI
- 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
- GL5 β to shoot forth bursts of light; to take a quick or hasty look; as in glow, gleam; coruscate; flame sounds like flint, lint
- GL8 β as in glimmering, gleaming; to shoot forth bursts of light; to take a quick or hasty look; agleam; aglitter sounds like grinning, lifting, listing, printing, slanting
IG
- IG8 β to set (something) on fire; to set (something) on fire; burning; enkindling; firing sounds like exciting, infighting, inviting
IT
- IT4 β very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy
LI
- 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
- LI7 β as in musical, swaying; as in lively, sprightly; as in crooning, warbling; musical; swaying
- LI4 β a soft airy substance or covering; down; floss; fluff; fur sounds like f, g, hint, leant, learnt
- LI5 β as in fluffy, fuzzy; a soft airy substance or covering; downy; fluffy; fuzzy sounds like f*
PI
- PI4 β of a size that is less than average; of a size that is less than average; a person of no importance or influence; bantam; diminutive sounds like paint, pant, point, punt
- PI5 β sounds like peanut, people, puppet
- PI7 β as in denting; denting; bending; kinking; coarsening sounds like fitting, petting, sitting
- PI4 β a regrettable or blameworthy act; the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune; to have sympathy for; crime; disgrace sounds like city, ditty, kitty, patty, petty
- PI7 β as in patient, understanding; to have sympathy for; to have sympathy for; patient; tolerant sounds like dizzying, fitting, littering, petting, sitting
- PI9 β a feeling of pity for yourself because you believe you have suffered more than is fair or reasonable; melancholia; blue devils; blues; dejection sounds like wittingly
TI
- TI6 β sounds like filing, piling, styling
- 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 to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; cultivating; farming; tending sounds like billing, chilling, killing, schilling, shilling
- 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
- TI7 β running in a slanting direction; to set or cause to be at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; cant; canted sounds like billing, building, chilling, delaying, fitting
- TI7 β to give color or a different color to; to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, tanning, turning
- TI8 β as in prickly, needlelike; to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound; to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound; needlelike; prickly sounds like dangling
- TI6 β to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound; chink; clink; jingle; tinkle sounds like chili, chilly, dearly, dimly, dinghy
- TI6 β very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like busily, eerily, eternally, finally, finicky
- TI5 β as in thin, peeping; peeping; thin; high-pitched; piping sounds like guinea, tony, tourney
- TI4 β a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; to give color or a different color to; cast; color; hue sounds like hint, lint, mint, s**, taint
- TI7 β to give color or a different color to; to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing sounds like tenting
- TI4 β very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like shiny, tony, tourney
- TI7 β inclined or twisted to one side; to set or cause to be at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; askew; aslant sounds like whipping
- TI8 β to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages; to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages; bibbing; boozing; drinking sounds like crippling, middling, piddling, sizzling, stapling
- TI5 β as in wobbly, shaky; rocky; shaky; tipsy; wavery sounds like hippie
- TI7 β to give a name to; to give a name to; baptizing; calling; christening sounds like bottling, middling, piddling, sizzling, tabling
TY
- TY5 β to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; to produce something equal to (as in quality or value); to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; banding; binding sounds like buying, dyeing, dying, timing, trying
- TY6 β to arrange or assign according to type; to arrange or assign according to type; assorting; breaking down; categorizing sounds like piping, timing