NYT π CluesβWed. 25 January, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: g b h o r t u
- Total Answers: 28
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
BO
- BO7 β as in city, town; asphalt jungle; burg; city; cosmopolis sounds like baroque, beau, berg, berth, bio
- BO5 β a major outgrowth from the main stem of a woody plant; branch; limb sounds like bay, beau, bee, brow, burr
- BO6 β made beforehand in large numbers; to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for; to influence someone with a bribe; mass-produced; off-the-peg sounds like bait, balm, bar, bat, beat
- BO5 β a small residential settlement; hamlet; townlet; vill; village
BR
- BR7 β to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request; to have a price of; begot; bred sounds like fraught, wrought
BU
- BU4 β a thickly settled, highly populated area; asphalt jungle; city; cosmopolis; megacity sounds like bag, beg, berth, big, birch
- BU5 β sounds like bag, beg, berth, big, birch
- BU6 β sounds like berg
GO
- GO4 β sounds like both, girth
- GO4 β sounds like bout, doubt, gait, gate, gauss
GR
- GR4 β a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk; alcohol; aqua vitae; ardent spirits; booze sounds like frog
- GR6 β a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface; antre; cave; cavern; delve sounds like erotic, garter, ghetto, glottal, got
- GR5 β sounds like drought, gout, kraut, rout
- GR4 β substances intended to be eaten; a person who does very hard or dull work; to devote serious and sustained effort; bread; chow sounds like drub, rub, shrub
GU
- GU4 β a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field; one who brings an art or science to full realization; ace; adept; artist sounds like grew
OU
- OU5 β to be under necessity or obligation to; have (to); must; need; shall sounds like all, ate, auto, awed, eat
- OU5 β a payment made in the course of achieving a result; the act of leaving a place; charge; cost; disbursement
- OU10 β to get the better of through cleverness; to get the better of through cleverness; foxed; outfoxed; outmaneuvered
RO
- RO6 β as in red-eye, bathtub gin; bathtub gin; red-eye; bootleg; moonshine sounds like argot, shotgun, target
- RO5 β covered with or as if with hair; marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity; marked by wet and windy conditions; bristly; brushy sounds like buff, cuff, gruff, huff, muff
TH
- TH8 β having no exceptions or restrictions; including many small descriptive features; trying all possibilities; absolute; all-out sounds like borough, burrow, furrow
- TH6 β in spite of that; in spite of the fact that; the way it would be or one would do if; even so; howbeit sounds like beau, doe, dough, foe, hoe
- TH7 β a careful weighing of the reasons for or against something; something imagined or pictured in the mind; to have as an opinion; account; advisement sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, taught
- TH7 β in or into the middle of; in random positions within the boundaries of; in the course of; amid; among sounds like brew, crew, drew, grew, rue
- TH10 β in random positions within the boundaries of; in the course of; from beginning to end; about; across sounds like brute, drought, fruit, kraut, roost
- TH4 β a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang; bully; gangbanger; gangsta; gangster sounds like bug, chug, dug, hug, jug
TO
- TO5 β not easily chewed; able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure; difficult to endure; chewy; leathery sounds like buff, cuff, huff, muff, puff
TR
- TR6 β a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); a long narrow channel dug in the earth; a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roof; channel; conduit sounds like brawl, brief, broad, broth, brought