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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 26 July, 2023

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

Letters: t  g  h  i  l  n  r

  • Total Answers: 48
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

GI

  1. 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
  2. GI4 β€” to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt; to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt; to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity; band; begird sounds like curt, dirt, gait, gate, get
  3. GI5 β€” the distance around a round body; to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt; circumference; band; begird sounds like berth, birth, dearth, earth, mirth

GL

  1. 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
  2. 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

GR

  1. GR4 β€” the strength of mind that enables a person to endure pain or hardship; to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound; backbone; constancy; fiber
  2. GR8 β€” to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound; to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound; crunching; gnashing; grating

HI

  1. HI9 β€” to indicate the importance of by centering attention on; as in break, clincher; as in feature, attraction; accent; accentuate sounds like alight, blight, byline, daylight, delight
  2. HI12 β€” to indicate the importance of by centering attention on; to indicate the importance of by centering attention on; accenting; accentuating; emphasizing sounds like halting, lighting
  3. HI4 β€” as in shaft; with all power or resources being used; to a full extent or degree; shaft; bail sounds like built, gilt, guilt, halt, jilt
  4. HI4 β€” a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation); an almost imperceptible sign of something; a piece of advice or useful information especially from an expert; clue; cue sounds like haunt, hunt, lint, mint, tint
  5. HI7 β€” as in suggestive, implying; to convey an idea indirectly; to convey an idea indirectly; connoting; implying sounds like haunting
  6. HI7 β€” to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to come into usually forceful contact with something; to obtain (as a goal) through effort; banging; bashing sounds like fitting, hearing, sitting

IG

  1. IG8 β€” to set (something) on fire; to set (something) on fire; burning; enkindling; firing sounds like exciting, infighting, inviting

LI

  1. LI5 β€” the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible; something that provides illumination; a person who is widely known and usually much talked about; blaze; flare sounds like a*, bite, b*, byte, cite
  2. LI8 β€” as in candle, spotlight; to set (something) on fire; to supply with light; arc lamp; candelabra sounds like biting, fighting, sighting
  3. LI9 β€” moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed; as in fall guy, whipping boy; as in fall guys, whipping boys; blistering; breakneck
  4. 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
  5. LI7 β€” as in musical, swaying; as in lively, sprightly; as in crooning, warbling; musical; swaying
  6. LI4 β€” a soft airy substance or covering; down; floss; fluff; fur sounds like f, g, hint, leant, learnt

NI

  1. NI5 β€” the time from sunset to sunrise when there is no visible sunlight; a time or place of little or no light; the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness; dark; darkness sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height
  2. NI10 β€” sounds like footlight, highlight, knifelike, knightly, limelight
  3. NI5 β€” sounds like bind, china, dine, diner, find

RI

  1. RI5 β€” something to which one has a just claim; an entitlement to something; the practice of giving to others what is their due; appanage; birthright sounds like bite, b*, byte, cite, fight
  2. RI8 β€” as in redressing; redressing; blue-penciling; cutting; shortening sounds like biting, fighting, lighting, rating, sighting

TH

  1. TH5 β€” as in calf, shin; as in panic, riot; as in panics, riots; calf; drumstick sounds like awry, buy, die, dye, eye
  2. TH4 β€” having a noticeably small amount of body fat; being of less than usual width; not containing very much of some important element; bony; fatless sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin
  3. TH5 β€” a member of the human race; one that has a real and independent existence; something done by someone; baby; being sounds like king, owing, ping, ring, sing
  4. TH8 β€” to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances; to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances; adulterating; cutting; diluting sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, winning
  5. TH6 β€” a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings; to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings of; bang; boot; charge sounds like drill, frill, grill, grille, rill
  6. TH9 β€” causing great emotional or mental stimulation; to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings of; to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings of; breathtaking; charged sounds like drilling

TI

  1. TI5 β€” not allowing penetration (as by gas, liquid, or light); firmly positioned in place and difficult to dislodge; giving or sharing as little as possible; impenetrable; impermeable sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height
  2. TI6 β€” sounds like filing, piling, styling
  3. TI4 β€” up to (a particular time); to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); until; up till sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. TI5 β€” sounds like filth
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. TI7 β€” to give color or a different color to; to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing sounds like tenting
  12. TI6 β€” causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; to diminish the physical strength of; to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous; arid; boring sounds like bring, earring, ring, string, touring
  13. TI7 β€” sounds like billing, chilling, earring, fishing, fitting
  14. TI7 β€” to give a name to; to give a name to; baptizing; calling; christening sounds like bottling, middling, piddling, sizzling, tabling

TR

  1. TR4 β€” being clean and in good order; antiseptic; bandbox; crisp; groomed sounds like brig, rig, twig
  2. TR5 β€” as in ripple, warble; to sing with the alternation of two musical tones; to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings of; chirr; ripple sounds like drill, frill, grill, grille, rill
  3. TR8 β€” as in quavering, warbling; to sing with the alternation of two musical tones; to sing with the alternation of two musical tones; quavering; warbling sounds like drilling, thrilling

gilt, girt, girth, glint, glinting, grit, gritting, highlight, highlighting, hilt, hint, hinting, hitting, igniting, light, lighting, lightning, lilt, lilting, lint, night, nightlight, ninth, right, righting, thigh, thin, thing, thinning, thrill, thrilling, tight, tiling, till, tilling, tilt, tilth, tilting, tinging, tingling, tint, tinting, tiring, tithing, titling, trig, trill, trilling