NYT π CluesβWed. 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! 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
GR
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- HI7 β as in suggestive, implying; to convey an idea indirectly; to convey an idea indirectly; connoting; implying sounds like haunting
- 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
- IG8 β to set (something) on fire; to set (something) on fire; burning; enkindling; firing sounds like exciting, infighting, inviting
LI
- 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
- LI8 β as in candle, spotlight; to set (something) on fire; to supply with light; arc lamp; candelabra sounds like biting, fighting, sighting
- LI9 β moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed; as in fall guy, whipping boy; as in fall guys, whipping boys; blistering; breakneck
- 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
NI
- 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
- NI10 β sounds like footlight, highlight, knifelike, knightly, limelight
- NI5 β sounds like bind, china, dine, diner, find
RI
- 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
- RI8 β as in redressing; redressing; blue-penciling; cutting; shortening sounds like biting, fighting, lighting, rating, sighting
TH
- TH5 β as in calf, shin; as in panic, riot; as in panics, riots; calf; drumstick sounds like awry, buy, die, dye, eye
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- TI6 β sounds like filing, piling, styling
- 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
- 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
- TI5 β sounds like filth
- 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
- 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
- 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
- TI7 β sounds like billing, chilling, earring, fishing, fitting
- TI7 β to give a name to; to give a name to; baptizing; calling; christening sounds like bottling, middling, piddling, sizzling, tabling
TR
- TR4 β being clean and in good order; antiseptic; bandbox; crisp; groomed sounds like brig, rig, twig
- 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
- 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