NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 28 September, 2022

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

Letters: n  c  g  h  i  k  u

  • Total Answers: 41
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CH

  1. CH4 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation synonyms—babble, blab, cackle, chaffer, chat sounds like—been, bin, din

  2. CH8 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation synonyms—babbling, blabbing, cackling, chaffering, chattering sounds like—ginning, inning, sinning, winning

  3. CH8 — to get rid of as useless or unwanted; to give up (a job or office); to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm synonyms—cashiering, casting (off), deep-sixing, discarding, ditching

  4. CH8 — to move or go with or as if with chugs sounds like—bugging, mugging

  5. CH5 — a considerable amount; a small uneven mass synonyms—abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket sounds like—bunk, dunk, funk, hunk, junk

  6. CH8 — to make a dull plunging or explosive sound; to mishit (a golf ball or shot) by striking the ground behind the ball; to organize (separate units of information) into a single large unit that is retained in the memory and easily recalled sounds like—hulking, junket, ranking, sinking, thinking

CI

  1. CI5 — something that is easy to do; one that is certain to succeed synonyms—breeze, cake, cakewalk, child's play, cream puff sounds like—inch, lynch, pinch, sin, since

  2. CI8 — to make sure, certain, or safe synonyms—assuring, ensuring, guaranteeing, guarantying, icing sounds like—sinning

CU

  1. CU5 — as in lining, lining up synonyms—aligning, lining, lining up, queuing, emplacing sounds like—aching, cling, kick, kid, kill

  2. CU7 — clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means; skillful with the hands synonyms—artful, beguiling, cagey, crafty, cute sounds like—caning, coming, kenning, running

GI

  1. GI7 — as in driving, riding synonyms—busing, cabbing, coaching, cruising, driving sounds like—rigging

  2. GI7 — to come up with : generate —usually used with up; to separate (cotton fiber) from seeds and waste material; snare sounds like—inning, sinning, winning

GU

  1. GU4 — foul matter that mars the purity or cleanliness of something synonyms—crud, dirt, filth, grime, muck sounds like—bunk, chunk, dunk, funk, hunk

  2. GU7 — to strike with a missile from a gun synonyms—drilling, plugging, popping, shooting sounds like—cunning, running

HI

  1. HI6 — to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure; to move from a lower to a higher place or position synonyms—ambling, perambulating, rambling, sauntering, strolling sounds like—biking, hacking

  2. HI7 — to be determined by, based on, or subject (to) synonyms—depending, hanging, riding, turning sounds like—ginning, hearing, inning, sinning, winning

HU

  1. HU7 — to express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune; to put one's arms around and press tightly synonyms—complimenting, congratulating, felicitating, bear-***, clasping sounds like—bugging, mugging

  2. HU5 — to lie low with the limbs close to the body synonyms—couch, crouch, huddle, hunker (down), scrunch sounds like—bunch, honey, lunch, munch, punch

  3. HU8 — to lie low with the limbs close to the body synonyms—couching, crouching, huddling, hunkering (down), scrunching sounds like—annoying, cunning, funding, hatching, haunting

  4. HU4 — bending downward or forward synonyms—bowed, bowing, declined, declining, descendant sounds like—dung, hang

  5. HU4 — a physically attractive man; a small uneven mass synonyms—beefcake, pretty boy, stud, superstud, blob sounds like—bunk, c, dunk, funk, hank

IC

  1. IC5 — as in fringe benefit synonyms—fringe benefit, award, prize, reward, favor sounds like—sing

IN

  1. IN4 — a very small distance or degree; an individual part of a process, series, or ranking; the distance of something or someone from bottom to top synonyms—ace, hair, hairbreadth, hairline, hop, skip, and jump sounds like—c, itch, lynch, p**

  2. IN7 — as in imperceptible; as in plodding, ambling synonyms—imperceptible, progressive, stepped, tapered, decrescent

  3. IN6 — to write one's name on (as a document) synonyms—autographing, signing, subscribing sounds like—s**, th**

  4. IN6 — to put up at an inn sounds like—earring, g**, s**, w**

KI

  1. KI7 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to present an opposing opinion or argument synonyms—beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bleating, carping sounds like—cooking

  2. KI4 — a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe synonyms—baron, captain, czar, lion, lord sounds like—aching, cling, owing, ping

  3. KI7 — sounds like—caning, cunning, ginning, inning, kenning

  4. KI4 — a painful sudden tightening of a muscle; an odd or peculiar habit; a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action synonyms—charley horse, cramp, crick, spasm, crotchet sounds like—ink, jink, link, mink, pink

  5. KI7 — as in turning, twisting synonyms—entwining, swirling, turning, twining, twisting sounds like—sinking, thinking

NI

  1. NI4 — a V-shaped cut usually on an edge or a surface; a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody; a state of being or fitness synonyms—chip, hack, indent, indentation, indenture sounds like—chick, dick, hick, kick, knack

  2. NI7 — to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep; to take or keep under one's control by authority of law synonyms—appropriating, boosting, filching, heisting, hooking sounds like—aching, biking, billing, booking, chilling

  3. NI4 — not being distant in time, space, or significance synonyms—close, close-up, immediate, near, nearby sounds like—awry, buy, die, dye, eye

NU

  1. NU6 — to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of synonyms—annihilating, creaming, decimating, demolishing, desolating sounds like—aching, biking, booking, booming, chewing

  2. NU8 — a weapon that consists of two sticks joined by a short length of cord, chain, or rawhide : nunchaku —usually plural sounds like—luncheon

  3. NU7 — a weapon that consists of two sticks joined by a short length of cord, chain, or rawhide : nunchaku —usually plural sounds like—luncheon

UN

  1. UN9 — to cause to go insane or as if insane; to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy synonyms—cracking, crazing, deranging, frenzying, locoing

  2. UN6 —

  3. UN6 — to cause to follow a line that is without bends or curls synonyms—straighten, unbend, uncurl sounds like—aching, annoying, biking, blink, booking

  4. UN9 — to cause to follow a line that is without bends or curls synonyms—straightening, unbending, uncurling

chin, chinning, chucking, chugging, chunk, chunking, cinch, cinching, cuing, cunning, gigging, ginning, gunk, gunning, hiking, hinging, hugging, hunch, hunching, hung, hunk, icing, inch, inching, inking, inning, kicking, king, kinging, kink, kinking, nick, nicking, nigh, nuking, nunchuck, nunchuk, unhinging, unhung, unkink, unkinking