NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 31 May, 2023

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

Letters: t  g  h  o  r  u  w

  • Total Answers: 44
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

GO

  1. GO4 — sounds like both, girth

  2. GO4 — sounds like bout, doubt, gait, gate, gauss

GR

  1. GR6 — a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface; antre; cave; cavern; delve sounds like erotic, garter, ghetto, glottal, got

  2. GR5 — sounds like drought, gout, kraut, rout

  3. GR6 — an abnormal mass of tissue; the act or process of going from the simple or basic to the complex or advanced; the process of becoming mature; excrescence; excrescency

HO

  1. HO4 — a loud vocal expression of strong emotion; a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; the smallest amount or part imaginable; cry; holler sounds like boot, chute, hat, hate, heat

HU

  1. HU4 — to feel or cause physical pain; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; to cause bodily damage to; ache; pain sounds like curt, dirt, hat, hate, heard

OU

  1. OU5 — to be under necessity or obligation to; have (to); must; need; shall sounds like all, ate, auto, awed, eat

  2. OU5 — a payment made in the course of achieving a result; the act of leaving a place; charge; cost; disbursement

  3. OU7 —

  4. OU9 — a branch of a main stem especially of a plant; a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause; something that naturally develops or is developed from something else; offshoot; shoot

  5. OU5 —

  6. OU10 — to get the better of through cleverness; to get the better of through cleverness; foxed; outfoxed; outmaneuvered

RO

  1. RO4 — a point or place at which something is invented or provided; the source from which something grows or develops; an immaterial thing upon which something else rests; cradle; font sounds like boot, brute, chute, fruit, hoot

  2. RO6 — as in red-eye, bathtub gin; bathtub gin; red-eye; bootleg; moonshine sounds like argot, shotgun, target

  3. RO5 — as in gyroplane, convertiplane; as in biplane, triplane; autogiro; convertiplane; gyroplane sounds like boater, motor, voter, writer

  4. RO4 — a great number of persons or creatures massed together; people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class; failure to win a contest; army; bike sounds like bout, doubt, drought, gout, kraut

TH

  1. TH8 — having no exceptions or restrictions; including many small descriptive features; trying all possibilities; absolute; all-out sounds like borough, burrow, furrow

  2. TH4 — having or showing the annoying attitude of people who believe that they are morally better than other people; self-righteous; assured; biggety; bigheaded sounds like boo, chew, coup, dew, doo

  3. TH6 — 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

  4. TH7 — 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

  5. TH7 — 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

  6. TH10 — in random positions within the boundaries of; in the course of; from beginning to end; about; across sounds like brute, drought, fruit, kraut, roost

  7. TH5 — to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm; to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally; a risky undertaking; cast; catapult sounds like arrow, crow, grow, pro, row

  8. TH4 — 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

  1. TO4 — a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking; bender; binge; bust; carousal sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot

  2. TO5 — as in desire, taste; with all power or resources being used; being of advanced years and especially past middle age; appetite; fancy sounds like booth, truth, tube, tune, two

  3. TO4 —

  4. TO4 — sounds like court, fort, port, short, sort

  5. TO5 — not easily chewed; able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure; difficult to endure; chewy; leathery sounds like buff, cuff, huff, muff, puff

  6. TO4 — a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position; to take a trip especially of some distance; an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness; hitch; stint sounds like boor, lure, moor, poor, sure

  7. TO4 — to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to provide publicity for; ballyhoo; blow up sounds like bout, doubt, gout, out, pout

TR

  1. TR4 — a mean or ugly old woman; abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools; to go at a pace faster than a walk; beldam; carline sounds like rot

  2. TR5 — a person's solemn declaration that he or she will do or not do something; the act or state of being engaged to be married; adherence to something to which one is bound by a pledge or duty; oath; pledge sounds like broth, froth

  3. TR6 — 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

  4. TR5 — sounds like drought, kraut, rout, tout

  5. TR5 — agreement with fact or reality; a statement that is only partly true and that is intended to deceive people; to tell the truth; facticity; factuality sounds like tooth

TU

  1. TU5 — as in teacher, instructor; to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field; to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed; instructor; teacher sounds like neuter, shooter, suitor, tatter, teeter

  2. TU4 — as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo

WO

  1. WO4 — sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot

  2. WO4 — sounds like curt, dirt, hurt, pert, shirt

  3. WO5 — the relative usefulness or importance of something as judged by specific qualities; the amount of money for which something will find a buyer; the total of one's money and property; account; merit sounds like berth, birth, dearth, earth, girth

WR

  1. WR5 — feeling or showing anger; angered; angry; apoplectic; ballistic sounds like broth, froth, moth, roar

  2. WR7 — to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); to find an answer for through reasoning; to have a certain purpose; begot; bred sounds like brought, fought, fraught, naught, ought

goth, gout, grotto, grout, growth, hoot, hurt, ought, outgo, outgrow, outgrowth, outro, outthought, root, rotgut, rotor, rout, thorough, thou, though, thought, through, throughout, throw, thug, toot, tooth, toro, tort, tough, tour, tout, trot, troth, trough, trout, truth, tutor, tutu, woot, wort, worth, wroth, wrought