NYT π CluesβWed. 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! π€£
GO
- GO4 β sounds like both, girth
- GO4 β sounds like bout, doubt, gait, gate, gauss
GR
- 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
- GR6 β 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
- HO4 β 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
- HU4 β 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
- 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
- OU7 β
- OU9 β 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
- OU5 β
- OU10 β to get the better of through cleverness; to get the better of through cleverness; foxed; outfoxed; outmaneuvered
RO
- RO4 β 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
- RO6 β as in red-eye, bathtub gin; bathtub gin; red-eye; bootleg; moonshine sounds like argot, shotgun, target
- RO5 β as in gyroplane, convertiplane; as in biplane, triplane; autogiro; convertiplane; gyroplane sounds like boater, motor, voter, writer
- RO4 β 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
- TH8 β having no exceptions or restrictions; including many small descriptive features; trying all possibilities; absolute; all-out sounds like borough, burrow, furrow
- TH4 β 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
- 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
- TH5 β 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
- 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
- TO4 β a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking; bender; binge; bust; carousal sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot
- TO5 β 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
- TO4 β
- TO4 β sounds like court, fort, port, short, sort
- TO5 β not easily chewed; able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure; difficult to endure; chewy; leathery sounds like buff, cuff, huff, muff, puff
- TO4 β 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
- TO4 β 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
- TR4 β 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
- TR5 β 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
- 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
- TR5 β sounds like drought, kraut, rout, tout
- TR5 β 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
- TU5 β 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
- TU4 β as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo
WO
- WO4 β sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot
- WO4 β sounds like curt, dirt, hurt, pert, shirt
- WO5 β 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
- WR5 β feeling or showing anger; angered; angry; apoplectic; ballistic sounds like broth, froth, moth, roar
- WR7 β 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