Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 7 July, 2023

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

Letters: w  a  c  g  i  l  n

  • Total Answers: 29
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AW

  1. AW5 β€” as in amazing, astounding; amazing; astounding; appalling; bowling over sounds like gn*, king, offing, owing, ping
  2. AW6 β€” a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; canopy; ceiling; cover; roof sounds like inning

CA

  1. CA6 β€” as in raucous, squawking; raucous; screeching; squawking; strident sounds like cling, gnawing, king, sawing

CL

  1. CL4 β€” as in burrow, grub; as in cut, lacerate; having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others; burrow; grub sounds like flaw, law
  2. CL7 β€” as in burrowing, grubbing; as in cutting, lacerating; burrowing; grubbing; dredging

GN

  1. GN4 β€” to consume or wear away gradually; to crush or grind with the teeth; as in get (to), bother; bite (at); corrode sounds like chaw, jaw, knee, knew, know
  2. GN7 β€” to consume or wear away gradually; to consume or wear away gradually; to crush or grind with the teeth; biting (at); corroding sounds like knowing, sawing

LA

  1. LA4 β€” an area of ground (such as the ground around a house or in a garden or park) that is covered with short grass; grass; green; greensward; clearing sounds like dawn, fawn, gone, lean, learn

WA

  1. WA7 β€” to move from side to side or up and down with quick jerky motions; to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature; to make short up-and-down movements; swishing; switching sounds like lagging, nagging, sagging
  2. WA8 β€” to move from side to side or up and down with quick jerky motions; to move from side to side or up and down with quick jerky motions; swishing; switching; wagging sounds like baffling, dangling, dazzling, paneling
  3. WA6 β€” sounds like aging, bashing, dashing, fudging, gassing
  4. WA4 β€” a crying out in grief; a long low sound indicating pain or grief; an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; groan; howl sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  5. WA7 β€” expressing or suggesting mourning; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to make a long loud mournful sound; aching; agonized sounds like ailing, mailing, railing, veiling, weighting
  6. WA4 β€” a physical object that blocks the way; means or method of defending; as in close in, cordon (off); barricade; barrier sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
  7. WA7 β€” as in closing in, cordoning (off); as in picketing, buffering; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; circumscribing; closing in sounds like galling, whaling, whirling, willing
  8. WA8 β€” to plan out usually with subtle skill or care; to plan out usually with subtle skill or care; contriving; engineering; finagling sounds like dangling
  9. WA6 β€” as in declining, dying; as in fading, ebbing; to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually; decaying; declining sounds like caning, weighting, whaling, winning
  10. WA5 β€” sounds like donna, mana

WI

  1. WI7 β€” to yield to mental or emotional stress; break down; break up; crack; flip (out) sounds like rigging, whipping
  2. WI8 β€” to make jerky or restless movements; to make jerky or restless movements; fiddling; fidgeting; jerking sounds like beguiling, middling, piddling, sizzling
  3. WI6 β€” sounds like zigzag
  4. WI10 β€” sounds like beginning, beguiling, degrading, exhausting, galling
  5. WI4 β€” to give by means of a will; to see fit; the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions; bequeath; leave sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
  6. WI7 β€” having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action); having or showing the ability to respond without delay or hesitation; done, made, or given with one's own free will; amenable; disposed sounds like billing, chilling, killing, schilling, shilling
  7. WI7 β€” to draw back in fear, pain, or disgust; to draw back in fear, pain, or disgust; blenching; cringing; flinching sounds like rinsing
  8. WI4 β€” a group of people acting together within a larger group; to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom; bloc; block sounds like king, o**, ping, ring, sing
  9. WI7 β€” to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; aviating; flying; gliding sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, whipping
  10. WI6 β€” to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; pledging; toasting; belting (down) sounds like dining, fining, shining
  11. WI7 β€” having qualities that tend to make one loved; likely or intended to win one's affection; as in win, victory; adorable; darling sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, whipping

awing, awning, cawing, claw, clawing, gnaw, gnawing, lawn, wagging, waggling, waging, wail, wailing, wall, walling, wangling, waning, wanna, wigging, wiggling, wigwag, wigwagging, will, willing, wincing, wing, winging, wining, winning