NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 16 January, 2023

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

Letters: v  a  e  g  i  n  w

  • Total Answers: 30
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AG

  1. AG5 — sounds like gave, give, gob, god, gosh

AV

  1. AV6 — to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for; redress; requite; retaliate; revenge

  2. AV8 — as in retaliatory; to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for; to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for; retaliatory; revengeful sounds like unending, vending

  3. AV5 — sounds like alien

EA

  1. EA4 — sounds like eel, eke, h, l, thieve

EV

  1. EV4 — not merely this but also; to a full extent or degree; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; indeed; nay sounds like been, bin, chin, din, easing

  2. EV7 — a later period of one's life; the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness; as in black-tie, white-tie; afterlife; afternoon sounds like burning, caning, cunning, dining, easing

GA

  1. GA6 — sounds like ravage, savage

  2. GA4 — to make a present of; to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another; to bring before the public in performance or exhibition; bestowed; contributed sounds like cave

GI

  1. GI4 — to make a present of; to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another; to bring before the public in performance or exhibition; bestow; contribute sounds like gave, gear, sieve

  2. GI5 — being in the habit or custom; having a tendency to be or act in a certain way; known but not named; accustomed; habituated sounds like riven

  3. GI6 — as in caring, nurturing; as in yielding, bending; the act of offering money in exchange for goods or services; caring; nurturing sounds like living

NA

  1. NA5 — lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; free from any intent to deceive or impress others; readily taken advantage of; aw-shucks; dewy sounds like achieve, arrive, chive, dive, eave

  2. NA4 — sounds like cave, gave, nerve, pave, rave

VA

  1. VA6 —

  2. VA4 — having too high an opinion of oneself; producing no results; having no usefulness; assured; biggety sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

  3. VA4 — sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

VE

  1. VE5 — as in vegetarian, herbivore; herbivore; insectivore; vegetarian; animal sounds like beckon, begun, deafen, felon, gun

  2. VE6 — sounds like leggy, vary

  3. VE7 — to spend time doing nothing; to spend time doing nothing; bumming; chilling; dallying sounds like bearing, bedding, bugging, caring, chairing

  4. VE4 — a distinctive way of putting ideas into words; fashion; locution; manner; mode sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

VI

  1. VI4 — all that can be seen from a certain point; an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; an instance of looking especially briefly; command; lookout sounds like cue, few, hew, hue, mew

  2. VI7 — to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition); to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes; to think of in a particular way; auditing; checking (out) sounds like bluing, chewing, veiling, voting

  3. VI4 — to be unsuccessful; to be unsuccessful; to be unsuccessful; bomb; collapse sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine

WA

  1. WA5 — to officially say that you will not use or require something that you are allowed to have or that is usually required; abjure; demit; deny; disavow sounds like cave, gave, pave, rave, save

  2. WA7 — to officially say that you will not use or require something that you are allowed to have or that is usually required; to officially say that you will not use or require something that you are allowed to have or that is usually required; abjuring; demitting; denying sounds like saving, weighting, whaling

  3. WA4 — a moving ridge on the surface of water; to direct or notify by a movement or gesture; as in waive; billow; surge sounds like cave, gave, pave, rave, save

  4. WA6 — as in flailing, flapping; to direct or notify by a movement or gesture; to direct or notify by a movement or gesture; flailing; flapping sounds like bashing, dashing, diving, gassing, hacking

WE

  1. WE5 — to cause to twine about one another; to scatter or set here and there among other things; to move suddenly aside or to and fro; enlace; entwine sounds like eave, eve, heave, leave, thieve

  2. WE7 — as in meandering; to cause to twine about one another; to scatter or set here and there among other things; meandering; bending sounds like thieving, wheezing

agave, avenge, avenging, avian, eave, even, evening, gavage, gave, give, given, giving, naive, nave, vagina, vain, vane, vegan, veggie, vegging, vein, view, viewing, vine, waive, waiving, wave, waving, weave, weaving