NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 28 November, 2022

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

Letters: e  c  g  i  l  n  x

  • Total Answers: 36
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CE

  1. CE7 — a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go; a raised covering over something for decoration or protection synonyms—bound, boundary, cap, confines, end sounds like—feeling, healing, seating, seedling, seeming

  2. CE4 — an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall; one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided; a local unit of an organization synonyms—apartment, chamber, closet, room, bay sounds like—bell, dell, fell, gel, hell

  3. CE5 — the bass member of the violin family tuned an octave below the viola sounds like—belly, jelly, sally, self, sell

EG

  1. EG6 — as in whipping, prompting synonyms—exhorting, flogging, goading, hounding, pressing sounds like—etching

EN

  1. EN6 — a device that changes energy into mechanical motion synonyms—machine, motor

EX

  1. EX5 — to be greater, better, or stronger than synonyms—beat, better, eclipse, exceed, outclass

  2. EX10 — exceptionally high quality; a quality that gives something special worth synonyms—choiceness, distinction, excellency, first-rateness, greatness

  3. EX9 — to be greater, better, or stronger than synonyms—beating, bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outclassing sounds like—selling

  4. EX4 — a person who manages or directs something synonyms—administrant, administrator, archon, director, **utive sounds like—egghead, eggshell

  5. EX5 — the forced removal from a homeland; a person forced to emigrate for political reasons synonyms—banishment, deportation, displacement, expatriation, expulsion

  6. EX7 — to force to leave a country synonyms—banishing, deporting, displacing, expatriating, relegating

GE

  1. GE5 — a cosmetic gel; a jellied food : an edible jelly sounds like—belly, gaily, galley, girlie, glee

  2. GE7 — to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly synonyms—clotting, coagulating, congealing, gelating, gelatinizing sounds like—galling, selling

  3. GE4 — a **tic process that involves nonreciprocal meiotic recombination in heterozygotes in which a mismatched DNA sequence from one heteroduplex DNA strand is replaced with a sequence complementary to the other strand resulting in aberrant gametic ratios (such as 3:1) and that is observed especially in ascomycetous fungi sounds like—bean, dean, gin, jeans, jeep

  4. GE5 — a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it synonyms—afreet, jinni, cacodemon, demon, devil sounds like—jeans, journey

  5. GE5 — a magic spirit that looks like a person, often lives in a lamp or bottle, and serves the person who calls it synonyms—afreets, jinn, cacodemons, demons, devils sounds like—any, enemy, ennui, envy, fennel

GI

  1. GI6 — something said or done to cause laughter; an explosive sound that is a sign of amusement synonyms—boff, boffola, crack, drollery, funny sounds like—gaggle, goggle, google, gurgle, jiggle

GL

  1. GL4 — a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter synonyms—cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, festivity, gaiety sounds like—alley, early, flea, flee, gaily

  2. GL4 — a narrow valley synonyms—combe, dale, dell, hollow, shut-in

IC

  1. IC6 — a cold aloof person synonyms—cold fish, cold turkey, iceberg sounds like—bicycle, sickle

IN

  1. IN7 — the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon synonyms—cant, diagonal, grade, gradient, inclination

  2. IN5 — a navel that is concave sounds like—any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy

LE

  1. LE7 — as in hose, sweatpants synonyms—hose, sweatpants, baggies, bell-bottoms, blue jeans sounds like—lagging, logging

  2. LE8 — kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it synonyms—charity, clemency, forbearance, leniency, lenity

LI

  1. LI4 — a person whose behavior is offensive to others synonyms—bastard, beast, bleeder, blighter, boor sounds like—dice, ice, lace, lass, lease

  2. LI5 — one who follows the opinions or teachings of another synonyms—acolyte, adherent, convert, disciple, epigone sounds like—leach, leaf, league, leak, lean

  3. LI4 — a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law; the security interest created by a mortgage sounds like—bean, clean, dean, gene, glean

  4. LI4 — a series of persons or things arranged one behind another; a way of acting or proceeding; the activity by which one regularly makes a living synonyms—column, cue, file, queue, range sounds like—align, dine, fine, lain, lane

  5. LI5 — as in dirty laundry synonyms—dirty laundry, dirt, gossip, scuttlebutt, talebearing

NE

  1. NE8 — as in lingerie, nightie synonyms—lingerie, nightie, nightcap, pajamas, pj's sounds like—effigy

  2. NE10 — failure to take the care that a cautious person usually takes; the nonperformance of an assigned or expected action synonyms—carelessness, dereliction, heedlessness, incaution, incautiousness

  3. NE4 — an endangered goose (Branta sandvicensis synonym Nesochen sandvicensis) of the Hawaiian Islands that usually inhabits waterless uplands and feeds on berries and vegetation sounds like—bean, dean, gene, keen, knead

NI

  1. NI4 — following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses; hard to please synonyms—befitting, correct, de rigueur, decent, decorous sounds like—dice, ice, knife, knight, lice

  2. NI5 — as in nephew synonyms—nephew, bastard, by-blow, love child, whoreson sounds like—cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease

  3. NI6 — to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant synonyms—carp, cavil, fuss, nitpick, quibble sounds like—giggle, jiggle, wiggle

  4. NI4 — as in last word, hot ticket synonyms—buzz, chic, craze, dernier cri, enthusiasm sounds like—been, bin, chin, din, fin

ceiling, cell, celli, egging, engine, excel, excellence, excelling, exec, exile, exiling, gelee, gelling, gene, genie, genii, giggle, glee, glen, icicle, incline, innie, legging, lenience, lice, liege, lien, line, linen, negligee, negligence, nene, nice, niece, niggle, nine