NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 29 May, 2023 — Ben Willenbring

NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 29 May, 2023

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

Letters: e  g  i  k  n  o  v

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

EG

  1. EG6 — as in whipping, prompting; to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action; exhorting; flogging; goading sounds like etching

  2. EG6 — sounds like airbag, any, banal, bog, cannot

EK

  1. EK5 — to get with great difficulty; scrape (up or together); scrounge; squeeze; wrest sounds like aching, etching, king

EN

  1. EN6 — a device that changes energy into mechanical motion; a sturdy and patient domestic mammal that is used especially to carry things; a stupid person; machine; motor

  2. EN5 — sounds like adobe, anarchy, awoke, hokey, nosy

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

  3. EV5 — to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); educe; elicit; inspire; raise sounds like invoke, r*

  4. EV7 — to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); educing; eliciting; inspiring sounds like choking, croaking, soaking, voting

GE

  1. GE4 — a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; a person with strong intellectual interests; a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field; bookworm; dink sounds like beak, cheek, chic, eke, leak

  2. GE7 — sounds like aching, beaming, being, biking, booking

  3. GE4 — 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; afreet; jinni; cacodemon; demon 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; a very smart person; a special and usually inborn ability; afreets; jinn sounds like any, enemy, ennui, envy, fennel

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

GO

  1. GO4 — no longer existing; no longer living; no longer possessed; bygone; bypast sounds like dawn, fawn, gain, gall, gaunt

IN

  1. IN5 — sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy

  2. IN6 — to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); beget; breed; bring; bring about sounds like evoke

KE

  1. KE4 — able to sense slight impressions or differences; causing intense discomfort to one's skin; having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something; acute; delicate sounds like bean, can, cane, careen, clean

  2. KE7 — as in crying, wailing; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to make a long loud mournful sound; bawling; blubbering sounds like caning, cleaning, cunning, meaning

  3. KE4 — sounds like wino

KN

  1. KN4 — as in right, hand; as in push, kick; done instantly and without conscious thought or decision; body blow; hand sounds like any, bee, fee, gnaw, key

  2. KN7 — as in pushing, kicking; bumping; butting; jabbing; jostling sounds like being, gnawing

NE

  1. NE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead

  2. NE4 — sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon

NI

  1. NI4 — as in last word, hot ticket; as in last words, hot tickets; as in wage earner, wage slave; buzz; chic sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin

NO

  1. NO4 — certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun

  2. NO6 — sounds like boogie, newly

OG

  1. OG4 — sounds like edgy

OV

  1. OV4 — as in stove, microwave; as in oven, stove; as in oven, stove; broiler; fryer sounds like above, abuzz, adjoin, adjourn, adjudge

  2. OV5 — sounds like bean, b*, careen, clean, dean

VE

  1. VE6 — sounds like leggy, vary

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

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

VI

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

egging, eggnog, eking, engine, enoki, even, evening, evoke, evoking, geek, geeking, gene, genie, genii, give, given, gone, innie, invoke, keen, keening, keno, knee, kneeing, nene, neon, nine, none, noogie, ogee, oven, ovine, veggie, vegging, vein, vine

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