NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 30 October, 2022

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

Letters: t  b  e  h  i  l  y

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

BE

  1. BE4 — a biennial garden plant (Beta vulgaris) of the goosefoot family that includes several cultivars (such as Swiss chard and sugar **) and that has thick edible leaves with long petioles and often swollen purplish-red roots; also : its root used especially as a vegetable, as a source of sugar, or for forage sounds like—bait, bat

  2. BE6 — to extend outward beyond a usual point synonyms—bag, balloon, belly, billow, bulge sounds like—battle, bottle, cheetal, fetal

  3. BE8 — to express scornfully one's low opinion of synonyms—bad-mouth, cry down, decry, denigrate, deprecate

  4. BE4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time synonyms—bang, bash, bat, beat, biff sounds like—bolt, built, dealt

  5. BE5 — a climbing pepper (Piper betle) of southeastern Asia whose leaves are chewed together with * nut and mineral lime as a stimulant masticatory sounds like—battle, bottle, hotel, kettle

BI

  1. BI6 — a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide synonyms—bar, rod sounds like—ballot, built, bullet

  2. BI4 — a harsh or sharp quality; a small piece or quantity of food; an uncomfortable degree of coolness synonyms—acerbity, acidity, acidness, acridity, acridness sounds like—bait, bat, beat, beet, bet

BL

  1. BL6 — having or showing a good mood or disposition; indicative of or marked by high spirits or good humor; having or showing freedom from worries or troubles synonyms—**some, bright, buoyant, canty, cheerful sounds like—lithe

  2. BL8 — as in breezily, laughingly synonyms—blithesomely, breezily, gladly, gladsomely, laughingly sounds like—brightly, lightly, likely, lively, slightly

BY

  1. BY4 — a unit of computer information or data-storage capacity that consists of a group of eight bits and that is used especially to represent an alphanumeric character sounds like—bait, bat, beat, beet, bet

EL

  1. EL5 — as in exclusive synonyms—exclusive, better, exceptional, fancy, high-grade sounds like—cleat, delete, fleet, pleat, sleet

ET

  1. ET5 — a colorless fragrant volatile flammable liquid ester C4H8O2 used especially as a solvent sounds like—m*

EY

  1. EY6 — a small hole designed to receive a cord or used for decoration (as in embroidery); a small typically metal ring to reinforce an ** : grommet; peephole, loophole sounds like—glut, pilot

  2. EY8 — a canine tooth of the upper jaw sounds like—eighth, eighty, heath, icy, idea

HI

  1. HI4 — as in shaft synonyms—shaft, bail, bow, loop, crop sounds like—built, gilt, guilt, halt, jilt

IT

  1. IT4 — very small in size synonyms—atomic, bitsy, b, infinitesimal, little b sounds like—city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy

LI

  1. LI4 — the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern synonyms—movement, sway, swing, beat, cadence sounds like—built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

  2. LI4 — as in light synonyms—light, natural, plain, simple, unseasoned sounds like—alight, bite, blight, byte, cite

  3. LI5 — able to bend easily without breaking; moving easily; having a noticeably small amount of body fat synonyms—bendy, flexible, limber, lissome, *some sounds like—b*, lathe

  4. LI7 — able to bend easily without breaking; moving easily; having a noticeably small amount of body fat synonyms—bendy, flexible, limber, lissome, lithesome

  5. LI6 — having relatively ** height; lacking importance; not broad or open in views or opinions synonyms—low, low-lying, low-slung, sawed-off, short sounds like—whittle

TE

  1. TE5 — as in desires, tastes synonyms—appetites, fancies, favors, likes, likings sounds like—heath, sheath

  2. TE6 — to experience the emergence of one's teeth through the gums sounds like—seethe, tier

  3. TE4 — to give an oral or written account of in some detail; to express (a thought or emotion) in words; to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added synonyms—chart, chronicle, describe, narrate, recite sounds like—bell, cell, dell, fell, gel

TH

  1. TH4 — the utmost degree; a state of perfection sounds like—bee, earthy, fee, gee, key

  2. TH4 — to seize especially with teeth or jaws so as to enter, grip, or wound; to wound, pierce, or sting especially with a fang or a proboscis; to cut or pierce with or as if with an edged weapon sounds like—array, bay, day, gay, hay

TI

  1. TI4 — as in drain, hydrant synonyms—drain, drainpipe, funnel, hydrant, main sounds like—aisle, bile, file, guile, isle

  2. TI4 — to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on synonyms—cultivate, farm, tend sounds like—bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

  3. TI4 — the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle synonyms—angling, bend, cock, inclination, list sounds like—built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

  4. TI5 — cultivated land : tillage; the state of aggregation of a soil especially in relation to its suitability for crop growth sounds like—filth

  5. TI5 — an amount of money that a person gives to a church which is usually equal to 1/10 of that person's income synonyms—alms, benefaction, beneficence, benevolence, charity sounds like—with

  6. TI5 — a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known; a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize; the position occupied by the one who comes in first in a competition synonyms—appellation, appellative, cognomen, compellation, denomination sounds like—litle, total, turtle, vital

  7. TI6 — a very small piece; the smallest amount or part imaginable synonyms—atom, bit, crumb, dribble, fleck sounds like—little, total, turtle, whittle

YE

  1. YE4 — a mysterious creature with human or apelike characteristics reported to exist in the high Himalayas —called also ** sounds like—jetty, petty

beet, beetle, belittle, belt, betel, billet, bite, blithe, blithely, byte, elite, ethyl, eyelet, eyeteeth, hilt, itty, lilt, lite, lithe, lithely, little, teeth, teethe, tell, thee, they, tile, till, tilt, tilth, tithe, title, tittle, yeti