NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Tue. 31 January, 2023

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

Letters: i  d  e  n  o  p  w

  • Total Answers: 54
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

DE

  1. DE6 β€” as in rejected, refused; to declare not to be true; to be unwilling to grant; disallowed; refused sounds like any, bend, buried, dairy

DI

  1. DI4 β€” to stop living; to come to an end; to stop functioning; checked out; conked (out) sounds like bide, chide, dad, dead, deed
  2. DI4 β€” to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal; as in board, mess; eat; fare sounds like dawn, dean, den
  3. DI5 β€” to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal; to take a meal; ate; fared sounds like denude, deny
  4. DI4 β€” sounds like dean, depot, keno, wino
  5. DI5 β€” sounds like abode, anode, bide, bind, bio
  6. DI6 β€” as in splashed, dunked; to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid; to lift out with something that holds liquid; dunked; splashed sounds like chipped, doped, shipped, sipped, whipped

DO

  1. DO8 β€” being in the direction that the wind is blowing; leeward

ED

  1. ED6 β€” as in swirled, purled; purled; swirled; bubbled; dribbled sounds like deed, readied

IN

  1. IN6 β€” without any question; not merely this but also; to tell the truth; all right; alright sounds like bandied, bodied, deed, endear, ended
  2. IN5 β€” sounds like windy
  3. IN5 β€” sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy

IO

  1. IO6 β€”

NI

  1. NI4 β€” 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
  2. NI7 β€” sounds like kingpin, linchpin
  3. NI6 β€” as in chilled; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points; chilled; asleep sounds like chipped, knit, shipped, sipped, whipped

ON

  1. ON5 β€” sounds like undone

OP

  1. OP5 β€” to make a statement of one's opinion; allow; comment; editorialize; note sounds like pine, spine
  2. OP6 β€” to make a statement of one's opinion; to make a statement of one's opinion; allowed; commented; editorialized
  3. OP7 β€” an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; a position arrived at after consideration; an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements; belief; conviction sounds like dominion, minion, onion
  4. OP6 β€” sounds like peed, speed

PI

  1. PI4 β€” having blotches of two or more colors; blotched; blotchy; dappled; marbled sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  2. PI4 β€” as in long, yearn; to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; as in long (for), sigh; long; yearn sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, o**
  3. PI5 β€” as in longed, yearned; to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; as in longed (for), sighed; longed; yearned sounds like pained, pond, pound
  4. PI8 β€” sounds like inward, plywood
  5. PI6 β€” to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; bind; chain; enchain; enfetter sounds like minion, o**
  6. PI8 β€” to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; bound; chained; enchained sounds like minion, opinion, poignant
  7. PI6 β€” as in mounted, hooked; as in chose, determined; as in charged, fathered (on); hooked; mounted sounds like pained, pond, pound
  8. PI8 β€” sounds like inept, sniped
  9. PI4 β€” a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; channel; conduit sounds like hype, pap, peep, pop, pope
  10. PI5 β€” to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; canalized; channeled sounds like typed
  11. PI6 β€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like begin, bidden, herein, kingpin, poplin

PO

  1. PO6 β€” to give what is owed for; to give what is owed for; anted (up); balanced; cleared

WE

  1. WE6 β€” a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; bookworm; dink; dork; geek sounds like genie, wiener, wino
  2. WE6 β€”

WI

  1. WI4 β€” having a greater than usual measure across; having considerable extent; to a full extent or degree; broad; fat sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied
  2. WI5 β€” to increase the width, breadth, or scope of; broaden; enlarge; expand; elongate sounds like wooden
  3. WI7 β€” to increase the width, breadth, or scope of; to increase the width, breadth, or scope of; broadened; enlarged; expanded
  4. WI5 β€” as in woman, wife; helpmate; helpmeet; lady; madam sounds like weirdo
  5. WI7 β€” as in orphaned; orphaned; bereaved; bereft; distressed
  6. WI6 β€” a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; bookworm; dink; dork; geek sounds like genie, wean
  7. WI4 β€” noticeable movement of air in a particular direction; a prevailing or general movement or inclination; language that is impressive-sounding but not meaningful or sincere; current; draft sounds like bind, find, hind, kind, lined
  8. WI6 β€” to follow a circular or spiral course; to introduce in a gradual, secret, or clever way; using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea; coil; corkscrew sounds like gilded, indeed, kindred, tinted, undid
  9. WI6 β€” as in space, pause; a deceptively attractive external appearance; as in shade, tapestry; caesura; comma sounds like weirdo
  10. WI8 β€”
  11. WI8 β€” sounds like indict, inspire, tintype
  12. WI4 β€” as in sake, mead; to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; mead; sake; alcohol sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, one
  13. WI5 β€” to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; to drink wine or give wine to (another person) to drink; pledged; toasted; belted (down) sounds like bind, find, hind, kind, lined
  14. WI6 β€” to remove less desirable choices from a group or list; cull; discard; jettison; throw away
  15. WI8 β€” to remove less desirable choices from a group or list; to remove less desirable choices from a group or list; as in screened, weeded (out); culled; discarded
  16. WI4 β€” as in drinker, drunkard; alcoholic; alkie; boozehound; boozer sounds like keno, wean
  17. WI4 β€” as in wash, brush; to destroy all traces of; to defeat by a large margin; brush; comb sounds like hype, pipe, ripe, s**, type
  18. WI5 β€” as in washed, brushed; depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; being under the influence of alcohol; brushed; combed sounds like typed, wept, whipped, white

WO

  1. WO8 β€” sounds like whirlwind

denied, died, dine, dined, dino, diode, dipped, downwind, eddied, indeed, indie, innie, iodine, nine, ninepin, nipped, onion, opine, opined, opinion, opioid, pied, pine, pined, pinewood, pinion, pinioned, pinned, pinniped, pipe, piped, pippin, ponied, weenie, weepie, wide, widen, widened, widow, widowed, wienie, wind, winded, window, windowed, windpipe, wine, wined, winnow, winnowed, wino, wipe, wiped, woodwind