NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 12 April, 2023

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

Letters: p  e  g  i  n  u  x

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

EP

  1. EP4 β€” sounds like easy, pea

EX

  1. EX7 β€” to destroy all traces of; abolish; annihilate; black out; blot out sounds like sponge
  2. EX9 β€” to destroy all traces of; to destroy all traces of; abolishing; annihilating; blacking out

NI

  1. NI7 β€” sounds like kingpin, linchpin
  2. NI7 β€” having a low or subnormal temperature; uncomfortably cool; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; algid; arctic sounds like whipping

PE

  1. PE6 β€” sounds like being, paying, ping
  2. PE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
  3. PE4 β€” an instance of looking especially briefly; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cast; eye; gander sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
  4. PE7 β€” as in thin, tinny; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; thin; tinny sounds like leaping, piping
  5. PE7 β€” to arrange or assign according to type; to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm; to arrange or assign according to type; assorting; breaking down sounds like pairing
  6. PE7 β€” sounds like lengthen, pagan
  7. PE5 β€” sounds like den, hen, pain, pair, pan
  8. PE7 β€” to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; to compose and set down on paper the words of; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; boxing (in); caging sounds like kenning, pairing
  9. PE7 β€” to give life, vigor, or spirit to; amp (up); animate; brace; energize sounds like pairing, piping

PI

  1. PI7 β€” to eat greedily or to excess; to eat greedily or to excess; gorging; gormandizing; overeating sounds like rigging
  2. PI6 β€” a dirty or messy place; dump; hellhole; hole; pigsty sounds like begun, pagan
  3. 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**
  4. PI4 β€” as in ring, chime; as in ding, clang; chime; ding-dong; knell sounds like king, owing, pang, paying, peer
  5. PI7 β€” as in dinging, clanging; chinking; clanging; clanking; clashing sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, spinning, winning
  6. PI6 β€” a strong wish for something; as in longing, hankering; as in longing, yearning; appetency; appetite sounds like dining, fining, shining
  7. PI7 β€” as in mounting, hooking; as in choosing, determining; as in charging, fathering (on); hooking; mounting sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, s***, winning
  8. PI5 β€” as in cover girl, bathing beauty; as in cover girls, bathing beauties; bathing beauty; cover girl; belle
  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. PI6 β€” having a high musical pitch or range; as in pipeline, pipage; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; high-pitched; screeching
  11. PI6 β€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like begin, bidden, herein, kingpin, poplin
  12. PI5 β€” tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness; an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers; arch; devilish; elvish

PU

  1. PU7 β€” sounds like cunning, opening, running

UN

  1. UN5 β€” sounds like onion, snug
  2. UN9 β€” sounds like appealing, appeasing
  3. UN5 β€” sounds like onion
  4. UN9 β€”
  5. UN5 β€” sounds like annoying, appear, nine, onion, pin
  6. UN9 β€” sounds like spinning

UP

  1. UP6 β€” to make greater in size, amount, or number; to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to move or extend upward; accelerating; adding (to) sounds like appear, ping

epee, expunge, expunging, ninepin, nipping, peeing, peen, peep, peeping, pegging, penguin, penne, penning, pepping, pigging, pigpen, pine, ping, pinging, pining, pinning, pinup, pipe, piping, pippin, pixie, punning, unpeg, unpegging, unpen, unpenning, unpin, unpinning, upping