NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 15 February, 2023

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

Letters: o  a  d  e  g  p  y

  • Total Answers: 38
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AG

  1. AG4 — having or showing signs of eagerly awaiting something; showing urgent desire or interest; agape; anticipant; anticipatory sounds like afar, ajar, allot, atop, awash

AP

  1. AP6 — the highest part or point; acme; apex; capstone; climax

DO

  1. DO5 — a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end; to move suddenly aside or to and fro; to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness; artifice; device sounds like dirge, lodge

  2. DO6 — to move suddenly aside or to and fro; to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through cleverness; to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery; ducked; jinked

  3. DO5 — requiring exceptional skill or caution in performance or handling; clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means; giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged; catchy; delicate

  4. DO4 — a person with old-fashioned ideas; a stupid person; antediluvian; Colonel Blimp; fogy sounds like bode, coco, cocoa, code, dad

  5. DO4 — sounds like dirge

  6. DO6 — continuing despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement; sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion; showing no signs of slackening or yielding in one's purpose; insistent; patient

  7. DO5 —

  8. DO5 — a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes; as in flashy, doggish; canine; dog; hound

  9. DO6 — a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember; a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest; something that decorates or beautifies; dingus; doohickey sounds like dad

  10. DO4 — of the very best kind; information not generally available to the public; a stupid person; A-OK; A1 sounds like cope, deep, dip

  11. DO5 — to find an answer for through reasoning; answer; break; crack; figure out

  12. DO5 — not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily; suffering from mental confusion; airheaded; birdbrained; bonehead sounds like soapy

  13. DO4 — not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily; suffering from mental confusion; airheaded; birdbrained; bonehead sounds like choppy, copy, poppy

EP

  1. EP5 — as in ode, epopee; anacreontic; clerihew; dithyramb; eclogue sounds like abode, anode, bode, code, corrode

GE

  1. GE5 — sounds like abode, anode, bead, bode, cede

GO

  1. GO4 — something that arouses action or activity; to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action; to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed object; boost; encouragement sounds like bode, code, gauche, gird, guide

  2. GO6 — to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action; to urge or push forward with or as if with a pointed object; to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action; egged (on); encouraged sounds like guided, loaded

  3. GO4 — based on sound reasoning or information; conforming to a high standard of morality or virtue; according to the rules of logic; commonsense; commonsensible sounds like could, gird, guide, hood, should

  4. GO5 — something that is pleasing to eat because it is rare or a luxury; a person (such as a child) whose good behavior and politeness are annoying because they seem to be excessive or not sincere; as in self-righteous, pious; bit; cate sounds like gaudy, giddy

  5. GO5 — appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way; something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental; chocolate-box; cloying; corny sounds like buoy, glee, suey

  6. GO4 — as in gunk, goo; crud; goo; guck; gunk sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, gap, group

  7. GO5 — sounds like guppy, loopy, rupee, soupy

OD

  1. OD4 — as in music halls, theaters-in-the-round; arena theaters; music halls; playhouses; theaters-in-the-round sounds like aria, audio, idea

OG

  1. OG4 — sounds like edgy

PA

  1. PA6 — as in synagogue, mosque; mosque; shul; synagogue; church sounds like abode, ago, ayatollah, bugeyed, episode

PE

  1. PE6 — sounds like keypad, plod, pod, prepaid, prod

  2. PE8 — the art, science, or profession of educating; didactics; pedagogics; education; instruction

PO

  1. PO4 — sounds like logo

  2. PO6 — sounds like pagoda

  3. PO4 — solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal; information not generally available to the public; dirt; doo-doo; dropping sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop

  4. PO6 — depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; all in; aweary; beat; beaten sounds like apt, boost, boot, chipped, chopped

  5. PO4 — as in bishop, archbishop; abbot; archbishop; archpriest; bishop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pap

  6. PO5 — a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man

  7. PO6 — to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure; to break suddenly with an explosive sound; to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive; blew; blew up sounds like chopped, lopped, opt, part

  8. PO5 — sounds like choppy, copy, peppy, puppy

YO

  1. YO4 — sounds like toga

agog, apogee, dodge, dodged, dodgy, dodo, doge, dogged, doggo, doggy, doodad, dope, doped, dopey, dopy, epode, geode, goad, goaded, good, goody, gooey, goop, goopy, odea, ogee, pagoda, peapod, pedagogy, pogo, pogoed, poop, pooped, pope, poppa, popped, poppy, yoga