NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 19 July, 2023

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

Letters: p  g  h  i  n  o  w

  • Total Answers: 35
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

GO

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

HI

  1. HI5 — sounds like hero, zippo

HO

  1. HO4 — a circular strip; having or expressing feelings of joy or triumph; inclined or twisted to one side; band; circle sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, heap, hip

  2. HO7 — sounds like booming, chewing, gaping, grouping, hacking

  3. HO6 — as in wishing, dreaming; to believe in the future occurrence of (something); dreaming; wishing; aiming sounds like choking, coating, coding, combing, doting

  4. HO7 — feeling or showing anger; marked by much life, movement, or activity; involved in often constant activity; angered; angry sounds like lopping, s***, sopping, w***

NI

  1. NI7 — 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

OP

  1. OP7 — to make a statement of one's opinion; to make a statement of one's opinion; allowing; commenting; editorializing sounds like cunning, punish, ripening, running, spinning

  2. OP7 — 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

PH

  1. PH7 — to make a telephone call to; to make a telephone call to; calling; dialing; ringing (up) sounds like fining

  2. PH5 — sounds like fun, fund, funny

PI

  1. PI7 — to eat greedily or to excess; to eat greedily or to excess; gorging; gormandizing; overeating sounds like rigging

  2. PI4 — as in ring, chime; as in ding, clang; chime; ding-dong; knell sounds like king, owing, pang, paying, peer

  3. PI7 — as in dinging, clanging; chinking; clanging; clanking; clashing sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, spinning, winning

  4. PI6 — as in longing, hankering; a strong wish for something; as in longing, yearning; ambitious; appetent sounds like dining, fining, shining

  5. PI6 — to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; bind; chain; enchain; enfetter sounds like minion, o**

  6. PI9 — to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; binding; chaining; enchaining sounds like incoming, minion, opinion, paneling, poignancy

  7. PI7 — as in mounting, hooking; as in choosing, determining; as in charging, fathering (on); hooking; mounting sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, s***, winning

  8. PI6 — as in pipeline, pipage; having a high musical pitch or range; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; pipage; pipeline

  9. PI6 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like begin, bidden, herein, kingpin, poplin

PO

  1. PO4 — sounds like logo

  2. PO7 — sounds like bugging, going, mugging, ongoing, outgoing

  3. PO4 — sounds like long, pang, pause, paw, pawn

  4. PO4 — to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true; one of high position or importance within a group; to think or say that (something) is not very good or not true; brush (off); dismiss sounds like boo, chew, coup, dew, doo

  5. 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

  6. PO7 — sounds like piping

  7. PO7 — 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; blowing; blowing up sounds like lopping, piping, shopping, sopping, whopping

  8. PO6 — sounds like plough, plow, prow

WH

  1. WH4 — a long thin or flexible tool for striking; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; to defeat by a large margin; flogger; lash sounds like chip, dip, hip, lip, nip

  2. WH8 — failure to win a contest; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; to defeat by a large margin; beating; defeat sounds like willing, winning, witching

  3. WH5 — a loud vocal expression of strong emotion; the smallest amount or part imaginable; as in crow; cry; holler sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop

  4. WH8 — as in crowing; crowing; bawling; baying; bellowing sounds like grouping

  5. WH4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to defeat by a large margin; to strike repeatedly; bang; bash sounds like bop, chop, cop, harp, heap

  6. WH8 — unusually large; to defeat by a large margin; to strike repeatedly; astronomical; Brobdingnagian sounds like lopping, shopping, sopping

WI

  1. WI6 — as in washing, brushing; as in reducing, wearing out; to destroy all traces of; brushing; combing sounds like piping, whipping, whopping

goop, hippo, hoop, hooping, hoping, hopping, nipping, opining, opinion, phoning, phono, pigging, ping, pinging, pining, pinion, pinioning, pinning, piping, pippin, pogo, pogoing, pong, pooh, poop, pooping, popping, powwow, whip, whipping, whoop, whooping, whop, whopping, wiping