NYT π CluesβWed. 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! π€£
GO
- GO4 β as in gunk, goo; crud; goo; guck; gunk sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, gap, group
HI
- HI5 β sounds like hero, zippo
HO
- HO4 β 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
- HO7 β sounds like booming, chewing, gaping, grouping, hacking
- HO6 β as in wishing, dreaming; to believe in the future occurrence of (something); dreaming; wishing; aiming sounds like choking, coating, coding, combing, doting
- HO7 β 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
- 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
OP
- OP7 β 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
- 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
PH
- PH7 β to make a telephone call to; to make a telephone call to; calling; dialing; ringing (up) sounds like fining
- PH5 β sounds like fun, fund, funny
PI
- PI7 β to eat greedily or to excess; to eat greedily or to excess; gorging; gormandizing; overeating sounds like rigging
- PI4 β as in ring, chime; as in ding, clang; chime; ding-dong; knell sounds like king, owing, pang, paying, peer
- PI7 β as in dinging, clanging; chinking; clanging; clanking; clashing sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, spinning, winning
- PI6 β as in longing, hankering; a strong wish for something; as in longing, yearning; ambitious; appetent sounds like dining, fining, shining
- PI6 β to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; bind; chain; enchain; enfetter sounds like minion, o**
- PI9 β 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
- PI7 β as in mounting, hooking; as in choosing, determining; as in charging, fathering (on); hooking; mounting sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, s***, winning
- PI6 β 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
- PI6 β something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like begin, bidden, herein, kingpin, poplin
PO
- PO4 β sounds like logo
- PO7 β sounds like bugging, going, mugging, ongoing, outgoing
- PO4 β sounds like long, pang, pause, paw, pawn
- PO4 β 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
- PO4 β 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
- PO7 β sounds like piping
- PO7 β 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
- PO6 β sounds like plough, plow, prow
WH
- WH4 β 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
- WH8 β 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
- WH5 β 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
- WH8 β as in crowing; crowing; bawling; baying; bellowing sounds like grouping
- WH4 β 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
- WH8 β unusually large; to defeat by a large margin; to strike repeatedly; astronomical; Brobdingnagian sounds like lopping, shopping, sopping
WI
- WI6 β as in washing, brushing; as in reducing, wearing out; to destroy all traces of; brushing; combing sounds like piping, whipping, whopping