NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 22 February, 2023

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

Letters: t  g  i  l  n  p  y

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

GI

  1. GI4 — as in glitter, bedizenment; covered in a thin layer of gold; coming from or characterized by wealth and luxury; bedizenment; glitter sounds like built, guild, guilty, hilt, jilt

GL

  1. GL5 — to shoot forth bursts of light; to take a quick or hasty look; as in glow, gleam; coruscate; flame sounds like flint, lint

  2. GL8 — as in glimmering, gleaming; to shoot forth bursts of light; to take a quick or hasty look; agleam; aglitter sounds like grinning, lifting, listing, printing, slanting

IG

  1. IG8 — to set (something) on fire; to set (something) on fire; burning; enkindling; firing sounds like exciting, infighting, inviting

IT

  1. IT4 — very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy

LI

  1. LI4 — the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern; as in croon, warble; movement; sway; swing sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

  2. LI7 — as in musical, swaying; as in lively, sprightly; as in crooning, warbling; musical; swaying

  3. LI4 — a soft airy substance or covering; down; floss; fluff; fur sounds like f, g, hint, leant, learnt

  4. LI5 — as in fluffy, fuzzy; a soft airy substance or covering; downy; fluffy; fuzzy sounds like f*

PI

  1. PI4 — of a size that is less than average; of a size that is less than average; a person of no importance or influence; bantam; diminutive sounds like paint, pant, point, punt

  2. PI5 — sounds like peanut, people, puppet

  3. PI7 — as in denting; denting; bending; kinking; coarsening sounds like fitting, petting, sitting

  4. PI4 — a regrettable or blameworthy act; the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune; to have sympathy for; crime; disgrace sounds like city, ditty, kitty, patty, petty

  5. PI7 — as in patient, understanding; to have sympathy for; to have sympathy for; patient; tolerant sounds like dizzying, fitting, littering, petting, sitting

  6. PI9 — a feeling of pity for yourself because you believe you have suffered more than is fair or reasonable; melancholia; blue devils; blues; dejection sounds like wittingly

TI

  1. TI6 — sounds like filing, piling, styling

  2. TI4 — to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); up to (a particular time); cultivate; farm sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

  3. TI7 — to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; cultivating; farming; tending sounds like billing, chilling, killing, schilling, shilling

  4. TI4 — the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; as in gyroplane, convertiplane; angling; bend sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

  5. TI7 — running in a slanting direction; to set or cause to be at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; cant; canted sounds like billing, building, chilling, delaying, fitting

  6. TI7 — to give color or a different color to; to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, tanning, turning

  7. TI8 — as in prickly, needlelike; to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound; to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound; needlelike; prickly sounds like dangling

  8. TI6 — to make a repeated sharp light ringing sound; chink; clink; jingle; tinkle sounds like chili, chilly, dearly, dimly, dinghy

  9. TI6 — very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like busily, eerily, eternally, finally, finicky

  10. TI5 — as in thin, peeping; peeping; thin; high-pitched; piping sounds like guinea, tony, tourney

  11. TI4 — a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; to give color or a different color to; cast; color; hue sounds like hint, lint, mint, s**, taint

  12. TI7 — to give color or a different color to; to give color or a different color to; bepainting; coloring; dyeing sounds like tenting

  13. TI4 — very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like shiny, tony, tourney

  14. TI7 — inclined or twisted to one side; to set or cause to be at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; askew; aslant sounds like whipping

  15. TI8 — to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages; to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages; bibbing; boozing; drinking sounds like crippling, middling, piddling, sizzling, stapling

  16. TI5 — as in wobbly, shaky; rocky; shaky; tipsy; wavery sounds like hippie

  17. TI7 — to give a name to; to give a name to; baptizing; calling; christening sounds like bottling, middling, piddling, sizzling, tabling

TY

  1. TY5 — to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; to produce something equal to (as in quality or value); to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; banding; binding sounds like buying, dyeing, dying, timing, trying

  2. TY6 — to arrange or assign according to type; to arrange or assign according to type; assorting; breaking down; categorizing sounds like piping, timing

gilt, glint, glinting, igniting, itty, lilt, lilting, lint, linty, pint, pipit, pitting, pity, pitying, pityingly, tiling, till, tilling, tilt, tilting, tinging, tingling, tingly, tinily, tinny, tint, tinting, tiny, tipping, tippling, tippy, titling, tying, typing