NYT ๐Ÿ Cluesโ€”Wed. 25 January, 2023

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

Letters: g  b  h  o  r  t  u

  • Total Answers: 28
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! ๐Ÿคฃ

BO

  1. BO7 โ€” as in city, town; asphalt jungle; burg; city; cosmopolis sounds like baroque, beau, berg, berth, bio
  2. BO5 โ€” a major outgrowth from the main stem of a woody plant; branch; limb sounds like bay, beau, bee, brow, burr
  3. BO6 โ€” made beforehand in large numbers; to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for; to influence someone with a bribe; mass-produced; off-the-peg sounds like bait, balm, bar, bat, beat
  4. BO5 โ€” a small residential settlement; hamlet; townlet; vill; village

BR

  1. BR7 โ€” to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest request; to have a price of; begot; bred sounds like fraught, wrought

BU

  1. BU4 โ€” a thickly settled, highly populated area; asphalt jungle; city; cosmopolis; megacity sounds like bag, beg, berth, big, birch
  2. BU5 โ€” sounds like bag, beg, berth, big, birch
  3. BU6 โ€” sounds like berg

GO

  1. GO4 โ€” sounds like both, girth
  2. GO4 โ€” sounds like bout, doubt, gait, gate, gauss

GR

  1. GR4 โ€” a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk; alcohol; aqua vitae; ardent spirits; booze sounds like frog
  2. GR6 โ€” a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface; antre; cave; cavern; delve sounds like erotic, garter, ghetto, glottal, got
  3. GR5 โ€” sounds like drought, gout, kraut, rout
  4. GR4 โ€” substances intended to be eaten; a person who does very hard or dull work; to devote serious and sustained effort; bread; chow sounds like drub, rub, shrub

GU

  1. GU4 โ€” a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field; one who brings an art or science to full realization; ace; adept; artist sounds like grew

OU

  1. OU5 โ€” to be under necessity or obligation to; have (to); must; need; shall sounds like all, ate, auto, awed, eat
  2. OU5 โ€” a payment made in the course of achieving a result; the act of leaving a place; charge; cost; disbursement
  3. OU10 โ€” to get the better of through cleverness; to get the better of through cleverness; foxed; outfoxed; outmaneuvered

RO

  1. RO6 โ€” as in red-eye, bathtub gin; bathtub gin; red-eye; bootleg; moonshine sounds like argot, shotgun, target
  2. RO5 โ€” covered with or as if with hair; marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity; marked by wet and windy conditions; bristly; brushy sounds like buff, cuff, gruff, huff, muff

TH

  1. TH8 โ€” having no exceptions or restrictions; including many small descriptive features; trying all possibilities; absolute; all-out sounds like borough, burrow, furrow
  2. TH6 โ€” in spite of that; in spite of the fact that; the way it would be or one would do if; even so; howbeit sounds like beau, doe, dough, foe, hoe
  3. TH7 โ€” a careful weighing of the reasons for or against something; something imagined or pictured in the mind; to have as an opinion; account; advisement sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, taught
  4. TH7 โ€” in or into the middle of; in random positions within the boundaries of; in the course of; amid; among sounds like brew, crew, drew, grew, rue
  5. TH10 โ€” in random positions within the boundaries of; in the course of; from beginning to end; about; across sounds like brute, drought, fruit, kraut, roost
  6. TH4 โ€” a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang; bully; gangbanger; gangsta; gangster sounds like bug, chug, dug, hug, jug

TO

  1. TO5 โ€” not easily chewed; able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure; difficult to endure; chewy; leathery sounds like buff, cuff, huff, muff, puff

TR

  1. TR6 โ€” a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); a long narrow channel dug in the earth; a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roof; channel; conduit sounds like brawl, brief, broad, broth, brought

borough, bough, bought, bourg, brought, burg, burgh, burgoo, goth, gout, grog, grotto, grout, grub, guru, ought, outgo, outthought, rotgut, rough, thorough, though, thought, through, throughout, thug, tough, trough