NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Grid

EG

1. EG6 — a drink consisting of eggs beaten with sugar, milk or cream, and often alcoholic liquor sounds like airbag, any, banal, bog, cannot

EN

2. EN5 — one that is antagonistic to another; especially : one seeking to injure, overthrow, or confound an opponent; something harmful or deadly; a military adversary sounds like annum, any, crummy, dummy, ebony

GE

3. GE4 — a specific sequence of nucleotides in DNA or RNA that is located usually on a chromosome and that is the functional unit of inheritance controlling the transmission and expression of one or more traits by specifying the structure of a particular polypeptide and especially a protein or controlling the function of other genetic material sounds like bean, dean, gin, jeans, jeep
4. GE6 — one haploid set of chromosomes with the genes they contain; broadly : the genetic material of an organism sounds like gnome, jeans, keno, keynote, rename

GN

5. GN5 — maxim, aphorism sounds like comb, dome, foam, home, knoll
6. GN6 — an object that by the position or length of its shadow serves as an indicator especially of the hour of the day: such as; the pin of a sundial; a column or shaft erected perpendicular to the horizon sounds like summon

GO

7. GO4 — lost, ruined; dead; characterized by sinking or dropping sounds like dawn, fawn, gain, gall, gaunt
8. GO4 — a disk-shaped percussion instrument that produces a resounding tone when struck with a usually padded hammer; a saucer-shaped bell (as in a fire alarm) that is struck by a mechanical hammer; a wire rod wound in a flat spiral for sounding the time or chime or alarm (as in a clock) sounds like gall, gang, gauze, long, pong
9. GO4 — a stupid person; a man hired to terrorize or eliminate opponents; enforcer sounds like boon, dune, gain, gun
10. GO5 — black-footed albatross; broadly : albatross sounds like guinea, gunny, loony

HE

11. HE7 — something (such as a political state) having dominant influence or authority over others : one possessing hegemony sounds like regimen
12. HE8 — strong influence or authority over others : domination; the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group sounds like harmony
13. HE5 — sounds like hinge

HO

14. HO8 —
15. HO7 — homophone; homograph; one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning (such as the noun quail and the verb quail) sounds like aluminum, coconut, feminine, laminate, laudanum
16. HO8 — the quality or state of being homonymous sounds like nominally
17. HO4 — to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone; to make more acute, intense, or effective : whet sounds like bone, cone, hen
18. HO5 — a sweet viscid material elaborated out of the nectar of flowers in the honey sac of various bees; a sweet fluid resembling honey that is collected or elaborated by various insects; a loved one : sweetheart, dear sounds like bunny, funny, gunny, hubby, hunch
19. HO9 — a period of harmony immediately following marriage; a period of unusual harmony especially following the establishment of a new relationship; a trip or vacation taken by a newly married couple

HY

20. HY5 — a fold of mucous membrane partly closing the orifice of the vagina sounds like heighten
21. HY4 — a song of praise to God; a metrical composition adapted for singing in a religious service; a song of praise or joy sounds like dim, gym, ham, hear, hem

MO

22. MO5 — something generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment: such as; officially coined or stamped metal currency; money of account sounds like bunny, funny, gunny, honey, many
23. MO8 — financier sounds like honeymoon
24. MO4 — monophonic reproduction
25. MO7 — sounds like minimum
26. MO4 — the earth’s natural satellite that shines by the sun’s reflected light, revolves about the earth from west to east in about 29½ days with reference to the sun or about 27⅓ days with reference to the stars, and has a diameter of 2160 miles (3475 kilometers), a mean distance from the earth of about 238,900 miles (384,400 kilometers), and a mass about one eightieth that of the earth —usually used with the; one complete moon cycle consisting of four phases; satellite; specifically : a natural satellite of a planet sounds like boon, dune, goon, loon, main
27. MO5 — of or relating to the moon; crescent-shaped; resembling the full moon : round sounds like loony, many

NE

28. NE4 — an endangered goose (Branta sandvicensis synonym Nesochen sandvicensis) of the Hawaiian Islands that usually inhabits waterless uplands and feeds on berries and vegetation sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
29. NE4 — a nonmetallic chemical element that is found in minute amounts in air and is used especially in electric lamps, in lasers, and as a cryogenic refrigerant; a discharge lamp in which the gas contains a large proportion of neon; a sign composed of such lamps sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon

NO

30. NO4 — not any; not one : nobody; not any such thing or person sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
31. NO4 — midday; specifically : 12 o’clock at midday; midnight —used chiefly in the phrase noon of night; the highest point sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known

OM

32. OM4 — an occurrence or phenomenon believed to portend a future event : augury sounds like ocean, open, showman

YE

33. YE6 — an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household; a person attending or assisting another : retainer; yeoman of the guard sounds like amen, demon, domain, foment, omen