NYT π CluesβFri. 1 September, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: m c d e i l o
- Total Answers: 59
- Pangrams: 3
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
CL
- CL5 β the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded; ambient; atmosphere; climate; context sounds like crime, lime, slime
CO
- CO4 β to move closer to; to get to a destination; to eventually have as a state or quality; advance; approach sounds like bum, calm, came, chum, cub
- CO7 β causing or intended to cause laughter; antic; chucklesome; comic; comical sounds like anemic, caloric
- CO5 β a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor; a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story; the amusing quality or element in something; card; comedian sounds like calming
- CO7 β as in pot, pan; pan; pot; bath; bathroom sounds like borrowed, calm, calmer, calming, calmly
DE
- DE4 β to have as an opinion; allow; believe; conceive; consider sounds like beam, dam, dame, damn, dim
- DE6 β to have as an opinion; to have as an opinion; allowed; believed; conceived sounds like dammed, damned, domed, doomed, themed
- DE4 β a mass meeting for the purpose of displaying or arousing support for a cause or person; demonstration; rally sounds like memo
- DE6 β
DI
- DI4 β a very small sum of money; costing little; as in department store, chain store; chicken feed; chump change sounds like chime, dam, dame, damn, deem
- DI6 β being without light or without much light; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; black; caliginous sounds like dammed, damned, demur, domed, doomed
DO
- DO4 β the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; as in balloon, bulge; a person with strong intellectual interests; bean; block sounds like comb, dam, dame, damn, deem
- DO5 β as in spherical, rounded; as in ballooned, bulged; global; globular; round sounds like dammed, damned
- DO8 β the place where one lives; to provide with living quarters or shelter; abode; diggings; dwelling sounds like homicide
- DO9 β to provide with living quarters or shelter; to provide with living quarters or shelter; accommodated; bestowed; billeted sounds like homicide
- DO4 β a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard; a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand; the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities; finding; holding sounds like boom, dam, dame, damn, deem
- DO6 β facing certain defeat, disaster, or death; to determine the fate of in advance; to impose a judicial punishment on; dead; done sounds like dammed, damned
EM
- EM5 β a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity; announcer; host; MC sounds like airy, any, assay, chassis, edgy
- EM6 β sounds like encode, envied, impede, keyed
ID
- ID5 β a sequence of words having a specific meaning; expression; phrase sounds like indium
LI
- LI4 β as in limey; as in limeys; limey; powerboater; sailboater sounds like chime, climb, c**, dime, lamb
- LI5 β sounds like lymph, rimmed
- LI4 β sounds like lymph
LO
- LO4 β to be about to happen; brew; impend sounds like b, boom, doom, g, lamb
- LO6 β to be about to happen; to be about to happen; brewed; impended; brew sounds like doomed, lewd
ME
- ME6 β to interest oneself in what is not one's concern; butt in; interfere; interlope; intermeddle sounds like middle, model, muddle, pedal, peddle
- ME7 β to interest oneself in what is not one's concern; to interest oneself in what is not one's concern; butted in; interfered; interloped sounds like modeled
- ME5 β a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders; croaker; doc; doctor; medico
- ME6 β a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders; croaker; doc; doctor; medic
- ME4 β a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things; to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout; admixture; alloy; amalgam sounds like felled, held, mailed, mild, milled
- ME6 β to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout; to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout; amalgamated; blended; combined sounds like molded
- ME5 β a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people; affray; brawl; broil; donnybrook sounds like mail, mailed, male
- ME7 β having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music; a rhythmic series of musical tones arranged to give a pleasing effect; euphonious; lyric; lyrical sounds like allergic, atomic, caloric, comedic, episodic
- ME4 β sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
- ME5 β sounds like famed, made, maid, mailed, named
- ME4 β a message on paper from one person or group to another; a usually brief written reminder; a written communication giving information or directions; dispatch; epistle sounds like demo, marrow
MI
- MI4 β as in cowards, pussies; as in icebergs, cold fishes; cowards; milquetoasts; nebbishes sounds like dice, ice, lice, mass, mess
- MI6 β a middle point between extremes; an area or point that is an equal distance from all points along an edge or outer surface; the middle region of the human torso; golden mean; mean sounds like fiddle, medal, meddle, model, muddle
- MI4 β sounds like beady, mealy, meaty, moody, muddy
- MI4 β marked by temperatures that are neither too high nor too low; not harsh or stern especially in nature or effect; balmy; clement; equable sounds like child, mailed, meld, mold, mould
- MI4 β a long distance; a long distance; with great speed; afar; country mile sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
- MI4 β a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods; to reduce to fine particles; as in kick around, knock (about); factory; manufactory sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
- MI6 β as in reduced, pulverized; to reduce to fine particles; to reduce to fine particles; close-grained; comminuted sounds like billed, build, chilled, filled, guild
- MI4 β an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements; a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; mimic; mummer sounds like chime, dime, lime, mom, mum
- MI5 β to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; aped; copied; copycatted sounds like maimed, rimmed
- MI5 β sounds like bimbo, cameo, demean, jimmied, jimmy
- MI5 β to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials; burlesque; caricature sounds like gimmick, mythic
MO
- MO4 β a distinctive way of putting ideas into words; a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion; a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time; fashion; locution sounds like bode, code, goad, load, mad
- MO5 β an exact representation of something in greatly reduced size; a person who poses with or wears merchandise (as clothes) often for pictorial advertising; someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation; miniature; manikin sounds like coddle, medal, meddle, middle, muddle
- MO7 β as in matched, patterned; customized; geared; matched; patterned
- MO5 β sounds like madam
- MO4 β a state of noisy, confused activity; very hard or unpleasant work; to devote serious and sustained effort; ado; alarums and excursions sounds like boil, coil, foil, mail, male
- MO6 β to devote serious and sustained effort; to be in a state of violent rolling motion; to devote serious and sustained effort; banged away; beavered (away) sounds like boiled, foiled, mailed, meld, mild
- MO4 β the loose surface material in which plants naturally grow; to go through decomposition; clod; dirt; earth sounds like bold, cold, fold, gold, hold
- MO6 β to go through decomposition; to go through decomposition; broke down; corrupted; decayed sounds like folded
- MO4 β a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country; agent; asset; emissary; intelligencer sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- MO4 β as in mistress; mistress; gal; gill; girl sounds like doll, loll, mail, male, mall
- MO4 β a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion; a special quality or impression associated with something; an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something; cheer; feather sounds like food, lewd, mad, made, maid
- MO5 β sounds like food, lewd, mad, made, maid