Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 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! 🀣

CL

  1. CL5 β€” the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded; ambient; atmosphere; climate; context sounds like crime, lime, slime

CO

  1. 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
  2. CO7 β€” causing or intended to cause laughter; antic; chucklesome; comic; comical sounds like anemic, caloric
  3. 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
  4. CO7 β€” as in pot, pan; pan; pot; bath; bathroom sounds like borrowed, calm, calmer, calming, calmly

DE

  1. DE4 β€” to have as an opinion; allow; believe; conceive; consider sounds like beam, dam, dame, damn, dim
  2. DE6 β€” to have as an opinion; to have as an opinion; allowed; believed; conceived sounds like dammed, damned, domed, doomed, themed
  3. DE4 β€” a mass meeting for the purpose of displaying or arousing support for a cause or person; demonstration; rally sounds like memo
  4. DE6 β€”

DI

  1. 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
  2. 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

  1. 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
  2. DO5 β€” as in spherical, rounded; as in ballooned, bulged; global; globular; round sounds like dammed, damned
  3. DO8 β€” the place where one lives; to provide with living quarters or shelter; abode; diggings; dwelling sounds like homicide
  4. DO9 β€” to provide with living quarters or shelter; to provide with living quarters or shelter; accommodated; bestowed; billeted sounds like homicide
  5. 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
  6. 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

  1. 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
  2. EM6 β€” sounds like encode, envied, impede, keyed

ID

  1. ID5 β€” a sequence of words having a specific meaning; expression; phrase sounds like indium

LI

  1. LI4 β€” as in limey; as in limeys; limey; powerboater; sailboater sounds like chime, climb, c**, dime, lamb
  2. LI5 β€” sounds like lymph, rimmed
  3. LI4 β€” sounds like lymph

LO

  1. LO4 β€” to be about to happen; brew; impend sounds like b, boom, doom, g, lamb
  2. LO6 β€” to be about to happen; to be about to happen; brewed; impended; brew sounds like doomed, lewd

ME

  1. ME6 β€” to interest oneself in what is not one's concern; butt in; interfere; interlope; intermeddle sounds like middle, model, muddle, pedal, peddle
  2. 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
  3. ME5 β€” a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders; croaker; doc; doctor; medico
  4. ME6 β€” a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders; croaker; doc; doctor; medic
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. ME5 β€” a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people; affray; brawl; broil; donnybrook sounds like mail, mailed, male
  8. 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
  9. ME4 β€” sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
  10. ME5 β€” sounds like famed, made, maid, mailed, named
  11. 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

  1. MI4 β€” as in cowards, pussies; as in icebergs, cold fishes; cowards; milquetoasts; nebbishes sounds like dice, ice, lice, mass, mess
  2. 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
  3. MI4 β€” sounds like beady, mealy, meaty, moody, muddy
  4. 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
  5. MI4 β€” a long distance; a long distance; with great speed; afar; country mile sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. MI5 β€” sounds like bimbo, cameo, demean, jimmied, jimmy
  11. 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

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. MO7 β€” as in matched, patterned; customized; geared; matched; patterned
  4. MO5 β€” sounds like madam
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. MO6 β€” to go through decomposition; to go through decomposition; broke down; corrupted; decayed sounds like folded
  9. 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
  10. MO4 β€” as in mistress; mistress; gal; gill; girl sounds like doll, loll, mail, male, mall
  11. 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
  12. MO5 β€” sounds like food, lewd, mad, made, maid

clime, come, comedic, comic, commode, deem, deemed, demo, demoed, dime, dimmed, dome, domed, domicile, domiciled, doom, doomed, emcee, emceed, idiom, lime, limed, limo, loom, loomed, meddle, meddled, medic, medico, meld, melded, melee, melodic, meme, memed, memo, mice, middle, midi, mild, mile, mill, milled, mime, mimed, mimeo, mimic, mode, model, modeled, modem, moil, moiled, mold, molded, mole, moll, mood, mooed