NYT π CluesβFri. 16 June, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: t a i m r u y
- Total Answers: 36
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AM
- AM5 β kindly concern, interest, or support; benevolence; brotherhood; charity; cordiality sounds like ante, city, committee, ditty, emit
AR
- AR4 β sounds like he, p
AT
- AT5 β as in peristyles, gallerias; gallerias; parvises; peristyles; closes sounds like area, aria, outreach, streak, stream
- AT6 β as in peristyle, galleria; galleria; parvis; peristyle; close sounds like barium, patriot, stream
- AT5 β a sweet or pleasant smell; aroma; balm; bouquet; fragrance sounds like butter, cutter, eater, gutter, mutter
IM
- IM10 β as in juvenility; being in the early stage of life, growth, or development; having or showing the annoying qualities (as silliness) associated with children; juvenility; adolescence sounds like maturity
IT
- IT4 β very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy
MA
- MA4 β as in department store, mini-mart; as in department store, chain store; boutique; chain store; department store sounds like art, cart, chart, dart, heart
- MA6 β to kill (someone) for refusing to give up a belief or causeβusually used as (be) martyred; as in sacrifice; assail; attack; afflict sounds like barter, charter, garter, mortar, smarter
- MA8 β the state of being fully grown or developed; the state of being an old person; adulthood; adultness; majority sounds like im**
MI
- MI4 β sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit
MU
- MU4 β a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like but, butt, cut, gut, hut
RA
- RA5 β sounds like beta
- RA6 β something strange or unusual that is an object of interest; something that is different from what is ordinary or expected; curio; curiosity; exotic sounds like parity, verity
- RA7 β sounds like habitat
- RA5 β showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; worn or torn into or as if into rags; easily irritated or annoyed; beat-up; bombed-out sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty
RU
- RU5 β as in rutted, undulating; rutted; undulating; undulatory; wavy sounds like nutty, putty, ratty
TA
- TA6 β sounds like tomorrow
- TA5 β as in pitchy; a temporary residing as another's guest; to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time; pitchy; gelatinous sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
- TA4 β causing or characterized by the one of the basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings; a woman who engages in sexual activities for money; acid; acidic sounds like art, cart, chart, dart, heart
- TA6 β sounds like barter, charter, garter, martyr, starter
- TA6 β sounds like anatomy, atom, balmy, battery, catty
- TA5 β showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; beat-up; bombed-out; dilapidated; dog-eared sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty
- TA4 β stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat
TI
- TI5 β as in anadem; anadem; chaplet; coronal; coronet sounds like rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra
TR
- TR5 β something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind; affection; attribute; attribution; character sounds like crate, freight, grate, great, irate
- TR4 β as in truck, wheelbarrow; barrow; hand truck; pushcart; truck sounds like cram, dram, gram, ram, tam
- TR6 β sounds like drama, prima
- TR4 β as in plate, bowl; bowl; casserole; charger; cup sounds like fray, gray, grey, pray, prey
- TR4 β being clean and in good order; a state of being or fitness; something that decorates or beautifies; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like brim, grim, prim, rim
- TR7 β sounds like atrium, chromium, critique, iridium, premium
TU
- TU5 β the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis; abdomen; belly; breadbasket; gut sounds like dummy, gummy, mummy, rummy, touchy
- TU5 β sounds like nutty, putty, touchy
- TU4 β as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo
YT
- YT7 β sounds like atrium
YU
- YU4 β sounds like curt, dirt, hurt, pert, shirt