Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 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! 🀣

AM

  1. AM5 β€” kindly concern, interest, or support; benevolence; brotherhood; charity; cordiality sounds like ante, city, committee, ditty, emit

AR

  1. AR4 β€” sounds like he, p

AT

  1. AT5 β€” as in peristyles, gallerias; gallerias; parvises; peristyles; closes sounds like area, aria, outreach, streak, stream
  2. AT6 β€” as in peristyle, galleria; galleria; parvis; peristyle; close sounds like barium, patriot, stream
  3. AT5 β€” a sweet or pleasant smell; aroma; balm; bouquet; fragrance sounds like butter, cutter, eater, gutter, mutter

IM

  1. 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

  1. IT4 β€” very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy

MA

  1. 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
  2. MA6 β€” to kill (someone) for refusing to give up a belief or causeβ€”usually used as (be) martyred; as in sacrifice; assail; attack; afflict sounds like barter, charter, garter, mortar, smarter
  3. MA8 β€” the state of being fully grown or developed; the state of being an old person; adulthood; adultness; majority sounds like im**

MI

  1. MI4 β€” sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit

MU

  1. MU4 β€” a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like but, butt, cut, gut, hut

RA

  1. RA5 β€” sounds like beta
  2. 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
  3. RA7 β€” sounds like habitat
  4. 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

  1. RU5 β€” as in rutted, undulating; rutted; undulating; undulatory; wavy sounds like nutty, putty, ratty

TA

  1. TA6 β€” sounds like tomorrow
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. TA6 β€” sounds like barter, charter, garter, martyr, starter
  5. TA6 β€” sounds like anatomy, atom, balmy, battery, catty
  6. 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
  7. TA4 β€” stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat

TI

  1. TI5 β€” as in anadem; anadem; chaplet; coronal; coronet sounds like rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra

TR

  1. 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
  2. TR4 β€” as in truck, wheelbarrow; barrow; hand truck; pushcart; truck sounds like cram, dram, gram, ram, tam
  3. TR6 β€” sounds like drama, prima
  4. TR4 β€” as in plate, bowl; bowl; casserole; charger; cup sounds like fray, gray, grey, pray, prey
  5. 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
  6. TR7 β€” sounds like atrium, chromium, critique, iridium, premium

TU

  1. TU5 β€” the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis; abdomen; belly; breadbasket; gut sounds like dummy, gummy, mummy, rummy, touchy
  2. TU5 β€” sounds like nutty, putty, touchy
  3. TU4 β€” as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo

YT

  1. YT7 β€” sounds like atrium

YU

  1. YU4 β€” sounds like curt, dirt, hurt, pert, shirt

amity, arty, atria, atrium, attar, immaturity, itty, mart, martyr, maturity, mitt, mutt, raita, rarity, ratatat, ratty, rutty, tamari, tarry, tart, tartar, tatami, tatty, taut, tiara, trait, tram, trauma, tray, trim, tritium, tummy, tutti, tutu, yttrium, yurt