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NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 5 May, 2023

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: i  c  d  m  n  o  u

  • Total Answers: 27
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CO

  1. CO5sounds like catchy
  2. CO4 — something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; as in produce, design; as in stamp, mint; bread; bucks sounds like can, cane, join, keen, kin
  3. CO5 — 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. CO9 — a friendly relationship marked by ready communication and mutual understanding; fellowship; rapport; rapprochement
  5. CO11 — as in condo, penthouse; as in settlement, colony; bed-sitter; cohousing; condo sounds like ignominious, pandemonium
  6. CO5sounds like chronic, ionic, phonic, sonic, tonic

CU

  1. CU5sounds like coming, commit

DI

  1. DI4sounds like dean, depot, keno, wino

DO

  1. DO8 — controlling power or influence over others; the right or means to command or control others; ascendance; ascendancy; dominance sounds like minion, opinion
  2. DO6 — as in mask, veil; as in poncho, pelisse; mask; veil; visor sounds like almond, common, commoner, commons, demon

IC

  1. IC4 — a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion; a written or printed mark that is meant to convey information to the reader; a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality); god; hero sounds like con
  2. IC6sounds like ionic, ironic

ID

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

IO

  1. IO5sounds like ironic, phonic, sonic, tonic

MI

  1. MI4sounds like beady, mealy, meaty, moody, muddy
  2. MI5 — 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
  3. MI4 — the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons; the normal or healthy condition of the mental abilities; an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; brain; cerebrum sounds like bind, find, hind, kind, lined
  4. MI4 — a very small automobile; as in small, little; as in department store, chain store; compact; coupe sounds like genie, many, mealy, mean, meaner
  5. MI5 — as in tiny, minuscule; as in smidgen, iota; bitty; inappreciable; infinitesimal
  6. MI7 — being the least in amount, number, or size possible; as in semblance, modicum; an amount of money that is the least amount of money per hour that workers must be paid according to the law; fewest; littlest
  7. MI6 — a person or thing that is preferred over others; darling; fave; favorite; pet

MO

  1. MO7 — the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes; continental; damn sounds like audition, become, comical, dictum, logical

NU

  1. NU6 — as in deputy, diplomat; attaché; chargé d'affaires; consul; deputy sounds like conceal, concede, conceit, conceive, unseal

OD

  1. OD5 — the state of having lost the esteem of others; discredit; disesteem; disgrace; dishonor sounds like idiom, opium, p*, s*

ON

  1. ON5sounds like undone

UN

  1. UN5 — to deprive of courage or confidence; to disengage the knotted parts of; to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy; demoralized; emasculated
  2. UN5 — the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one; an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection; the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters); combination; combining sounds like canyon, minion, onion, re*

cocci, coin, comic, communion, condominium, conic, cumin, dino, dominion, domino, icon, iconic, idiom, ionic, midi, mimic, mind, mini, minim, minimum, minion, modicum, nuncio, odium, onion, undid, union