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

Letters: m  e  k  n  p  t  u

• Total Answers: 21
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

KE

1. KE5 — being clean and in good order; antiseptic; bandbox; crisp; groomed sounds like tempt

ME

3. ME4 — not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness; demure; down-to-earth; humble; lowly sounds like beak, cheek, chic, eke, geek
4. ME4 — to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face; to come together into one body or place; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; catch; chance (upon) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
5. ME6 — sounds like beaten, beetle, cheated, cheetah, cheetal
6. ME4 — sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
7. ME6 — sounds like many
8. ME4 — a list of foods served at or available for a meal; a record of a series of items (as names or titles) usually arranged according to some system; food eaten or prepared for eating at one time; card; canon sounds like venue
9. ME4 — to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; administer; allocate; apportion; deal (out) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat

MU

11. MU4 — unable to speak; deliberately refraining from speech; a device on a musical instrument that deadens or softens its tone; inarticulate; speechless sounds like cute, mew, moot
12. MU4 — a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like but, butt, cut, gut, hut
13. MU6 — as in sundress, housedress; chemise; coatdress; granny dress; housedress sounds like amok, among, animal, animate, gunman

PE

15. PE6 — a person who creates a written work; one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts; a person who creates a written work; authors; litterateurs

PU

17. PU4 — to make short up-and-down movements; to put a series of questions to; to remove (liquid) gradually or completely; bob; bobble sounds like bump, chump, dump, hump, jump

TE

19. TE4 — to be copiously supplied; abound; brim; bristle; bulge sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem
20. TE4 — as in temporary; temporary; associate; colleague; coworker
21. TE5 — to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; to take a chance on; allure; bait; beguile sounds like at*
22. TE8 — a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place; as in apartment building, apartment house; as in apartment buildings, apartment houses; apartment; diggings sounds like element, ornament, regiment, sediment, sentiment

UM

24. UM7 — sounds like emptied, emptier, empty, uptown, upturn

UN

26. UN7 — lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness; lacking neatness in dress or person; chaotic; cluttered; confused sounds like attempt, contempt
27. UN5 — sounds like abet, admit, enmesh, inlet, inmate
28. UN6 — sounds like acute, amuse, commute, mute