NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 12 June, 2023

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

Letters: i  e  l  p  t  v  x

  • Total Answers: 30
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

EL

  1. EL5 — as in exclusive; individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class; the highest class in a society; exclusive; better sounds like cleat, delete, fleet, pleat, sleet

EV

  1. EV4 — that which is morally unacceptable; causing or capable of causing harm; not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable; bad; evildoing sounds like eagle, easel, oval, we**

EX

  1. EX5 — the forced removal from a homeland; a person forced to emigrate for political reasons; to force to leave a country; banishment; deportation
  2. EX4 — a place or means of going out; the act of leaving a place; the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities; egress; issue sounds like grit
  3. EX9 — a disrespectful or indecent word or expression; curse; cuss; cussword; dirty word

LI

  1. LI4 — the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern; as in croon, warble; movement; sway; swing sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt
  2. LI4 — as in light; light; natural; plain; simple sounds like alight, bite, blight, byte, cite
  3. LI6 — having relatively little height; lacking importance; not broad or open in views or opinions; low; low-lying sounds like whittle
  4. LI4 — to have a home; to have life; being in effective operation; abide; dwell sounds like a**, arrive, chive, dive, five

PE

  1. PE5 — as in petty larcenies; as in petty larceny; as in Beau Brummell, blood; petty larcenies; embezzlements sounds like puppet
  2. PE6 — having a small and thin body—usually used to describe a woman or girl; baby; diminutive; dwarf; elfin sounds like putty

PI

  1. PI4 — a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; a considerable amount; a very large amount of money; cock; heap sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
  2. PI4 — a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally; a person whose behavior is offensive to others; cap; capsule; lozenge sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
  3. PI4 — a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; channel; conduit sounds like hype, pap, peep, pop, pope
  4. PI5sounds like puppet
  5. PI7sounds like pet, puppet, typed, wipeout
  6. PI5sounds like peanut, people, puppet
  7. PI5
  8. PI5 — tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness; an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers; arch; devilish; elvish

PL

  1. PL4sounds like alley, early, flea, flee, glee

TE

  1. TE7 — a woven or knitted material (as of cotton or nylon); cloth; fabric

TI

  1. TI4 — as in drain, hydrant; drain; drainpipe; funnel; hydrant sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
  2. TI4 — up to (a particular time); to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); until; up till sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
  3. TI4 — the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; as in gyroplane, convertiplane; angling; bend sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt
  4. TI6 — as in poncho, capelet; burnoose; capelet; capuchin; cowl
  5. TI6 — a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk; to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages; alcohol; aqua vitae; ardent spirits sounds like ripple, topple, triple
  6. TI5 — a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known; a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize; the position occupied by the one who comes in first in a competition; appellation; appellative sounds like litle, total, turtle, vital
  7. TI6 — a very small piece; the smallest amount or part imaginable; as in run on, blabber; atom; bit sounds like little, total, turtle, whittle

VE

  1. VE4 — something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; to keep secret or shut off from view; to surround or cover closely; blanket; cloak sounds like ail, ale, avail, bail, bale

VI

  1. VI4 — not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable; not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency; unpleasant to look at; bad; dark sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle

elite, evil, exile, exit, expletive, lilt, lite, little, live, petit, petite, pile, pill, pipe, pipet, pipette, pipit, pixel, pixie, plie, textile, tile, till, tilt, tippet, tipple, title, tittle, veil, vile