NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 16 October, 2023

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

Letters: e  a  c  i  n  t  x

  • Total Answers: 51
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

  1. AC6 — a special notice or importance given to something; to indicate the importance of by centering attention on; accentuation; emphasis; stress sounds like ascent, assent

  2. AC7 — sounds like agitate, annotate

  3. AC6 — sounds like ascetic

  4. AC4 — sounds like abbey, agony, algae, alley, and

AN

  1. AN7 — dating or surviving from the distant past; being of advanced years and especially past middle age; relating to or occurring near the beginning of a process, series, or time period; aged; age-old sounds like agent, ailment, enchant, infant, merchant

  2. AN5 — a smaller structure added to a main building; to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; addition; extension; penthouse sounds like affix, apex, axe, flex, index

  3. AN4 — the amount of money that is demanded as payment for something; to give what is owed for; charge; cost; damage sounds like aunt, pantie, shanty

  4. AN7 — sounds like intend, intense, intent

  5. AN8 —

CA

  1. CA4 — a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; as in strap, leather; bastinado; bat; baton sounds like arraign, bane, chain

  2. CA6 — a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes; an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning; dog; doggy; hound sounds like benign, confine, consign, mainline, quinine

  3. CA7 — as in camp, club; as in pitcher, jug; as in locker, compartment; camp; club sounds like ante, antique

CE

  1. CE4 — of or relating to money, banking, or investments; financial; fiscal; monetary; pecuniary sounds like as**, assent, bent, dent, lent

  2. CE8 — sounds like citation, citizen, petition, solution, station

CI

  1. CI4 — to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; adduce; instance; mention sounds like bite, byte, eyesight, fight, height

EA

  1. EA5 — to take in as food; to consume or wear away gradually; to take a meal; consumed; ingested sounds like b*, eon, stun, ton

EN

  1. EN5 — to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action; constitute; lay down; legislate; make sounds like intact

  2. EN7 — as in entente cordiale; as in entente; as in ententes; entente cordiale; accord sounds like intent, intently

  3. EN6 — to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; allure; bait; beguile; betray

EX

  1. EX5 — being in agreement with the truth or a fact or a standard; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; following an original exactly; accurate; bang on sounds like enact

  2. EX6 —

  3. EX6 — to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings; to rouse to strong feeling or action; charge; electrify; exhilarate sounds like incite, insight

  4. EX4 — a person who manages or directs something; administrant; administrator; archon; director sounds like egghead, eggshell

  5. 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

  6. EX6 — having being at the present time; existing or in progress right now; alive; around; existent sounds like distant, ecstasy, instant, mustn't, sexton

  7. EX6 — a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go; a wide space or area; an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends; bound; boundary

  8. EX7 — no longer existing; bygone; bypast; dead; defunct sounds like instinct

IN

  1. IN5 — having no meaning; as in vacuum; empty; meaningless; pointless

  2. IN6 — to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to rouse to strong feeling or action; abet; brew; ferment sounds like excite

  3. IN7 — not precisely correct; not being in agreement with what is true; approximate; approximative; ballpark sounds like exact

  4. IN8 — to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of; to impart knowledge of a new thing or situation to; to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies; begin; constitute

  5. IN6 — being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing; built-in; constitutional; constitutive; essential sounds like elate

  6. IN5 — sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy

  7. IN6 — something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action; fully committed to achieving a goal; aim; ambition

NE

  1. NE4 — being clean and in good order; free from added matter; of the very best kind; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat

  2. NE6 — to make neat; pick up; redd (up or out); spruce (up); straighten (up or out) sounds like beaten, eaten

  3. NE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead

  4. NE4 — being the one that comes immediately after another; as in then, later; as in alongside, next to; coming; ensuing sounds like text

NI

  1. NI4 — following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses; hard to please; befitting; correct sounds like dice, ice, knife, knight, lice

  2. NI5 — sounds like cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease

  3. NI4 — as in last word, hot ticket; as in last words, hot tickets; as in wage earner, wage slave; buzz; chic sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin

  4. NI8 —

  5. NI4 — sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height

TA

  1. TA5 — sounds like facet

TE

  1. TE4 — sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat

  2. TE4 — someone who is between 13 and 19 years old; preteen; preteen-ager; subteen; teenager sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean

  3. TE6 — as in lease, rent; one who rents a room or apartment in another's house; one who lives permanently in a place; lease; rent sounds like pennant

  4. TE5 — an idea that is very important to a group; precept; principle; rule; standard sounds like senate

  5. TE4 — as in sleep out; a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; sleep out; bivouac; camp (out) sounds like bent, cent, dent, lent, meant

  6. TE4 — a book used for instruction in a subject; handbook; manual; primer; textbook sounds like next, taxed

TI

  1. TI4 — as in prong; prong; pinpoint; barb; jag sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine

accent, acetate, acetic, acne, ancient, annex, ante, antenna, antennae, cane, canine, canteen, cent, cetacean, cite, eaten, enact, entente, entice, exact, exacta, excite, exec, exit, extant, extent, extinct, inane, incite, inexact, initiate, innate, innie, intent, neat, neaten, nene, next, nice, niece, nine, nineteen, nite, tacet, teat, teen, tenant, tenet, tent, text, tine