NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Mon. 21 August, 2023

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

Letters: i  d  e  m  n  o  x

  • Total Answers: 44
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

DE

  1. DE9 β€” a social sphere that exists outside of the mainstream; demiworld; half-world; netherworld; underbelly sounds like armament, diamond, dominance, dominant
  2. DE6 β€” as in rejected, refused; to declare not to be true; to be unwilling to grant; disallowed; refused sounds like any, bend, buried, dairy
  3. DE5 β€” sounds like venom

DI

  1. DI4 β€” to stop living; to come to an end; to stop functioning; checked out; conked (out) sounds like bide, chide, dad, dead, deed
  2. DI4 β€” a very small sum of money; costing little; as in department store, chain store; chicken feed; chump change sounds like chime, dam, dame, damn, deem
  3. DI6 β€” being without light or without much light; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; black; caliginous sounds like dammed, damned, demur, domed, doomed
  4. DI4 β€” to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal; as in board, mess; eat; fare sounds like dawn, dean, den
  5. DI5 β€” to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal; to take a meal; ate; fared sounds like denude, deny
  6. DI4 β€” sounds like dean, depot, keno, wino
  7. DI5 β€” sounds like abode, anode, bide, bind, bio
  8. DI7 β€” sounds like dockside

DO

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

ED

  1. ED6 β€” as in swirled, purled; purled; swirled; bubbled; dribbled sounds like deed, readied

ID

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

IN

  1. IN6 β€” without any question; not merely this but also; to tell the truth; all right; alright sounds like bandied, bodied, deed, endear, ended
  2. IN5 β€” an arrow-shaped piece on a dial or scale for registering information; to put (someone or something) on a list; hand; indicator; needle
  3. IN7 β€” to put (someone or something) on a list; to put (someone or something) on a list; cataloged; enrolled; entered
  4. IN5 β€” sounds like windy
  5. IN5 β€” sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy

IO

  1. IO6 β€”
  2. IO6 β€”

MI

  1. MI4 β€” sounds like beady, mealy, meaty, moody, muddy
  2. MI4 β€” the outward form of someone or something especially as indicative of a quality; appearance; aspect; dress; figure sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
  3. MI4 β€” an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements; a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; mimic; mummer sounds like chime, dime, lime, mom, mum
  4. MI5 β€” to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; aped; copied; copycatted sounds like maimed, rimmed
  5. MI5 β€” sounds like bimbo, cameo, demean, jimmied, jimmy
  6. MI4 β€” 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
  7. MI6 β€” having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action); to pay attention especially through the act of hearing; to bring back to mind; amenable; disposed sounds like bonded, bounded, candid, ended, founded
  8. MI4 β€” an abundant source; a usually concealed explosive device designed to go off when disturbed; to place hidden explosive devices in or under; argosy; cornucopia sounds like dine, fine, line, main, man
  9. MI5 β€” to place hidden explosive devices in or under; to place hidden explosive devices in or under; booby-trapped; booby-trap sounds like bind, find, hind, kind, lined
  10. MI4 β€” a very small automobile; as in small, little; as in department store, chain store; compact; coupe sounds like genie, many, mealy, mean, meaner
  11. MI5 β€” as in tiny, minuscule; as in smidgen, iota; bitty; inappreciable; infinitesimal
  12. MI6 β€” a person or thing that is preferred over others; darling; fave; favorite; pet
  13. MI4 β€” a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman; chippie; doxy; fancy woman; floozy sounds like jinx
  14. MI5 β€” being offspring produced by parents of different races, breeds, species, or genera; consisting of many things of different sorts; to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout; cold-blooded; cross sounds like fixed

MO

  1. MO6 β€” having goods, property, or money in abundance; affluent; deep-pocketed; fat; fat-cat sounds like muddied
  2. MO8 β€” sounds like dioxide, dockside, oxide, peroxide
  3. MO5 β€” knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something; strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger; active strength of body or mind; chops; experience sounds like boxy

NI

  1. NI4 β€” 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
  2. NI5 β€” to be unwilling to grant; to reject by or as if by a vote; to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to; declined; denied sounds like fixed, mixed, next

NO

  1. NO7 β€” one who has been chosen by some authority for a specific position or duty; to give a name to; to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty; appointee; designee sounds like almond, anomaly, botany, colony, comedy

ON

  1. ON5 β€” sounds like undone

OX

  1. OX5 β€” sounds like dockside

demimonde, denied, denim, died, dime, dimmed, dine, dined, dino, diode, dioxide, dominion, domino, eddied, idiom, indeed, index, indexed, indie, innie, iodide, iodine, midi, mien, mime, mimed, mimeo, mind, minded, mine, mined, mini, minim, minion, minx, mixed, monied, monoxide, moxie, nine, nixed, nominee, onion, oxide