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

Letters: m  a  c  e  h  k  t

• Total Answers: 33
• Pangrams: 2
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

1. AC4 — the highest part or point; the most perfect type or example; apex; apogee; capstone sounds like axe

AH

3. AH4 — sounds like gem, hem, them

CA

5. CA4 — to move closer to; to get to a destination; to eventually have as a state or quality; advanced; approached sounds like aim, claim, comb

CH

7. CH9 — to prevent from achieving a goal; as in thwarting, foiling; baffle; balk; beat sounds like decorate

EM

9. EM5 — a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity; announcer; host; MC sounds like airy, any, assay, chassis, edgy

HA

11. HA6 — sounds like comet, heart, hot, humped, inmate

HE

13. HE4 — the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something; border; borderline; bound; boundary sounds like beam, deem, ham

MA

15. MA4 — as in blackjack, knobkerrie; blackjack; knobkerrie; bastinado; bat sounds like ace, base, case, chase, face
16. MA7 — as in dagger, pocketknife; bayonet; bodkin; bolo; bowie knife sounds like mushy
17. MA7 — as in guru, swami; guru; pandit; swami; yogi
18. MA4 — to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials; to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); fabricate; fashion sounds like ache, bake, cake, fake, lake
19. MA4 — a female human parent; as in boy, kid; as in boys, kids; ma; mammy sounds like comma, mom
20. MA5 — a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mom
21. MA5 — a competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize; a union representing a special kind of social and legal partnership between two people; either of a pair matched in one or more qualities; bout; competition sounds like batch, catch, hatch, latch
22. MA6 —
23. MA9 —
24. MA4 — either of a pair matched in one or more qualities; a person frequently seen in the company of another; a person who helps a more skilled person; companion; fellow sounds like ate, bait, date, eight, fate
25. MA4 — the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value; arithmetic; calculation; calculus; ciphering sounds like bath
26. MA5 — lacking a surface luster or gloss; dim; dull; dulled; flat sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, hat

ME

28. ME4 — animal and especially mammal tissue used as food; substances intended to be eaten; the central part or aspect of something under consideration; flesh; bread sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
29. ME5 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axis; base; capital; center sounds like mica
30. 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
31. 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
32. ME4 — sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
33. ME4 —
34. ME4 — to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; administer; allocate; apportion; deal (out) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
35. ME4 — sounds like death, mare, math, mirth, moth

TA

37. TA4 — changed from the wild state so as to become useful and obedient to humans; causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression); domestic; domesticated sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game

TE

39. TE4 — as in join, league; a group of people working together on a task; to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end; affiliate; ally sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem
40. TE8 — a person who is on the same team as someone else; classmate; housemate; messmate; playfellow sounds like automate, cremate, female, inmate, mate
41. TE4 — to be copiously supplied; abound; brim; bristle; bulge sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem

TH

43. TH4 — to strike with fear; to drive or force out; to give information to; affright; alarm sounds like gem, hem
44. TH5 — a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition); a short piece of writing done as a school exercise; a short piece of writing typically expressing a point of view; content; matter sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem