NYT π CluesβSat. 22 April, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: m e f i l o t
- Total Answers: 46
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
EM
- EM4 β to throw or give off; to send forth using the vocal chords; cast; discharge; emanate sounds like mitt, omit
- EM5 β to express emotion in a very dramatic or obvious way; dote (on); fawn; drool; effuse sounds like d*, moat, r*
FE
- FE5 β a woman whom men find irresistibly attractive; enchantress; seductress; siren; temptress sounds like fair, fame, fare, firm, foam
FI
- FI4 β a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track; the art or business of making a movie; as in videotape; flick; flicker
IT
- IT4 β a separate part in a list, account, or series; a report of recent events or facts not previously known; as in collectible; detail; particular sounds like atom, autumn
LE
- LE9 β sounds like motif
LI
- LI8 β the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress; continuance; date; duration; life sounds like halftime, longtime, nighttime
- LI4 β as in limey; as in limeys; limey; powerboater; sailboater sounds like chime, climb, c**, dime, lamb
- LI5 β to set bounds or an upper limit for; to mark the limits of; a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go; cap; circumscribe sounds like bigot, billet, climate, comet, demote
- LI4 β sounds like lymph
LO
- LO4 β to be about to happen; brew; impend sounds like b, boom, doom, g, lamb
ME
- ME4 β 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
- ME5 β a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people; affray; brawl; broil; donnybrook sounds like mail, mailed, male
- ME4 β to cease to be visible; to go from a solid to a liquid state; to yield to mental or emotional stress; dematerialize; disappear sounds like belt, dealt, felt, knelt, malt
- ME4 β sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
- ME4 β a message on paper from one person or group to another; a usually brief written reminder; a written communication giving information or directions; dispatch; epistle sounds like demo, marrow
- ME4 β to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; administer; allocate; apportion; deal (out) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
- ME6 β strength of spirit; ability to continue despite difficulties; fully committed to achieving a goal; main; might; muscle sounds like kettle, mottle, myrtle, nettle, petal
MI
- MI4 β the feeling of being offended or resentful after a slight or indignity; as in exasperate, irritate; dudgeon; huff; offense sounds like mere, muff, myth, riff, tiff
- MI4 β a long distance; a long distance; with great speed; afar; country mile sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
- MI4 β a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods; to reduce to fine particles; as in kick around, knock (about); factory; manufactory sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
- MI6 β sounds like billet
- 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
- MI5 β sounds like bimbo, cameo, demean, jimmied, jimmy
- MI4 β a very small sum of money; a living thing much smaller than others of its kind; a very small amount; chicken feed; chump change sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height
- MI4 β sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit
MO
- MO4 β a state of noisy, confused activity; very hard or unpleasant work; to devote serious and sustained effort; ado; alarums and excursions sounds like boil, coil, foil, mail, male
- MO4 β a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country; agent; asset; emissary; intelligencer sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- MO4 β as in mistress; mistress; gal; gill; girl sounds like doll, loll, mail, male, mall
- MO4 β to cast (a natural bodily covering or appendage) aside; exfoliate; shed; slip; slough sounds like bolt, colt, jolt, malt, melt
- MO4 β open to question or dispute; to present or bring forward for discussion; to talk about (an issue) usually from various points of view and for the purpose of arriving at a decision or opinion; arguable; controvertible sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot
- MO4 β a very small piece; atom; bit; crumb; dribble sounds like boat, coat, goat, mat, mate
- MO5 β as in resort, court; court; motor court; motor inn; motor lodge sounds like hotel
- MO5 β as in madrigal, aria; aria; art song; barcarole; blues sounds like abet, attest, cadet, cassette, cutout
- MO5 β a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition); a unit of decoration that is repeated all over something (as a fabric); content; matter; motive sounds like goatee, meaty, meteor, mighty
- MO6 β as in moving; moving; removable; transferable; transportable sounds like metal, mettle, myrtle, total
- MO6 β a small area that is different (as in color) from the main part; to mark with small spots especially unevenly; blotch; dapple; dot sounds like bottle, metal, mettle, myrtle, wattle
- MO5 β a short sentence or phrase that expresses a rule guiding the behavior of a particular person or group; axiom; precept; truism; truth sounds like macho, mater
OM
- OM6 β sounds like aimless, argot, ballot, billet, bullet
- OM8 β sounds like inlet, let, met, outlet, roulette
- OM4 β to miss the opportunity or obligation; fail; forget; neglect sounds like emit, mitt
TE
- TE4 β to be copiously supplied; abound; brim; bristle; bulge sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem
TI
- TI4 β a particular point at which an event takes place; an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand; an extent of time associated with a particular person or thing; moment; occasion sounds like chime, dime, lime, rhyme, tam
TO
- TO4 β a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction; book; volume sounds like comb, dome, foam, gnome, home
- TO6 β sounds like admit, armpit, atomic, bombing, calming
- TO5 β a device, design, or figure used as an identifying mark; emblem; ensign; hallmark; impresa