NYT π CluesβSat. 4 February, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: i a c e h m t
- Total Answers: 46
- Pangrams: 3
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AC
- AC6 β sounds like occasion
- AC4 β sounds like occur, sky
- AC6 β sounds like ascetic
AT
- AT5 β a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building; as in refined, cultured; cockloft; garret; loft sounds like antic, stick, tick
CA
- CA5 β
- CA4 β sounds like balmy, cocky, coffee, collie, comma
CH
- CH4 β sounds like awry, buy, die, dye
- CH4 β sounds like keel, keen, keep, key, keyed
- CH4 β being in the latest or current fashion; a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time; Γ la mode; au courant; cool sounds like beak, eke, geek, leak, meek
- CH5 β
- CH6 β as in extravagant, ostentatious; as in finery, froufrou; extravagant; exuberant; fancified
- CH5 β a series of short high ringing sounds; peaceful coexistence; to form a pleasing relationship; jingle; tinkle sounds like dime, lime, rhyme, time
- CH4 β as in sister, lass; bird; filly; lass; lassie sounds like bit, fit
- CH8 β friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; backchat; cackle; causerie; chat sounds like begat, detach, detached, detect, detest
CI
- CI4 β 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
EM
- EM8 β to lose bodily strength or vigor; decay; droop; fade; fail sounds like initiate, irradiate
- EM6 β sounds like aesthetic, ascetic, medic, metric, poetic
- EM4 β to throw or give off; to send forth using the vocal chords; cast; discharge; emanate sounds like mitt, omit
ET
- ET5 β as in norm, principles; conforming to a high standard of morality or virtue; following the accepted rules of moral conduct; form; mode sounds like epic, thick
HE
- HE6 β being in a state of increased activity or agitation; agitated; excited; feverish; frenzied sounds like arctic, septic, tactic
- HE7 β sounds like emphatic, pneumatic, rheumatic, t***
- HE8 β
HI
- HI5 β a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized; a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position; to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion; booby trap; catch sounds like bitch, ditch, hatch, hear, here
IM
- IM4 β sounds like mom
- IM7 β to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of; to make an exact likeness of; ape; copy sounds like acetate, agitate, annotate, emanate, estate
IT
- IT4 β sexual appetite; a strong wish for something; intense sexual desire; concupiscence; desire sounds like b, d, each, ear, etch
- 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
MA
- MA8 β
- MA4 β to cause severe or permanent injury to; cripple; disable; incapacitate; lame sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
- MA10 β meeting the highest standard of accuracy; accurate; close; delicate; exact
MI
- MI4 β sounds like mecca
- MI4 β as in cowards, pussies; as in icebergs, cold fishes; cowards; milquetoasts; nebbishes sounds like dice, ice, lice, mass, mess
- 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
- MI7 β using or marked by the use of something else as a basis or model; apish; canned; emulative; epigonic sounds like mystic
- MI5 β to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials; burlesque; caricature sounds like gimmick, mythic
- 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
TA
- TA5 β understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
- TA6 β something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
- TA6 β sounds like anatomy, atom, balmy, battery, catty
TE
- TE7 β sounds like airtime, anytime, daytime, mealtime, meantime
- TE6 β as in geek, technocrat; gearhead; geek; technocrat; technophile sounds like tacky, talky, tarry, turkey
TH
- TH8 β sounds like pneumatic, rheumatic
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
- TI5 β an amount of money that a person gives to a church which is usually equal to 1/10 of that person's income; alms; benefaction; beneficence; benevolence sounds like with
- TI7 β sounds like litmus