Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 7 October, 2023

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

Letters: i  l  m  n  o  t  u

  • Total Answers: 41
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

IL

  1. IL5 β€” sounds like idiom, psyllium

IN

  1. IN4 β€” in addition to what has been said; to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; additionally; again sounds like ensue, onto, unto
  2. IN6 β€” to have a clear idea of; appreciate; apprehend; assimilate; behold
  3. IN9 β€” an innate sense of what is true or what will happen; feel; insight; instinct; foreknowledge

LI

  1. LI4 β€” the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern; as in croon, warble; movement; sway; swing sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt
  2. 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
  3. LI4 β€” to give a representation or account of in words; delineate; depict; describe; draw sounds like lymph
  4. LI4 β€” sounds like lymph
  5. LI4 β€” a soft airy substance or covering; down; floss; fluff; fur sounds like f, g, hint, leant, learnt
  6. LI4 β€” a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; the largest part or quantity of something; a large tawny cat of the wild; baron; captain sounds like ion, scion

LO

  1. LO4 β€” sounds like coin, join, lain, lane, lawn
  2. LO6 β€” as in cream, balm; balm; cream; embrocation; liniment sounds like motion, notion, ocean, potion

MI

  1. 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
  2. MI7 β€” as in thousands, trillion; gazillion; jillion; kazillion; thousands sounds like billion, jillion
  3. 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
  4. MI5 β€” as in tiny, minuscule; as in smidgen, iota; bitty; inappreciable; infinitesimal
  5. MI7 β€” being the least in amount, number, or size possible; as in semblance, modicum; an amount of money that is the least amount of money per hour that workers must be paid according to the law; fewest; littlest
  6. MI6 β€” a person or thing that is preferred over others; darling; fave; favorite; pet
  7. MI4 β€” being in an original and unused or unspoiled state; a very large amount of money; as in coin, stamp; brand-new; fresh sounds like hint, lint, meant
  8. MI4 β€” sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit

MO

  1. 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
  2. MO7 β€” as in sunny, sunlit; shiny; sunlit; sunny; sunshiny
  3. MO6 β€” the act or an instance of changing position; to direct or notify by a movement or gesture; a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track; move; movement sounds like e**, lotion, mission, notion, ocean

MU

  1. MU12 β€”
  2. MU8 β€”

NO

  1. NO9 β€” sounds like billion, civilian, jillion, million, pavilion
  2. NO6 β€” small useful items; a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action; an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; etceteras; novelties sounds like lotion, motion, nation, ocean, potion

OL

  1. OL4 β€” an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup; assortment sounds like audio

OM

  1. OM4 β€” to miss the opportunity or obligation; fail; forget; neglect sounds like emit, mitt

ON

  1. ON5 β€” sounds like undone

TI

  1. TI4 β€” up to (a particular time); to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); until; up till sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
  2. TI4 β€” the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; as in gyroplane, convertiplane; angling; bend sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt
  3. TI4 β€” a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; to give color or a different color to; cast; color; hue sounds like hint, lint, mint, s**, taint

TO

  1. TO4 β€” very hard or unpleasant work; something that catches and holds; to devote serious and sustained effort; donkeywork; drudge sounds like boil, coil, foil, oil, roil
  2. TO6 β€” sounds like admit, armpit, atomic, bombing, calming

TU

  1. TU7 β€” the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another; education; instruction; schooling; teaching sounds like fruition, munition, musician
  2. TU5 β€” sounds like nutty, putty, touchy

UN

  1. UN5 β€” the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one; an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection; the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters); combination; combining sounds like canyon, minion, onion, re*
  2. UN4 β€” as in item, single; as in list price, face value; as in list prices, face values; entity; item
  3. UN5 β€” being without light or without much light; black; caliginous; dark; darkened
  4. UN5 β€” up to (a particular time); till; up till; up to; afore sounds like annoying, antic, entail, instill, still

ilium, into, intuit, intuition, lilt, limit, limn, limo, lint, lion, loin, lotion, mill, million, mini, minim, minimum, minion, mint, mitt, moil, moonlit, motion, multimillion, munition, nonillion, notion, olio, omit, onion, till, tilt, tint, toil, tomtit, tuition, tutti, union, unit, unlit, until