Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Thu. 21 September, 2023

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

Letters: i  a  m  n  o  t  v

  • Total Answers: 52
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AM

  1. AM5 β€” sounds like casino, keno, mean, meaner, means
  2. AM7 β€” sounds like kimono, pneumonia
  3. AM5 β€” sounds like acne, cameo

AN

  1. AN5 β€” sounds like alma, asthma, edema, prima
  2. AN9 β€” the quality or state of having abundant or intense activity; a state of temporary inactivity; briskness; exuberance; jazziness sounds like adulation, affirmation, agitation, allegation, allocation
  3. AN5 β€” sounds like canyon, onion
  4. AN10 β€” a written explanation, observation, etc. that is added to something (such as a book); comment; note; reflection; remark sounds like agitation, connotation, imitation, inhalation, innovation
  5. AN6 β€” to rub an oily or sticky substance over; bedaub; besmear; daub; smear sounds like appoint
  6. AN4 β€” opposed to; not for; as in bigot, misogynist; as in bigots, misogynists; against; agin sounds like aunt, p**e, shanty

AT

  1. AT6 β€” to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to receive as return for effort; achieve; bag; chalk up sounds like obtain, stain

AV

  1. AV5 β€” sounds like alien
  2. AV8 β€” the business or practice of piloting airplanes, helicopters, etc.; aeronautics; flight; flying; ballooning sounds like creation, deviation, ovation, radiation

IM

  1. IM4 β€” sounds like mom
  2. IM9 β€” something that is made to look exactly like something else; being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials; carbon; carbon copy; clone sounds like agitation, dilatation, emanation, emulsion, inhalation

IN

  1. IN10 β€” the process or an instance of being formally placed in an office or organization; baptism; inaugural; inauguration; induction sounds like affiliation, delineation, enumeration
  2. IN10 β€” something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination; brainchild; coinage; concoction; contrivance
  3. IN10 β€” a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation); to convey an idea indirectly; clue; cue; hint sounds like animation, automation, estimation
  4. 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
  5. IN10 β€” as in inflection; inflection; accent; accentuation; emphasis
  6. IN10 β€” a request for the presence or participation of someone at a specified time and place; something that arouses action or activity; invite; interview; get-together sounds like irritation, levitation

IO

  1. IO4 β€” the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes; continental; damn sounds like aroma, beta, boa, boat, boater

MA

  1. MA4 β€” to cause severe or permanent injury to; cripple; disable; incapacitate; lame sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
  2. MA4 β€” coming before all others in importance; muscular strength; one of the great divisions of land on the globe or the main part of such a division; arch; big sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
  3. MA8 β€” to keep in good condition; to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections; to pay the living expenses of; conserve; keep up sounds like contain, mountain, mundane
  4. MA5 β€” a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life; something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned; aberration; dementia; derangement

MI

  1. 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
  2. MI5 β€” as in tiny, minuscule; as in smidgen, iota; bitty; inappreciable; infinitesimal
  3. MI6 β€” as in semblances, modicums; hoots; iotas; jots; minims sounds like cinema, edema, mania
  4. MI6 β€” a person or thing that is preferred over others; darling; fave; favorite; pet
  5. MI7 β€” as in minibus, van; coach; jitney; microbus; minibus sounds like divan, maniac, medieval, uneven
  6. 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
  7. MI4 β€” sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit

MO

  1. MO9 β€” as in obsession, phobia; obsession; phobia; delusion; hallucination sounds like condominium, ignominious, mammalian, mania, megalomania
  2. 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
  3. MO10 β€” something that arouses action or activity; boost; encouragement; goad; impetus sounds like activation

NA

  1. NA6 β€” a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government; a people having a common language, culture, and body of traditions; a form of political organization in which a group of people who share the same history, traditions, or language live in a particular area under one government; commonwealth; country sounds like notion

NO

  1. NO10 β€” as in election, choice; as in recommendation, advancement; choice; choosing; destination sounds like domination
  2. NO8 β€” a usually brief written reminder; jotting; memo; memorandum; note sounds like rotation
  3. 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
  4. NO8 β€” sounds like ovation

OM

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

ON

  1. ON5 β€” sounds like undone

OV

  1. OV7 β€” enthusiastic and usually public expression of approval; acclamation; applause; cheer; cheering sounds like aviation, donation, elation, evasion, location

TA

  1. TA5 β€” a mark of guilt or disgrace; to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable; blot; brand sounds like faint, feint, paint, saint, tent
  2. TA6 β€”
  3. TA6 β€” sounds like anatomy, atom, balmy, battery, catty

TI

  1. 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
  2. TI5 β€” something that is unusually large and powerful; behemoth; blockbuster; colossus; dinosaur sounds like heighten, lighten

TO

  1. TO6 β€” sounds like admit, armpit, atomic, bombing, calming

VA

  1. VA4 β€” having too high an opinion of oneself; producing no results; having no usefulness; assured; biggety sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

VI

  1. VI7 β€” sounds like thiamin

VO

  1. VO5 β€” to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; barf; gag; heave; hurl sounds like comet

amino, ammonia, amnio, anima, animation, anion, annotation, anoint, anti, attain, avian, aviation, imam, imitation, initiation, innovation, intimation, into, intonation, invitation, iota, maim, main, maintain, mania, mini, minim, minima, minion, minivan, mint, mitt, monomania, motion, motivation, nation, nomination, notation, notion, novation, omit, onion, ovation, taint, tannin, tatami, tint, titan, tomtit, vain, vitamin, vomit