NYT π CluesβThu. 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! π€£
AM
- AM5 β sounds like casino, keno, mean, meaner, means
- AM7 β sounds like kimono, pneumonia
- AM5 β sounds like acne, cameo
AN
- AN5 β sounds like alma, asthma, edema, prima
- 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
- AN5 β sounds like canyon, onion
- 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
- AN6 β to rub an oily or sticky substance over; bedaub; besmear; daub; smear sounds like appoint
- AN4 β opposed to; not for; as in bigot, misogynist; as in bigots, misogynists; against; agin sounds like aunt, p**e, shanty
AT
- AT6 β to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to receive as return for effort; achieve; bag; chalk up sounds like obtain, stain
AV
- AV5 β sounds like alien
- AV8 β the business or practice of piloting airplanes, helicopters, etc.; aeronautics; flight; flying; ballooning sounds like creation, deviation, ovation, radiation
IM
- IM4 β sounds like mom
- 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
- 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
- IN10 β something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination; brainchild; coinage; concoction; contrivance
- 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
- 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
- IN10 β as in inflection; inflection; accent; accentuation; emphasis
- 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
- IO4 β the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes; continental; damn sounds like aroma, beta, boa, boat, boater
MA
- MA4 β to cause severe or permanent injury to; cripple; disable; incapacitate; lame sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- MI5 β as in tiny, minuscule; as in smidgen, iota; bitty; inappreciable; infinitesimal
- MI6 β as in semblances, modicums; hoots; iotas; jots; minims sounds like cinema, edema, mania
- MI6 β a person or thing that is preferred over others; darling; fave; favorite; pet
- MI7 β as in minibus, van; coach; jitney; microbus; minibus sounds like divan, maniac, medieval, uneven
- 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
- MI4 β sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit
MO
- MO9 β as in obsession, phobia; obsession; phobia; delusion; hallucination sounds like condominium, ignominious, mammalian, mania, megalomania
- 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
- MO10 β something that arouses action or activity; boost; encouragement; goad; impetus sounds like activation
NA
- 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
- NO10 β as in election, choice; as in recommendation, advancement; choice; choosing; destination sounds like domination
- NO8 β a usually brief written reminder; jotting; memo; memorandum; note sounds like rotation
- 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
- NO8 β sounds like ovation
OM
- OM4 β to miss the opportunity or obligation; fail; forget; neglect sounds like emit, mitt
ON
- ON5 β sounds like undone
OV
- OV7 β enthusiastic and usually public expression of approval; acclamation; applause; cheer; cheering sounds like aviation, donation, elation, evasion, location
TA
- 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
- TA6 β
- TA6 β sounds like anatomy, atom, balmy, battery, catty
TI
- 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
- TI5 β something that is unusually large and powerful; behemoth; blockbuster; colossus; dinosaur sounds like heighten, lighten
TO
- TO6 β sounds like admit, armpit, atomic, bombing, calming
VA
- 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
- VI7 β sounds like thiamin
VO
- VO5 β to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; barf; gag; heave; hurl sounds like comet