NYT π CluesβTue. 24 October, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: t d e i m p u
- Total Answers: 66
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
DE
- DE5 β as in deny, disavow; abjure; deny; disavow; disclaim sounds like beret, carat, comet, damage
- DE8 β as in denied, disavowed; abjured; denied; disavowed; disclaimed sounds like admitted, committed, permitted
- DE6 β to appoint as one's representative; commission; delegate; deputize sounds like dispute, impute, repute
- DE7 β to appoint as one's representative; to appoint as one's representative; commissioned; delegated; deputized sounds like disputed
DI
- DI4 β the things that a person or animal eats considered as a whole; as in slimming, nonfattening; as in fast; nourishment; nurture sounds like riot
- DI6 β as in fasted; fasted sounds like cheated, dotted, heated, seated
DU
- DU4 β sounds like debt
- DU7 β sounds like directed, dotted, fetid, rooted
ED
- ED4 β to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; redraft; revamp
- ED6 β to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; redrafted; revamped sounds like dotted, oedipal
EM
- EM4 β to throw or give off; to send forth using the vocal chords; cast; discharge; emanate sounds like mitt, omit
- EM7 β to throw or give off; to send forth using the vocal chords; to throw or give off; cast; discharged sounds like admitted, committed, fitted, knitted, mitten
- EM7 β as in empty, vacant; to remove the contents of; to remove the contents of; empty; unoccupied
ET
- ET5 β as in study; as in opus, oeuvre; study; drill; exercise sounds like stewed
IM
- IM6 β to explain (something) as being the result of something else; as in charge, blame; accredit; ascribe; attribute
- IM7 β to explain (something) as being the result of something else; to explain (something) as being the result of something else; as in charged, blamed; accredited; ascribed sounds like muted, reputed
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
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
- ME6 β sounds like beaten, beetle, cheated, cheetah, cheetal
- ME4 β to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; administer; allocate; apportion; deal (out) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
- ME5 β to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; administer; allocate; apportion; deal (out) sounds like rated
MI
- 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
MU
- MU4 β unable to speak; deliberately refraining from speech; a device on a musical instrument that deadens or softens its tone; inarticulate; speechless sounds like cute, mew, moot
- MU5 β mostly or entirely without sound; not excessively showy; deliberately refraining from speech; hushed; noiseless sounds like booted, cupid, imputed
- MU4 β a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like but, butt, cut, gut, hut
PE
- PE7 β sounds like reptile
- PE5 β as in petty larcenies; as in petty larceny; as in Beau Brummell, blood; petty larcenies; embezzlements sounds like puppet
- PE6 β having a small and thin bodyβusually used to describe a woman or girl; baby; diminutive; dwarf; elfin sounds like putty
- PE6 β to touch or handle in a tender or loving manner; to touch or handle in a tender or loving manner; caressed; fondled; gentled sounds like fetid
PI
- PI5 β sounds like puppet
- PI7 β sounds like pet, puppet, typed, wipeout
- PI5 β sounds like peanut, people, puppet
- PI6 β to have sympathy for; to have sympathy for; ached (for); bled (for); commiserated (with)
- PI6 β as in pocked; as in dented; pocked; rutted; rutty sounds like fitted, knitted
PU
- PU6 β a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; one that is or can be used to further the purposes of another; as in doll, puppet; action figure; doll sounds like bucket, buffet, couple, covet, gullet
- PU4 β sounds like but, butt, cut, gut, hut
- PU6 β sounds like buttock, button, cheated, coated, dotted
- PU7 β sounds like peed, plead
TE
- TE6 β the state of being bored; blahs; boredom; doldrums; ennui sounds like medium
- TE4 β feeling or showing anger; subjected to and reacting with irritation; as in raged, vituperated; angered; angry sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
- TE4 β to be copiously supplied; abound; brim; bristle; bulge sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem
- TE6 β to be copiously supplied; to be copiously supplied; abounded; brimmed; bristled sounds like themed, tiered, timed
- TE6 β sounds like beady, beefy, beep, beeper, cheap
- TE4 β as in temporary; temporary; associate; colleague; coworker
- TE6 β sounds like attempt
- TE5 β
- TE5 β to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; to take a chance on; allure; bait; beguile sounds like at*
- TE7 β to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; to take a chance on; to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; allured; baited sounds like at***
- TE5 β sounds like guppy, puppy, touchy, tummy, yuppie
- TE5 β showing little or no interest or enthusiasm; having or giving off heat to a moderate degree; halfhearted; lukewarm; uneager sounds like epic, leaded, leopard, peppered, shepherd
TI
- TI4 β a prevailing or general movement or inclination; a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; current; direction; drift sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied
- TI5 β sounds like guided
- TI6 β being clean and in good order; as in picked up, uncluttered; to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like bodied, busied, deed, divvied, giddy
- TI4 β as in bound, attached; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; to produce something equal to (as in quality or value); attached; bound sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied
- 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 especially suitable for a certain time; to be unfaithful or disloyal to; to be unfaithful or disloyal to; opportune; seasonable
- TI5 β easily frightened; fainthearted; fearful; fearsome; mousy sounds like amid, emit, gimmick, jimmied, livid
- TI6 β tapering to a thin tip; to set or cause to be at an angle; a piece of advice or useful information especially from an expert; peaked; pointed sounds like chipped, shipped, sipped, taped, tapped
- TI6 β as in poncho, capelet; burnoose; capelet; capuchin; cowl
TU
- TU5 β enlarged beyond normal from internal pressure; bloated; blown; distended; overinflated sounds like doomed, humid, lucid, lumen, mud
- TU5 β sounds like booty, duty, sooty
- TU6 β to hold an unfavorable opinion of; to hold an unfavorable opinion of; deprecate; disapprove (of); discountenance sounds like attitude, buttock, button, cheated, coated
- TU5 β sounds like nutty, putty, touchy
- TU4 β as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo
UP
- UP6 β