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

Letters: n  c  e  i  m  t  x

• Total Answers: 40
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CE

1. CE6 — a substance used to stick things together; a uniting or binding force or influence; as in combine, weld; adhesive; bond sounds like dement, lament
2. CE4 — of or relating to money, banking, or investments; financial; fiscal; monetary; pecuniary sounds like as**, assent, bent, dent, lent

EM

4. EM8 — the fact or state of being above others in rank or importance; an area of high ground; the senior member of a group; distinction; dominance
5. EM7 — standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement; astral; bright; distinguished; illustrious sounds like immanent, imminent

EN

7. EN7 — as in entente cordiale; as in entente; as in ententes; entente cordiale; accord sounds like intent, intently
8. EN6 — to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; allure; bait; beguile; betray
9. EN10 — something that persuades one to perform an action for pleasure or gain; the act or pressure of giving in to a desire especially when ill-advised; to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; allurement; bait sounds like indictment, inducement, internment

EX

11. EX10 — something that arouses a strong response from another; urgent desire or interest; incitation; incitement; instigation sounds like indictment
12. EX6 — a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go; a wide space or area; an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends; bound; boundary
13. EX7 — no longer existing; bygone; bypast; dead; defunct sounds like instinct

IC

15. IC6 — sounds like lemon, salmon, seaman, semen, sermon

IM

17. IM9 — something that may cause injury or harm; danger; hazard; menace; peril sounds like eminence
18. IM8 — giving signs of immediate occurrence; being soon to appear or take place; impending; looming; pending sounds like eminent

IN

20. IN6 — to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to rouse to strong feeling or action; abet; brew; ferment sounds like excite
21. IN10 — something that arouses a strong response from another; something that arouses action or activity; to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; excitement; incitation sounds like excitement
22. IN5 — sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy
23. IN6 — something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action; fully committed to achieving a goal; aim; ambition

ME

25. ME6 — sounds like many

MI

27. MI4 — the outward form of someone or something especially as indicative of a quality; appearance; aspect; dress; figure sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
28. MI5 — to cut into small pieces; chop; dice; hash sounds like rinse, since, wince
29. MI4 — an abundant source; a usually concealed explosive device designed to go off when disturbed; to place hidden explosive devices in or under; argosy; cornucopia sounds like dine, fine, line, main, man
30. MI4 — a very small automobile; as in small, little; as in department store, chain store; compact; coupe sounds like genie, many, mealy, mean, meaner
31. MI5 — as in tiny, minuscule; as in smidgen, iota; bitty; inappreciable; infinitesimal
32. MI4 — 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
33. MI4 — a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman; chippie; doxy; fancy woman; floozy sounds like jinx
34. MI6 — sounds like bitten, kitten, mutton, s**, written

NE

36. NE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
37. NE4 — being the one that comes immediately after another; as in then, later; as in alongside, next to; coming; ensuing sounds like text

NI

39. NI4 — following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses; hard to please; befitting; correct sounds like dice, ice, knife, knight, lice
40. NI5 — sounds like cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease
41. NI4 — as in last word, hot ticket; as in last words, hot tickets; as in wage earner, wage slave; buzz; chic sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin
42. NI8 —
43. NI4 — sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height

TE

45. TE4 — someone who is between 13 and 19 years old; preteen; preteen-ager; subteen; teenager sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
46. TE8 — a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place; as in apartment building, apartment house; as in apartment buildings, apartment houses; apartment; diggings sounds like element, ornament, regiment, sediment, sentiment
47. TE5 — an idea that is very important to a group; precept; principle; rule; standard sounds like senate
48. TE4 — as in sleep out; a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; sleep out; bivouac; camp (out) sounds like bent, cent, dent, lent, meant

TI

50. TI5 — as in colored, hued; colored; colorized; dyed; hued sounds like linked
51. TI4 — as in prong; prong; pinpoint; barb; jag sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine
52. TI4 — 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