NYT π CluesβMon. 13 March, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: n e f i l o x
- Total Answers: 32
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
EL
- EL5 β having an often mysterious or magical power to attract; alluring; appealing; attractive; bewitching sounds like coffin, delphic, fin, selfish, sellin
FE
- FE6 β a small domestic animal known for catching mice; moving easily; cat; house cat; kitty sounds like airline, align, byline, fallen, field
- FE5 β a person who has committed a serious crime; criminal; crook; culprit; lawbreaker sounds like fallen, melon
- FE6 β sounds like final, funnel, kennel
FI
- FI4 β consisting of very small particles; made or done with extreme care and accuracy; being of less than usual width; dusty; floury sounds like dine, fan, fawn, feign, fern
FL
- FL7 β sounds like election, lessen, lesson
IN
- IN6 β sounds like fill, refill
- IN5 β to produce a vivid impression of; to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set; brand; engrave; etch sounds like affix, fix, nix, onyx, suffix
- IN4 β a report of recent events or facts not previously known; 411; advice(s); gen; information
- IN5 β sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy
LE
- LE7 β sounds like any, benzene, bony, crony
LI
- LI4 β sounds like bean, clean, dean, gene, glean
- LI8 β
- LI4 β a series of persons or things arranged one behind another; a way of acting or proceeding; the activity by which one regularly makes a living; column; cue sounds like align, dine, fine, lain, lane
- LI5 β as in dirty laundry; dirty laundry; dirt; gossip; scuttlebutt
- 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
- LO4 β sounds like coin, join, lain, lane, lawn
- LO4 β being the one or ones of a class with no other members; not being in the company of others; a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs; alone; one sounds like a, blown, bone, c, c**s
- LO4 β one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person; bug; crackbrain; crazy sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
- LO6 β sounds like lucy, lunar
NE
- NE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
- NE4 β sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon
NI
- NI4 β 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
NO
- NO4 β the season celebrating Christmas; as in anthem, hymn; Christmastide; Christmastime; yuletide sounds like knoll, null
- NO4 β certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
- NO9 β sounds like billion, civilian, jillion, million, pavilion
- NO4 β the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known
OF
- OF7 β sounds like airline, align, awfully, byline, feline
ON
- ON5 β sounds like undone
- ON6 β being in effective operation; a series of persons or things arranged one behind another; a way of acting or proceeding; active; alive sounds like airline, align, byline, feline, incline
OX
- OX4 β sounds like arson, auction, toxin
XE
- XE5 β sounds like neon, zenith