NYT π CluesβMon. 21 August, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: i d e m n o x
- Total Answers: 44
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
DE
- DE9 β a social sphere that exists outside of the mainstream; demiworld; half-world; netherworld; underbelly sounds like armament, diamond, dominance, dominant
- DE6 β as in rejected, refused; to declare not to be true; to be unwilling to grant; disallowed; refused sounds like any, bend, buried, dairy
- DE5 β sounds like venom
DI
- DI4 β to stop living; to come to an end; to stop functioning; checked out; conked (out) sounds like bide, chide, dad, dead, deed
- DI4 β a very small sum of money; costing little; as in department store, chain store; chicken feed; chump change sounds like chime, dam, dame, damn, deem
- DI6 β being without light or without much light; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; black; caliginous sounds like dammed, damned, demur, domed, doomed
- DI4 β to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal; as in board, mess; eat; fare sounds like dawn, dean, den
- DI5 β to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal; to take a meal; ate; fared sounds like denude, deny
- DI4 β sounds like dean, depot, keno, wino
- DI5 β sounds like abode, anode, bide, bind, bio
- DI7 β sounds like dockside
DO
- DO8 β controlling power or influence over others; the right or means to command or control others; ascendance; ascendancy; dominance sounds like minion, opinion
- DO6 β as in mask, veil; as in poncho, pelisse; mask; veil; visor sounds like almond, common, commoner, commons, demon
ED
- ED6 β as in swirled, purled; purled; swirled; bubbled; dribbled sounds like deed, readied
ID
- ID5 β a sequence of words having a specific meaning; expression; phrase sounds like indium
IN
- IN6 β without any question; not merely this but also; to tell the truth; all right; alright sounds like bandied, bodied, deed, endear, ended
- IN5 β an arrow-shaped piece on a dial or scale for registering information; to put (someone or something) on a list; hand; indicator; needle
- IN7 β to put (someone or something) on a list; to put (someone or something) on a list; cataloged; enrolled; entered
- IN5 β sounds like windy
- IN5 β sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy
IO
- IO6 β
- IO6 β
MI
- MI4 β sounds like beady, mealy, meaty, moody, muddy
- MI4 β the outward form of someone or something especially as indicative of a quality; appearance; aspect; dress; figure sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
- MI4 β an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements; a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; mimic; mummer sounds like chime, dime, lime, mom, mum
- MI5 β to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; aped; copied; copycatted sounds like maimed, rimmed
- MI5 β sounds like bimbo, cameo, demean, jimmied, jimmy
- MI4 β the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons; the normal or healthy condition of the mental abilities; an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; brain; cerebrum sounds like bind, find, hind, kind, lined
- MI6 β having a desire or inclination (as for a specified course of action); to pay attention especially through the act of hearing; to bring back to mind; amenable; disposed sounds like bonded, bounded, candid, ended, founded
- MI4 β 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
- MI5 β to place hidden explosive devices in or under; to place hidden explosive devices in or under; booby-trapped; booby-trap sounds like bind, find, hind, kind, lined
- 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 a person or thing that is preferred over others; darling; fave; favorite; pet
- MI4 β a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman; chippie; doxy; fancy woman; floozy sounds like jinx
- MI5 β being offspring produced by parents of different races, breeds, species, or genera; consisting of many things of different sorts; to turn into a single mass or entity that is more or less the same throughout; cold-blooded; cross sounds like fixed
MO
- MO6 β having goods, property, or money in abundance; affluent; deep-pocketed; fat; fat-cat sounds like muddied
- MO8 β sounds like dioxide, dockside, oxide, peroxide
- MO5 β knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something; strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger; active strength of body or mind; chops; experience sounds like boxy
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
- NI5 β to be unwilling to grant; to reject by or as if by a vote; to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to; declined; denied sounds like fixed, mixed, next
NO
- NO7 β one who has been chosen by some authority for a specific position or duty; to give a name to; to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty; appointee; designee sounds like almond, anomaly, botany, colony, comedy
ON
- ON5 β sounds like undone
OX
- OX5 β sounds like dockside