Ben Willenbring

View Original

NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 3 April, 2023

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

Letters: d  c  i  m  o  t  y

  • Total Answers: 21
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CO

  1. CO9 — one that has a real and independent existence; products that are bought and sold in business; being; entity; existent sounds like timidity

DI

  1. DI6sounds like deity, demote, devotee, enmity, limit
  2. DI5 — having qualities in common; in like manner; to say after another; akin; alike sounds like deter
  3. DI5 — a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment; as in shopping bag, garment bag; as in shopping bags, garment bags; ballad; jingle sounds like city, deter, duty, kitty, pity

DO

  1. DO4 — a person with old-fashioned ideas; a stupid person; antediluvian; Colonel Blimp; fogy sounds like bode, coco, cocoa, code, dad
  2. DO4 — a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard; a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand; the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities; finding; holding sounds like boom, dam, dame, damn, deem
  3. DO5 — being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come; baleful; dire; direful; foreboding sounds like duly, dummy, duty, roomy
  4. DO6sounds like sitcom
  5. DO5 — showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; filled with an intense or excessive love for; absurd; asinine; balmy sounds like dirty, ditty, duty, knotty, potty

ID

  1. ID6 — a foolish act or idea; absurdity; asininity; bêtise; fatuity sounds like deity, hideous, hideously, immediacy, odious
  2. ID5 — a sequence of words having a specific meaning; expression; phrase sounds like indium
  3. ID5 — a stupid person; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; airhead; birdbrain
  4. ID7 — having or showing an inability to understand or make sensible choices; airheaded; birdbrained; boobish; brain-dead sounds like erotic, exotic

MI

  1. MI4sounds like beady, mealy, meaty, moody, muddy

MO

  1. MO4 — a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion; a special quality or impression associated with something; an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something; cheer; feather sounds like food, lewd, mad, made, maid
  2. MO5 — frequently influenced by moods and especially bad moods; temperamental sounds like muddy

OD

  1. OD6 — an odd or peculiar habit; something strange or unusual that is an object of interest; something that is different from what is ordinary or expected; crotchet; curiosity

TI

  1. TI4 — being clean and in good order; of a size greater than average of its kind; sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like teddy
  2. TI5 — easily frightened; fainthearted; fearful; fearsome; mousy sounds like amid, emit, gimmick, jimmied, livid
  3. TI8 — lack of willingness to assert oneself and take risks; easily frightened; faintheartedness; timidness; timorousness sounds like acidity, commodity, rapidity, solidity, temerity

TO

  1. TO5sounds like body, shoddy, tardy, teddy, tidy

commodity, dimity, ditto, ditty, dodo, doom, doomy, dotcom, dotty, idiocy, idiom, idiot, idiotic, midi, mood, moody, oddity, tidy, timid, timidity, toddy