NYT π CluesβSat. 12 August, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: e c i l m o p
- Total Answers: 47
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
CE
- CE4 β an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall; one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided; a local unit of an organization; apartment; chamber sounds like bell, dell, fell, gel, hell
- CE5 β sounds like belly, jelly, sally, self, sell
- CE5 β sounds like bellow, fellow, mellow, self, sell
CL
- CL5 β the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded; ambient; atmosphere; climate; context sounds like crime, lime, slime
CO
- CO6 β sounds like calmly, curly
- CO4 β to move closer to; to get to a destination; to eventually have as a state or quality; advance; approach sounds like bum, calm, came, chum, cub
- CO6 β to cause (a person) to give in to pressure; blackjack; coerce; constrain; dragoon
- CO7 β to bring together from several sources into a single volume or list; anthologize; collect
- CO4 β something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; to meet one's day-to-day needs; to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently; blanket; cloak sounds like cap, cape
EL
- EL5 β as in escape, abscond; abscond; clear out; decamp; escape sounds like alone, lope, slope
EM
- EM5 β a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity; announcer; host; MC sounds like airy, any, assay, chassis, edgy
EP
- EP4 β sounds like easy, pea
- EP4 β large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception; as in story, tale; as in ode, elegy; august; baronial sounds like ethic, pick
IC
- IC6 β a cold aloof person; cold fish; cold turkey; iceberg sounds like bicycle, sickle
IM
- IM5 β to set or keep in motion; to cause (a person) to give in to pressure; actuate; drive; move
LI
- LI4 β a person whose behavior is offensive to others; bastard; beast; bleeder; blighter sounds like dice, ice, lace, lass, lease
- LI4 β as in limey; as in limeys; limey; powerboater; sailboater sounds like chime, climb, c**, dime, lamb
LO
- LO4 β to move with a light springing step; as in bounce, skip; bounce; bound; hop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lap, leap
ME
- ME5 β a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people; affray; brawl; broil; donnybrook sounds like mail, mailed, male
- ME4 β sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
- ME4 β a message on paper from one person or group to another; a usually brief written reminder; a written communication giving information or directions; dispatch; epistle sounds like demo, marrow
MI
- MI4 β as in cowards, pussies; as in icebergs, cold fishes; cowards; milquetoasts; nebbishes sounds like dice, ice, lice, mass, mess
- MI4 β a long distance; a long distance; with great speed; afar; country mile sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
- 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 sounds like bimbo, cameo, demean, jimmied, jimmy
MO
- MO4 β a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country; agent; asset; emissary; intelligencer sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- MO4 β to move or act slowly; to silently go about in a bad mood; crawl; creep; dally sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, map
OL
- OL5 β sounds like click, flick, lick, slick
- OL4 β sounds like polio
- OL5 β sounds like alley, awfully, c*, early, flea
PE
- PE4 β to remove the natural covering of; to rid oneself of (a garment); to leave a place often for another; bark; flay sounds like appeal, deal, eel, feel, heal
- PE4 β an instance of looking especially briefly; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cast; eye; gander sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
- PE8 β sounds like pickle
- PE6 β human beings in general; the body of the community as contrasted with the elite; a group of persons who come from the same ancestor; folks; humanity sounds like papal, purple
PI
- PI5 β a broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete; a literary, musical, or artistic production; a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder; bit; fraction sounds like a*, cease, eye*, lease, niece
- PI4 β a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; a considerable amount; a very large amount of money; cock; heap sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
- PI6 β a small, inflamed swelling of the skin; boil; fester; hickey; papule sounds like simple
- PI4 β a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; channel; conduit sounds like hype, pap, peep, pop, pope
PL
- PL4 β sounds like alley, early, flea, flee, glee
PO
- PO4 β a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect; lyric; rune; song; verse sounds like plum, plumb
- PO4 β as in center, capital; as in punt; capital; center; cynosure sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
- PO7 β as in diatribe, tirade; given to arguing; relating to or causing the expression of opposing opinions; broadside; diatribe sounds like epidemic, pathetic
- PO6 β as in patrol, conduct; the department of government that keeps order, fights crime, and enforces statutes; a body of officers of the law; administrate; conduct sounds like pulse
- PO4 β sounds like comb, dome, foam, gnome, home
- PO6 β sounds like mellow
- PO6 β to strike repeatedly; bash; baste; bat; batter sounds like pummel
- PO4 β as in bishop, archbishop; abbot; archbishop; archpriest; bishop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pap