NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 3 June, 2023

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

Letters: i  a  l  m  o  r  t

  • Total Answers: 74
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AI

  1. AI5 — sounds like holy, idly, lowly, wholly

  2. AI7 — as in special delivery, registered mail; as in frank; airpost; certified mail; registered mail sounds like aerial, entail, female, frail, mail

AL

  1. AL4 — to come to rest after descending from the air; to come down from something (as a vehicle); to come to rest after descending from the air; landed; lit sounds like eyelet, glut, gullet

AR

  1. AR4 — a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson

  2. AR4 — sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, aural

  3. AR8 —

AT

  1. AT5 — inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt

  2. AT5 — as in peristyles, gallerias; gallerias; parvises; peristyles; closes sounds like area, aria, outreach, streak, stream

  3. AT6 — sounds like trial

IM

  1. IM4 — sounds like mom

  2. IM8 — a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way; a person who imitates another's voice and mannerisms for comic effect; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; aper; copycat sounds like irritate

  3. IM7 — not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable; not guided by or showing a concern for what is right; bad; dark; evil sounds like amoral, moral

  4. IM8 — lasting forever; having an existence or validity that does not change or diminish; as in monument, worthy; ceaseless; dateless sounds like mortal

IO

  1. IO4 — the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes; continental; damn sounds like aroma, beta, boa, boat, boater

LA

  1. LA4 — a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others; the shelter or resting place of a wild animal; a place set aside for sleeping; concealment; covert sounds like air, bare, bear, blare, care

  2. LA6 — a rope or long leather thong with a noose used especially for catching livestock; lasso; reata; riata sounds like chariot

LI

  1. LI4 — a person who tells lies; fabricator; fabulist; fibber; prevaricator sounds like buyer, fire, flier, flyer, higher

  2. LI4 — the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern; as in croon, warble; movement; sway; swing sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

  3. LI4 — sounds like alma, arena, aroma, asthma, beam

  4. LI5 — to set bounds or an upper limit for; to mark the limits of; a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go; cap; circumscribe sounds like bigot, billet, climate, comet, demote

  5. LI4 — sounds like lymph

  6. LI4 — sounds like leery

  7. LI8 — of, relating to, or situated in the waters near the shore; as in coast, shoreline; alongshore; coastal; inshore

MA

  1. MA4 — communications or parcels sent or carried through the postal system; to send through the postal system; a person who delivers mail; correspondence; matter sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  2. MA7 — sounds like bailiff, bailout, ballot, billet, bullet

  3. MA8 — sounds like ballroom, mushroom

  4. MA4 — to cause severe or permanent injury to; cripple; disable; incapacitate; lame sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game

  5. MA7 — sounds like millennium

  6. MA8 —

  7. MA7 — of or relating to marriage; conjugal; connubial; married; matrimonial sounds like arable, bearable, caramel, emeritus, genital

  8. MA7 — of, relating to, or suitable for war or a warrior; of or relating to the armed services; control of an area by military forces rather than by the police; military; soldierly sounds like partial

MI

  1. MI7 — a group of people who are not part of the armed forces of a country but are trained like soldiers; national guard; standing army; army; array sounds like malicious

  2. MI4 — a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods; to reduce to fine particles; as in kick around, knock (about); factory; manufactory sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

  3. MI6 — a smooth or polished surface that forms images by reflection; to reproduce or show (an exact likeness) as a mirror would; something or someone that strongly resembles another; glass; looking glass sounds like hearer, mere, nearer

  4. MI6 — sounds like astral, litle, matron, mattress, metal

  5. MI4 — sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit

MO

  1. MO4 — a state of noisy, confused activity; very hard or unpleasant work; to devote serious and sustained effort; ado; alarums and excursions sounds like boil, coil, foil, mail, male

  2. MO9 — a state of temporary inactivity; a state of temporary inactivity; abeyances; cold storages; deep freezes sounds like meritorious, oratorio, oratory

OL

  1. OL4 — an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup; assortment sounds like audio

OM

  1. OM4 — to miss the opportunity or obligation; fail; forget; neglect sounds like emit, mitt

OR

  1. OR8 — as in mass; mass; Gloria Patri; hallelujah; paean

RA

  1. RA4 — a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports; a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel; as in revile, rant; balustrade; banister sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  2. RA5 — sounds like beta

  3. RA5 — the relationship in quantity, amount, or size between two or more things; proportion; rate

  4. RA7 — sounds like retail

RI

  1. RI4 — sounds like dial, royal, t**, vial

  2. RI4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill

  3. RI4 — someone or something that is very funny; an often public or formal expression of disapproval; an often public or formal expression of disapproval; hoot; knee-slapper sounds like diet, rut, write

RO

  1. RO4 — to be in a state of violent rolling motion; to make angry; boil; churn; moil sounds like boil, b**, coil, foil, oil

  2. RO4 — sounds like goatee, ratty, wrote

  3. RO8 — as in hoe, list; harrow; hoe; list; rake sounds like coattail, notable, potable, protocol, prototype

TA

  1. TA4 — a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person; the part of the body upon which someone sits; a behind part or surface; cortege; entourage sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  2. TA6 — as in seamstress, weaver; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; made or fitted to the needs or preferences of a specific customer; seamster; sewer sounds like sailor, teller, tiller

  3. TA4 — sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee

  4. TA6 —

  5. TA6 — sounds like tomorrow

  6. TA6 — sounds like anatomy, atom, balmy, battery, catty

TI

  1. TI5 — as in anadem; anadem; chaplet; coronal; coronet sounds like rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra

  2. TI4 — up to (a particular time); to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); until; up till sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

  3. TI4 — the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; as in gyroplane, convertiplane; angling; bend sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

TO

  1. TO4 — very hard or unpleasant work; something that catches and holds; to devote serious and sustained effort; donkeywork; drudge sounds like boil, coil, foil, oil, roil

  2. TO9 — sounds like armadillo

  3. TO6 — sounds like admit, armpit, atomic, bombing, calming

  4. TO4 — sounds like gory, story, talky, tarry, tawdry

  5. TO5 — sounds like boring, corny, forage, foresee, gory

  6. TO8 — sounds like aorta, cornea, courtier, fourteen, forty

TR

  1. TR5 — a rough course or way formed by or as if by repeated footsteps; a mark or series of marks left on a surface by something that has passed along it; to go after or on the track of; footpath; path sounds like frail, rail, tail, tale

  2. TR5 — something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind; affection; attribute; attribution; character sounds like crate, freight, grate, great, irate

  3. TR7 — one who betrays a trust or an allegiance; apostate; backstabber; betrayer; double-crosser sounds like crater, freighter, greater, straighter

  4. TR9 — sounds like oratorio, oratory, territorial, territory, tutorial

  5. TR5 — a test of faith, patience, or strength; a private performance or session in preparation for a public appearance; a procedure or operation carried out to resolve an uncertainty; cross; crucible

  6. TR5 — as in ripple, warble; to sing with the alternation of two musical tones; to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings of; chirr; ripple sounds like drill, frill, grill, grille, rill

  7. TR4 — being clean and in good order; a state of being or fitness; something that decorates or beautifies; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like brim, grim, prim, rim

  8. TR4 — a group of three; threesome; triad; trifecta; trinity

aioli, airmail, alit, aria, aril, armorial, atilt, atria, atrial, imam, imitator, immoral, immortal, iota, lair, lariat, liar, lilt, lima, limit, limo, lira, littoral, mail, maillot, mailroom, maim, malaria, malarial, marital, martial, militia, mill, mirror, mitral, mitt, moil, moratoria, olio, omit, oratorio, rail, raita, ratio, rattail, rial, rill, riot, roil, roti, rototill, tail, tailor, tali, tallit, tamari, tatami, tiara, till, tilt, toil, tomatillo, tomtit, tori, torii, tortilla, trail, trait, traitor, trattoria, trial, trill, trim, trio