NYT π CluesβSat. 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! π€£
AI
- AI5 β sounds like holy, idly, lowly, wholly
- AI7 β as in special delivery, registered mail; as in frank; airpost; certified mail; registered mail sounds like aerial, entail, female, frail, mail
AL
- AL4 β 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
- AR4 β a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson
- AR4 β sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, aural
- AR8 β
AT
- AT5 β inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt
- AT5 β as in peristyles, gallerias; gallerias; parvises; peristyles; closes sounds like area, aria, outreach, streak, stream
- AT6 β sounds like trial
IM
- IM4 β sounds like mom
- IM8 β 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
- IM7 β 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
- IM8 β lasting forever; having an existence or validity that does not change or diminish; as in monument, worthy; ceaseless; dateless sounds like mortal
IO
- IO4 β the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes; continental; damn sounds like aroma, beta, boa, boat, boater
LA
- LA4 β 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
- LA6 β a rope or long leather thong with a noose used especially for catching livestock; lasso; reata; riata sounds like chariot
LI
- LI4 β a person who tells lies; fabricator; fabulist; fibber; prevaricator sounds like buyer, fire, flier, flyer, higher
- LI4 β 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
- LI4 β sounds like alma, arena, aroma, asthma, beam
- LI5 β 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
- LI4 β sounds like lymph
- LI4 β sounds like leery
- LI8 β of, relating to, or situated in the waters near the shore; as in coast, shoreline; alongshore; coastal; inshore
MA
- MA4 β 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
- MA7 β sounds like bailiff, bailout, ballot, billet, bullet
- MA8 β sounds like ballroom, mushroom
- MA4 β to cause severe or permanent injury to; cripple; disable; incapacitate; lame sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
- MA7 β sounds like millennium
- MA8 β
- MA7 β of or relating to marriage; conjugal; connubial; married; matrimonial sounds like arable, bearable, caramel, emeritus, genital
- MA7 β 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
- MI7 β 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
- MI4 β 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
- MI6 β 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
- MI6 β sounds like astral, litle, matron, mattress, metal
- MI4 β sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit
MO
- MO4 β 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
- MO9 β a state of temporary inactivity; a state of temporary inactivity; abeyances; cold storages; deep freezes sounds like meritorious, oratorio, oratory
OL
- OL4 β an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup; assortment sounds like audio
OM
- OM4 β to miss the opportunity or obligation; fail; forget; neglect sounds like emit, mitt
OR
- OR8 β as in mass; mass; Gloria Patri; hallelujah; paean
RA
- RA4 β 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
- RA5 β sounds like beta
- RA5 β the relationship in quantity, amount, or size between two or more things; proportion; rate
- RA7 β sounds like retail
RI
- RI4 β sounds like dial, royal, t**, vial
- RI4 β a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill
- RI4 β 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
- RO4 β to be in a state of violent rolling motion; to make angry; boil; churn; moil sounds like boil, b**, coil, foil, oil
- RO4 β sounds like goatee, ratty, wrote
- RO8 β as in hoe, list; harrow; hoe; list; rake sounds like coattail, notable, potable, protocol, prototype
TA
- TA4 β 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
- TA6 β 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
- TA4 β sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee
- TA6 β
- TA6 β sounds like tomorrow
- TA6 β sounds like anatomy, atom, balmy, battery, catty
TI
- TI5 β as in anadem; anadem; chaplet; coronal; coronet sounds like rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra
- TI4 β 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
- TI4 β 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
- TO4 β 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
- TO9 β sounds like armadillo
- TO6 β sounds like admit, armpit, atomic, bombing, calming
- TO4 β sounds like gory, story, talky, tarry, tawdry
- TO5 β sounds like boring, corny, forage, foresee, gory
- TO8 β sounds like aorta, cornea, courtier, fourteen, forty
TR
- TR5 β 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
- TR5 β something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind; affection; attribute; attribution; character sounds like crate, freight, grate, great, irate
- TR7 β one who betrays a trust or an allegiance; apostate; backstabber; betrayer; double-crosser sounds like crater, freighter, greater, straighter
- TR9 β sounds like oratorio, oratory, territorial, territory, tutorial
- TR5 β 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
- TR5 β 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
- TR4 β 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
- TR4 β a group of three; threesome; triad; trifecta; trinity