Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 4 March, 2023

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

Letters: m  e  i  n  o  t  z

  • Total Answers: 54
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

EM

  1. EM7 β€” standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement; astral; bright; distinguished; illustrious sounds like immanent, imminent
  2. EM4 β€” to throw or give off; to send forth using the vocal chords; cast; discharge; emanate sounds like mitt, omit
  3. EM5 β€” to express emotion in a very dramatic or obvious way; dote (on); fawn; drool; effuse sounds like d*, moat, r*
  4. EM7 β€” a subjective response to a person, thing, or situation; depth of feeling; chord; feeling; passion sounds like d***, motion

IM

  1. IM8 β€” giving signs of immediate occurrence; being soon to appear or take place; impending; looming; pending sounds like eminent

IT

  1. IT4 β€” a separate part in a list, account, or series; a report of recent events or facts not previously known; as in collectible; detail; particular sounds like atom, autumn
  2. IT7 β€” to make a list of; to specify one after another; enumerate; inventory; list sounds like idolize, ionize, optimize

ME

  1. ME4 β€” to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face; to come together into one body or place; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; catch; chance (upon) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
  2. ME4 β€” sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
  3. ME7 β€” something that serves to keep alive the memory of a person or event; commemorative; keepsake; memorial; monument sounds like augment, cement, comment, dement, demented
  4. 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
  5. ME6 β€” sounds like many
  6. ME7 β€” to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; to give as an example; a formal recognition of an achievement or praiseworthy deed; advert (to); cite sounds like gentian, mansion, pension, tension
  7. ME4 β€” to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; administer; allocate; apportion; deal (out) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
  8. ME4 β€” sounds like cheese, ease, maze
  9. ME5 β€” sounds like mare, maze
  10. ME5 β€” sounds like marrow
  11. ME9 β€” sounds like hesitant, hesitate, militant, peasant, pheasant

MI

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. MI5 β€” sounds like bimbo, cameo, demean, jimmied, jimmy
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. MI5 β€” as in tiny, minuscule; as in smidgen, iota; bitty; inappreciable; infinitesimal
  7. MI8 β€” to express scornfully one's low opinion of; bad-mouth; belittle; cry down; decry
  8. MI6 β€” a person or thing that is preferred over others; darling; fave; favorite; pet
  9. MI4 β€” being in an original and unused or unspoiled state; a very large amount of money; as in coin, stamp; brand-new; fresh sounds like hint, lint, meant
  10. MI4 β€” a very small sum of money; a living thing much smaller than others of its kind; a very small amount; chicken feed; chump change sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height
  11. MI4 β€” sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit
  12. MI6 β€” sounds like bitten, kitten, mutton, s**, written
  13. MI6 β€” sounds like arisen, risen

MO

  1. MO6 β€” a particular point at which an event takes place; the quality or state of being important; a very small space of time; occasion; time sounds like ailment, easement, foment, merchant, mightn't
  2. MO8 β€” sounds like magnetize, meantime, minimize, sanitize
  3. MO4 β€”
  4. MO8 β€” a tedious lack of variety; as in solid, monochromatic; humdrum; monotonousness; monotony
  5. MO5 β€” as in thimblerig; thimblerig; racket; rip-off; device sounds like ante, arty, bounty, county, dainty
  6. MO4 β€” a long or seemingly long period of time; a long or seemingly long period of time; not often; aeon; age sounds like boon, dune, goon, loon, main
  7. MO4 β€” open to question or dispute; to present or bring forward for discussion; to talk about (an issue) usually from various points of view and for the purpose of arriving at a decision or opinion; arguable; controvertible sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot
  8. MO4 β€” a very small piece; atom; bit; crumb; dribble sounds like boat, coat, goat, mat, mate
  9. MO5 β€” as in madrigal, aria; aria; art song; barcarole; blues sounds like abet, attest, cadet, cassette, cutout
  10. MO6 β€” the act or an instance of changing position; to direct or notify by a movement or gesture; a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track; move; movement sounds like e**, lotion, mission, notion, ocean
  11. MO5 β€” a short sentence or phrase that expresses a rule guiding the behavior of a particular person or group; axiom; precept; truism; truth sounds like macho, mater

NO

  1. 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

OI

  1. OI8 β€” a smooth substance that is rubbed on the skin to help heal a wound or to reduce pain or discomfort; something that makes a situation more complicated or difficult; something that makes a situation more complicated or difficult; embrocation; liniment sounds like app**, entrant

OM

  1. OM4 β€” something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event; augury; auspice; boding; foreboding sounds like ocean, open, showman
  2. OM4 β€” to miss the opportunity or obligation; fail; forget; neglect sounds like emit, mitt

ON

  1. ON7 β€” happening only once; having been such at some previous time; at an earlier or previous time; one-off; one-shot sounds like downtime, lunchtime, meantime, sometime, untie

TE

  1. TE4 β€” to be copiously supplied; abound; brim; bristle; bulge sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem
  2. TE8 β€” a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place; as in apartment building, apartment house; as in apartment buildings, apartment houses; apartment; diggings sounds like element, ornament, regiment, sediment, sentiment

TI

  1. TI4 β€” a particular point at which an event takes place; an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand; an extent of time associated with a particular person or thing; moment; occasion sounds like chime, dime, lime, rhyme, tam

TO

  1. TO4 β€” a set of printed sheets of paper bound together between covers and forming a work of fiction or nonfiction; book; volume sounds like comb, dome, foam, gnome, home
  2. TO6 β€” sounds like admit, armpit, atomic, bombing, calming
  3. TO5 β€” a device, design, or figure used as an identifying mark; emblem; ensign; hallmark; impresa

ZO

  1. ZO4 β€” a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion; to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound; to proceed or move quickly; burr; buzz sounds like boom, doom, loom, room, tomb

eminent, emit, emote, emotion, imminent, item, itemize, meet, meme, memento, memo, mentee, mention, mete, meze, mezze, mezzo, mezzotint, mien, mime, mimeo, mine, mini, minim, minimize, minion, mint, mite, mitt, mitten, mizzen, moment, monetize, mono, monotone, monte, moon, moot, mote, motet, motion, motto, nominee, ointment, omen, omit, onetime, teem, tenement, time, tome, tomtit, totem, zoom