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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 8 April, 2023

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

Letters: e  j  m  n  o  t  y

  • Total Answers: 45
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

EM

  1. EM5 β€” to express emotion in a very dramatic or obvious way; dote (on); fawn; drool; effuse sounds like d*, moat, r*

EN

  1. EN5 β€” one that is hostile toward another; adversary; antagonist; foe; hostile sounds like annum, any, crummy, dummy, ebony
  2. EN5 β€” to take pleasure in; to keep, control, or experience as one's own; adore; delight (in); dig
  3. EN9 β€” the fact or state of having (something) at one's disposal; the feeling experienced when one's wishes are met; control; hands; keeping
  4. EN7 β€” as in entente cordiale; as in entente; as in ententes; entente cordiale; accord sounds like intent, intently

JE

  1. JE5 β€” as in jack, jennet; jack; jennet; ass; burro sounds like any, genie, journey, many, penny
  2. JE4 β€” sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
  3. JE5 β€” a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers; dock; float; landing; levee sounds like petty

JO

  1. JO4 β€” sounds like showy

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. ME4 β€” to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; administer; allocate; apportion; deal (out) sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
  7. ME7 β€” sounds like maternal, mutton
  8. ME8 β€” sounds like autonomy, maternal, maternity, mutton

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. MO5 β€” something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; a wealthy person; yielding a profit; bread; bucks sounds like bunny, funny, gunny, honey, many
  3. MO8 β€” sounds like honeymoon
  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 very small piece; atom; bit; crumb; dribble sounds like boat, coat, goat, mat, mate
  7. MO5 β€” as in madrigal, aria; aria; art song; barcarole; blues sounds like abet, attest, cadet, cassette, cutout

NE

  1. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
  2. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon
  3. NE5 β€” a fabric made of strands loosely twisted, knotted, or woven together at regular intervals; a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise; something that catches and holds; mesh; netting sounds like jetty, knotty, natty, naughty, nutty

NO

  1. NO4 β€” certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
  2. NO5 β€” sounds like bonnet, font, knockout, knot, net
  3. NO4 β€” to make a statement of one's opinion; to make a written note of; to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes; allow; comment sounds like boat, coat, gnome, goat, knight

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

TE

  1. TE4 β€” to be copiously supplied; abound; brim; bristle; bulge sounds like beam, deem, ream, seam, seem
  2. TE4 β€” someone who is between 13 and 19 years old; preteen; preteen-ager; subteen; teenager sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
  3. TE5 β€” very small in size; very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty sounds like genie, tinny, tiny, tony, tourney
  4. 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
  5. TE5 β€” an idea that is very important to a group; precept; principle; rule; standard sounds like senate
  6. TE5 β€”
  7. TE4 β€” a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; as in sleep out; awning; canopy; ceiling sounds like bent, cent, dent, lent, meant

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. TO4 β€” a distinctive way of putting ideas into words; a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from others; fashion; locution sounds like a**, bone, cone, hone, known
  3. TO5 β€” sounds like bun, done, dun, eaten, eon
  4. TO4 β€” to support and take from one place to another; as in backpack, satchel; to combine (numbers) into a single sum; bear; carry sounds like boat, coat, goat, moat, note
  5. TO5 β€” a device, design, or figure used as an identifying mark; emblem; ensign; hallmark; impresa

YE

  1. YE5 β€” sounds like ante, any, bent, bounty, cent
  2. YE6 β€” as in sharecroppers, crofters; crofters; croppers; gentlemen farmers; sharecroppers sounds like amen, demon, domain, foment, omen

emote, enemy, enjoy, enjoyment, entente, jenny, jete, jetty, joey, meet, meme, memento, memo, mentee, mete, metonym, metonymy, moment, money, moneymen, monotone, monte, mote, motet, nene, neon, netty, none, nonet, note, omen, teem, teen, teeny, tenement, tenet, tenon, tent, tome, tone, tonne, tote, totem, yente, yeomen