NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 16 March, 2023

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

Letters: i  a  d  e  m  t  y

  • Total Answers: 60
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AD

  1. AD5 — to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) to; to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid; acknowledge; agree sounds like acquit

  2. AD8 — to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) to; to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid; acknowledged; agreed sounds like committed, permitted

AI

  1. AI4 — a person who helps a more skilled person; a military officer who assists another high-ranking officer; adjunct; adjutant; aid sounds like ace, ache, add, age, aged

  2. AI5 — to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; abetted; assisted; backed sounds like added, dud, faded, jaded

  3. AI5 — to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal; to have in mind as a purpose or goal; to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal; bent; cast sounds like aged, famed, m*, named

AM

  1. AM4 — in or into the middle of; in the course of; among; mid; midst

  2. AM5 — kindly concern, interest, or support; benevolence; brotherhood; charity; cordiality sounds like ante, city, committee, ditty, emit

DA

  1. DA6 — sounds like admit, amity, commit

  2. DA7 — the hours of light between one night and the next; day; daylight sounds like airtime, dime, downtime, time

DE

  1. DE5 — a being having superhuman powers and control over a particular part of life or the world; the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe; the quality or state of being divine; divinity; god sounds like dainty, diet, dieter, dirty, ditty

  2. DE5 — as in deny, disavow; abjure; deny; disavow; disclaim sounds like beret, carat, comet, damage

  3. DE8 — as in denied, disavowed; abjured; denied; disavowed; disclaimed sounds like admitted, committed, permitted

DI

  1. DI6 — a decorative band or wreath worn about the head as a symbol of victory or honor; chaplet; coronal; coronet; crown sounds like cadet, condemn

  2. DI4 — to stop living; to come to an end; to stop functioning; checked out; conked (out) sounds like bide, chide, dad, dead, deed

  3. DI4 — the things that a person or animal eats considered as a whole; as in slimming, nonfattening; as in fast; nourishment; nurture sounds like riot

  4. DI6 — as in fasted; fasted sounds like cheated, dotted, heated, seated

  5. DI4 — a very small sum of money; costing little; as in department store, chain store; chicken feed; chump change sounds like chime, dam, dame, damn, deem

  6. DI6 — sounds like deity, demote, devotee, enmity, limit

  7. DI6 — being without light or without much light; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; black; caliginous sounds like dammed, damned, demur, domed, doomed

  8. DI5 — a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment; as in shopping bag, garment bag; as in shopping bags, garment bags; ballad; jingle sounds like city, deter, duty, kitty, pity

ED

  1. ED6 — as in swirled, purled; purled; swirled; bubbled; dribbled sounds like deed, readied

  2. ED4 — to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; redraft; revamp

  3. ED6 — to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; redrafted; revamped sounds like dotted, oedipal

EM

  1. EM4 — to throw or give off; to send forth using the vocal chords; cast; discharge; emanate sounds like mitt, omit

  2. EM7 — to throw or give off; to send forth using the vocal chords; to throw or give off; cast; discharged sounds like admitted, committed, fitted, knitted, mitten

ID

  1. ID4 — something imagined or pictured in the mind; someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation; something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; abstraction; cogitation

  2. ID6 — to form a mental picture of; conceit; conceive; conjure (up); dream sounds like edit, eyelet

  3. ID7 — to form a mental picture of; to form a mental picture of; conceited; conceived; conjured (up) sounds like dotted

IM

  1. IM4 — sounds like mom

  2. IM7 — to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of; to make an exact likeness of; ape; copy sounds like acetate, agitate, annotate, emanate, estate

  3. IM8 — to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of; to make an exact likeness of; aped; copied sounds like irritated

  4. IM9 — done or occurring without any noticeable lapse in time; done or working without something else coming in between; done, carried out, or given without delay; instant; instantaneous sounds like idiot, median, mediate, medium, remedial

IT

  1. IT4 — 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. IT4 — very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy

MA

  1. MA4 — a female domestic servant; a young unmarried woman; as in lady-in-waiting, abigail; biddy; char sounds like aid, aide, bade, fade, jade

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

  3. MA6 — as in disabled, crippled; to cause severe or permanent injury to; to cause severe or permanent injury to; challenged; crippled sounds like famed, named

ME

  1. ME5 — a middle point between extremes; something used to achieve an end; the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded; golden means; means

  2. ME7 — occupying a position equally distant from the ends or extremes; to act as a go-between for opposing sides; central; halfway; intermediary

  3. ME8 — to act as a go-between for opposing sides; to act as a go-between for opposing sides; interceded; intermediated; interposed sounds like radiated

  4. ME8 — to give serious and careful thought to; to have in mind as a purpose or goal; chew over; cogitate; consider sounds like dedicate, hesitate, marinate

  5. ME9 — to give serious and careful thought to; to have in mind as a purpose or goal; to give serious and careful thought to; chewed over; cogitated sounds like dedicated

MI

  1. MI6 — the middle of the day; high noon; lunch time; noon; noonday

  2. MI4 — sounds like beady, mealy, meaty, moody, muddy

  3. MI4 — 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

  4. MI5 — to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; aped; copied; copycatted sounds like maimed, rimmed

  5. MI4 — 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

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

TA

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

TE

  1. TE7 — sounds like airtime, anytime, daytime, mealtime, meantime

TI

  1. TI4 — a prevailing or general movement or inclination; a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; current; direction; drift sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied

  2. TI5 — sounds like guided

  3. TI6 — being clean and in good order; as in picked up, uncluttered; to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like bodied, busied, deed, divvied, giddy

  4. TI4 — being clean and in good order; of a size greater than average of its kind; sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like teddy

  5. TI4 — as in bound, attached; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; to produce something equal to (as in quality or value); attached; bound sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied

  6. TI4 — 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

  7. TI5 — especially suitable for a certain time; to be unfaithful or disloyal to; to be unfaithful or disloyal to; opportune; seasonable

  8. TI5 — easily frightened; fainthearted; fearful; fearsome; mousy sounds like amid, emit, gimmick, jimmied, livid

  9. TI8 — lack of willingness to assert oneself and take risks; easily frightened; faintheartedness; timidness; timorousness sounds like acidity, commodity, rapidity, solidity, temerity

YE

  1. YE4 — sounds like jetty, petty

admit, admitted, aide, aided, aimed, amid, amity, dammit, daytime, deity, demit, demitted, diadem, died, diet, dieted, dime, dimity, dimmed, ditty, eddied, edit, edited, emit, emitted, idea, ideate, ideated, imam, imitate, imitated, immediate, item, itty, maid, maim, maimed, media, mediate, mediated, meditate, meditated, midday, midi, mime, mimed, mite, mitt, tatami, teatime, tide, tided, tidied, tidy, tied, time, timed, timid, timidity, yeti