NYT π CluesβTue. 11 April, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: m a c d e i y
- Total Answers: 48
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AC
- AC7 β a place or establishment for teaching and learning; academy; school; seminary
- AC8 β sounds like anemia
- AC8 β of or relating to schooling or learning especially at an advanced level; very learned or educated but inexperienced in practical matters; existing only as an assumption or speculation; educational; intellectual sounds like epidemic
- AC7 β a place or establishment for teaching and learning; academe; school; seminary sounds like anatomy
- AC4 β the highest part or point; the most perfect type or example; apex; apogee; capstone sounds like axe
AI
- AI5 β 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
- AM4 β in or into the middle of; in the course of; among; mid; midst
CA
- CA4 β to move closer to; to get to a destination; to eventually have as a state or quality; advanced; approached sounds like aim, claim, comb
- CA4 β sounds like balmy, cocky, coffee, collie, comma
DA
- DA4 β a dignified usually elderly woman of some rank or authority; a woman of high birth or social position; a dignified usually elderly woman of some rank or authority; dowager; grande dame sounds like aim, came, deem
- DA6 β as in blocked, clogged; to prevent passage through by filling with something; to close up so that no empty spaces remain; blocked; choked sounds like domed, doomed, jammed
DE
- DE4 β to have as an opinion; allow; believe; conceive; consider sounds like beam, dam, dame, damn, dim
- DE6 β to have as an opinion; to have as an opinion; allowed; believed; conceived sounds like dammed, damned, domed, doomed, themed
DI
- DI6 β a decorative band or wreath worn about the head as a symbol of victory or honor; chaplet; coronal; coronet; crown sounds like cadet, condemn
- DI4 β 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
- DI6 β 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
ED
- ED7 β sounds like dam, damage, dammed, damn, damned
- ED5 β sounds like deem, demon, diva, idea, idiom
EM
- EM5 β a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity; announcer; host; MC sounds like airy, any, assay, chassis, edgy
- EM6 β sounds like encode, envied, impede, keyed
IM
- IM4 β sounds like mom
- IM9 β the state or condition of being near; adjacency; closeness; contiguity; nearness sounds like idiocy
MA
- MA7 β sounds like academy, accustom, buxom, cuddle, minimum
- MA9 β sounds like academia
- MA4 β as in blackjack, knobkerrie; blackjack; knobkerrie; bastinado; bat sounds like ace, base, case, chase, face
- MA5 β sounds like cast, caste, fast, last
- MA5 β the female partner in a marriage; helpmate; helpmeet; lady; missus sounds like modem
- MA6 β as in madam; madam; bawd; call girl; cocotte sounds like dada, model, modem, modern, mom
- MA4 β to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials; to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); fabricated; fashioned sounds like aid, aide, bade, fade, jade
- MA4 β a female domestic servant; a young unmarried woman; as in lady-in-waiting, abigail; biddy; char sounds like aid, aide, bade, fade, jade
- MA4 β to cause severe or permanent injury to; cripple; disable; incapacitate; lame sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
- MA6 β as in disabled, crippled; to cause severe or permanent injury to; to cause severe or permanent injury to; challenged; crippled sounds like famed, named
- MA4 β a female human parent; as in boy, kid; as in boys, kids; ma; mammy sounds like comma, mom
- MA5 β a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mom
- MA6 β sounds like heyday, melee, payday
ME
- ME4 β as in wine, sake; sake; wine; alcohol; aqua vitae sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
- ME5 β a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axis; base; capital; center sounds like mica
- ME5 β a middle point between extremes; something used to achieve an end; the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded; golden means; means
- ME5 β a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders; croaker; doc; doctor; medico
- ME4 β sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
- ME5 β sounds like famed, made, maid, mailed, named
MI
- MI4 β sounds like mecca
- MI4 β as in cowards, pussies; as in icebergs, cold fishes; cowards; milquetoasts; nebbishes sounds like dice, ice, lice, mass, mess
- MI6 β the middle of the day; high noon; lunch time; noon; noonday
- MI4 β sounds like beady, mealy, meaty, moody, muddy
- 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
- MI5 β 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
- MI5 β to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials; burlesque; caricature sounds like gimmick, mythic