NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 18 July, 2023

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

Letters: i  c  e  n  o  t  x

  • Total Answers: 49
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CI

  1. CI4 — to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; adduce; instance; mention sounds like bite, byte, eyesight, fight, height

CO

  1. CO5 — sounds like catchy

  2. CO4 — 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; as in produce, design; as in stamp, mint; bread; bucks sounds like can, cane, join, keen, kin

  3. CO7 — an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something; a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality; an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements; metaphor; chimera sounds like unseat

  4. CO10 — something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination; to create or think of by clever use of the imagination; brainchild; coinage; contrivance

  5. CO5 — sounds like chronic, ionic, phonic, sonic, tonic

  6. CO10 — the fact or state of having something in common; a place where two or more things are united; an acquaintance who has influence especially in the business or political world; affinity; association

  7. CO10 — an idea or opinion that is put forth in a discussion or debate; an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another; argument; assertion; thesis

  8. CO10 — abstention from sexual intercourse; the checking of one's true feelings and impulses when dealing with others; the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions; abstinence; celibacy

  9. CO9 — one of the great divisions of land on the globe or the main part of such a division; given to or marked by restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites; landmass; main; mainland

  10. CO6 — sounds like booty, catty, duty, kitty, sooty

EN

  1. EN6 — to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; allure; bait; beguile; betray

EX

  1. EX6 — to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings; to rouse to strong feeling or action; charge; electrify; exhilarate sounds like incite, insight

  2. EX4 — a place or means of going out; the act of leaving a place; the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities; egress; issue sounds like grit

  3. EX6 — excitingly or mysteriously unusual; something strange or unusual that is an object of interest; bizarro; fantastic; glamorous sounds like erotic, idiotic

  4. EX7 — no longer existing; bygone; bypast; dead; defunct sounds like instinct

  5. EX10 — the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless; annihilation; decimation; demolishment; demolition sounds like distinction

IC

  1. IC4 — a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion; a written or printed mark that is meant to convey information to the reader; a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality); god; hero sounds like con

  2. IC6 — sounds like ionic, ironic

IN

  1. IN6 — to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to rouse to strong feeling or action; abet; brew; ferment sounds like excite

  2. IN12 — as in excess, intemperance; excess; excessiveness; immoderacy; indulgence sounds like continent, countenance

  3. IN11 — as in reckless, intemperate; extravagant; intemperate; reckless; splurging sounds like continent

  4. IN5 — sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy

  5. IN9 — the quality or state of being free from guilt or blame; the quality or state of being simple and sincere; the state of being unaware or uninformed; blamelessness; faultlessness

  6. IN8 — free from sin; free from guilt or blame; free from any intent to deceive or impress others; impeccable; pure

  7. IN6 — something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action; fully committed to achieving a goal; aim; ambition

  8. IN9 — something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action; aim; ambition; aspiration

  9. IN4 — in addition to what has been said; to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; additionally; again sounds like ensue, onto, unto

  10. IN6 — to utter in musical or drawn out tones; chant; intonate; sing

IO

  1. IO5 — sounds like ironic, phonic, sonic, tonic

NI

  1. NI4 — following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses; hard to please; befitting; correct sounds like dice, ice, knife, knight, lice

  2. NI8 — sounds like guillotine, rickety, sixteen

  3. NI5 — sounds like cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease

  4. NI4 — as in last word, hot ticket; as in last words, hot tickets; as in wage earner, wage slave; buzz; chic sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin

  5. NI8 —

  6. NI4 — sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height

NO

  1. NO8 — as in nonpoisonous; nonpoisonous; nourishing; nutritional; nutritious sounds like toxic

  2. NO6 — to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest; behold; catch sounds like lotus

  3. NO6 — small useful items; a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action; an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; etceteras; novelties sounds like lotion, motion, nation, ocean, potion

ON

  1. ON5 — sounds like undone

TE

  1. TE8 — having great meaning or lasting effect; big; consequential; earth-shattering; earthshaking sounds like chronic, electronic, hectic, isotonic, tactic

TI

  1. TI5 — as in colored, hued; colored; colorized; dyed; hued sounds like linked

  2. TI4 — as in prong; prong; pinpoint; barb; jag sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine

  3. TI4 — a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; to give color or a different color to; cast; color; hue sounds like hint, lint, mint, s**, taint

TO

  1. TO5 — as in soda, pop; having a renewing effect on the state of the body or mind; beneficial to the health of body or mind; pop; soda sounds like ionic, phonic, sonic, tunic

  2. TO7 — sounds like canteen, tartan, nineteen

  3. TO6 — sounds like loony, tinny, tiny, tuna, tune

  4. TO5 — containing or contaminated with a substance capable of injuring or killing a living thing; a substance that by chemical action can kill or injure a living thing; envenomed; poison; poisoned sounds like boxing, tactic, taxing

  5. TO5 — a substance that by chemical action can kill or injure a living thing; bane; poison; toxic; venom sounds like arson, auction, parson, taken, tarpon

cite, cocci, coin, conceit, concoction, conic, connection, contention, continence, continent, cootie, entice, excite, exit, exotic, extinct, extinction, icon, iconic, incite, incontinence, incontinent, innie, innocence, innocent, intent, intention, into, intone, ionic, nice, nicotine, niece, nine, nineteen, nite, nontoxic, notice, notion, onion, tectonic, tinct, tine, tint, tonic, tontine, toonie, toxic, toxin