NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 4 July, 2023

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

Letters: o  a  c  d  i  m  t

  • Total Answers: 44
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AM

  1. AM4 — sounds like arrow, mow

AT

  1. AT4 — a very small piece; bit; crumb; dribble; fleck sounds like alum, annum, autumn, datum, item

  2. AT6 — very small in size; as in alarm clock, time clock; as in alarm clocks, time clocks; bitsy; bitty sounds like anemic, comic, di**, tonic, topic

CA

  1. CA5 — sounds like cocaine, coco, cocoa, cocoon, cuckoo

  2. CA4 — as in camouflage; camouflage; greasepaint; cold cream; cream sounds like combo, comma, commie

CI

  1. CI4 — sounds like cheap, cheat, cheek, cheese, chief

CO

  1. CO4 — the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick; to form a layer over; a special group of pictures that belong to a person, family, or group of people and that are shown on a shield; fleece; fur sounds like boat, cat, caught

  2. CO5 — sounds like catty, caught, clot

  3. CO4 —

  4. CO5 — sounds like catchy

  5. CO5 —

  6. CO4 — as in epilogue, postlude; epilogue; postlude; addendum; afterword sounds like soda

  7. CO4 — as in sleep, rest; hibernation; hypnosis; repose; rest sounds like aroma, soma

  8. CO5 — a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor; a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story; the amusing quality or element in something; card; comedian sounds like calming

  9. CO5 — as in space, window; caesura; interspace; lag; pause sounds like calm, calmer, mama

  10. CO6 — to carry through (as a process) to completion; to obligate by prior agreement; to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another; accomplish; achieve

  11. CO4 — as in geezer; geezer; bohemian; maverick; nonconformist sounds like boot, cat, caught, chute

DI

  1. DI6 — sounds like datum, item, riotous

  2. DI8 — sounds like atomic

  3. DI5 — having qualities in common; in like manner; to say after another; akin; alike sounds like deter

DO

  1. DO4 — a person with old-fashioned ideas; a stupid person; antediluvian; Colonel Blimp; fogy sounds like bode, coco, cocoa, code, dad

  2. DO6 — a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember; a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest; something that decorates or beautifies; dingus; doohickey sounds like dad

  3. DO4 — a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard; a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand; the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities; finding; holding sounds like boom, dam, dame, damn, deem

  4. DO6 — sounds like sitcom

ID

  1. ID5 — a sequence of words having a specific meaning; expression; phrase sounds like indium

  2. ID9 — of, relating to, or belonging to a single person; individual; individualized; particular; patented sounds like dramatic

  3. ID5 — a stupid person; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; airhead; birdbrain

  4. ID7 — having or showing an inability to understand or make sensible choices; airheaded; birdbrained; boobish; brain-dead sounds like erotic, exotic

IO

  1. IO4 — the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes; continental; damn sounds like aroma, beta, boa, boat, boater

MO

  1. MO4 — a deep, wide excavation that is usually filled with water and that goes around the walls of a place (such as a castle) to protect it from being attacked; ha-ha; stank; sunk fence; dike sounds like boat, coat, goat, mat, mate

  2. MO5 — a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mana

  3. MO4 — a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion; a special quality or impression associated with something; an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something; cheer; feather sounds like food, lewd, mad, made, maid

  4. MO4 — 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

  5. MO5 — 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

OC

  1. OC5 — sounds like auction, awkward, cheated, coated, dotted

OM

  1. OM4 — to miss the opportunity or obligation; fail; forget; neglect sounds like emit, mitt

TA

  1. TA4 — sounds like borrow, box, capo, chalk, cock

  2. TA6 —

TO

  1. TO4 — a person whose behavior is offensive to others; bastard; beast; bleeder; blighter sounds like bode, code, goad, load, mode

  2. TO7 — sounds like boycott, caught, cockatoo, comma, cot

  3. TO6 — sounds like automate, potato, teammate

  4. TO6 — as in gib; as in play (around), fool around; gib; alley cat; tabby sounds like combat

  5. TO6 — sounds like admit, armpit, atomic, bombing, calming

  6. TO4 — a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking; bender; binge; bust; carousal sounds like boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot

ammo, atom, atomic, cacao, camo, ciao, coat, coati, coca, cocci, cocoa, coda, coma, comic, comma, commit, coot, diatom, diatomic, ditto, dodo, doodad, doom, dotcom, idiom, idiomatic, idiot, idiotic, iota, moat, momma, mood, moot, motto, octad, omit, taco, tattoo, toad, toccata, tomato, tomcat, tomtit, toot