NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 17 March, 2023

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

Letters: c  d  e  l  n  o  w

  • Total Answers: 47
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CE

  1. CE4 — to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; to give up (as a position of authority) formally; cough up; deliver sounds like bead, deed, feed, heed, keyed

  2. CE5 — to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; to give up (as a position of authority) formally; coughed up; delivered sounds like faded, jaded

  3. CE4 — an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall; one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided; a local unit of an organization; apartment; chamber sounds like bell, dell, fell, gel, hell

  4. CE6 — sounds like felled, held, meld, said, sealed

  5. CE5 — sounds like bellow, fellow, mellow, self, sell

CL

  1. CL4 — a big clumsy often slow-witted person; a small uneven mass; the loose surface material in which plants naturally grow; clodhopper; gawk sounds like cod, plod

  2. CL5 — something that is made to look exactly like something else; something or someone that strongly resembles another; to make an exact likeness of; carbon; carbon copy sounds like alone, blown, cologne, cone

  3. CL6 — to make an exact likeness of; to make an exact likeness of; copied; copycatted; duplicated

  4. CL5 — a comically dressed performer (as at a circus) who entertains with playful tricks and ridiculous behavior; a person whose behavior is offensive to others; as in mimic, imitate; buffo; buffoon sounds like crown

  5. CL7 — as in mimicked, imitated; as in cut up; to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior; aped; hammed

CO

  1. CO6 — something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; something that serves as a protective barrier; to surround or cover closely; armor; capsule sounds like cuckoo

  2. CO8 — to surround or cover closely; to surround or cover closely; bosomed; bowered; circumfused

  3. CO6 — to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam; to treat with great or excessive care; boil; parboil; poach sounds like cuddle, model

  4. CO7 — as in spoiled, pampered; to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam; to treat with great or excessive care; indulged; pampered sounds like modeled

  5. CO4 — a collection or system of rules of conduct; as in encrypt, encode; as in nickname; canon; constitution sounds like bode

  6. CO5 — as in encrypted, encoded; ciphered; enciphered; encoded; encrypted

  7. CO5 —

  8. CO4 — as in undergraduate, postgraduate; collegian; postgraduate; undergraduate; pupil

  9. CO4 — having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; algid; arctic sounds like bold, called, fold

  10. CO7 — as in senorita, mademoiselle; mademoiselle; senhorita; senorita; bird sounds like clean, saline

  11. CO5 —

  12. CO7 — a person with old-fashioned ideas; antediluvian; dodo; fogy; fossil sounds like journal, kennel, vernal

  13. CO7 — to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); as in consent (to), confirm; acknowledge; admit

  14. CO8 — to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; acknowledged; admitted sounds like unleaded

  15. CO5 — as in condominium, penthouse; bed-sitter; cohousing; condominium; duplex

  16. CO10 — a feeling or expression of care and sadness especially when someone is suffering because of the death of a family member, a friend, etc.; regret; commiseration; compassion; feeling

  17. CO7 — to dismiss as of little importance; blink (at); brush (aside or off); discount; disregard

  18. CO8 — as in countenanced, brooked; to dismiss as of little importance; to dismiss as of little importance; brooked; countenanced sounds like bonded, candid, hardened

  19. CO4 — sounds like bone, can, cane, clone, clones

  20. CO5 — sounds like canned, honed, kind, owned

  21. CO6 — to commit to memory; to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition); to rob by the use of trickery or threats; learned; memorized sounds like bond, canned, card, fond, kind

  22. CO5 — as in curred; curred; fizzed; hissed; murmured sounds like crude, curd

  23. CO4 — having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; free from emotional or mental agitation; having a low or subnormal temperature; aloof; antisocial sounds like call, cul

  24. CO8 — as in calm (down), settle (down); as in relax, chill out; calm (down); settle (down); belt up sounds like clown

  25. CO6 — as in frozen, chilled; to cause to lose heat; to become still and orderly; chilled; frosted sounds like called, pooled

  26. CO5 — as in intimidated, bullied; to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats; to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats; browbeaten; bullied sounds like bowed, cloud, crowd

  27. CO4 — as in poncho, capelet; as in hood, bonnet; burnoose; capelet; capuchin sounds like call, cul, cull, curl

DE

  1. DE4 — sounds like echo

  2. DE6 — to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of; break; crack; decipher sounds like code

  3. DE7 — to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of; to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; broke; cracked sounds like divided, eroded

EN

  1. EN6 — as in encrypt, code; cipher; code; encipher; encrypt sounds like anode, code, decode, echo

  2. EN7 — as in encrypted, coded; ciphered; coded; enciphered; encrypted sounds like unloaded

LO

  1. LO4 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; to cause to go insane or as if insane; balmy; barmy; bats sounds like coco, cocoa

  2. LO8 — sounds like accede, coco, cocoa, code, coed

NE

  1. NE6 — as in neoconservative; neoconservative; conformist; diehard; standpatter sounds like beacon, deacon, knuckle, weaken

NO

  1. NO5 — as in occasional, infrequent; inconstant; infrequent; intermittent; irregular sounds like nuance

ON

  1. ON4 — at an earlier or previous time; having been such at some previous time; just at the moment that; erstwhile; formerly sounds like whence, wince, won

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