NYT π CluesβFri. 26 May, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: c b d e k l o
- Total Answers: 49
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
BE
- BE4 β a natural body of running water smaller than a river; bourn; brook; brooklet; burn sounds like back, bake, balk, bare
- BE6 β to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes; adorn; array; beautify sounds like budding
- BE8 β as in dressed, decorated; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes; adorned; arrayed sounds like addict
BL
- BL4 β a group of people acting together within a larger group; an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection; block; body; coalition sounds like brok, clock, flock
- BL5 β a number of things considered as a unit; something that makes movement or progress difficult; the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; array; assemblage sounds like brok, clock, flock
- BL7 β as in hindered, impeded; to close up so that no empty spaces remain; to prevent passage through by filling with something; hindered; impeded sounds like locked
BO
- BO5 β sounds like base, bass, beau
- BO4 β sounds like back, bake, balk, balm, bar
CE
- CE4 β 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
- CE5 β 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
- CE5 β a person who is widely known and usually much talked about; cause cΓ©lΓ¨bre; celebrity; figure; icon sounds like carob, cherub, club, felon, jealous
- CE4 β 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
- CE9 β sounds like selfless
- CE6 β sounds like felled, held, meld, said, sealed
- CE5 β sounds like bellow, fellow, mellow, self, sell
CL
- CL5 β a device to measure time; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to obtain (as a goal) through effort; chronometer; timekeeper sounds like bloc, block, cock
- CL7 β to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to obtain (as a goal) through effort; banged; bashed sounds like blocked, locked
- CL4 β 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
CO
- CO6 β to make or assemble roughly or hastily; jury-rig; patch (together); throw up sounds like cable, gobble, hobble, wobble
- CO7 β to make or assemble roughly or hastily; jury-rig; patch (together); throw up
- CO4 β a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid; a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; faucet; gate sounds like cake, calm, car, caught, cause
- CO6 β as in tilted, inclined; to set or cause to be at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; angled; canted sounds like cart, caught, khaki, locked, shocked
- CO6 β
- CO6 β 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
- CO7 β 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
- CO4 β a collection or system of rules of conduct; as in encrypt, encode; as in nickname; canon; constitution sounds like bode
- CO5 β as in encrypted, encoded; ciphered; enciphered; encoded; encrypted
- CO4 β as in undergraduate, postgraduate; collegian; postgraduate; undergraduate; pupil
- CO4 β sounds like cake, choke, cloak
- CO4 β 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
- CO8 β sounds like clock, goldstock
- CO10 β
- CO5 β as in curred; curred; fizzed; hissed; murmured sounds like crude, curd
- CO4 β to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of; to take place; a person who prepares food by some manner of heating; bend; color sounds like book, cake, crook, hook, kick
- CO8 β sounds like checkbook, kickback
- CO6 β as in fried, baked; to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of; to take place; baked; boiled sounds like hooked
- CO4 β 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
- CO6 β as in frozen, chilled; to cause to lose heat; to become still and orderly; chilled; frosted sounds like called, pooled
DE
- DE4 β a flat roofless structure attached to a building; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes; balcony; sundeck sounds like check, dare, dick
- DE6 β as in dressed, decorated; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; adorned; arrayed sounds like checked, direct, duct, sect, wrecked
- DE6 β sounds like heckle
- DE4 β sounds like echo
- DE6 β to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of; break; crack; decipher sounds like code
- DE7 β 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
DO
- DO4 β a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers; to make less in extent or duration; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; float; jetty sounds like chalk, cock, dark, deck, dick
- DO6 β to make less in extent or duration; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; to stop at or near a place along the shore; abbreviated; abridged sounds like dart, duct, locked, shocked
LO
- LO4 β as in bar, latch; as in wrap, fold; one that is certain to succeed; bar; batten (down) sounds like bloc, b, chalk, c, cock
- LO6 β as in barred, latched; as in wrapped, folded; to put in or as if in prison; barred; battened (down) sounds like b**, lat, shocked
- LO4 β 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