NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 5 June, 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  j  o  t

  • Total Answers: 23
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

BO

  1. BO5sounds like base, bass, beau

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

CO

  1. CO4 — a collection or system of rules of conduct; as in encrypt, encode; as in nickname; canon; constitution sounds like bode
  2. CO5 — as in encrypted, encoded; ciphered; enciphered; encoded; encrypted
  3. CO4 — as in undergraduate, postgraduate; collegian; postgraduate; undergraduate; pupil
  4. CO5 — as in curred; curred; fizzed; hissed; murmured sounds like crude, curd
  5. CO4 — as in geezer; geezer; bohemian; maverick; nonconformist sounds like boot, cat, caught, chute
  6. CO4 — as in henhouse, dovecote; dovecote; henhouse; kraal; stockade sounds like boat, cat, caught

DE

  1. DE4sounds like echo
  2. DE6 — as in reduce, boil down; boil down; reduce; clarify; clean
  3. DE8 — as in reduced, boiled down; boiled down; reduced; clarified; cleaned
  4. DE6 — to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of; break; crack; decipher sounds like code
  5. 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
  6. DE6 — to make sad; bum (out); burden; dash; depress sounds like abject, affect, collect, connect, dialect
  7. DE8 — feeling unhappiness; to make sad; to make sad; bad; blue sounds like affected, connected, directed, projected, selected
  8. DE6 — to come upon after searching, study, or effort; ascertain; descry; determine; dig out
  9. DE8 — as in identified, discovered; to come upon after searching, study, or effort; to come upon after searching, study, or effort; discovered; identified sounds like affected, connected, directed, protected, selected

EJ

  1. EJ5 — to drive or force out; to violently throw out or off (something from within); banish; boot (out); bounce sounds like effect, elect, erect, inject, r*
  2. EJ7 — to drive or force out; to violently throw out or off (something from within); to drive or force out; banished; booted (out) sounds like elected

OB

  1. OB6 — something material that can be perceived by the senses; one that has a real and independent existence; something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; thing; being sounds like abject
  2. OB8 — to present an opposing opinion or argument; to present an opposing opinion or argument; as in rejected, disrelished; demurred; excepted sounds like affected

OC

  1. OC5 — as in trio, quartet; duo; quartet; quintet; septet sounds like onset

bocce, cede, ceded, code, coded, coed, cooed, coot, cote, deco, decoct, decocted, decode, decoded, deject, dejected, detect, detected, eject, ejected, object, objected, octet