NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 22 July, 2023

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

Letters: e  c  h  k  l  m  o

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CE

  1. 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

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

CH

  1. CH5 — the amount owed at a bar or restaurant or the slip of paper stating the amount; a close look at or over someone or something in order to judge condition; a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due; bill; tab sounds like deck

  2. CH5 — disrespectful or argumentative talk given in response to a command or request; shameless boldness; the part of the body upon which someone sits; back talk; backchat sounds like beak

  3. CH5 — sounds like keno

  4. CH5 — to keep (someone) from breathing by exerting pressure on the windpipe; to experience complete or partial blockage of the windpipe; to be or cause to be killed by lack of breathable air; garrote; strangle sounds like coke, folk, joke, oak

CL

  1. CL6 — as in beret, pillbox; baseball cap; beret; billycock; biretta sounds like bloc, block, cock

CO

  1. CO6 —

  2. CO4 — sounds like cake, choke, cloak

  3. CO4 — to move closer to; to get to a destination; to eventually have as a state or quality; advance; approach sounds like bum, calm, came, chum, cub

EC

  1. EC4 — to continue or be repeated in a series of reflected sound waves; to say after another; a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way; reecho; resonate sounds like ache, acre, act, ago, air

EM

  1. EM5 — a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity; announcer; host; MC sounds like airy, any, assay, chassis, edgy

HE

  1. HE4 — a state in which everything is out of order; chance-medley; chaos; confusion; disarrangement sounds like c**, deck, hack, hair, hare

  2. HE6 — to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; bait; hassle; haze; needle sounds like hackle

  3. HE4 — a person whose behavior is offensive to others; to set or cause to be at an angle; a vulnerable point; bastard; beast sounds like deal, eel, feel, hail, hall

  4. HE4 — the place of punishment for the wicked after death; a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness; a state in which everything is out of order; Gehenna; Pandemonium sounds like bell, cell, dell, fell, gel

  5. HE8 — a dirty or messy place; dump; hole; pigpen; pigsty sounds like bellhop, bellow, bellows, elbow, enroll

  6. HE5 — an expression of goodwill upon meeting; greeting; salutation; salute; welcome sounds like halo, hollow, hulk, hull

  7. HE4 — the place of leadership or command; to operate or control the course of; chair; driver's seat; head sounds like elm, realm

  8. HE4 — the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something; border; borderline; bound; boundary sounds like beam, deem, ham

  9. HE7 — sounds like deadlock, hammerlock, wedlock

HO

  1. HO4 — a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing; a sunken area forming a separate space; a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape; aperture; opening sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

  2. HO4 — the place where one lives; the place where a plant or animal is usually or naturally found; the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship; abode; diggings sounds like comb, dome, foam, gnome, ham

KE

  1. KE4 — a large craft for travel by water; as in drop, collapse; to lose consciousness; boat; ship sounds like call, coal, coil, cool, cul

LE

  1. LE4 — sexual appetite; concupiscence; desire; eroticism; horniness sounds like check, deck, fleck, heck, lack

  2. LE5 — a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return; as in use, mooch; bloodsucker; freeloader; free rider sounds like beach, beech, bleach, each, latch

  3. LE4 — sounds like beak, bleak, cheek, chic, clique

ME

  1. ME4 — not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness; demure; down-to-earth; humble; lowly sounds like beak, cheek, chic, eke, geek

  2. ME5 — a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people; affray; brawl; broil; donnybrook sounds like mail, mailed, male

  3. ME4 — sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom

  4. ME4 — a message on paper from one person or group to another; a usually brief written reminder; a written communication giving information or directions; dispatch; epistle sounds like demo, marrow

MO

  1. MO5 —

  2. MO4 — a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country; agent; asset; emissary; intelligencer sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

OL

  1. OL4 — sounds like polio

cell, cello, check, cheek, chemo, choke, cloche, cockle, coke, come, echo, emcee, heck, heckle, heel, hell, hellhole, hello, helm, heme, hemlock, hole, home, keel, lech, leech, leek, meek, melee, meme, memo, mohel, mole, oleo