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

4. 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
5. 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
6. CH5 — sounds like keno
7. 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

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

CO

11. CO6 —
12. CO4 — sounds like cake, choke, cloak
13. 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

15. 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

17. 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

19. HE4 — a state in which everything is out of order; chance-medley; chaos; confusion; disarrangement sounds like c**, deck, hack, hair, hare
20. HE6 — to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; bait; hassle; haze; needle sounds like hackle
21. 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
22. 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
23. HE8 — a dirty or messy place; dump; hole; pigpen; pigsty sounds like bellhop, bellow, bellows, elbow, enroll
24. HE5 — an expression of goodwill upon meeting; greeting; salutation; salute; welcome sounds like halo, hollow, hulk, hull
25. HE4 — the place of leadership or command; to operate or control the course of; chair; driver's seat; head sounds like elm, realm
26. HE4 — the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something; border; borderline; bound; boundary sounds like beam, deem, ham
27. HE7 — sounds like deadlock, hammerlock, wedlock

HO

29. 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
30. 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

32. 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

34. LE4 — sexual appetite; concupiscence; desire; eroticism; horniness sounds like check, deck, fleck, heck, lack
35. 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
36. LE4 — sounds like beak, bleak, cheek, chic, clique

ME

38. 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
39. ME5 — a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people; affray; brawl; broil; donnybrook sounds like mail, mailed, male
40. ME4 — sounds like beam, deem, mien, mom
41. 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

43. MO5 —
44. 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

46. OL4 — sounds like polio