NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 2 March, 2023

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

Letters: p  c  e  n  o  t  y

  • Total Answers: 37
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CO

  1. CO7 — an idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation; something imagined or pictured in the mind; as in self-image, self-perception; conception; generality sounds like onset

  2. CO4 — a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody; an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; bastille; big house sounds like cap, cape, cup, dupe, hoop

  3. CO5 — to make a part of a body or system; absorb; assimilate; embody; incorporate sounds like kept

  4. CO4 — something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; to meet one's day-to-day needs; to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently; blanket; cloak sounds like cap, cape

  5. CO4 — something that is made to look exactly like something else; to make an exact likeness of; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; carbon; carbon copy sounds like capo, choppy

EC

  1. EC7 — sounds like archetype, entice, entire, equip, excite

EP

  1. EP4 — sounds like easy, pea

NO

  1. NO4 — sounds like cope, dope, gnome, hope, knoll

OP

  1. OP4 — to change from a closed to an open position; to make passage through (something) possible by removing obstructions; to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area; unclose; clear sounds like ocean, omen, pun, spun

  2. OP8 — one that takes a position opposite another in a competition or conflict; one that is hostile toward another; adversary; antagonist; foe sounds like apparent, atonement, component, pennant, potent

PE

  1. PE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean

  2. PE4 — an instance of looking especially briefly; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cast; eye; gander sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep

  3. PE5 — sounds like dense, fence, hence, pounce, sense

  4. PE5 — sounds like den, hen, pain, pair, pan

  5. PE5 — a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money; giving or sharing as little as possible; careful management of material resources; cheapskate; churl sounds like any, many, parry, pony

  6. PE4 — sounds like bent, cent, dent, lent, meant

  7. PE4 — a person who does very hard or dull work; dogsbody; drone; drudge; drudger sounds like neon, paean

  8. PE5 — sounds like paean

  9. PE5 — having active strength of body or mind; having much high-spirited energy and movement; dynamic; energetic; flush sounds like parry, poppy, preppie, preppy, puppy

  10. PE5 — not broad or open in views or opinions; so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention; as in pocket money, spending money; illiberal; insular sounds like jetty, parry, patty, pity, potty

  11. PE6 — sounds like paint, paste, pate, payout

PO

  1. PO4 — a person who writes poetry; as in poet, poetaster; as in poets, poetasters; bard; minstrel sounds like putt

  2. PO4 — sounds like bony, penny, phoney, phony, tony

  3. PO7 — as in canoe, kayak; bateau; caïque; canoe; catamaran sounds like cartoon, monsoon, onto, platoon

  4. PO4 — as in mustang, bronco; to give what is owed for; as in quarter horse, saddle horse; bronco; mustang sounds like bony, penny, phoney, phony, tony

  5. PO4 — solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal; information not generally available to the public; dirt; doo-doo; dropping sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop

  6. PO4 — as in bishop, archbishop; abbot; archbishop; archpriest; bishop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pap

  7. PO6 — a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; action figure; doll; dolly; puppet sounds like puppet

  8. PO5 — sounds like choppy, copy, peppy, puppy

  9. PO7 — the ability to exert effort for the accomplishment of a task; energy; firepower; force; horsepower sounds like pittance

  10. PO6 — having an abundance of some characteristic quality (as flavor); having great power or influence; producing or capable of producing a desired result; big; concentrated sounds like patent

  11. PO5 — being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior; a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste; as in dirty, nasty; aristocratic; elitist sounds like knotty, party, patty, petty, pity

TE

  1. TE6 — sounds like beady, beefy, beep, beeper, cheap

  2. TE5 — sounds like guppy, puppy, touchy, tummy, yuppie

TO

  1. TO4 — sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pope

TY

  1. TY4 — a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common; one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic; to arrange or assign according to type; breed; class sounds like hype, pipe, ripe, tap, tape

  2. TY4 —

concept, coop, coopt, cope, copy, ecotype, epee, nope, open, opponent, peen, peep, pence, penne, penny, pent, peon, peony, peppy, petty, peyote, poet, pone, pontoon, pony, poop, pope, poppet, poppy, potency, potent, potty, teepee, tepee, tope, type, typo