Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Tue. 14 February, 2023

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

Letters: p  c  d  e  h  i  u

  • Total Answers: 27
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CH

  1. CH5 β€” to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; as in screech, squawk; chirp; chirrup; chitter sounds like beep
  2. CH7 β€” to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; chirped; chirruped; chittered
  3. CH4 β€” a small flat piece separated from a whole; a V-shaped cut usually on an edge or a surface; something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; flake; sliver
  4. CH7 β€” as in sliced, ground; to make a donation as part of a group effort; to cause a disruption in a conversation or discussion; grated; ground sounds like shipped, sipped, whipped

CU

  1. CU5 β€” sounds like muted
  2. CU6 β€” as in cavernous, recurved; alveolar; cavernous; crescentic; cuplike sounds like corrupt, kept, upped

DE

  1. DE4 β€” extending far downward; having a low musical pitch or range; being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain; abysmal; bottomless sounds like beep, cheap, dip, dope

DI

  1. DI6 β€” as in splashed, dunked; to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid; to lift out with something that holds liquid; dunked; splashed sounds like chipped, doped, shipped, sipped, whipped

DU

  1. DU4 β€” one who is easily deceived or cheated; something that is made to look exactly like something else; to cause to believe what is untrue; chump; gull sounds like coop, coupe, deep, dew, dip
  2. DU5 β€” as in tricked, deluded; to cause to believe what is untrue; one who is easily deceived or cheated; deceived; deluded sounds like doped

EP

  1. EP4 β€” sounds like easy, pea
  2. EP4 β€” large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception; as in story, tale; as in ode, elegy; august; baronial sounds like ethic, pick

HI

  1. HI6 β€” a break in continuity; discontinuity; gap; hiatus; interim sounds like hookup, pickup
  2. HI8 β€” sounds like recoup
  3. HI9 β€”
  4. HI6 β€” sounds like happy

PE

  1. PE4 β€” sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  2. PE4 β€” 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. PE6 β€” to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cheeped; chirped; chirruped
  4. PE6 β€” to give life, vigor, or spirit to; amp (up); animate; brace; energize sounds like kept, leapt, wept

PI

  1. PI5 β€” a broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete; a literary, musical, or artistic production; a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder; bit; fraction sounds like a*, cease, eye*, lease, niece
  2. PI6 β€” to form by putting together parts or materials; to form by putting together parts or materials; as in assembled, compounded; assembled; built sounds like beast, east, feast, leased, least
  3. PI4 β€” having blotches of two or more colors; blotched; blotchy; dappled; marbled sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  4. PI4 β€” a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; channel; conduit sounds like hype, pap, peep, pop, pope
  5. PI5 β€” to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; canalized; channeled sounds like typed

PU

  1. PU4 β€” sounds like pew, use

UP

  1. UP5 β€” to make greater in size, amount, or number; to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to move or extend upward; accelerated; added (to) sounds like apt, opt

cheep, cheeped, chip, chipped, cupid, cupped, deep, dipped, dupe, duped, epee, epic, hiccup, hiccuped, hiccupped, hippie, peed, peep, peeped, pepped, piece, pieced, pied, pipe, piped, puce, upped