Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Tue. 21 February, 2023

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

Letters: h  c  d  e  l  t  u

  • Total Answers: 27
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CH

  1. CH5 β€” as in shoot, rapid(s); rapid(s); shoot; white water; flume sounds like boot, hoot, jute, loot, lute

CL

  1. CL6 β€” a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action; array; assemblage sounds like crutch
  2. CL8 β€” to have or keep in one's hands; to have or keep in one's hands; clenched; clung (to); gripped

ET

  1. ET4 β€” to cut (as letters or designs) on a hard surface; to produce a vivid impression of; as in etching, engraving; engrave; grave sounds like air, each, ebb, edge, egg
  2. ET6 β€” to cut (as letters or designs) on a hard surface; to produce a vivid impression of; to cut (as letters or designs) on a hard surface; engraved; graved

HE

  1. HE4 β€” a state of being aware; strict attentiveness to what one is doing; to take notice of and be guided by; advertence; advertency sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, had
  2. HE6 β€” to take notice of and be guided by; to pay attention especially through the act of hearing; to take notice of and be guided by; followed; listened (to) sounds like needed
  3. HE4 β€” 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. HE6 β€” as in inclined, angled; to set or cause to be at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; angled; canted sounds like field, hold, sealed, shield, w**
  5. HE4 β€” to have or keep in one's hands; to continue to have in one's possession or power; to have as an opinion; clenched; clung (to) sounds like felled, hold, meld, shelled
  6. HE4 β€” 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

HU

  1. HU6 β€” a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose; a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; assembly; congress sounds like cuddle, hovel, muddle, puddle
  2. HU7 β€” to gather into a closely packed group; to lie low with the limbs close to the body; to gather into a closely packed group; bunched; clustered
  3. HU4 β€” as in colored, painted; colored; colorized; dyed; painted sounds like feud, hew, hewn
  4. HU4 β€” something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; to remove the natural covering of; armor; capsule; case sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hail
  5. HU6 β€” to remove the natural covering of; to remove the natural covering of; barked; flayed; husked sounds like held, hello, hold
  6. HU5 β€” a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling; a storage case typically having doors and shelves; an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals; cabin; camp sounds like hatch, hitch, hooch

LE

  1. LE4 β€” sexual appetite; concupiscence; desire; eroticism; horniness sounds like check, deck, fleck, heck, lack
  2. LE5 β€” 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. LE7 β€” as in used, mooched; freeloaded; mooched; sponged; exploited sounds like bleached

TE

  1. TE4 β€” relating to or using new electronic devices and technology; futuristic; contemporary; current; designer sounds like check, deck, heck, neck, peck
  2. TE5 β€” as in desires, tastes; by a very small margin; to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts; appetites; fancies sounds like heath, sheath
  3. TE6 β€” sounds like seethe, tier
  4. TE7 β€” sounds like tiered

TH

  1. TH4 β€” sounds like bee, earthy, fee, key, knee
  2. TH4 β€” a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to come into usually forceful contact with something; bang; bash; bat sounds like bud, dud, mud
  3. TH7 β€” to come into usually forceful contact with something; to come into usually forceful contact with something; banged; bashed; bumped sounds like added, cuddle, dud, ended, faded

chute, clutch, clutched, etch, etched, heed, heeded, heel, heeled, held, hell, huddle, huddled, hued, hull, hulled, hutch, lech, leech, leeched, tech, teeth, teethe, teethed, thee, thud, thudded