NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Tue. 21 March, 2023

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

Letters: n  c  d  e  o  v  y

  • Total Answers: 51
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CO

  1. CO6 β€” something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; something that serves as a protective barrier; to surround or cover closely; armor; capsule sounds like cuckoo
  2. CO8 β€” to surround or cover closely; to surround or cover closely; bosomed; bowered; circumfused
  3. CO5 β€”
  4. CO7 β€” to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); as in consent (to), confirm; acknowledge; admit
  5. CO8 β€” to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; acknowledged; admitted sounds like unleaded
  6. CO5 β€” as in condominium, penthouse; bed-sitter; cohousing; condominium; duplex
  7. CO7 β€” to dismiss as of little importance; blink (at); brush (aside or off); discount; disregard
  8. CO8 β€” as in countenanced, brooked; to dismiss as of little importance; to dismiss as of little importance; brooked; countenanced sounds like bonded, candid, hardened
  9. CO4 β€” sounds like bone, can, cane, clone, clones
  10. CO5 β€” sounds like canned, honed, kind, owned
  11. CO6 β€” to commit to memory; to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition); to rob by the use of trickery or threats; learned; memorized sounds like bond, canned, card, fond, kind
  12. CO7 β€” to bring together in assembly by or as if by command; to come together into one body or place; assemble; call; convoke sounds like canteen
  13. CO8 β€” to bring together in assembly by or as if by command; to come together into one body or place; to bring together in assembly by or as if by command; assembled; called
  14. CO6 β€” to cause (something) to pass from one to another; to support and take from one place to another; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; communicate; conduct
  15. CO8 β€” to cause (something) to pass from one to another; to support and take from one place to another; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; communicated; conducted
  16. CO6 β€” to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship; as in navy, flotilla; as in defender, escort; accompany; attend sounds like carve, carved, envoy
  17. CO8 β€” to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship; to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship; accompanied; attended; chaperoned
  18. CO5 β€” a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; body; bunch; circle; clan sounds like oven

DE

  1. DE7 β€” socially acceptable behavior; conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong; decorum; form; propriety sounds like in***, licensee
  2. DE4 β€” to declare not to be true; to be unwilling to grant; to refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as one's responsibility; contradict; disaffirm sounds like din, dinner

DO

  1. DO4 β€” brought or having come to an end; depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; facing certain defeat, disaster, or death; complete; completed sounds like bun, dawn, dean, den, din
  2. DO5 β€” as in recipient, beneficiary; beneficiary; giftee; recipient
  3. DO6 β€” to place on one's person; to place on one's person; put on; slipped (on or into); threw (on) sounds like bond, conned, darned, fond, pond
  4. DO5 β€” a person with long experience in a specified area; the senior member of a group; old hand; old-timer; stager sounds like dun
  5. DO7 β€” as in doyen, veteran; adept; dab hand; expert; guru sounds like dun

DY

  1. DY4 β€” sounds like dawn, dean, den, dice, die

EN

  1. EN6 β€” as in encrypt, code; cipher; code; encipher; encrypt sounds like anode, code, decode, echo
  2. EN7 β€” as in encrypted, coded; ciphered; coded; enciphered; encrypted sounds like unloaded
  3. EN5 β€” brought or having come to an end; to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; complete; completed sounds like t*
  4. EN5 β€” a person sent on a mission to represent another; a person who acts or does business for another; as in postscript; agent; ambassador
  5. EN4 β€” a painful awareness of another's possessions or advantages and a desire to have them too; to have a resentful awareness of and desire for (another's possessions or advantages) or to feel resentment toward (someone) over possessions or advantages; having or showing mean resentment of another's possessions or advantages; covetousness; enviousness sounds like any

EV

  1. EV4 β€” not merely this but also; to a full extent or degree; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; indeed; nay sounds like been, bin, chin, din, easing
  2. EV6 β€” to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; to make equal in amount, degree, or status; to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; flattened; leveled sounds like almond, avenue, avid, eaten, eon

NE

  1. NE4 β€” to have as a requirement; to be under necessity or obligation to; a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful; bear; challenge sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  2. NE6 β€” impossible to do without; to have as a requirement; to have as a requirement; all-important; critical
  3. NE5 β€” lacking money or material possessions; beggared; beggarly; broke; destitute sounds like beady, knead, reedy, seedy
  4. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
  5. NE6 β€” as in neoconservative; neoconservative; conformist; diehard; standpatter sounds like beacon, deacon, knuckle, weaken
  6. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon

NO

  1. NO6 β€” to make short up-and-down movements; to make short up-and-down movements; as in dropped off, drowsed (off); bobbed; bobbled sounds like needed
  2. NO4 β€” a small rounded mass of swollen tissue; bump; knot; lump; nodule sounds like a**, bode, code, gnome, goad
  3. NO5 β€” as in occasional, infrequent; inconstant; infrequent; intermittent; irregular sounds like nuance
  4. NO4 β€” certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
  5. NO4 β€” the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known

OD

  1. OD5 β€” sounds like audience

ON

  1. ON4 β€” at an earlier or previous time; having been such at some previous time; just at the moment that; erstwhile; formerly sounds like whence, wince, won

OV

  1. OV4 β€” as in stove, microwave; as in oven, stove; as in oven, stove; broiler; fryer sounds like above, abuzz, adjoin, adjourn, adjudge

VE

  1. VE4 β€” to offer for sale to the public; deal (in); market; merchandise; put up sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend
  2. VE6 β€” to offer for sale to the public; to offer for sale to the public; dealt (in); marketed; merchandised sounds like ended, tended

YE

  1. YE6 β€” to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; ache (for); covet; crave; desiderate sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend

YO

  1. YO4 β€” sounds like bond, conned, fond, pond, wand

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