NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 24 May, 2023

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

Letters: t  c  d  e  i  u  v

  • Total Answers: 38
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CI

  1. CI4 β€” to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; adduce; instance; mention sounds like bite, byte, eyesight, fight, height
  2. CI5 β€” to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; to give as an example; adduced; instanced sounds like fitted, knitted, seated, stud
  3. CI5 β€” sounds like pivot, rivet

CU

  1. CU4 β€” clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means; making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred; very pleasing to look at; artful; beguiling sounds like a**, mute, queue
  2. CU5 β€” a lovely woman; a physically attractive person; as in dish, doll; babe; beauty sounds like beauty, catty, cavity, clubby, clutter

DE

  1. DE6 β€” the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery; the tendency to tell lies; artifice; cheating; cozenage sounds like dust
  2. DE6 β€” to take away (an amount or number) from a total; abate; knock off; subtract; take off sounds like didn't
  3. DE8 β€” to take away (an amount or number) from a total; to take away (an amount or number) from a total; abated; knocked off; subtracted sounds like addicted
  4. DE9 β€” being or provable by reasoning in which the conclusion follows necessarily from given information; a priori; deducible; derivable; inferable sounds like addictive, productive, seductive
  5. DE6 β€” to come upon after searching, study, or effort; ascertain; descry; determine; dig out
  6. DE8 β€” as in identified, discovered; to come upon after searching, study, or effort; to come upon after searching, study, or effort; discovered; identified sounds like affected, connected, directed, protected, selected
  7. DE9 β€” a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons; a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons; a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons; dick; gumshoe

DI

  1. DI4 β€” the things that a person or animal eats considered as a whole; as in slimming, nonfattening; as in fast; nourishment; nurture sounds like riot
  2. DI6 β€” as in fasted; fasted sounds like cheated, dotted, heated, seated
  3. DI8 β€” as in dietary; dietary; enriched; fortified; beneficial sounds like aesthetic, ascetic, athletic, beatnik, derrick

DU

  1. DU4 β€” a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); channel; conduit; leader; line sounds like decay, decoy
  2. DU6 β€” sounds like addicted, decayed, dictum, directed, dotted
  3. DU4 β€” sounds like debt
  4. DU7 β€” sounds like directed, dotted, fetid, rooted
  5. DU5 β€”

ED

  1. ED5 β€” an order publicly issued by an authority; a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned; bull; decree; diktat sounds like addict
  2. ED4 β€” to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; redraft; revamp
  3. ED6 β€” to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; redrafted; revamped sounds like dotted, oedipal

EI

  1. EI7 β€” sounds like ascetic, derrick, idyllic, poetic

ET

  1. ET5 β€” as in study; as in opus, oeuvre; study; drill; exercise sounds like stewed

EV

  1. EV5 β€” to force (someone) to leave a place; deforce; deport; displace; dispossess sounds like addict, civic, depict, edict, effect
  2. EV7 β€” to force (someone) to leave a place; to force (someone) to leave a place; deforced; deported; displaced sounds like addicted, elected, victim
  3. EV7 β€”

TE

  1. TE4 β€” feeling or showing anger; subjected to and reacting with irritation; as in raged, vituperated; angered; angry sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed

TI

  1. TI4 β€” a prevailing or general movement or inclination; a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; current; direction; drift sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied
  2. TI5 β€” sounds like guided
  3. TI6 β€” being clean and in good order; as in picked up, uncluttered; to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like bodied, busied, deed, divvied, giddy
  4. TI4 β€” as in bound, attached; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; to produce something equal to (as in quality or value); attached; bound sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied

TU

  1. TU5 β€” sounds like booty, duty, sooty
  2. TU6 β€” to hold an unfavorable opinion of; to hold an unfavorable opinion of; deprecate; disapprove (of); discountenance sounds like attitude, buttock, button, cheated, coated
  3. TU5 β€” sounds like nutty, putty, touchy
  4. TU4 β€” as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo

VE

  1. VE6 β€” sounds like bated, batted, booted, dated, fetid

cite, cited, civet, cute, cutie, deceit, deduct, deducted, deductive, detect, detected, detective, diet, dieted, dietetic, duct, ducted, duet, duetted, duvet, edict, edit, edited, eidetic, etude, evict, evicted, evictee, teed, tide, tided, tidied, tied, tutee, tutted, tutti, tutu, vetted