NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 5 April, 2023

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

Letters: c  d  e  f  n  o  u

  • Total Answers: 48
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CE

  1. CE4 — to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; to give up (as a position of authority) formally; cough up; deliver sounds like bead, deed, feed, heed, keyed

  2. CE5 — to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; to give up (as a position of authority) formally; coughed up; delivered sounds like faded, jaded

CO

  1. CO6 — 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 — to surround or cover closely; to surround or cover closely; bosomed; bowered; circumfused

  3. CO4 — a collection or system of rules of conduct; as in encrypt, encode; as in nickname; canon; constitution sounds like bode

  4. CO5 — as in encrypted, encoded; ciphered; enciphered; encoded; encrypted

  5. CO5 —

  6. CO4 — as in undergraduate, postgraduate; collegian; postgraduate; undergraduate; pupil

  7. CO6 — as in coffeehouse, tea shop; as in coffeehouses, tea shops; as in tea table, refectory table; coffeehouse; estaminet sounds like khaki, toffee

  8. CO7 —

  9. CO9 — sounds like founded

  10. CO7 — 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

  11. CO8 — 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

  12. CO5 — as in condominium, penthouse; bed-sitter; cohousing; condominium; duplex

  13. CO7 — to dismiss as of little importance; blink (at); brush (aside or off); discount; disregard

  14. CO8 — as in countenanced, brooked; to dismiss as of little importance; to dismiss as of little importance; brooked; countenanced sounds like bonded, candid, hardened

  15. CO4 — sounds like bone, can, cane, clone, clones

  16. CO5 — sounds like canned, honed, kind, owned

  17. CO8 — to throw into a state of mental uncertainty; to throw into a state of self-conscious distress; to fail to differentiate (a thing) from something similar or related; addle; baffle

  18. CO10 — deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure; faced with difficulty or uncertainty about what to say, think, or do; suffering from mental confusion; accursed; blasted sounds like unfounded

  19. CO6 — 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

  20. CO5 — as in curred; curred; fizzed; hissed; murmured sounds like crude, curd

CU

  1. CU4 — as in lined, lined up; aligned; lined; lined up; queued sounds like crude, feud, queue, skewed

  2. CU4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; something that physically prevents free movement; as in sock, slap; bang; bash sounds like buff, cafe, calf, come, cough

  3. CU6 — as in socked, slapped; assailed; assaulted; attacked; beset sounds like cafe, coiffed, tuft

DE

  1. DE4 — sounds like echo

  2. DE6 — to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of; break; crack; decipher sounds like code

  3. DE7 — to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of; to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; broke; cracked sounds like divided, eroded

  4. DE6 — to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information; conclude; decide; derive; extrapolate sounds like seduce

  5. DE7 — to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information; to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information; concluded; decided; derived sounds like reduced

  6. DE8 — to declare to be morally wrong or evil; to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of; to express public or formal disapproval of; anathematize; censure sounds like renounce

  7. DE9 — to declare to be morally wrong or evil; to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of; to express public or formal disapproval of; anathematized; censured sounds like announced

  8. DE5 — as in dickens; as in the devil, the dickens; dickens; archfiend; Beelzebub sounds like bus, dice, done, dose, douse

DU

  1. DU5 — a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like dance, dense, done, once

ED

  1. ED5 — to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); elicit; evoke; inspire; raise sounds like juice

  2. ED6 — to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); elicited; evoked; inspired sounds like adjust, boost, gist, jest, joust

EN

  1. EN6 — as in encrypt, code; cipher; code; encipher; encrypt sounds like anode, code, decode, echo

  2. EN7 — as in encrypted, coded; ciphered; coded; enciphered; encrypted sounds like unloaded

FE

  1. FE6 — producing abundantly; cornucopian; fat; fertile; fructuous sounds like second

  2. FE5 — a physical object that blocks the way; to drive danger or attack away from; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; barricade; barrier sounds like dense, hence, offense, pence, sense

  3. FE6 — to drive danger or attack away from; to drive danger or attack away from; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; bulwarked; covered

NE

  1. NE6 — as in neoconservative; neoconservative; conformist; diehard; standpatter sounds like beacon, deacon, knuckle, weaken

NO

  1. NO5 — as in occasional, infrequent; inconstant; infrequent; intermittent; irregular sounds like nuance

ON

  1. ON4 — 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

OU

  1. OU5 — a very small amount; ace; bit; crumb; dab sounds like b*, p*

UN

  1. UN7 — sounds like needed

  2. UN6 —

  3. UN8 —

cede, ceded, cocoon, cocooned, code, coded, codon, coed, coffee, cofound, cofounded, concede, conceded, condo, condone, condoned, cone, coned, confound, confounded, conned, cooed, cued, cuff, cuffed, deco, decode, decoded, deduce, deduced, denounce, denounced, deuce, dunce, educe, educed, encode, encoded, fecund, fence, fenced, neocon, nonce, once, ounce, unceded, uncuff, uncuffed