NYT π CluesβWed. 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! π€£
CE
- CE4 β 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
- CE5 β 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
- 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
- CO8 β to surround or cover closely; to surround or cover closely; bosomed; bowered; circumfused
- CO4 β a collection or system of rules of conduct; as in encrypt, encode; as in nickname; canon; constitution sounds like bode
- CO5 β as in encrypted, encoded; ciphered; enciphered; encoded; encrypted
- CO5 β
- CO4 β as in undergraduate, postgraduate; collegian; postgraduate; undergraduate; pupil
- CO6 β as in coffeehouse, tea shop; as in coffeehouses, tea shops; as in tea table, refectory table; coffeehouse; estaminet sounds like khaki, toffee
- CO7 β
- CO9 β sounds like founded
- 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
- 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
- CO5 β as in condominium, penthouse; bed-sitter; cohousing; condominium; duplex
- CO7 β to dismiss as of little importance; blink (at); brush (aside or off); discount; disregard
- 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
- CO4 β sounds like bone, can, cane, clone, clones
- CO5 β sounds like canned, honed, kind, owned
- CO8 β 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
- CO10 β 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
- 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
- CO5 β as in curred; curred; fizzed; hissed; murmured sounds like crude, curd
CU
- CU4 β as in lined, lined up; aligned; lined; lined up; queued sounds like crude, feud, queue, skewed
- CU4 β 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
- CU6 β as in socked, slapped; assailed; assaulted; attacked; beset sounds like cafe, coiffed, tuft
DE
- DE4 β sounds like echo
- DE6 β to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of; break; crack; decipher sounds like code
- DE7 β 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
- DE6 β to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information; conclude; decide; derive; extrapolate sounds like seduce
- DE7 β 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
- DE8 β 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
- DE9 β 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
- DE5 β as in dickens; as in the devil, the dickens; dickens; archfiend; Beelzebub sounds like bus, dice, done, dose, douse
DU
- DU5 β a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like dance, dense, done, once
ED
- ED5 β to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); elicit; evoke; inspire; raise sounds like juice
- ED6 β 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
- EN6 β as in encrypt, code; cipher; code; encipher; encrypt sounds like anode, code, decode, echo
- EN7 β as in encrypted, coded; ciphered; coded; enciphered; encrypted sounds like unloaded
FE
- FE6 β producing abundantly; cornucopian; fat; fertile; fructuous sounds like second
- FE5 β 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
- FE6 β 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
- NE6 β as in neoconservative; neoconservative; conformist; diehard; standpatter sounds like beacon, deacon, knuckle, weaken
NO
- NO5 β as in occasional, infrequent; inconstant; infrequent; intermittent; irregular sounds like nuance
ON
- 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
OU
- OU5 β a very small amount; ace; bit; crumb; dab sounds like b*, p*
UN
- UN7 β sounds like needed
- UN6 β
- UN8 β