Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Mon. 15 May, 2023

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

Letters: p  c  d  e  m  o  t

  • Total Answers: 50
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CO

  1. CO4 β€” something given to someone without expectation of a return; as in provide, afford; bestowal; donation; donative sounds like calm, calmer, camp, carp, chomp
  2. CO6 β€” as in provided, afforded; afforded; furnished; provided; awarded sounds like humped
  3. CO7 β€” to engage in a contest; battle; contend; face off; fight
  4. CO8 β€” to engage in a contest; to engage in a contest; battled; contended; faced off
  5. CO7 β€”
  6. CO4 β€” a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody; an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; bastille; big house sounds like cap, cape, cup, dupe, hoop
  7. CO6 β€” to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; box (in); cage; closet; corral sounds like kept
  8. CO5 β€” to make a part of a body or system; absorb; assimilate; embody; incorporate sounds like kept
  9. CO7 β€” to make a part of a body or system; to make a part of a body or system; absorbed; assimilated; embodied sounds like captain, clotted, quoted, rooted
  10. CO4 β€” something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; to meet one's day-to-day needs; to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently; blanket; cloak sounds like cap, cape
  11. CO5 β€” to meet one's day-to-day needs; to meet one's day-to-day needs; to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently; did; fared sounds like doped, kept
  12. CO6 β€” to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for; to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly; to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for; bought; picked up sounds like capo, cart, caught, chopped, kept

DE

  1. DE4 β€” extending far downward; having a low musical pitch or range; being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain; abysmal; bottomless sounds like beep, cheap, dip, dope
  2. DE5 β€” a building for storing goods; a place where military arms are stored; depository; magazine; repository

DO

  1. DO4 β€” of the very best kind; information not generally available to the public; a stupid person; A-OK; A1 sounds like cope, deep, dip
  2. DO5 β€” to find an answer for through reasoning; answer; break; crack; figure out

EP

  1. EP4 β€” sounds like easy, pea
  2. EP5 β€” as in ode, epopee; anacreontic; clerihew; dithyramb; eclogue sounds like abode, anode, bode, code, corrode

MO

  1. MO4 β€” to move or act slowly; to silently go about in a bad mood; crawl; creep; dally sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, map
  2. MO5 β€” to move or act slowly; to silently go about in a bad mood; to move or act slowly; crawled; crept sounds like must, mutt, upped
  3. MO6 β€” as in washed, brushed; brushed; combed; dry-cleaned; dusted sounds like chopped, lopped, opt
  4. MO6 β€” a young person who is between infancy and adulthood; bairn; bambino; bud; chap sounds like bonnet, carpet, chopped, comet, docket

OC

  1. OC7 β€”

OP

  1. OP5 β€” to come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration; to come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration; to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities; chose; concluded sounds like ad*, cheated, coated, dotted, fetid

PE

  1. PE4 β€” sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  2. PE4 β€” an instance of looking especially briefly; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cast; eye; gander sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
  3. PE6 β€” to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cheeped; chirped; chirruped
  4. PE6 β€” to give life, vigor, or spirit to; amp (up); animate; brace; energize sounds like kept, leapt, wept
  5. PE6 β€” to touch or handle in a tender or loving manner; to touch or handle in a tender or loving manner; caressed; fondled; gentled sounds like fetid

PO

  1. PO4 β€” a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect; lyric; rune; song; verse sounds like plum, plumb
  2. PO4 β€” a person who writes poetry; as in poet, poetaster; as in poets, poetasters; bard; minstrel sounds like putt
  3. PO4 β€” sounds like comb, dome, foam, gnome, home
  4. PO4 β€” the impressive decorations, music, clothing etc., that are part of some formal events; dazzle; fanfare; foofaraw; pageantry sounds like chomp, palm, pimp, pump, romp
  5. PO6 β€”
  6. PO4 β€” solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal; information not generally available to the public; dirt; doo-doo; dropping sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop
  7. PO6 β€” depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; all in; aweary; beat; beaten sounds like apt, boost, boot, chipped, chopped
  8. PO4 β€” as in bishop, archbishop; abbot; archbishop; archpriest; bishop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pap
  9. PO6 β€” to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure; to break suddenly with an explosive sound; to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive; blew; blew up sounds like chopped, lopped, opt, part
  10. PO6 β€” a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; action figure; doll; dolly; puppet sounds like puppet
  11. PO6 β€” being under the influence of alcohol; as in planted, put in; besotted; blasted; blind sounds like jotted, knotted

TE

  1. TE6 β€” sounds like beady, beefy, beep, beeper, cheap
  2. TE4 β€” as in temporary; temporary; associate; colleague; coworker
  3. TE6 β€” sounds like attempt
  4. TE5 β€” as in pace, rate; clip; gait; pace; rate
  5. TE5 β€” to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; to take a chance on; allure; bait; beguile sounds like at*
  6. TE7 β€” to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; to take a chance on; to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; allured; baited sounds like at***
  7. TE5 β€” sounds like guppy, puppy, touchy, tummy, yuppie

TO

  1. TO4 β€” sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pope
  2. TO5 β€” sounds like taped, tapped, tuft, typed, upped
  3. TO6 β€” to be greater, better, or stronger than; a piece placed over an open container to hold in, protect, or conceal its contents; the highest part or point; beat; bettered sounds like chopped, lopped, opt, taped, tapped

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