NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 17 October, 2022

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

Letters: u  c  d  e  h  o  t

  • Total Answers: 39
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CH

  1. CH5 — as in shoot, rapid(s) synonyms—rapid(s), shoot, white water, flume, cascade sounds like—boot, hoot, jute, loot, lute

CO

  1. CO5 — a long upholstered piece of furniture designed for several sitters synonyms—chesterfield, davenport, divan, lounge, settee sounds like—catch, crouch, pouch

  2. CO7 — to convey in appropriate or telling terms; to lie low with the limbs close to the body synonyms—articulated, clothed, expressed, formulated, phrased

  3. CO5 — having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living synonyms—accomplished, civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel sounds like—earth, key, oath

CU

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

  2. CU4 — 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 synonyms—artful, beguiling, cagey, crafty, cunning sounds like—a**, mute, queue

  3. CU6 — to stop functioning; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to leave a place often for another synonyms—break, break down, conk (out), crash, die sounds like—shutout

DE

  1. DE6 — to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information synonyms—conclude, decide, derive, extrapolate, gather sounds like—seduce

  2. DE7 — to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information synonyms—concluded, decided, derived, extrapolated, gathered sounds like—reduced

  3. DE6 — to take away (an amount or number) from a total synonyms—abate, knock off, subtract, take off sounds like—didn't

  4. DE8 — to take away (an amount or number) from a total synonyms—abated, knocked off, subtracted, took off sounds like—addicted

  5. DE5 — as in dickens synonyms—dickens, archfiend, Beelzebub, devil, fiend sounds like—bus, dice, done, dose, douse

DO

  1. DO6 — as in hose synonyms—hose, flow, gush, rush, stream sounds like—dash, dish

  2. DO7 — as in hosed synonyms—hosed, flowed, gushed, rushed, streamed

DU

  1. DU4 — a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas) synonyms—channel, conduit, leader, line, penstock sounds like—decay, decoy

  2. DU6 — to enclose in a duct; to convey (something, such as a gas) through a duct; also : to propagate (something, such as radio waves) through a duct sounds like—addicted, decayed, dictum, directed, dotted

  3. DU4 — a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance; an adult male human being synonyms—beau, Beau Brummell, buck, dandy, fop sounds like—dad, dead, deed, dew, did

  4. DU5 — as in togged (out or up), rigged (out) synonyms—appareled, arrayed, attired, bedecked, bedizened sounds like—doodad

  5. DU4 — to perform a ** sounds like—debt

  6. DU7 — to perform a duet sounds like—directed, dotted, fetid, rooted

ED

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

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

ET

  1. ET5 — as in study; as in opus, oeuvre synonyms—study, drill, exercise, practice, lecture sounds like—stewed

HU

  1. HU4 — as in colored, painted synonyms—colored, colorized, dyed, painted, pigmented sounds like—feud, hew, hewn

  2. HU5 — a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling; a storage case typically having doors and shelves; an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals synonyms—cabin, camp, hooch, hovel, hut sounds like—hatch, hitch, hooch

OU

  1. OU4 — used to express sudden pain synonyms—ow, alack, alas, ay, wirra sounds like—c**, each, etch, hour, itch

  2. OU5 — to be greater, better, or stronger than synonyms—beat, better, eclipse, exceed, excel sounds like—dew, doo, due

  3. OU5 — to become known; to drive or force out synonyms—broke, came out, circulated, got about, got around sounds like—stud

TH

  1. TH4 — having or showing the annoying attitude of people who believe that they are morally better than other people synonyms—self-righteous, assured, biggety, bigheaded, complacent sounds like—boo, chew, coup, dew, doo

  2. TH4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument synonyms—bang, bash, bat, beat, belt sounds like—bud, dud, mud

  3. TH7 — to come into usually forceful contact with something synonyms—banged, bashed, bumped, collided, crashed sounds like—added, cuddle, dud, ended, faded

TO

  1. TO5 — to come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin; to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response; to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable synonyms—feel, affect, impact, impress, influence sounds like—hutch, much, such, teach, tub

  2. TO6 — used to acknowledge a hit in fencing or the success or appropriateness of an argument, an accusation, or a witty point sounds like—ash, tea, tee, tie, two

  3. TO7 — as in off, loopy synonyms—dotty, fey, loopy, off, potty sounds like—taught, taut, teat, tight

  4. TO4 — to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to provide publicity for synonyms—ballyhoo, blow up, crack up, cry up, glorify sounds like—bout, doubt, gout, out, pout

  5. TO6 — to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to provide publicity for synonyms—ballyhooed, blew up, cracked up, cried up, glorified sounds like—cheated, coated, dotted, fetid, fitted

TU

  1. TU5 — one who is being tutored sounds like—booty, duty, sooty

  2. TU6 — to hold an unfavorable opinion of synonyms—deprecate, disapprove (of), discountenance, disesteem, disfavor sounds like—attitude, buttock, button, cheated, coated

  3. TU4 — as in hoot, howl synonyms—bark, bay, bellow, blat, bleat sounds like—tattoo

chute, couch, couched, couth, cued, cute, cutout, deduce, deduced, deduct, deducted, deuce, douche, douched, duct, ducted, dude, duded, duet, duetted, educe, educed, etude, hued, hutch, ouch, outdo, outed, thou, thud, thudded, touch, touche, touched, tout, touted, tutee, tutted, tutu