NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 11 February, 2023

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

Letters: p  c  e  m  n  o  t

  • Total Answers: 42
  • Pangrams: 5
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CO

  1. CO4 — something given to someone without expectation of a return; as in provide, afford; bestowal; donation; donative sounds like calm, calmer, camp, carp, chomp

  2. CO7 — to engage in a contest; battle; contend; face off; fight

  3. CO10 — the physical or mental power to do something; ability; capability; capableness; capacity

  4. CO9 — having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance; being what is called for by accepted standards of right and wrong; able; capable; equal

  5. CO9 — one of the parts that make up a whole; as in constituent; building block; constituent; element sounds like opponent

  6. CO7 —

  7. CO7 — an idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation; something imagined or pictured in the mind; as in self-image, self-perception; conception; generality sounds like onset

  8. CO8 — open dislike for someone or something considered unworthy of one's concern or respect; contemptuousness; despisement; despite; despitefulness sounds like attempt, unkempt

  9. CO4 — 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

  10. CO5 — to make a part of a body or system; absorb; assimilate; embody; incorporate sounds like kept

  11. CO4 — 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

EP

  1. EP4 — sounds like easy, pea

MO

  1. MO4 — to move or act slowly; to silently go about in a bad mood; crawl; creep; dally sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, map

  2. MO6 — a young person who is between infancy and adulthood; bairn; bambino; bud; chap sounds like bonnet, carpet, chopped, comet, docket

NO

  1. NO10 — sounds like compete, incomplete

  2. NO4 — sounds like cope, dope, gnome, hope, knoll

OP

  1. OP4 — to change from a closed to an open position; to make passage through (something) possible by removing obstructions; to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area; unclose; clear sounds like ocean, omen, pun, spun

  2. OP8 — one that takes a position opposite another in a competition or conflict; one that is hostile toward another; adversary; antagonist; foe sounds like apparent, atonement, component, pennant, potent

PE

  1. PE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean

  2. PE4 — 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. PE5 — sounds like dense, fence, hence, pounce, sense

  4. PE6 — a person who creates a written work; one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts; a person who creates a written work; authors; litterateurs

  5. PE5 — sounds like den, hen, pain, pair, pan

  6. PE4 — sounds like bent, cent, dent, lent, meant

  7. PE4 — a person who does very hard or dull work; dogsbody; drone; drudge; drudger sounds like neon, paean

PO

  1. PO4 — a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect; lyric; rune; song; verse sounds like plum, plumb

  2. PO4 — a person who writes poetry; as in poet, poetaster; as in poets, poetasters; bard; minstrel sounds like putt

  3. PO4 — sounds like comb, dome, foam, gnome, home

  4. PO4 — 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 —

  6. PO4 — sounds like bony, penny, phoney, phony, tony

  7. PO7 — as in canoe, kayak; bateau; caïque; canoe; catamaran sounds like cartoon, monsoon, onto, platoon

  8. PO4 — 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

  9. PO4 — as in bishop, archbishop; abbot; archbishop; archpriest; bishop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pap

  10. PO6 — 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 — having an abundance of some characteristic quality (as flavor); having great power or influence; producing or capable of producing a desired result; big; concentrated sounds like patent

TE

  1. TE6 — sounds like beady, beefy, beep, beeper, cheap

  2. TE4 — as in temporary; temporary; associate; colleague; coworker

  3. TE5 — as in pace, rate; clip; gait; pace; rate

  4. TE5 — 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*

  5. TE5 — sounds like guppy, puppy, touchy, tummy, yuppie

TO

  1. TO4 — sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pope

comp, compete, competence, competent, component, compote, concept, contempt, coop, coopt, cope, epee, mope, moppet, noncompete, nope, open, opponent, peen, peep, pence, penmen, penne, pent, peon, poem, poet, pome, pomp, pompom, pone, pontoon, poop, pope, poppet, potent, teepee, temp, tempo, tempt, tepee, tope