NYT π CluesβSat. 13 May, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: c a d e h l n
- Total Answers: 66
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AC
- AC6 β to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal); as in comply (with), accept; acquiesce; agree; assent sounds like exceed
- AC7 β to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal); to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal); as in complied (with), accepted; acquiesced; agreed sounds like axiom
- AC4 β as in nailed; as in surpassed, topped; nailed; brought about; effected sounds like assert, bust, dust, east, gust
- AC4 β a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body; to feel or cause physical pain; to have sympathy for; pain; pang sounds like age, aid, aide, ail, aim
- AC5 β to feel or cause physical pain; to feel or cause physical pain; to have sympathy for; hurt; pained sounds like ant, apt, aunt, matched, patched
- AC4 β sounds like abbey, agony, algae, alley, and
CA
- CA5 β a collection of things kept available for future use or need; a supply stored up and often hidden away; to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place; deposit; hoard sounds like ash, bash
- CA6 β to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place; to put into a hiding place; to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place; hoarded; laid away sounds like matched, patched
- CA7 β the recurrent pattern formed by a series of sounds having a regular rise and fall in intensity; beat; measure; meter; rhythm sounds like couldn't, credence, guidance, laden, maiden
- CA4 β to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like all, ball, bawl, coal, cog
- CA5 β to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like cola, gala
- CA6 β to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawled; bayed sounds like bald, chord, cold, cooled, cord
- CA5 β an open man-made passageway for water; aqueduct; channel; conduit; course sounds like banal, colonel, conceal, concur, confer
- CA6 β sounds like common, concave, condom
- CA6 β to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to); to put an end to by formal action; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; abandon; abort sounds like consul, council, counsel
- CA8 β to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to); to put an end to by formal action; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; abandoned; aborted
- CA9 β to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to); to put an end to by formal action; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; abandoned; aborted
- CA7 β
- CA6 β as in lighting, lantern; to come near or nearer to in character or quality; producing no results; arc lamp; candelabra sounds like handle, kindle, sandal, scandal, vandal
- CA4 β a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; as in strap, leather; bastinado; bat; baton sounds like arraign, bane, chain
- CA5 β as in strapped, leathered; blackjacked; cowhided; flagellated; fustigated sounds like chained, conned, feigned, gained, kind
- CA5 β sounds like manna
- CA6 β using or marked by the use of something else as a basis or model; being under the influence of alcohol; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; apish; emulative sounds like and, band, conned, hand, kind
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
- CE4 β an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall; one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided; a local unit of an organization; apartment; chamber sounds like bell, dell, fell, gel, hell
- CE6 β sounds like felled, held, meld, said, sealed
CH
- CH4 β sounds like add, bad, dad, fad, had
- CH7 β sounds like gala
- CH6 β the uncertain course of events; a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place; a measure of how often an event will occur instead of another; accident; casualty sounds like dance, lance
- CH7 β to take a chance on; to take place; to take a chance on; adventured; gambled (on)
- CH7 β sounds like cancel
- CH7 β an open man-made passageway for water; a narrow body of water between two land masses; a direct way of passing along information or supplies; aqueduct; canal sounds like annul, panel
- CH9 β to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; canalized; channelized; conducted sounds like paneled
CL
- CL4 β to cover with something that protects; as in dressed, clothed; to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes; face; sheathe sounds like glad, lad, plaid
- CL5 β sounds like blade, glade, lade, laid
- CL4 β a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; a group of persons who come from the same ancestor; body; bunch; circle sounds like can
- CL5 β free from dirt or stain; following or according to the rules; free from any trace of the coarse or indecent; antiseptic; chaste sounds like careen, glean, keen
- CL7 β as in clean, spotless; to remove the dirt from; to take the internal organs out of; antiseptic; clean
- CL6 β the act or manner of holding; to have or keep in one's hands; clasp; grapple; grasp sounds like quench
- CL8 β to have or keep in one's hands; to have or keep in one's hands; clung (to); clutched; gripped
DA
- DA4 β sounds like ace, base, case, chase
- DA5 β as in summerhouse; summerhouse; bach; cabin; camp sounds like batch, catch, catcher, catchup, catchy
- DA5 β a social gathering for dancing; to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music; to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements; ball; cotillion sounds like chance, dense, lance
- DA6 β to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music; to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements; to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music; footed (it); hoofed (it)
- DA9 β sounds like cancel, downfall, downhill, install, landfall
DE
- DE6 β
- DE9 β a change to a lower state or level; a sinking to a state of low moral standards and behavior; declension; declination; decline
- DE5 β as in sticker, stamp; badge; plaque; seal; stamp sounds like fickle, nickel, pickle, sickle, tickle
EA
- EA4 β being one of a group; for each one; being one of a group; any; every sounds like b**, beech, eel, eke, etch
EN
- EN7 β to make better; to make markedly greater in measure or degree; to make more desirable; ameliorate; amend
- EN8 β as in heightened, intensified; as in educated, enlightened; to make better; emphasized; heightened
- EN6 β to cause to twine about one another; entwine; implicate; interlace; intertwine sounds like unless
- EN7 β to cause to twine about one another; to cause to twine about one another; entwined; implicated; interlaced sounds like announced, laced, unjust, unless, unlocked
HE
- HE8 β a dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work; something that is a source of irritation; bear; beast; chore sounds like haddock, medic
- HE5 β for this or that reason; from this or that place; accordingly; consequently; ergo sounds like dense, fence, pence, sense, tense
LA
- LA4 β a length of braided, flexible material that is used for tying or connecting things; a length of something formed of three or more strands woven together; to cause to twine about one another; cable; cord sounds like ace, base, case, chase, face
- LA5 β as in embroidered, sequined; to cause to twine about one another; to scatter or set here and there among other things; bejeweled; bossed sounds like chaste, haste, leased, least
- LA5 β a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade; to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object; as in diamondback rattlesnake, garter snake; javelin; pike sounds like chance, dance, g*
- LA6 β to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object; to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object; gored; harpooned; impaled
LE
- LE5 β as in percolate; as in clean, purify; a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return; percolate; filter sounds like beach, beech, b*, each, latch
- LE7 β as in percolated; as in cleaned, purified; percolated; filtered; screened sounds like b***
- LE4 β sexual appetite; concupiscence; desire; eroticism; horniness sounds like check, deck, fleck, heck, lack
- LE5 β a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return; as in use, mooch; bloodsucker; freeloader; free rider sounds like beach, beech, bleach, each, latch
- LE7 β as in used, mooched; freeloaded; mooched; sponged; exploited sounds like bleached
NA
- NA7 β sounds like nestle