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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 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! 🀣

AC

  1. AC6 β€” to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal); as in comply (with), accept; acquiesce; agree; assent sounds like exceed
  2. 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
  3. AC4 β€” as in nailed; as in surpassed, topped; nailed; brought about; effected sounds like assert, bust, dust, east, gust
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. AC4 β€” sounds like abbey, agony, algae, alley, and

CA

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. CA5 β€” an open man-made passageway for water; aqueduct; channel; conduit; course sounds like banal, colonel, conceal, concur, confer
  8. CA6 β€” sounds like common, concave, condom
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. CA7 β€”
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. CA5 β€” as in strapped, leathered; blackjacked; cowhided; flagellated; fustigated sounds like chained, conned, feigned, gained, kind
  16. CA5 β€” sounds like manna
  17. 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

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. CE6 β€” sounds like felled, held, meld, said, sealed

CH

  1. CH4 β€” sounds like add, bad, dad, fad, had
  2. CH7 β€” sounds like gala
  3. 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
  4. CH7 β€” to take a chance on; to take place; to take a chance on; adventured; gambled (on)
  5. CH7 β€” sounds like cancel
  6. 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
  7. 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

  1. 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
  2. CL5 β€” sounds like blade, glade, lade, laid
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. CL7 β€” as in clean, spotless; to remove the dirt from; to take the internal organs out of; antiseptic; clean
  6. CL6 β€” the act or manner of holding; to have or keep in one's hands; clasp; grapple; grasp sounds like quench
  7. CL8 β€” to have or keep in one's hands; to have or keep in one's hands; clung (to); clutched; gripped

DA

  1. DA4 β€” sounds like ace, base, case, chase
  2. DA5 β€” as in summerhouse; summerhouse; bach; cabin; camp sounds like batch, catch, catcher, catchup, catchy
  3. 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
  4. 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)
  5. DA9 β€” sounds like cancel, downfall, downhill, install, landfall

DE

  1. DE6 β€”
  2. DE9 β€” a change to a lower state or level; a sinking to a state of low moral standards and behavior; declension; declination; decline
  3. DE5 β€” as in sticker, stamp; badge; plaque; seal; stamp sounds like fickle, nickel, pickle, sickle, tickle

EA

  1. 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

  1. EN7 β€” to make better; to make markedly greater in measure or degree; to make more desirable; ameliorate; amend
  2. EN8 β€” as in heightened, intensified; as in educated, enlightened; to make better; emphasized; heightened
  3. EN6 β€” to cause to twine about one another; entwine; implicate; interlace; intertwine sounds like unless
  4. 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

  1. HE8 β€” a dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work; something that is a source of irritation; bear; beast; chore sounds like haddock, medic
  2. HE5 β€” for this or that reason; from this or that place; accordingly; consequently; ergo sounds like dense, fence, pence, sense, tense

LA

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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*
  4. LA6 β€” to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object; to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object; gored; harpooned; impaled

LE

  1. 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
  2. LE7 β€” as in percolated; as in cleaned, purified; percolated; filtered; screened sounds like b***
  3. LE4 β€” sexual appetite; concupiscence; desire; eroticism; horniness sounds like check, deck, fleck, heck, lack
  4. 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
  5. LE7 β€” as in used, mooched; freeloaded; mooched; sponged; exploited sounds like bleached

NA

  1. NA7 β€” sounds like nestle

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