NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 24 June, 2023

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

Letters: n  c  e  i  l  o  x

  • Total Answers: 44
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CL

  1. CL6 — a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured; an intensive educational or training program; hospital; infirmary; medical center sounds like chronic

  2. CL5 — something that is made to look exactly like something else; something or someone that strongly resembles another; to make an exact likeness of; carbon; carbon copy sounds like alone, blown, cologne, cone

CO

  1. CO6 — something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; something that serves as a protective barrier; to surround or cover closely; armor; capsule sounds like cuckoo

  2. CO4 — something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; as in produce, design; as in stamp, mint; bread; bucks sounds like can, cane, join, keen, kin

  3. CO7 — as in senorita, mademoiselle; mademoiselle; senhorita; senorita; bird sounds like clean, saline

  4. CO5 —

  5. CO7 — a person with old-fashioned ideas; antediluvian; dodo; fogy; fossil sounds like journal, kennel, vernal

  6. CO7 — sounds like chronic, clinic

  7. CO4 — sounds like bone, can, cane, clone, clones

  8. CO5 — sounds like chronic, ionic, phonic, sonic, tonic

EX

  1. EX10 — exceptionally high quality; a quality that gives something special worth; of the very best kind; choiceness; distinction

IC

  1. IC4 — a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion; a written or printed mark that is meant to convey information to the reader; a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality); god; hero sounds like con

  2. IC6 — sounds like ionic, ironic

IN

  1. IN7 — the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon; to set or cause to be at an angle; to show a liking or proneness (for something); cant; diagonal

  2. IN5 — sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy

  3. IN9 — the quality or state of being free from guilt or blame; the quality or state of being simple and sincere; the state of being unaware or uninformed; blamelessness; faultlessness

IO

  1. IO5 — sounds like ironic, phonic, sonic, tonic

LE

  1. LE8 — kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it; charity; clemency; forbearance; leniency

  2. LE7 — sounds like any, benzene, bony, crony

  3. LE7 — a reference book giving information about the meanings, pronunciations, uses, and origins of words listed in alphabetical order; dictionary; wordbook

LI

  1. LI4 — sounds like bean, clean, dean, gene, glean

  2. LI4 — a series of persons or things arranged one behind another; a way of acting or proceeding; the activity by which one regularly makes a living; column; cue sounds like align, dine, fine, lain, lane

  3. LI5 — as in dirty laundry; dirty laundry; dirt; gossip; scuttlebutt

  4. LI4 — a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; the largest part or quantity of something; a large tawny cat of the wild; baron; captain sounds like ion, scion

LO

  1. LO4 — sounds like coin, join, lain, lane, lawn

  2. LO4 — being the one or ones of a class with no other members; not being in the company of others; a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs; alone; one sounds like a, blown, bone, c, c**s

  3. LO4 — one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person; bug; crackbrain; crazy sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane

  4. LO6 — sounds like lucy, lunar

NE

  1. NE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead

  2. NE6 — as in neoconservative; neoconservative; conformist; diehard; standpatter sounds like beacon, deacon, knuckle, weaken

  3. NE4 — sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon

NI

  1. NI4 — following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses; hard to please; befitting; correct sounds like dice, ice, knife, knight, lice

  2. NI5 — sounds like cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease

  3. NI4 — as in last word, hot ticket; as in last words, hot tickets; as in wage earner, wage slave; buzz; chic sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin

NO

  1. NO4 — the season celebrating Christmas; as in anthem, hymn; Christmastide; Christmastime; yuletide sounds like knoll, null

  2. NO5 — as in occasional, infrequent; inconstant; infrequent; intermittent; irregular sounds like nuance

  3. NO4 — certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun

  4. NO9 — sounds like billion, civilian, jillion, million, pavilion

  5. NO4 — the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known

ON

  1. ON4 — at an earlier or previous time; having been such at some previous time; just at the moment that; erstwhile; formerly sounds like whence, wince, won

  2. ON5 — sounds like undone

  3. ON6 — being in effective operation; a series of persons or things arranged one behind another; a way of acting or proceeding; active; alive sounds like airline, align, byline, feline, incline

OX

  1. OX4 — sounds like arson, auction, toxin

XE

  1. XE5 — sounds like neon, zenith

clinic, clone, cocoon, coin, colleen, colon, colonel, colonic, cone, conic, excellence, icon, iconic, incline, innie, innocence, ionic, lenience, leonine, lexicon, lien, line, linen, lion, loin, lone, loon, loonie, nene, neocon, neon, nice, niece, nine, noel, nonce, none, nonillion, noon, once, onion, online, oxen, xenon