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

4. 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
5. 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
6. CO7 — as in senorita, mademoiselle; mademoiselle; senhorita; senorita; bird sounds like clean, saline
7. CO5 —
8. CO7 — a person with old-fashioned ideas; antediluvian; dodo; fogy; fossil sounds like journal, kennel, vernal
9. CO7 — sounds like chronic, clinic
10. CO4 — sounds like bone, can, cane, clone, clones
11. CO5 — sounds like chronic, ionic, phonic, sonic, tonic

EX

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

IC

15. 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
16. IC6 — sounds like ionic, ironic

IN

18. 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
19. IN5 — sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy
20. 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

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

LE

24. LE8 — kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it; charity; clemency; forbearance; leniency
25. LE7 — sounds like any, benzene, bony, crony
26. LE7 — a reference book giving information about the meanings, pronunciations, uses, and origins of words listed in alphabetical order; dictionary; wordbook

LI

28. LI4 — sounds like bean, clean, dean, gene, glean
29. 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
30. LI5 — as in dirty laundry; dirty laundry; dirt; gossip; scuttlebutt
31. 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

33. LO4 — sounds like coin, join, lain, lane, lawn
34. 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
35. 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
36. LO6 — sounds like lucy, lunar

NE

38. NE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
39. NE6 — as in neoconservative; neoconservative; conformist; diehard; standpatter sounds like beacon, deacon, knuckle, weaken
40. NE4 — sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon

NI

42. 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
43. NI5 — sounds like cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease
44. 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

46. NO4 — the season celebrating Christmas; as in anthem, hymn; Christmastide; Christmastime; yuletide sounds like knoll, null
47. NO5 — as in occasional, infrequent; inconstant; infrequent; intermittent; irregular sounds like nuance
48. NO4 — certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
49. NO9 — sounds like billion, civilian, jillion, million, pavilion
50. 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

52. 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
53. ON5 — sounds like undone
54. 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

56. OX4 — sounds like arson, auction, toxin

XE

58. XE5 — sounds like neon, zenith