NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 1 January, 2023

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

Letters: e  a  c  l  n  o  w

  • Total Answers: 43
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

  1. AC4 — a chronic inflammatory skin disorder typically involving the nose, forehead, and chin that is characterized especially by redness, flushing, telangiectasia, inflamed lesions, and burning sensation, and sometimes by eye dryness and irritation and thickening of tissues especially of the nose —called also rosacea sounds like—abbey, agony, algae, alley, and

AE

  1. AE4 — a long or seemingly long period of time synonyms—age, blue moon, coon's age, cycle, donkey's years sounds like—neon

AL

  1. AL6 — an ** of a genetic locus having more than two allelic forms within a population sounds like—addle, agile, annul, apple, lull

  2. AL9 — something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group; the approval by someone in authority for the doing of something synonyms—allotment, cut, end, part, piece

  3. AL4 — agarwood; any of a large genus () of succulent chiefly southern African plants of the lily family with basal leaves and spicate flowers; the dried juice of the leaves of various s used especially formerly as a purgative —usually used in plural but singular in construction sounds like—ago, blow, floe, flow, glow

  4. AL5 — without aid or support; for nothing other than synonyms—independently, single-handed, single-handedly, singly, solely sounds like—atone, blown, clone, clones, cologne

AN

  1. AN4 — yet another time synonyms—afresh, again, de novo, over sounds like—canoe, knew, new, undo, undue

  2. AN6 — to make stronger (as through hardship) synonyms—temper, fortify, harden, indurate, inure sounds like—aunt

CA

  1. CA6 — 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to (something planned or previously agreed to); to put an end to by formal action; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it synonyms—abandon, abort, call, call off, cry off sounds like—consul, council, counsel

  2. CA4 — a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment synonyms—bastinado, bat, baton, billy, billy club sounds like—arraign, bane, chain

  3. CA5 — a long narrow boat that is pointed at both ends and that is moved by a paddle with one blade synonyms—bateau, caïque, catamaran, coracle, curragh sounds like—anew, cuckoo, kazoo

CE

  1. CE4 — 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 synonyms—apartment, chamber, closet, room, bay sounds like—bell, dell, fell, gel, hell

  2. CE5 — the bass member of the violin family tuned an octave below the viola sounds like—bellow, fellow, mellow, self, sell

CL

  1. CL5 — free from dirt or stain; following or according to the rules; free from any trace of the coarse or indecent synonyms—antiseptic, chaste, fair, immaculate, pristine sounds like—careen, glean, keen

  2. CL5 — something that is made to look exactly like something else; something or someone that strongly resembles another synonyms—carbon, carbon copy, copy, dummy, dupe sounds like—alone, blown, cologne, cone

CO

  1. CO7 — as in senorita, mademoiselle synonyms—mademoiselle, senhorita, senorita, bird, chit sounds like—clean, saline

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

  3. CO7 — to put into a hiding place; to keep secret or shut off from view synonyms—bury, cache, ensconce, hide, secrete sounds like—unseal

  4. CO4 — to make -shaped; to bevel like the slanting surface of a sounds like—bone, can, cane, clone, clones

EL

  1. EL4 — as in passion, ardor synonyms—ardor, fervor, fire, passion, zeal sounds like—align, alone, oven, sullen

EN

  1. EN6 — to cause to twine about one another synonyms—entwine, implicate, interlace, intertwine, intertwist sounds like—unless

LA

  1. LA4 — 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 synonyms—cable, cord, lacing, line, rope sounds like—ace, base, case, chase, face

  2. LA5 — a weapon with a long straight handle and sharp head or blade synonyms—javelin, pike, pikestaff, shaft, spear sounds like—chance, dance, g*

  3. LA4 — as in byway, way synonyms—bypath, byway, way, approach, avenue sounds like—arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

LE

  1. LE4 — to set or cause to be at an angle; to show a liking or proneness (for something); to place reliance or trust synonyms—angle, cant, cock, heel, incline sounds like—bean, c, dean, gene, g

LO

  1. LO6 — the area or space occupied by or intended for something; the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set synonyms—emplacement, locality, location, locus, place

  2. LO4 — being the one or ones of a class with no other members; not being in the company of others synonyms—a, one, one-off, only, singular sounds like—a, blown, bone, c, cs

NE

  1. NE4 — an endangered goose (Branta sandvicensis synonym Nesochen sandvicensis) of the Hawaiian Islands that usually inhabits waterless uplands and feeds on berries and vegetation sounds like—bean, dean, gene, keen, knead

  2. NE6 — as in **servative synonyms—**servative, conformist, diehard, standpatter, right sounds like—beacon, deacon, knuckle, weaken

  3. NE4 — a nonmetallic chemical element that is found in minute amounts in air and is used especially in electric lamps, in lasers, and as a cryogenic refrigerant; a discharge lamp in which the gas contains a large proportion of **; a sign composed of such lamps sounds like—bean, con, dean, don, eon

  4. NE5 — an upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; a post at the foot of a straight stairway or one at a landing sounds like—dual, duel, jewel, noodle, null

NO

  1. NO4 — the season celebrating Christmas synonyms—Christmastide, Christmastime, yuletide sounds like—knoll, null

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

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

OC

  1. OC5 — the whole body of salt water that covers nearly three-fourths of the earth; an immeasurable depth or space synonyms—blue, brine, deep, Neptune, sea sounds like—ashen, lotion, motion, notion, omen

OL

  1. OL4 — margarine sounds like—polio

ON

  1. ON4 — at an earlier or previous time synonyms—erstwhile, formerly, onetime sounds like—whence, wince, won

WA

  1. WA4 — something that is unusually large and powerful synonyms—behemoth, blockbuster, colossus, dinosaur, dreadnought sounds like—ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  2. WA4 — to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually synonyms—abate, de-escalate, decline, decrease, die (away or down or out) sounds like—arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign

WE

  1. WE4 — the state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success synonyms—good, interest, welfare, well-being sounds like—deal, eel, feel, heal, heel

  2. WE4 — to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing; to detach from a source of dependence; also : to free from a usually unwholesome habit or interest; to accustom to something from an early age —used in the passive especially with on sounds like—bean, dean, gene, keen, lean

  3. WE4 — in a satisfactory way; in a generous manner; in a skillful or expert manner synonyms—acceptably, adequately, all right, alright, creditably sounds like—bell, cell, dell, d, fell

WO

  1. WO6 — a fabric made of wool and especially of ** yarns having a fuzzy or napped face (as for use in clothing or blankets); garments of ** fabric —usually used in plural

acne, aeon, allele, allowance, aloe, alone, anew, anneal, cancel, cane, canoe, cell, cello, clean, clone, colleen, colonel, conceal, cone, elan, enlace, lace, lance, lane, lean, locale, lone, nene, neocon, neon, newel, noel, nonce, none, ocean, oleo, once, wale, wane, weal, wean, well, woolen