NYT đ CluesâSun. 25 December, 2022
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: c d e n o t u
- Total Answers: 75
- Pangrams: 4
- Words revealed in these clues: None! đ¤Ł
CE
- CE4 â 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 synonymsâcough up, deliver, give up, hand over, lay down sounds likeâbead, deed, feed, heed, keyed
- CE5 â 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 synonymsâcoughed up, delivered, gave up, handed over, laid down sounds likeâfaded, jaded
- CE4 â of or relating to money, banking, or investments synonymsâfinancial, fiscal, monetary, pecuniary, pocket sounds likeâas, assent, bent, dent, lent
CO
- CO7 â a fatty oil or semisolid fat extracted from fresh ***s and used especially in making soaps and food products sounds likeâcabinet
- CO6 â something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; something that serves as a protective barrier synonymsâarmor, capsule, case, casing, cover sounds likeâcuckoo
- CO8 â to surround or cover closely synonymsâbosomed, bowered, circumfused, embosomed, embowered
- CO4 â a collection or system of rules of conduct synonymsâcanon, constitution, decalogue, law sounds likeâbode
- CO5 â as in encrypted, en* synonymsâciphered, enciphered, en*, encrypted, garbled
- CO5 â a specific sequence of three consecutive nucleotides that is part of the genetic code and that specifies a particular amino acid in a protein or starts or stops protein synthesis âcalled also triplet
- CO4 â as in undergraduate, postgraduate synonymsâcollegian, postgraduate, undergraduate, pupil, scholar
- CO7 â to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control) synonymsâacknowledge, admit, agree, allow, confess
- CO8 â to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control) synonymsâacknowledged, admitted, agreed, allowed, confessed sounds likeâunleaded
- CO7 â to create or think of by clever use of the imagination synonymsâconstruct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up sounds likeâunlocked
- CO9 â as in unrealistic, fabricated synonymsâautomatic, canned, fabricated, hokey, labored
- CO5 â as in *minium, penthouse synonymsâbed-sitter, cohousing, *minium, duplex, duplex apartment
- CO7 â to dismiss as of little importance synonymsâblink (at), brush (aside or off), discount, disregard, excuse
- CO8 â as in countenanced, brooked synonymsâbrooked, countenanced, accorded, granted, sanctioned sounds likeâbonded, candid, hardened
- CO7 â to look after and make decisions about; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way synonymsâadminister, administrate, carry on, control, direct
- CO9 â to look after and make decisions about; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way synonymsâadministered, administrated, carried on, controlled, directed
- CO4 â to make -shaped; to bevel like the slanting surface of a sounds likeâbone, can, cane, clone, clones
- CO5 â to make cone-shaped; to bevel like the slanting surface of a cone sounds likeâcanned, honed, kind, owned
- CO7 â to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole; to come together to form a single unit; to think of (something) in combination synonymsâcatenate, chain, compound, concatenate, conjugate
- CO9 â as in associated, inter* synonymsâassociated, inter*, interrelated, joined, affiliated sounds likeâaffected
- CO6 â to commit to memory; to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition) synonymsâlearned, memorized, studied, audited, checked (out) sounds likeâbond, canned, card, fond, kind
- CO7 â to make you think about (something) in addition to the word's meaning synonymsâimply, suggest, denote, express, import sounds likeâkeynote
- CO8 â to make you think about (something) in addition to the word's meaning synonymsâimplied, suggested, denoted, expressed, imported sounds likeânoted, quoted, wanted
- CO7 â to engage in a contest; to state (something) as a reason in support of or against something under consideration; to state as a fact usually forcefully synonymsâbattle, compete, face off, fight, race
- CO9 â to engage in a contest; to state (something) as a reason in support of or against something under consideration; to state as a fact usually forcefully synonymsâbattled, competed, faced off, fought, raced
- CO7 â a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition); the amount of something (as subject matter) included; the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action synonymsâmatter, motif, motive, question, subject
- CO9 â feeling that one's needs or desires have been met synonymsâcontent, gratified, happy, pleased, satisfied
- CO5 â as in curred synonymsâcurred, fizzed, hissed, murmured, purred sounds likeâcrude, curd
- CO4 â as in geezer synonymsâgeezer, bohemian, maverick, nonconformist, quixote sounds likeâboot, cat, caught, chute
- CO4 â as in henhouse, dove synonymsâdove, henhouse, kraal, stockade, fold sounds likeâboat, cat, caught
- CO6 â to have a clear idea of synonymsâappreciate, apprehend, assimilate, behold, catch sounds likeâcarton, caution, curtain, gotten, kitten
- CO8 â to have a clear idea of synonymsâappreciate, apprehend, assimilate, behold, catch
- CO5 â a total number obtained or recorded by noting each thing as it was being added; a formal claim of criminal wrongdoing against a person synonymsâcensus, tale, tally, charge, complaint sounds likeâac*, can't, mount
- CO7 â to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added; to be of importance; to place reliance or trust synonymsâenumerated, numbered, told, imported, mattered sounds likeâmounted
CU
- CU4 â as in lined, lined up synonymsâaligned, lined, lined up, queued, emplaced sounds likeâcrude, feud, queue, skewed
- CU4 â clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means; making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred; very pleasing to look at synonymsâartful, beguiling, cagey, crafty, cunning sounds likeâa**, mute, queue
- CU6 â to stop functioning; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to leave a place often for another synonymsâbreak, break down, conk (out), crash, die sounds likeâshutout
DE
- DE8 â a dead person synonymsâdeceased, bones, cadaver, carcass, corpus
- DE6 â conforming to a high standard of morality or virtue; following the accepted rules of moral conduct; following the established traditions of refined society and good taste synonymsâall right, ethical, good, honest, honorable sounds likeârecent
- DE4 â a popular design style of the 1920s and 1930s characterized especially by bold outlines, geometric and zigzag forms, and the use of new materials (such as plastic) sounds likeâecho
- DE6 â as in reduce, boil down synonymsâboil down, reduce, clarify, clean, cleanse
- DE8 â as in reduced, boiled down synonymsâboiled down, reduced, clarified, cleaned, cleansed
- DE6 â to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of synonymsâbreak, crack, decipher, decrypt, appreciate sounds likeâcode
- DE7 â to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of synonymsâbroke, cracked, deciphered, decrypted, appreciated sounds likeâdivided, eroded
- DE6 â to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information synonymsâconclude, decide, derive, extrapolate, gather sounds likeâseduce
- DE7 â to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information synonymsâconcluded, decided, derived, extrapolated, gathered sounds likeâreduced
- DE6 â to take away (an amount or number) from a total synonymsâabate, knock off, subtract, take off sounds likeâdidn't
- DE8 â to take away (an amount or number) from a total synonymsâabated, knocked off, subtracted, took off sounds likeâaddicted
- DE8 â to declare to be morally wrong or evil; to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of; to express public or formal disapproval of synonymsâanathematize, censure, condemn, damn, decry sounds likeârenounce
- DE9 â to declare to be morally wrong or evil; to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of; to express public or formal disapproval of synonymsâanathematized, censured, condemned, damned, decried sounds likeâannounced
- DE6 â to come upon after searching, study, or effort synonymsâascertain, descry, determine, dig out, dig up
- DE8 â as in identified, discovered synonymsâdiscovered, identified, bustling, busy, crowded sounds likeâaffected, connected, directed, protected, selected
- DE5 â as in dickens synonymsâdickens, archfiend, Beelzebub, devil, fiend sounds likeâbus, dice, done, dose, douse
DO
- DO6 â as in professor, doctor synonymsâdean, doctor, don, prof, professor sounds likeâdecent
DU
- DU4 â a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas) synonymsâchannel, conduit, leader, line, penstock sounds likeâdecay, decoy
- DU6 â to enclose in a duct; to convey (something, such as a gas) through a duct; also : to propagate (something, such as radio waves) through a duct sounds likeâaddicted, decayed, dictum, directed, dotted
- DU5 â a stupid person synonymsâairhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, bubblehead sounds likeâdance, dense, done, once
EC
- EC7 â a transition area between two adjacent ecological communities sounds likeâextol, intone
ED
- ED5 â to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved) synonymsâelicit, evoke, inspire, raise sounds likeâjuice
- ED6 â to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved) synonymsâelicited, evoked, inspired, raised sounds likeâadjust, boost, gist, jest, joust
EN
- EN6 â as in encrypt, code synonymsâcipher, code, encipher, encrypt, garble sounds likeâanode, code, decode, echo
- EN7 â as in encrypted, coded synonymsâciphered, coded, enciphered, encrypted, garbled sounds likeâunloaded
NE
- NE6 â as in **servative synonymsâ**servative, conformist, diehard, standpatter, right sounds likeâbeacon, deacon, knuckle, weaken
NO
- NO5 â as in occasional, infrequent synonymsâinconstant, infrequent, intermittent, irregular, occasional sounds likeânuance
OC
- OC5 â as in trio, quartet synonymsâduo, quartet, quintet, septet, sextet sounds likeâonset
ON
- ON4 â at an earlier or previous time synonymsâerstwhile, formerly, onetime sounds likeâwhence, wince, won
OU
- OU5 â a very small amount synonymsâace, bit, crumb, dab, dram sounds likeâb*, p*
UN
- UN7 â sounds likeâneeded
- UN11 â not clearly or logically connected; not physically attached to another unit synonymsâchoppy, disconnected, disjointed, incoherent, detached
- UN9 â too many to be counted synonymsâcountless, innumerable, innumerous, myriad, numberless
- UN5 â as in undiminished, unabridged synonymsâunabridged, undiminished, compleat, complete, comprehensive sounds likeâannuity, bucket, circuit, cut, docket
- UN10 â as in unknown, undisclosed synonymsâundisclosed, unknown, unrevealed, pristine, unspoiled