NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 4 December, 2022

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

Letters: i  c  d  e  j  n  o

  • Total Answers: 47
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CO

  1. CO5 — a spherical bacterium sounds like—catchy
  2. CO7 — a morphine derivative C18H21NO3·H2O that is found in opium, is weaker in action than morphine, and is used especially as an analgesic and antitussive sounds like—caffeine, careen, clean
  3. 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 synonyms—bread, bucks, cabbage, cash, change sounds like—can, cane, join, keen, kin
  4. CO8 — to occur or exist at the same time; to be in agreement on every point; to have or come to the same opinion or point of view synonyms—accompany, attend, coexist, concur, co-occur sounds like—inside
  5. CO9 — to occur or exist at the same time; to be in agreement on every point; to have or come to the same opinion or point of view synonyms—accompanied, attended, coexisted, concurred, co-occurred
  6. CO11 — the occurrence or existence of several things at once synonyms—coexistence, concurrence, concurrency
  7. CO6 — as in produced, designed; as in stamped, minted synonyms—designed, hatched, produced, concocted, constructed sounds like—canned, kind
  8. CO5 — a plane curve, line, pair of intersecting lines, or point that is the intersection of or bounds the intersection of a plane and a cone with two nappes; a curve generated by a point which always moves so that the ratio of its distance from a fixed point to its distance from a fixed line is constant sounds like—chronic, ionic, phonic, sonic, tonic
  9. CO7 — to come together to form a single unit; to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members; to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end synonyms—associate, coalesce, combine, conjugate, connect sounds like—enjoin
  10. CO9 — as in united, joined synonyms—fused, joined, linked, united, amalgamated

DE

  1. DE6 — to come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration; to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute); to come to an agreement or decision concerning the details of synonyms—choose, conclude, determine, figure, name sounds like—beside, divide
  2. DE7 — not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation synonyms—apparent, bald, bald-faced, barefaced, bright-line sounds like—divided, dividing, misguided, un***
  3. DE5 — to rid or keep free of ice sounds like—bus, dice, done, dose, douse
  4. DE6 — as in heated, defrosted synonyms—defrosted, thawed, unfrozen, liquefied, melted sounds like—date, dirt, dot, doubt, dust
  5. DE7 — the act of killing a divine being or a symbolic substitute of such a being; the killer or destroyer of a god
  6. DE6 — as in rejected, refused synonyms—disallowed, refused, rejected, vetoed, objectionable sounds like—any, bend, buried, dairy

DI

  1. DI4 — a small cube marked on each side with one to six spots and usually played in pairs in various games synonyms—bones, die sounds like—dose, douse, dye, dyke
  2. DI5 — to cut into small pieces synonyms—chopped, hashed, minced sounds like—cyst, dust, fist, gist, hissed
  3. DI4 — to stop living; to come to an end; to stop functioning synonyms—checked out, conked (out), croaked, deceased, demised sounds like—bide, chide, dad, dead, deed
  4. DI4 — to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal synonyms—eat, fare, feed, partake, refresh sounds like—dawn, dean, den
  5. DI5 — to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal synonyms—ate, fared, fed, partook, refreshed sounds like—denude, deny
  6. DI4** 1895—1988 Conte di Mordano Italian Fascist politician sounds like—dean, depot, keno, wino
  7. DI5 — a silicon semiconductor device used especially as a voltage regulator sounds like—abode, anode, bide, bind, bio

DJ

  1. DJ5 — as in genie, angel synonyms—angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius sounds like—been, bin, chin, din, fin
  2. DJ6 — as in genie, angel synonyms—angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius sounds like—genie, gin, guinea, jiffy, jimmy

EC

  1. EC7 — the destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of human activity sounds like—exceed, excite, inside, oxide

ED

  1. ED6 — as in swirled, purled synonyms—purled, swirled, bubbled, dribbled, guggled sounds like—deed, readied

EN

  1. EN6 — to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority; to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority; to order not to do or use or to be done or used synonyms—call (for), claim, clamor (for), command, demand
  2. EN8 — to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority; to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority; to order not to do or use or to be done or used synonyms—called (for), claimed, clamored (for), commanded, demanded

IC

  1. IC4 — as in frozen, refrigerated synonyms—frore, frosted, frozen, refrigerated, unheated sounds like—east, eyesight, heist, oust
  2. 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) synonyms—god, hero, idol, character, glyph sounds like—con
  3. IC6 — correspondence between form and meaning sounds like—ionic, ironic

IN

  1. IN9 — the rate at which something happens synonyms—appearance, occurrence, chronicity, constancy, continuousness
  2. IN6 — without any question; not merely this but also; to tell the truth synonyms—all right, alright, assuredly, certainly, clearly sounds like—bandied, bodied, deed, endear, ended
  3. IN5 — one that is independent; especially : an unaffiliated record or motion-picture production company; something (such as a record or film) produced by an * sounds like—windy
  4. IN5 — a navel that is concave sounds like—any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy
  5. 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 synonyms—blamelessness, faultlessness, guiltlessness, impeccability, innocency

IO

  1. IO6 — a light bulb consisting of a quartz bulb and a tungsten filament with the bulb containing ** which reacts with the vaporized tungsten to prevent excessive blackening of the bulb
  2. IO5 — a chemical bond formed between oppositely charged species because of their mutual electrostatic attraction sounds like—ironic, phonic, sonic, tonic

JI

  1. JI4 — as in genies, angels synonyms—angels, daimones, familiars, genies, geniuses sounds like—been, bin, chin, din, fin
  2. JI5 — as in genie, angel synonyms—angel, daimon, familiar, genie, genius sounds like—genie, gin, guinea, journey, tinny

JO

  1. JO4 — to be adjacent to; to become a member of; to come together to form a single unit synonyms—abut, ad, border (on), butt (on or against), flank sounds like—ad, coin, gene, gin, loin
  2. JO6 — as in connected, associated synonyms—associated, connected, interconnected, interrelated, affiliated

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 synonyms—befitting, correct, de rigueur, decent, decorous sounds like—dice, ice, knife, knight, lice
  2. NI5 — as in nephew synonyms—nephew, bastard, by-blow, love child, whoreson sounds like—cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease
  3. NI4 — as in last word, hot ticket synonyms—buzz, chic, craze, dernier cri, enthusiasm sounds like—been, bin, chin, din, fin

ON

  1. ON5 — a Mediterranean bulbous herb (Urginea maritima) of the lily family —called also sea *; the dried sliced bulb scales of a squill used especially formerly as an expectorant, cardiac stimulant, and diuretic; red squill sounds like—undone

cocci, codeine, coin, coincide, coincided, coincidence, coined, conic, conjoin, conjoined, decide, decided, deice, deiced, deicide, denied, dice, diced, died, dine, dined, dino, diode, djinn, djinni, ecocide, eddied, enjoin, enjoined, iced, icon, iconic, incidence, indeed, indie, innie, innocence, iodine, ionic, jinn, jinni, join, joined, nice, niece, nine, onion