NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Thu. 17 August, 2023

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

Letters: c  a  e  h  l  m  y

  • Total Answers: 31
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC4 β€” a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body; to feel or cause physical pain; to have sympathy for; pain; pang sounds like age, aid, aide, ail, aim
  2. AC4 β€” causing or feeling bodily pain; aching; afflictive; hurting; nasty sounds like abbey, alley, assay, axe, key
  3. AC4 β€” the highest part or point; the most perfect type or example; apex; apogee; capstone sounds like axe

AL

  1. AL7 β€” the power to control natural forces through supernatural means; the power to do something impressive in a way that seems mysterious or supernatural; bewitchery; bewitchment; conjuring sounds like balcony

CA

  1. CA5 β€” a collection of things kept available for future use or need; a supply stored up and often hidden away; to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place; deposit; hoard sounds like ash, bash
  2. CA4 β€” to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like all, ball, bawl, coal, cog
  3. CA5 β€” to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like cola, gala
  4. CA4 β€” free from storms or physical disturbance; free from emotional or mental agitation; free from disturbing noise or uproar; halcyon; hushed sounds like balm, bomb, cock, cod, comb
  5. CA6 β€” as in peacefully, coolly; free from storms or physical disturbance; free from emotional or mental agitation; collectedly; composedly sounds like collie, comely, commie
  6. CA4 β€” to move closer to; to get to a destination; to eventually have as a state or quality; advanced; approached sounds like aim, claim, comb
  7. CA5 β€” sounds like mammal

CE

  1. CE4 β€” 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; apartment; chamber sounds like bell, dell, fell, gel, hell

CH

  1. CH7 β€” sounds like gala
  2. CH5 β€” sounds like dime, lime, rhyme, time

CL

  1. CL4 β€” a U.S. currency bill representing 100 cents; as in fish, seal; to stop talking; bone; buck
  2. CL6 β€” lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; antiseptic; arctic; brittle; chill
  3. CL4 β€” the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from others; a defect in character; character; colors; complexion sounds like allay, lay, play, slay
  4. CL6 β€” as in sandy, silty; the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from others; dusty; muddy; sandy

CY

  1. CY5 β€” a series of events or actions that repeat themselves regularly and in the same order; a long or seemingly long period of time; a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars; circle; merry-go-round sounds like circle, sickle, sidle, skull

EA

  1. EA4 β€” being one of a group; for each one; being one of a group; any; every sounds like b**, beech, eel, eke, etch

EM

  1. EM5 β€” a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity; announcer; host; MC sounds like airy, any, assay, chassis, edgy

LA

  1. LA4 β€” 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; to cause to twine about one another; cable; cord sounds like ace, base, case, chase, face
  2. LA4 β€” as in frilly, flowery; flowery; frilly; adorned; arrayed sounds like lucy, racy

LE

  1. LE5 β€” as in percolate; as in clean, purify; a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return; percolate; filter sounds like beach, beech, b*, each, latch
  2. LE4 β€” sexual appetite; concupiscence; desire; eroticism; horniness sounds like check, deck, fleck, heck, lack
  3. LE5 β€” a person who is supported by or seeks support from another without making an adequate return; as in use, mooch; bloodsucker; freeloader; free rider sounds like beach, beech, bleach, each, latch

LY

  1. LY6 β€” sounds like bitchy, catchy, diary, fiery, flighty

MA

  1. MA4 β€” as in blackjack, knobkerrie; blackjack; knobkerrie; bastinado; bat sounds like ace, base, case, chase, face

ME

  1. ME5 β€” a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axis; base; capital; center sounds like mica

YE

  1. YE5 β€” used to express disgust; faugh; fie; phew; phooey sounds like check, deck, heck, neck, peck
  2. YE4 β€” used to express disgust; faugh; fie; phew; phooey sounds like check, deck, heck, neck, peck

ache, achy, acme, alchemy, cache, call, calla, calm, calmly, came, camel, cell, challah, chyme, clam, clammy, clay, clayey, cycle, each, emcee, lace, lacy, leach, lech, leech, lychee, mace, mecca, yecch, yech