NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 25 August, 2022

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

Letters: o  c  e  f  l  n  u

  • Total Answers: 32
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CE

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

CL

  1. 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. CO6 — something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; something that serves as a protective barrier synonyms—armor, capsule, case, casing, cover sounds like—cuckoo

  2. CO6 — as in **house, tea shop synonyms—**house, estaminet, teahouse, tearoom, tea shop sounds like—khaki, toffee

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

  4. CO5 —

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

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

  7. CO10 — the coming together of two or more things to the same point synonyms—conjunction, convergence, convergency, meeting sounds like—influence

  8. CO4 — having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; free from emotional or mental agitation; having a low or subnormal temperature synonyms—aloof, antisocial, asocial, buttoned-up, cold sounds like—call, cul

  9. CO6 — as in gully, wadi synonyms—arroyo, barranca, draw, gully, gutter sounds like—cruelly

FE

  1. FE5 — a person who has committed a serious crime synonyms—criminal, crook, culprit, lawbreaker, malefactor sounds like—fallen, melon

FL

  1. FL4 — a usually large flat free mass of floating sea ice sounds like—blow, fallow, fellow

  2. FL7 — a strip of fabric gathered or pleated on one edge and used as trimming synonyms—frill, furbelow, ruffle sounds like—allowance, announce, blouse, bounce, clown

FO

  1. FO4 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a person formerly kept in a royal or noble household to amuse with jests and pranks; a person with a strong and habitual liking for something synonyms—berk, booby, charlie, cuckoo, ding-a-ling sounds like—cool, fail, fall, feel, fell

  2. FO4 — marked by wet and windy conditions; not being in accordance with the rules or standards of what is fair in sport; causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment synonyms—bleak, dirty, inclement, nasty, raw sounds like—fail, fall, feel, fell, file

LO

  1. LO4 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind synonyms—balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bedlam sounds like—coco, cocoa

  2. LO4 — to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing synonyms—droop, flag, hang, sag, swag sounds like—doll, lat, lull, pall

  3. 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

  4. LO4 — one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person synonyms—bug, crackbrain, crazy, fool, fruitcake sounds like—boon, dune, goon, lain, lane

NE

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

  2. 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

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

  4. NO4 — the middle of the day; the highest part or point synonyms—high , lunch time, midday, day, **tide sounds like—boon, dune, goon, knew, known

  5. NO4 — a (such as Seattle, Joyce, or Empire State Building) that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English —called also proper name sounds like—down, gown, known, nine, nun

NU

  1. NU7 — a proton or neutron especially in the atomic nucleus; a hypothetical single entity with one-half unit of isospin that can manifest itself as either a proton or a neutron

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

OU

  1. OU5 — a very small amount synonyms—ace, bit, crumb, dab, dram sounds like—b*, p*

UN

  1. UN6 — as in unhip, untrendy synonyms—out, unhip, untrendy, geeky, nerdish

cello, clone, cocoon, coffee, colleen, colon, colonel, cone, confluence, cool, coulee, felon, floe, flounce, fool, foul, loco, loll, lone, loon, neocon, neon, noel, nonce, none, noon, noun, nucleon, oleo, once, ounce, uncool