NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 5 October, 2023

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

Letters: d  c  e  h  i  k  l

  • Total Answers: 60
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CE

  1. CE4 — 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; cough up; deliver sounds like bead, deed, feed, heed, keyed

  2. CE5 — 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; coughed up; delivered sounds like faded, jaded

  3. CE6 — sounds like felled, held, meld, said, sealed

CH

  1. CH7 — as in controlled, restrained; to be in agreement on every point; to bring (something) to a standstill; bridled; constrained sounds like sect, wrecked

  2. CH5 — to criticize (someone) usually gently so as to correct a fault; to criticize (someone) usually gently so as to correct a fault; admonish; rebuke; reprimand sounds like bide, guide, hide, lied, ride

  3. CH6 — to criticize (someone) usually gently so as to correct a fault; to criticize (someone) usually gently so as to correct a fault; admonished; rebuked; reprimanded sounds like guided

  4. CH5 — a young person who is between infancy and adulthood; a recently born person; a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause; bairn; bambino sounds like mild, piled, tiled, wild

  5. CH9 — resembling or suggesting a child; like that of a child; dewy-eyed; gee-whiz; impressionable; inexperienced sounds like wildlife

  6. CH7 — as in nipped; as in frozen, refrigerated; to cause to lose heat; nipped; asleep sounds like billed, build, filled, guild, milled

CI

  1. CI7 — sounds like liquid, sacred, salad, seclude, sicken

CL

  1. CL7 — used or heard so often as to be dull; banal; cliché; cobwebby; commonplace

  2. CL7 — to form a close personal relationship; to turn out as planned or desired; to form a close personal relationship; bonded; communed

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; choose; conclude sounds like beside, divide

  2. DE7 — not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; to come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration; to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute); apparent; bald sounds like divided, dividing, misguided, un***

  3. DE4 — a flat roofless structure attached to a building; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes; balcony; sundeck sounds like check, dare, dick

  4. DE6 — as in dressed, decorated; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; adorned; arrayed sounds like checked, direct, duct, sect, wrecked

  5. DE6 — sounds like heckle

  6. DE4 — an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness; something done by someone; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; exploit; feat sounds like bead, cede, dad, did, dud

  7. DE6 — to give over the legal possession or ownership of; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; alienated; aliened; assigned sounds like needed

  8. DE5 — sounds like bus, dice, done, dose, douse

  9. DE6 — as in heated, defrosted; defrosted; thawed; unfrozen; liquefied sounds like date, dirt, dot, doubt, dust

  10. DE7 —

  11. DE4 — to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement; fake; fake out; juke sounds like buck, chuck, dick, dike, dock

  12. DE5 — to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement; to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement; faked; faked out; juked sounds like duck, dust

  13. DE4 — sounds like daily, dally, doubly, dull, duller

  14. DE4 — as in canyon, rift valley; canyon; combe; depression; dingle sounds like bell, cell, dale, dare

DI

  1. DI4 — a small cube marked on each side with one to six spots and usually played in pairs in various games; to cut into small pieces; a small cube marked on each side with one to six spots and usually played in pairs in various games; bones; die sounds like dose, douse, dye, dyke

  2. DI5 — to cut into small pieces; to cut into small pieces; chopped; hashed; minced sounds like cyst, dust, fist, gist, hissed

  3. DI6 — to move or act slowly; to rob by the use of trickery or threats; to handle thoughtlessly, ignorantly, or mischievously; crawl; creep sounds like dawdle, fiddle, middle, riddle

  4. DI7 — to move or act slowly; to rob by the use of trickery or threats; to move or act slowly; crawled; crept sounds like riddled

  5. DI4 — to stop living; to come to an end; to stop functioning; checked out; conked (out) sounds like bide, chide, dad, dead, deed

  6. DI4 — a bank of earth constructed to control water; a long narrow channel dug in the earth; as in fence, gate; dam; embankment sounds like bike, deck, dock

  7. DI4 — sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear

ED

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

EK

  1. EK4 — to get with great difficulty; scrape (up or together); scrounge; squeeze; wrest sounds like act, east, eat, peaked

EL

  1. EL5 — to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; to make less in extent or duration; blue-pencil; cancel; cross (out) sounds like allied, flied, glide, lied, slide

  2. EL6 — to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; to make less in extent or duration; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; blue-penciled; canceled sounds like ended, guided, lighted, lipid, loaded

HE

  1. HE7 — to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; baited; hassled; hazed

  2. HE4 — a state of being aware; strict attentiveness to what one is doing; to take notice of and be guided by; advertence; advertency sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, had

  3. HE6 — to take notice of and be guided by; to pay attention especially through the act of hearing; to take notice of and be guided by; followed; listened (to) sounds like needed

  4. HE6 — as in inclined, angled; to set or cause to be at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; angled; canted sounds like field, hold, sealed, shield, w**

  5. HE4 — to have or keep in one's hands; to continue to have in one's possession or power; to have as an opinion; clenched; clung (to) sounds like felled, hold, meld, shelled

HI

  1. HI4 — to put into a hiding place; to keep secret or shut off from view; to remain out of sight; bury; cache sounds like bide, c**, guide, had, hadd

  2. HI4 — to proceed or move quickly; to proceed or move quickly; barreled; belted; blasted sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, had

  3. HI5 — to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure; to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure; ambled; perambulated sounds like height, heist, hooked

  4. HI6 — to form into a pile or ridge of earth; to form into a pile or ridge of earth; banked; mounded; bank sounds like billed, build, c**, filled, guild

IC

  1. IC4 — as in frozen, refrigerated; to make sure, certain, or safe; to put to death deliberately; frore; frosted sounds like east, eyesight, heist, oust

ID

  1. ID4 — not being in a state of use, activity, or employment; not easily aroused to action or work; to spend time doing nothing; dead; dormant sounds like addle, dull, s**, tidal

  2. ID5 — to spend time doing nothing; to spend time doing nothing; bummed; chilled; dallied sounds like addled

KE

  1. KE6 — as in dropped, collapsed; a large craft for travel by water; to lose consciousness; collapsed; crumpled sounds like called, cold, cooled, field, sealed

KI

  1. KI6 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to present an opposing opinion or argument; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; beefed; bellyached sounds like ticked

  2. KI6 — to make fun of in a good-natured way; to make jokes; to make fun of in a good-natured way; chaffed; jived sounds like added, bearded, candid, coated, coddle

  3. KI6 — a young person who is between infancy and adulthood; bairn; bambino; bud; chap sounds like giddy

  4. KI6 — to deprive of life; to reject by or as if by a vote; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; carried off; claimed sounds like billed, build, called, chilled, cold

LE

  1. LE4 — sounds like bead, bleed, cede, deed, feed

  2. LE7 — as in used, mooched; freeloaded; mooched; sponged; exploited sounds like bleached

LI

  1. LI6 — to strike repeatedly; to achieve a victory over; to strike repeatedly; bashed; basted sounds like locked

  2. LI6 — sounds like loaded

  3. LI4 — to make a statement one knows to be untrue; to make a statement one knows to be untrue; to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction; fabricated; fibbed sounds like al, bide, chide, f, glide

  4. LI5 — as in wanted, desirable; to wish to have; to show partiality toward; desirable; wanted sounds like locked

cede, ceded, celled, checked, chide, chided, child, childlike, chilled, cichlid, cliched, clicked, decide, decided, deck, decked, deckle, deed, deeded, deice, deiced, deicide, deke, deked, deli, dell, dice, diced, diddle, diddled, died, dike, dill, eddied, eked, elide, elided, heckled, heed, heeded, heeled, held, hide, hied, hiked, hilled, iced, idle, idled, keeled, kicked, kidded, kiddie, killed, lede, leeched, licked, lidded, lied, liked