Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Thu. 7 September, 2023

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

Letters: n  c  e  h  t  u  y

  • Total Answers: 21
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CE

  1. CE4 β€” of or relating to money, banking, or investments; financial; fiscal; monetary; pecuniary sounds like as**, assent, bent, dent, lent

CH

  1. CH7 β€” sounds like attorney, bunny, buttery, funny, gunny

EN

  1. EN7 β€” as in entente cordiale; as in entente; as in ententes; entente cordiale; accord sounds like intent, intently

EU

  1. EU6 β€” sounds like buck, chuck, duck, knack, knock

HE

  1. HE5 β€” for this or that reason; from this or that place; accordingly; consequently; ergo sounds like dense, fence, pence, sense, tense

HU

  1. HU5 β€” to lie low with the limbs close to the body; as in theory, speculation; as in hump; couch; crouch sounds like bunch, honey, lunch, munch, punch
  2. HU4 β€” an act or process of looking carefully or thoroughly for someone or something; to seek out (game) for food or sport; to go in search of; quest; search sounds like bunt, haunt, hint, honey, punt

NE

  1. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
  2. NE5 β€” a fabric made of strands loosely twisted, knotted, or woven together at regular intervals; a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise; something that catches and holds; mesh; netting sounds like jetty, knotty, natty, naughty, nutty

NU

  1. NU5 β€” having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; balmy; barmy; bats sounds like knotty, natty, naughty, putty

TE

  1. TE4 β€” someone who is between 13 and 19 years old; preteen; preteen-ager; subteen; teenager sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
  2. TE5 β€” very small in size; very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty sounds like genie, tinny, tiny, tony, tourney
  3. TE5 β€” an idea that is very important to a group; precept; principle; rule; standard sounds like senate
  4. TE4 β€” as in sleep out; a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; sleep out; bivouac; camp (out) sounds like bent, cent, dent, lent, meant
  5. TE5 β€”

TH

  1. TH4 β€” in addition to what has been said; on some occasions; on some occasions; additionally; again sounds like den, hen, pen, ten
  2. TH6 β€” sounds like dense, fence, hence, pence, sense

TU

  1. TU4 β€” as in adapt; a rhythmic series of musical tones arranged to give a pleasing effect; a state of consistency; adapt; accommodate sounds like at**, boon, dune, goon, loon

UN

  1. UN5 β€” as in undiminished, unabridged; unabridged; undiminished; compleat; complete sounds like annuity, bucket, circuit, cut, docket
  2. UN6 β€” sounds like attune

YE

  1. YE5 β€” sounds like ante, any, bent, bounty, cent

cent, chutney, entente, eunuch, hence, hunch, hunt, nene, netty, nutty, teen, teeny, tenet, tent, tenth, then, thence, tune, uncut, untune, yente