NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 16 August, 2022

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

Letters: c  d  e  m  o  p  t

  • Total Answers: 35
  • 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 synonyms—cough up, deliver, give up, hand over, lay down 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 synonyms—coughed up, delivered, gave up, handed over, laid down sounds like—faded, jaded

CO

  1. CO4 — a collection or system of rules of conduct synonyms—canon, constitution, decalogue, law sounds like—bode

  2. CO5 — as in encrypted, en* synonyms—ciphered, enciphered, en*, encrypted, garbled

  3. CO4 — as in undergraduate, postgraduate synonyms—collegian, postgraduate, undergraduate, pupil, scholar

  4. CO4 — to move closer to; to get to a destination; to eventually have as a state or quality synonyms—advance, approach, near, nigh, appear sounds like—bum, calm, came, chum, cub

  5. CO5 — a celestial body that appears as a fuzzy head usually surrounding a bright nucleus, that has a usually highly eccentric orbit, that consists primarily of ice and dust, and that often develops one or more long tails when near the sun sounds like—vomit

  6. CO7 — as in pot, pan synonyms—pan, pot, bath, bathroom, bog sounds like—borrowed, calm, calmer, calming, calmly

  7. CO4 — something given to someone without expectation of a return synonyms—bestowal, donation, donative, fairing, freebie sounds like—calm, calmer, camp, carp, chomp

  8. CO6 — as in provided, afforded synonyms—afforded, furnished, provided, awarded, conferred sounds like—humped

  9. CO7 — to engage in a contest synonyms—battle, contend, face off, fight, race

  10. CO8 — to engage in a contest synonyms—battled, contended, faced off, fought, raced

  11. CO7 — a dessert of fruit cooked in syrup; a bowl of glass, porcelain, or metal usually with a base and stem from which ***s, fruits, nuts, or sweets are served

  12. CO5 — as in curred synonyms—curred, fizzed, hissed, murmured, purred sounds like—crude, curd

  13. CO4 — a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody; an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals synonyms—bastille, big house, bridewell, brig, calaboose sounds like—cap, cape, cup, dupe, hoop

  14. CO6 — to close or shut in by or as if by barriers synonyms—box (in), cage, closet, corral, encage sounds like—kept

  15. CO5 — to make a part of a body or system synonyms—absorb, assimilate, embody, incorporate, integrate sounds like—kept

  16. CO7 — to make a part of a body or system synonyms—absorbed, assimilated, embodied, incorporated, integrated sounds like—captain, clotted, quoted, rooted

  17. CO4 — as in geezer synonyms—geezer, bohemian, maverick, nonconformist, quixote sounds like—boot, cat, caught, chute

  18. CO4 — something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth synonyms—blanket, cloak, cover, cover-up, covering sounds like—cap, cape

  19. CO5 — to meet one's day-to-day needs synonyms—did, fared, got along, got by, got on sounds like—doped, kept

  20. CO6 — to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for; to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly synonyms—bought, picked up, purchased, took, bagged sounds like—capo, cart, caught, chopped, kept

  21. CO4 — as in henhouse, dove synonyms—dove, henhouse, kraal, stockade, fold sounds like—boat, cat, caught

DE

  1. DE4 — a popular design style of the 1920s and 1930s characterized especially by bold outlines, geometric and zigzag forms, and the use of new materials (such as plastic) sounds like—echo

  2. DE6 — as in reduce, boil down synonyms—boil down, reduce, clarify, clean, cleanse

  3. DE8 — as in reduced, boiled down synonyms—boiled down, reduced, clarified, cleaned, cleansed

  4. DE6 — to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of synonyms—break, crack, decipher, decrypt, appreciate sounds like—code

  5. DE7 — to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of synonyms—broke, cracked, deciphered, decrypted, appreciated sounds like—divided, eroded

  6. DE6 — to come upon after searching, study, or effort synonyms—ascertain, descry, determine, dig out, dig up

  7. DE8 — as in identified, discovered synonyms—discovered, identified, bustling, busy, crowded sounds like—affected, connected, directed, protected, selected

DO

  1. DO6 — a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website sounds like—sitcom

EM

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

  2. EM6 — to act as master of ceremonies of; to act as master of ceremonies sounds like—encode, envied, impede, keyed

OC

  1. OC5 — as in trio, quartet synonyms—duo, quartet, quintet, septet, sextet sounds like—onset

  2. OC7 — any of an order (***a) of cephalopod mollusks (such as an octopus or argonaut) that have eight arms bearing sessile suckers

cede, ceded, code, coded, coed, come, comet, commode, comp, comped, compete, competed, compote, cooed, coop, cooped, coopt, coopted, coot, cope, coped, copped, cote, deco, decoct, decocted, decode, decoded, detect, detected, dotcom, emcee, emceed, octet, octopod