NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 2 August, 2022
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: k c d e i n p
- Total Answers: 38
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
DE
- DE4 — a flat roofless structure attached to a building synonyms—balcony, sun**, terrace sounds like—check, dare, dick
- DE6 — as in dressed, decorated synonyms—adorned, arrayed, beautified, be**, decorated sounds like—checked, direct, duct, sect, wrecked
- DE4 — to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement synonyms—fake, fake out, juke sounds like—buck, chuck, dick, dike, dock
- DE5 — to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement synonyms—faked, faked out, juked sounds like—duck, dust
DI
- DI4 — a bank of earth constructed to control water; a long narrow channel dug in the earth synonyms—dam, embankment, head, levee, ditch sounds like—bike, deck, dock
- DI4 — a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits synonyms—bookworm, dork, geek, grind, nerd sounds like—dank, drink, dunk, ink, jink
- DI6 — sounds like—linked
EK
- EK4 — to get with great difficulty synonyms—scrape (up or together), scrounge, squeeze, wrest, wring sounds like—act, east, eat, peaked
IN
- IN5 — to write one's name on (as a document) synonyms—autographed, signed, subscribed sounds like—l*
KE
- KE4 — able to sense slight impressions or differences; causing intense discomfort to one's skin; having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something synonyms—acute, delicate, fine, perceptive, quick sounds like—bean, can, cane, careen, clean
- KE6 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to make a long loud mournful sound synonyms—beefed, bellyached, bitched, bleated, carped sounds like—canned, conned, fiend, kind
- KE4 — to mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony; to continue to have in one's possession or power; to do what is required by the terms of synonyms—celebrate, commemorate, observe, hold, reserve sounds like—beep, cap, cape, cheap, coop
- KE4 — as in shako, tricorne synonyms—baseball cap, beret, billycock, biretta, boater sounds like—copy, peppy
KI
- KI4 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to present an opposing opinion or argument synonyms—beef, bellyache, bitch, bleat, carp sounds like—cake, chick, click, cock, coke
- KI6 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to present an opposing opinion or argument synonyms—beefed, bellyached, bitched, bleated, carped sounds like—ticked
- KI6 — to make fun of in a good-natured way; to make jokes synonyms—chaffed, jived, joked, joshed, rallied sounds like—added, bearded, candid, coated, coddle
- KI6 — a young person who is between infancy and adulthood synonyms—bairn, bambino, bud, chap, chick sounds like—giddy
- KI4 — a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common; one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic synonyms—breed, class, description, feather, genre sounds like—bind, canned, conned, find, hind
- KI4 — a painful sudden tightening of a muscle; an odd or peculiar habit; a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action synonyms—charley horse, cramp, crick, spasm, crotchet sounds like—ink, jink, link, mink, pink
- KI6 — as in twisted, twisting synonyms—entwined, swirled, turned, turning, twined sounds like—linked
KN
- KN4 — as in right, hand synonyms—body blow, hand, kick, left, one-two sounds like—any, bee, fee, gee, gnaw
- KN5 — as in pushed, kicked synonyms—bumped, butted, jabbed, jostled, kicked sounds like—bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
NE
- NE4 — a broad geographical area; a narrow body of water between two land masses; a very small distance or degree synonyms—belt, corridor, land, part(s), region sounds like—check, deck, heck, knack, knell
- NE6 — as in nosed, cuddled synonyms—billed, canoodled, cuddled, nestled, nosed sounds like—checked, knelt, sect, wrecked
NI
- NI4 — a V-shaped cut usually on an edge or a surface; a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody; a state of being or fitness synonyms—chip, hack, indent, indentation, indenture sounds like—chick, dick, hick, kick, knack
- NI6 — to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep; to take or keep under one's control by authority of law synonyms—appropriated, boosted, filched, heisted, hooked sounds like—knit, ticked
PE
- PE4 — a considerable amount synonyms—abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket sounds like—check, deck, heck, neck, pack
- PE6 — to eat reluctantly and in small bites; to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object synonyms—nibbled, picked, gored, harpooned, impaled sounds like—checked, packed, pact, sect, wrecked
- PE4 — an instance of looking especially briefly synonyms—cast, eye, gander, glance, glimpse sounds like—beak, cheek, chic, eke, geek
- PE6 — to take a quick or hasty look synonyms—browsed, dipped, glanced, glimpsed, glinted sounds like—packed, pact, pico, pique
- PE4 — pekingese sounds like—beak, cheek, chic, eke, geek
PI
- PI4 — a person or thing that is chosen; individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class; the power, right, or opportunity to choose synonyms—bet, choice, chosen, selection, A-list sounds like—chick, dick, epic, hick, kick
- PI6 — singled out from a number or group as more to one's liking synonyms—cherry-**, choice, chosen, elect, favored sounds like—packed, pact, peaked, ticked
- PI9 — as in ate, lunched synonyms—ate, dined, fared, fed, partook
- PI4 — a passage cleared for public vehicular travel synonyms—arterial, artery, avenue, boulevard, carriageway sounds like—bike, dike, dyke, hike, like
- PI4 — as in warm, ish synonyms—bloomy, blowsy, blushing, flushed, ish sounds like—ink, jink, link, mink, punk
- PI6 — to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object synonyms—gored, harpooned, impaled, jabbed, lanced sounds like—linked
- PI6 — individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class synonyms—A-list, aristocracy, best, choice, corps d'elite sounds like—panky, punky