NYT π CluesβTue. 21 March, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: n c d e o v y
- Total Answers: 51
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
CO
- CO6 β something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; something that serves as a protective barrier; to surround or cover closely; armor; capsule sounds like cuckoo
- CO8 β to surround or cover closely; to surround or cover closely; bosomed; bowered; circumfused
- CO5 β
- CO7 β to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); as in consent (to), confirm; acknowledge; admit
- CO8 β to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; acknowledged; admitted sounds like unleaded
- CO5 β as in condominium, penthouse; bed-sitter; cohousing; condominium; duplex
- CO7 β to dismiss as of little importance; blink (at); brush (aside or off); discount; disregard
- CO8 β as in countenanced, brooked; to dismiss as of little importance; to dismiss as of little importance; brooked; countenanced sounds like bonded, candid, hardened
- CO4 β sounds like bone, can, cane, clone, clones
- CO5 β sounds like canned, honed, kind, owned
- CO6 β to commit to memory; to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition); to rob by the use of trickery or threats; learned; memorized sounds like bond, canned, card, fond, kind
- CO7 β to bring together in assembly by or as if by command; to come together into one body or place; assemble; call; convoke sounds like canteen
- CO8 β to bring together in assembly by or as if by command; to come together into one body or place; to bring together in assembly by or as if by command; assembled; called
- CO6 β to cause (something) to pass from one to another; to support and take from one place to another; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; communicate; conduct
- CO8 β to cause (something) to pass from one to another; to support and take from one place to another; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; communicated; conducted
- CO6 β to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship; as in navy, flotilla; as in defender, escort; accompany; attend sounds like carve, carved, envoy
- CO8 β to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship; to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship; accompanied; attended; chaperoned
- CO5 β a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; body; bunch; circle; clan sounds like oven
DE
- DE7 β socially acceptable behavior; conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong; decorum; form; propriety sounds like in***, licensee
- DE4 β to declare not to be true; to be unwilling to grant; to refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as one's responsibility; contradict; disaffirm sounds like din, dinner
DO
- DO4 β brought or having come to an end; depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; facing certain defeat, disaster, or death; complete; completed sounds like bun, dawn, dean, den, din
- DO5 β as in recipient, beneficiary; beneficiary; giftee; recipient
- DO6 β to place on one's person; to place on one's person; put on; slipped (on or into); threw (on) sounds like bond, conned, darned, fond, pond
- DO5 β a person with long experience in a specified area; the senior member of a group; old hand; old-timer; stager sounds like dun
- DO7 β as in doyen, veteran; adept; dab hand; expert; guru sounds like dun
DY
- DY4 β sounds like dawn, dean, den, dice, die
EN
- EN6 β as in encrypt, code; cipher; code; encipher; encrypt sounds like anode, code, decode, echo
- EN7 β as in encrypted, coded; ciphered; coded; enciphered; encrypted sounds like unloaded
- EN5 β brought or having come to an end; to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; complete; completed sounds like t*
- EN5 β a person sent on a mission to represent another; a person who acts or does business for another; as in postscript; agent; ambassador
- EN4 β a painful awareness of another's possessions or advantages and a desire to have them too; to have a resentful awareness of and desire for (another's possessions or advantages) or to feel resentment toward (someone) over possessions or advantages; having or showing mean resentment of another's possessions or advantages; covetousness; enviousness sounds like any
EV
- EV4 β not merely this but also; to a full extent or degree; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; indeed; nay sounds like been, bin, chin, din, easing
- EV6 β to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; to make equal in amount, degree, or status; to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; flattened; leveled sounds like almond, avenue, avid, eaten, eon
NE
- NE4 β to have as a requirement; to be under necessity or obligation to; a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful; bear; challenge sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
- NE6 β impossible to do without; to have as a requirement; to have as a requirement; all-important; critical
- NE5 β lacking money or material possessions; beggared; beggarly; broke; destitute sounds like beady, knead, reedy, seedy
- NE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
- NE6 β as in neoconservative; neoconservative; conformist; diehard; standpatter sounds like beacon, deacon, knuckle, weaken
- NE4 β sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon
NO
- NO6 β to make short up-and-down movements; to make short up-and-down movements; as in dropped off, drowsed (off); bobbed; bobbled sounds like needed
- NO4 β a small rounded mass of swollen tissue; bump; knot; lump; nodule sounds like a**, bode, code, gnome, goad
- NO5 β as in occasional, infrequent; inconstant; infrequent; intermittent; irregular sounds like nuance
- NO4 β certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
- NO4 β the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known
OD
- OD5 β sounds like audience
ON
- ON4 β at an earlier or previous time; having been such at some previous time; just at the moment that; erstwhile; formerly sounds like whence, wince, won
OV
- OV4 β as in stove, microwave; as in oven, stove; as in oven, stove; broiler; fryer sounds like above, abuzz, adjoin, adjourn, adjudge
VE
- VE4 β to offer for sale to the public; deal (in); market; merchandise; put up sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend
- VE6 β to offer for sale to the public; to offer for sale to the public; dealt (in); marketed; merchandised sounds like ended, tended
YE
- YE6 β to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; ache (for); covet; crave; desiderate sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend
YO
- YO4 β sounds like bond, conned, fond, pond, wand